Wordpress Tutorial: How To Set Up A WordPress Blog

HOW TO SET UP A WORDPRESS

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What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service.

Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system.

WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013.WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress


Go to www.wordpress.com


Click “Get Started”


This will appear on your screen


Type in your e-mail address, username, password and blog address


This will now appear on your screen


Type in your Blog Title


Your Tagline


choose your preferred language


and select your Posting Goal


Then click on “Next Step”




You can choose a variety of designs for the theme of your blog.


Just scroll down to look at the different themes.


Then click on a thumbnail to choose the desired theme for your blog.


You don’t have to over think it;

you can always switch to a different theme later.


I chose the Writr theme for this blog




Click on “Next Step”




Select an account to share your blog posts with family, friends or followers


I will connect WordPress to my Twitter account.


Type in your username and password


Then click Authorize App


Now you are connected with twitter


Click on Next Step


This will now appear on your screen. You can create your first post or if you want to skip this step just

click on “Next Step”.


I will create my first post and click on Quote




Type in your desired post


Scroll down then click Save Quote




Go to your email notifications and confirm your email address


Click on Confirm Email Address


Your email is now confirmed and you can now publish posts on your blog


You now have successfully created a WordPress Site!


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Wordpress Tutorial: How To Set Up A WordPress Blog