How to Make a WordPress Site in 2020
Blogging is nothing new. Almost All businesses are running some sort of blog now to stay in front of their target audience with relevant and useful information.
WordPress is hands down the best blogging platform in all Over the World. And it can also serve as a CMS for your website Which Is Very Useful for Admin. We know that not everyone has a blog and some smaller businesses may be looking to take the plunge.
Before you do, take a few minutes and read this walkthrough. This will make setup much easier.
WordPress Website Setup Prerequisites
Some prerequisites before you get started:
You can download the latest version of WordPress is available for free from https://wordpress.org/download/.
There are plenty of services for obtaining Webhosting and a domain name at a low cost and sometimes the Webhosting comes with a free domain name. In this blog post, we are going to be using XAMPP as our web hosting provider and localhost as our domain name.
The process will be similar between different web hosting providers. So, let’s begin!
Step One – Add WordPress to Your Hosting Environment
Once you’re acquired your Webhosting and domain and the DNS has propagated, you will want to get the latest version of WordPress downloaded and extracted to your desktop or a location you can easily remember so you may access it later in the next steps.
Inside the extracted folder of WordPress, there will be several files and folders. You will want to upload all of these to your WebHost, you may use an FTP client such as WinSCP or FileZilla by providing these applications with your FTP credentials.
These can be obtained within your web host's dashboard or if your Webhosting provider has a built-in FTP client you may be able to upload the WordPress zip archive and extract the files to the root of your WebHost. Different Webhosting providers have different naming conventions for these folders. It should be a folder named “htdocs” or “public_html”.
When all the files are uploaded, navigate to the phpMyAdmin area in your WebHost dashboard and create a new database for your WordPress installation. Make a note of the database name, username, and password you’ve just created.
Now to install WordPress, go to your domain name in your web browser, i.e. enter www.yourdomain.com into something like Chrome or Firefox.
You will be prompted with the WordPress installation screen. Go ahead and pick your language, follow the onscreen instructions, and input the information you saved from the phpMyAdmin database you created earlier.
When you’ve finished the setup and have WordPress installed, create the website you want by browsing through different themes and plugins to use, which are accessible in the WordPress dashboard when signed in as an administrator.
WordPress comes with a few themes and plugins installed which you may use or choose to remove whenever you wish.
There are various tutorials and resources online to find plugins and themes you may want to use on your new WordPress blog. WooCommerce is great for making an online store while Elementor is a page builder for creating website content.
Then, to view your website while logged into the WordPress dashboard, click the title of your blog on the top left admin bar or hover over it and click “Visit Site”, Save All Changes Which You Made.
If you’ve made it this far in this WordPress in 2020 guide, then you will now be seeing your current homepage of your website. By default, WordPress sets the homepage to show blog posts.
Configuring Your WordPress Homepage
You’ll likely want your homepage to show information or features of your brand. Here’s how to do this…
If you rather keep your website as a blog, then there isn’t anything here to change other than the display options for the number of posts and items to show.
However, if you want to make your blog a separate page to give your homepage a custom look and feel, then change to the “A static page” option.
Change the Homepage dropdown to the page you want to use for your homepage and then the same for the Posts page for your blog posts.
If you plan on using this as your website, you’ll want to set up some pages. To create pages…
Congratulations, you now have your blog website setup. Now, take some time to work on your homepage, where you can experiment with different themes and plugins to create your website into something unique for personal or business use.
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