Setting Up A WordPress Blog
October 24, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Make Money Online Basics
WordPress is simply the best blogging platform out there for beginners and experience bloggers alike. For those of you who are looking to set up a wordpress blog on your own domain and hosting, you can get a feel of the WordPress blogging platform over at WordPress.com. Basically, what you need is just an email account to sign up for a free hosted wordpress blog to get started.
This simple tutorial is to guide those who are new online to sign up for an account with WordPress.com and set up their very first free hosted WordPress blog. Just follow these simple steps and you will be well on your way to your first WordPress blog.
To sign up for you’re a free hosted WordPress blog, just click on the big blue “SIGN UP NOW” button. It will then take you to the next screen.
You have a choice of straightaway having a blog of your choice or just signing up for an account. Remember to tick on the “Legal Flotsam” box after reading the terms of services first. Fill up all the necessary information and proceed to clicking on the “NEXT” button to go to the next screen.
Over this screen, you can choose the blog domain name to be hosted at WordPress.com. Please note that this domain name must be unique. If the domain name that you have chosen is not available, you must select another. As for the blog title, you can choose any name as you like. Once you have filled up all the information, click on the “Signup” button.
At this point, an activation email will be send to the email address that you have used for registration. You need to click on the link inside the email to activate your account or else you will be required to register again. Once you have activated your account, you can then log in to your blog’s account to write your first post.
Inside your WordPress blog control panel, you can choose a different theme for your blog. There are many plugins and themes to make your wordpress blog a complete CMS. However to take advantage of the full benefits and features of WordPress, it is better to have your own hosting and domain. Take your time to play with the functions and settings inside WordPress and when you are ready, get your own domain and hosting to make some money blogging.
