Step By Step Guide To Starting Your First Wordpress Blog

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Step By Step Guide To Starting A WordPress Blog

Starting Your Own WordPress Blog Part 1 - The Blogger's Mindset: Before you start a blog, be it with WordPress or any other platform, there are a few things that you should know and understand. It is important to know these things as it will get you ready for a blogger's mindset. With the correct mentality, you will know what to expect from your blog and with this knowledge, the frustrations later on will be greatly reduced. Yes, my friends, blogging can be frustrating at times and this frustration has killed....Continue
Starting Your Own WordPress Blog Part 2 - Choosing A Blog Topic: Before you can start a blog, you must have something that you want to blog about. Many will sit down, turn on their brain juice blender and start to ponder. "What should I blog about?" they ask themselves. If that is what is happening to your right now, I will advise you to stop. Stop thinking about starting a blog for the moment and go do something else. However, not many will heed this advise. They are all so hyped....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 3 - Choosing Your Domain Name: Now that you have decided on what you are going to blog about, it is time to think of a domain name that will suit your blog topic. There are a few school of thoughts when it comes to choosing a domain name. Domain Names Which Are Short And Easily Remembered Long ago when Search Engines weren't that popular, the advise given to those who wants to buy a domain name is to choose something that is short and easy....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 4 - Buying Your First Domain Name: So hopefully by now you would have decided on a appropriate domain name for your very first self hosted WordPress Blog that you actually will own. You are now ready to make the first major step into really becoming a Master Of Your Own Domain. You will be free from the shackles of being a sub-domainer where your blog resides within a domain owned by someone else. With a name or names and your credit card ready, let's go buy....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 5 - Getting Your First Web Hosting Plan: So far, in this series of Starting Your Own WordPress Blog, we have covered: Part 1 - The Blogger's Mindset where you get psyche yourself up to be a blogger with the right mentality and mindset. Part 2 - How To Choose A Suitable Blog Topic Part 3 - How To Choose A Domain Name and Part 4 - How To Buy Your First Domain Name Today, we come to our last obstacle in your route to starting your first WordPress Blog. After....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 6 - Installing WordPress To Your Server: Now comes the most exciting part of owning your first WordPress blog. You are actually going to install WordPress to your sparkling new web host under your sparkling new domain name. After you go through these step of installing Wordpress into your hosting account, you can proudly proclaim yourself as a Master Of Your Own Domain. How To Install WordPress To Your Server Or Hosting Account There are 2 ways to install WordPress to your server. One is the obsolete conventional....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 7 - Setting Up WordPress Permalink: Now that Wordpress has been installed to your server and you can see your spanking new blog with the default Hello World post, you are actually ready to publish your first post. But, hold your horses first before you do anything. Do not get overly excited and rush headlong into publishing your article without going over all the settings that WordPress has for you. Important - Get Your Permalinks Right Log in to your WordPress Admin Dashboard by typing - http://yourdomainname/wp-admin....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 8 - The WordPress Admin Dashboard: After you have successfully changed your Permalink structure and if you can't wait any longer, you can start blogging. The rest of the options in your Wordpress Admin Dashboard does not do much harm even if you change it a year later. However, some of the settings should preferably be ready as you publish your first post. So let me take you on a tour of your new WordPress Admin Dashboard. Understanding Your Wordpress Admin Dashboard Your Dashboard by default will....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 9 - WordPress Admin Dashboard Sidebars: For this part of my series on Starting Your Own WordPress Blog, I will go through the stuffs you see in your WordPress Admin Dashboard sidebars. I will start with what you see on the left sidebar of your WordPress Dashboard first. The Dashbaord In the latest Wordpress version release the left sidebar has been re-modelled to be neater using the "dropdown" menu. When you click on the links in the left sidebar, whatever options in under that link will open....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 10 - WordPress Appearance : In your WordPress Dashboard left sidebar, you will see the Appearance Link. Under Appearance you have controls for Themes, Widgets, Menus and Editor. Let;s start with Themes. The Default WordPress Theme The Themes option lets you manage and install new Themes that you are using or wants to use for your WordPress Blog. In the Manage Themes Page, you wil see all the Themes that are installed in your WordPress setup. By default, if you have not added any new Themes,....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 11 - WordPress Plugins And Users: Continuing this series of Starting Your Own WordPress Blog, after Appearance, you will see the Plugins and Users link in your Wordpress Dashboard Sidebar. What Are WordPress Plugins WordPress plugins can either be vitamins or junk food. It can make your Wordpress Blog strong and healthy or if used exceedingly, can make your Wordpress blog sick and overweight. Plugins are small scripts added to the WordPress platform to perform certain tasks that are not included in WordPress or to improve....Continue
Start Your Own WordPress Blog Part 12 - WordPress Tools And Settings : One of the least used feature in your WordPress Dashboard will be the WorpPress Tools. In fact, after so many years of blogging with WordPress, I have never touched or used any of the features under the Tools Link. However, there are 2 very useful tools for you if you have been blogging with another platform and wish now to start your own WordPress Blog. Under Tools you will find 3 default control link. The first is the Available Tools.....Continue