If your new to the WordPress game and have never setup a site before then this step-by-step tutorial will walk you through it. I’ve installed and designed over 100+ WordPress sites for myself and others and it is super easy after you get a few under your belt.
This tutorial is assuming you are starting from scratch and all you have is an idea lodged in your head or written down on paper.
1. Register domain name
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2. Register with a hosting company
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3. Install a clean version of WordPress
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4. Point Nameservers to hosting
Now you won’t see your site up and running just yet. You have to tell your domain name that you found a new home (hosting company). In order to do so you have to set up your nameservers to point to your new hosting company.
5. Login and change your password
After you set your nameservers to your hosting company, you will now see your site live with the default WordPress theme called, Twenty Eleven. You should receive an email confirmation when you successfully installed WordPress with your site login. By default, WordPress sets your login extension as “wp-admin” so your site login will look like http://yoursite.com/wp-admin. You will need to enter a username, which is usually “admin” and password (both given in email confirmation). After you have successfully login the page that you see is called the WordPress Dashboard, you will be able to almost anything from this screen.
6. Find and upload a new theme WordPress uses a templating system for its front end.
You can install a theme from your Dashboard and once activated, visitors will see that theme in action. There are literally thousands of free and premium WordPress themes available. I try to stick to premium themes because they usually have better documentations, a community for help, better coding, etc. Also, for the most part, premium themes offer free updates to fix any issues that have been found.