How To Create A WordPress Website 2020 [Made Easy]

How To Create A WordPress Website 2020

Today, in this video, I’m gonna be showing you step-by-step, how I created this WordPress website, from start to finish, in about 20 minutes. I’m also gonna show you how to get access to thousands of other free themes on WordPress, in case you want to go with a different website layout.

And even if you have no experience building websites, that’s totally fine! Because there’s no coding or anything complicated like that. And like I said, I’ll be walking you through the entire process step-by-step. So the first thing we need to do is get our website hosting, and this is actually going to be the only cost in this video.

if you’re interested, I have a discount you can use so you can get a hosting package for just $1 a month and it also comes with a free domain and a one-click WordPress installation, which is really going to save us some time through the whole WordPress website setup process.

Get Hosting Discount

So what we’re gonna do is head over to my website now, so we can get the hosting discount. There’s a link in the description or you can just type in https://createwpsite.com/promo-deal, and if you click this top link here that will automatically apply the discount code for us. 

Okay now I’m going to cut to a video that I made previously, that’s gonna go through the entire hosting and wordpress setup which will only take a few minutes. Once that’s finished, I’ll be back and then we can finish the last steps of building our website. 

Okay guys so the first thing we’re gonna do is click on this green get started button, and this is where we’re going to choose our free domain name. So whatever you want your website to be called, you can check here to see if it’s available.

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Once you decide on the name, you can just enter it here, I’m gonna enter mine, and now I’m gonna click on search to see if it’s available. Okay! it is. So I’m going to click on select and continue, and as you can see, our promo code has been applied to our entire year of hosting. So we got the discount which is cool and now we’re just going to click on create account.

Alright! And now we’re gonna fill out this form for our GoDaddy account, and some of this information is going to be blurred out just for privacy reasons obviously. But all we’re gonna do is enter our email address, if you don’t have one I just recommend maybe going to Google and signing up for a free gmail account.

Then you’re going to come up with a username and a password, and then also a PIN number and these can be anything you want, just make sure you guys save all this info somewhere, so when you need to log into GoDaddy, you can! So now, I’m just going to enter in my information. 

Okay and then after we have all that filled out, we’re just going to click this green create account button. Okay! Now I’m just going to put my billing info in. Alright, and once that’s all done we can go ahead and click on save. Okay, now I’m going to be using a card to pay.

They also have PayPal too. You guys can choose any method you like though. They’ll all take us to the same place in the end so it doesn’t matter which one you choose. Alright. Now my payment info is in, so I’m just going to click on this blue Save button and then we’re ready to complete the purchase, so we’re just going to click on this green button here.

Alright guys and that’s it. We got our hosting now and we’re ready to move on to the next step. Okay! so what we’re gonna do now is click on this blue ‘Add Site’ button, and then we’re just gonna leave everything like it is, build a brand new site and then wherever it’s recommended, you can just put it there.

Install WordPress

Now we’re going to come up with a wordpress username and password. So just like for the other stuff just come up with a username and a password and then make sure you save that information somewhere. 

Okay and then after you do that, you can just click on ‘Add’ and this is just currently installing WordPress for us. Alright, and that’s it; WordPress is installed.

That’s the simple one-click WordPress install right there for you and now we’re just going to click on this blue WP admin button, and then once we get to this page, just go ahead and click on ‘no thanks’ and that will just automatically take you to your WordPress dashboard. This is the place where you go whenever you want to edit your site. 

Ok guys so before we do anything we’re going to go verify our email from GoDaddy and so we’re just going to go to our email accounts, and there should be a mail from GoDaddy that says please verify your email address. Here’s mine and just click on verify email now.

Ok and that’s it. It’s been verified. Ok now I’m back over on my WordPress dashboard and I’m just going to refresh this page right here and then after you do that, where it says no just click on ‘change domain’ and now click on ‘add domain’ and find your domain right here; mine’s already selected and make sure this is selected. It says make this primary domain for the account and then after you have everything selected, hit add. 

How To Create A WordPress Website 2020

Ok, we’re just gonna wait on this to update. It’ll just take a couple minutes. Alright, now that’s been updated and what that just did is change the location of everything that we’re gonna be making on our WordPress website, so it’s no longer to this FTP upload site, it’s now going to all be on our main domain.

Ok guys! Now I’m going to show you how you log in to your WordPress account anytime you need to edit something on your site. So what we’re gonna do is open up a new tab and then you’re gonna take your website and you’re gonna put it in and then you’re gonna put /wp-admin after the .com or whatever your domain is, and then after that click ‘Enter’.

Then when it comes up here, all you do is put in your account information that you created earlier. So again, it’s just your-domain-name/wp-admin anytime you want to log into your WordPress account. 

Alright, so I just put my information in and now I’m just gonna click login, and now this will take us right back to the wordpress dashboard. And now we can start finally building the actual site. 

Edit Site

Okay! So the first thing we’re gonna do is go over here to Appearance and then we’re gonna click on Themes, and this is where we’re going to install our WordPress theme. So we’re going to go over here to Add New Theme and this is where all the different wordpress templates are that you guys can choose from.

