Steps for creating a website using WordPress for free
I know all of you are interested to see how can we create a professional WordPress website free of cost. Ya now we can create a business website in WordPress easily without hiring website designing company. You can create WordPress website in two modes such as offline and online. I will explain you these two ways to creating a website using WordPress.
If you are a beginner or a fresher in website designing industry, this blog is for you. Now you can learn how to built a website from scratch using WordPress free of cost. You are advised to follow the steps mentioned below very carefully. You need seek any help by visiting https://learnbyexperts.com and send your query regarding the same.
How to build a website from scratch (online mode)
- Install WordPress
- Log In WordPress
- Install WordPress Theme
- WordPress Default Home Page
- Install Plugins
- Add Content to your WordPress Website
- Using Widgets in WordPress Website
- Creating menus
- Publish a website
Install WordPress
If you need a WordPress Website, you will have to install WordPress using hosting login. Go to your hosting provider website such as godaddy or hostgator and login hosting cpanel. I am going to show you the steps using hostgator cpanel. You can folllow the similar steps with other hosting provider cpanel too.
Click on “Build a New WordPress Site”
In case, you would like to install wordpress in website root directory such as www.websitename.com, just select the name of the website from the drop down menu and leave directory folder blank. But if you want to install wordpress in sub directory such as www.websitename.com/folder than you will have to write folder in directory column.
and click on “NEXT” button.
Type WordPress Title, Username, Firstname, Lastname and Admin Email address in next screen. These information are very important as a owner credentials. You can change this information later too.
Click on “INSTALL” button
WordPress installation will be started and finished in 1-2 minutes and provides you the credentials to login.
Now Worpdress is install successfully and you can login wordpress either click on “LOGIN” button or type the following url directly.
www.websitename.com/wp-admin
Log In WordPress
Login WordPress by adding prefix to your domain “WP-ADMIN” and enter the username and password generated by the system. Please note that WP-ADMIN must be prefixed to your website name or sub directory where the worpdress installation is being done successfully.
Enter username and password and click on “Log In” button.
You will see a WordPress Dashboard after successfully login the wordpress. Dashboard is the first screen which you will see after log in the wordpress having all widgets, pages, plugins on the left side.
Install a WordPress Theme
WordPress theme is a collection of design templates and css stylesheet for your website website and used for appearance of your complete theme of your website. You can choose free or paid themes available in wordpress dashboard.
click on Appearance-Themes-Add New Theme to choose and free or paid themes.
Click on “Add New Theme” and Search for any theme or find a theme “OceanWP” from the search box.
Click on “Install” button to install the OceanWP theme.
Click “Activate” to make the theme default for your wordpress. Till the time theme is not activated, its not going to work in worpdress.
Once theme is activated, you can customize the theme options using Appearance-Customize
There are some default settings in customize where in you can change the wordpress title, favicon, header, sliders, footer etc.. using Appearance-Customize option.
WordPress Default Home Page
Once the theme is installed and activated successfully, you will have declare the default home page for your wordpress website.
Create a New page from dashboard using Pages-Add New and name the page as “Home”. Now we are going to declare Home page as Default home page from wordpress dashboard setting.
Now go to Settings-Reading-Your homepage displays and make this Home page as a HomePage default page in wordpress.
Install Plugins in WordPress
Plugins are a snippet of php codes which can extent the functionality of wordpress features. Plugins extend the functionality of wordpress website for implementing new customized features in wordpress.
You can install various thousands of free plugins from the plugins library of wordpress with paying any cost to them. Even paid plugins extend the feature of the plugins but not mandatory to buy.
Some of the important plugins for wordpress are below, you can also download these plugins free of cost by click on the plugin name below.
- Contact Form 7
- Yoast SEO
- WPForms
- Beaver Builder
- Live Chat
- Insert Headers & Footers
- Woo Commerce
- Optin Monster
- and many more……
If you want to install new plugins from wordpress dashboard, you can go to Dashboard-Plugins-Add New.
You can search for any plugin using the search box available in plugin screen. Do not forget to activate the plugin after installation. Once the plugin is installed in wordpress, it will provide an additional feature about that plugin in your wordpress website.
Add Content to your WordPress Website
If you want to make a website using wordpress, it is completely free and very easy to create. Now i am going to show you how you can add content to your website / blog / posts.
You can add content to your website using default feature of your theme and which can be accessed using Dashboard – Customization. Every theme is having different customization option available based on their programming. I am taking OceanWP theme and showing you all the options available in Customization. You can change the following using this
- Site Identity
- Menus
- Widgets
- General Options
- Top Bar
- Header
- Sidebar
Second way to adding content to your wordpress website is through page builders. There are various page builders available in wordpress and can be used for free such as Beaver Builder, Page Builder by SiteOrigin, Elementor, Visual Composer etc..
You can design your landing pages or websites using these page builders.
Widgets in WordPress website
WordPress Widgets are small codes which are used to add content and functionality of one part of your website such as sidebars or footers. Don’t get confuse between Plugins and Widgets. Widgets ad small functionality to your website sidebars whereas plugins ad major changes to your website.
Go to Appearance-Widgets
All widgets are being shown in the left sidebar. You can drag any widget like image,Gallery, Navigation Menu, Custom HTML to Default Sidebar / Left Sidebar, Footer1, Footer2 etc..
Once the widget will be inserted in the right sidebars, it will show the content relevant to the widget.
Create a WordPress Website Menu
We can create navigation menu in wordpress very easily without doing any programming. Creating menus using wordpress are highly responsive and automatically appear in the header section of your website.
Go to Dashboard-Appearance-Menu and create a new menu “Main Menu“
Now you can add menu items into the Main Menu. You can add existing pages as menu items or custom links as menu items.
All menus can shown in Top bar, Main Menu, Footer or Mobile. You can select where you want your menu to appear.
You can drag menu up and down to change the location of the menu.
Publish a WordPress Website
After Making all the changes, you can click on Update button available on the very right side of the wordpress dashboard. Once the site is published, it will be live permanently.
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