Today's tutorial I wanna show you how to build a WordPress blog step by step using the simple Bluehost WordPress One-Click Install.
How To Start A PROFITABLE Blog on WORDPRESS
So there's two things that are required for this. First you're gonna need a domain name. This will be the name of your website, and I prefer Namecheap.com for this.
And the second thing you'll need is a hosting account. I prefer Bluehost if you're just starting out.
Hosting account for your blog
So you have two options when buying your domain name. Option number one, you can get it from a domain name registrar like Namecheap or GoDaddy, or option two, you can pick up your domain for free for the first year when you sign up for a new hosting account over at Bluehost.
However, if you go this route, it's a bit more expensive to renew every year, and it doesn't include the free privacy protection that Namecheap does, which is why I prefer Namecheap.
Right, so if you bought your domain name from Namecheap or another domain name registrar, the first thing we're gonna have to do is switch the domain name servers from that domain name registrar over to Bluehost, and I'll walk you through this step by step.
Once that's done, the second thing and the last thing we have to do is we simply need to install WordPress onto our Bluehost hosting account, which I'll show you as well.
Now the good news is, the entire process can be done in under 10 minutes, and I'm gonna walk you through installing a WordPress website using Bluehost step by step. All right, so let's get started.
Step by Step, using the BLUEHOST WordPress tutorial
The first thing we need to do is we need to log into our domain name registrar to change the domain name server over to Bluehost.
And I'm gonna use Namecheap for this, but the same applies no matter what domain name registrar you're using, so it could be GoDaddy or any other one.
So let's do that now. By the way, if you haven't signed up yet, you can sign up here. It's a pretty self-explanatory process. But it's pretty self-explanatory. Once you're done signing up you'll have a username and you'll have a password. And you're simply gonna log in.
Okay, so once we're logged in, I'm gonna head over to the domain name that I want to install WordPress on. I actually picked up this domain, which is buildyourfirstblog.com, which will be used for a future challenge I'm about to create. But you simply head over to the Manage button, click it, and this is where we're gonna change our domain name servers over to Bluehost.
So I'm gonna scroll down a bit just so it's more centered, and as you can see right here, it says Name Servers, and there's a dropdown arrow. So we're gonna hit the dropdown arrow, we're gonna click Custom DNS, and this is where we enter the Bluehost name servers.
So Bluehost is ns1.bluehost.com and ns2.bluehost.com. Okay, and we're gonna hit the Save button. Now that that is saved, and switch over to Bluehost. Let's head over to Bluehost and get you set up. All right, so we're over at bluehost.com, and Bluehost is the web hosting company we're gonna use to actually install WordPress on the domain we just purchased.
It does require a nominal fee, but let me tell you why it's worth it. If you wanted to build a website or a business on any type of free platform like wordpress.com versus the version we're gonna be using, which is the open source software at wordpress.org, the main difference is, the difference between renting and owning something.
Build your business on a free or paid platform?
If you build your business or website on a free platform, you don't own that. If they should go out of business, so does your website. You give up a lot of control when you use a free service, and really, you're just putting a lot of faith in something that you don't own.
And I just would not recommend that, especially if you're trying to make money with your website, especially if you're taking this serious. So anyhow, enough of that.
To get started, you simply the big green button, Get Started Now. You're gonna select a plan, so if you're starting off I mean you might just want to start off with the smallest plan they have.
It will work just fine. Now this is what I was talking about. If you have a domain name, you can put your domain name in here. If you want to get your domain name through Bluehost you can add it in here.
Either way takes you to the same step. So for example, I'm just gonna make up a domain, and I would enter it, and then I would enter all my information, right, I'd create my account. Name, address, phone number, and email.
In regards to the package, really there's nothing here I recommend you do extra. So I would uncheck Site Backup Pro, I would uncheck the SiteLock Fraud. I do believe in backups, but I think there's better solutions, and then I would just pick a plan that you like, and enter your credit card information, confirm, hit Submit.
That'll take you to a username page and then you'll hit Save and then it'll take you into your account. Since I already have an account, I'm gonna go back and log into Bluehost. All right, so I'm gonna log into Bluehost right here.
Okay, so now we're at the Bluehost login page, I'm gonna enter my username and password and hit Submit. And it's gonna default to, more than likely to the hosting page. I'm gonna X out of this. But before we install WordPress, we need to do one thing, which is we need to assign the domain name we want to put WordPress on to this account. So how we do that is we head over to Domains, and we're going to click on the Assign a Domain to your cPanel Account.
We're going to use the domain that is not already associated with your account, which is where I'll enter the domain I want to build the blog on, which is actually buildyourfirstblog.com.
Just gonna verify it, and it says ownership verified. Now if you hadn't changed the name servers over at Namecheap or your domain name registrar, it wouldn't be verified, but as you can see here, it's showing that we actually entered the correct Bluehost name servers in the previous step.
Okay, so now that's set up. Keep everything the same, and just hit Assign This Domain. Okay, so once that's done, all we're gonna do is click over on the Hosting tab, and it's really all downhill from here. So this is where things get really simple. All we're gonna do is we're going to scroll down, and hit the Install WordPress.
How to Install WordPress
We're going to Install. All right, so you wanna select the domain you want to install WordPress on. So, I've got the correct domain here. I'm gonna hit Check Domain.
I'm gonna do Show Advanced Options. This is where you put your title of your site, so I'm gonna put Build Your, and you can change this later. You'll have your admin username, and you'll have a password. So copy the password down or create a new one.
And keep the Automatically Create a New Database for this Installation, Select I have read the terms and conditions, and hit Install Now. It says, "Your install is underway." This should take a few seconds.
All right, it says, "Your install is complete." you can view your credentials. And you'll come down here. It says, "Your WordPress install has finished." Hit View.
This is where you'll log in to your WordPress account, and this is actually your WordPress site, and you've got your password, so take this stuff down, and we're gonna click over to the blog right now.
So we're gonna enter the username and password. We got in. And I'm gonna hit Visit Site. Okay, well this is good news. If you've been following along step by step, and you've come to a page that looks similar to this, well then, congratulations, because you just installed WordPress onto your domain name, and you officially have your first website.
So, I hope you realize it wasn't too hard or difficult. There's still some work to do in regards to getting the website to the liking of your taste, like you want to change your logo, or you're possibly gonna want to change the theme of this site, but those are all really simple things to do.
Nothing is technical in regards to that. If you can use a word processor, then you can use WordPress. So as you can see, it's really simple to use WordPress.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have an questions you know where to get me.
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