But we’re actually going to go over here to this search box here and we’re going to type in receptor, and then this is the theme we want and now we’re just gonna click on Install. Then I’m going to click on Activate. Okay, now our theme has been activated.

Okay! now the next thing we’re going to do is we’re going to go over here to settings and then we’re going to click on general, this is where we’re going to edit some of our site info. So now I’m just going to edit my title and tagline. So, now after that’s done, we’re just gonna scroll down here and click on Save Changes.

Alright, so now that that’s saved what we’re gonna do is go to our websites homepage and to do that we’re just going to click here and now what we’re going to do is we’re going to edit our header image. To do that we’re going to go over here to customize, we are going to click on that, then we’re going to click on header image, then we’re gonna click on add new image and then I’m just going to drop my header image here.

Then I’m going to click ‘Select and Crop’. Okay, now once that’s done you’re just gonna go over here and click on publish. By the way, if you guys need any stock photos to use for your website, if you go to this website called pexels.com you can find tons of free images to use and they’re completely free. 

Okay so now that that header has been saved, I’m just going to go back over here and if you guys see all this stuff right here, this is where you can go and edit any of these things here.

Alright guys, and so after that’s been saved I’m just going to go over here and now I’m going to click on theme options and then I’m gonna go up here to color accents and this is where you change the color of this right here. You guys don’t have to change it. I’m just going to change it to a different color. Okay, so I got my color now and I’m just going to click on Publish. Okay, now we’re just going to close this and we’re going to go over here and go back to our dashboard. 

So now what we’re gonna do is start adding some posts, so we’re gonna go right over here to the post section and you’ll see that there’s already one up right here. This is just the demo one that comes with WordPress once you install it. So we’re actually going to get rid of this.

This is how you delete any post that you don’t want anymore. Then come up here where it says bulk actions, we’re gonna click on this arrow then click move to trash, then we’re gonna hit apply. That’s how you get rid of a post. So now what we’re gonna do is click on the Add New Button. 

How To Create A WordPress Website 2020

Okay so this is our post section and this is where you add the title for your post, and then this is where all the content goes here. So I just put in some of my content right here, and if you guys want to add other things like images or other media, just click on this Add block and you can see all these different things you can add right here.

If you want to do an image or audio whatever you want, it’s all right there. Okay now what I’m going to do is add a featured image for this post. So to do that we’re gonna go to featured image and then click set featured image; then we’re gonna click on upload files; then I’m just going to drop my first image here.

Then also to the image size I found that works best with these featured images for this theme is 1024×1024. If you guys use the site that I recommended, pexels.com, to get your free stock photos from you can actually put in, if you click on custom size you can put in 1024 x 1024 and that will give you the exact dimensions for each photo that we’re using for in this theme.

Add Featured image

So, now I’m just going to click on select and now that featured image has been inserted and now we’re just gonna go up here now because the post is done and we’re gonna click on Publish. I’m gonna click on publish again. Now we’re just going to click on View Post to see what it looks like. Ok and that’s our first post right here and this is how it looks from the website’s homepage. 

So now I’m going to go back over here to my dashboard and I’m going to go back to the post section. Now I’m going to add in 9 other posts the same way that I did for this last post. I added the title and then I put in some content and then I added a featured image. So again I’m gonna go and do this 9 times for 9 different post and then I’ll be right back. 

Ok guys, so I just finished putting up my last post and this is what they look like now. That’s with all 10 of them all, and something else that I want to mention too within these posts are, if you want to add categories to your posts so you can separate them, all you have to do is go over to categories and you’ll see right now it’s in the uncategorized section but you can also add a new category.

So for example I’m just going to add a few. Okay so I just added in some more categories here and I just put this one and its correct category. So now after I did that, I’m just gonna come up here and I’m gonna click on update. 

The next thing we’re gonna do is add some pages to our website so we’re just gonna go over to pages, and then we’re gonna click on Add New, and now these are the same thing as the post. You just add a title and then you can put your content under here.

So I’m just going to add my title here for my page and then you guys can set a featured image if you want, I’m not going to though just because it’s a page instead of a post. Then after your page is done, you have everything you want on it, just click on ‘Publish.’ Okay, now I’m gonna go and I’m gonna add two more pages and then I’ll be back. 

Alright so I just added my two other pages here. So now what we’re gonna do after that is, go over to appearance and then we’re gonna click on ‘menus’. Once we get here we’re going to create a menu and you can name it anything you want.

I’m just going to name it as menu one, once you do that click create menu right there, then go over here and select the pages that you want to show up on the menu. Once you do that click on ‘add to menu’ then you can rearrange them any way you want by going like this.

How To Create A WordPress Website 2020

You can also add them into subcategories by just moving them over to the side like that. Don’t forget to select this right here, this is primary menu and now click on ‘save menu’. 

Okay so now if we go to our website and we click over here, we’ll see that that’s where our pages are that we just set up in our menu section. Alright guys, so that’s going to bring us to the end of the video here, we got our whole blog set up with all our post.

Now what you guys need to do is just go and add your own content in, so I hope you guys like this video and if you did, give it a thumbs up and if you have a question or a comment, you can leave it down below in the comment section and I’ll try to get back to you guys as soon as I can. So thanks again for watching and I’ll talk to you guys later, see ya!

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