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How to create a website on wordpress.com (By Kawtar Chellaoui)
1. Go to wordpress.com website 2. Click on create a website
3. Choose a name for your website (site address) Example: ilovetaiji.wordpress.com
4. Click on “create your site and continue” button 5. Enter your email address; choose a user name, and a password
6. Click on next step 7. Skip the next page by clicking on “No Thanks” button.
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8. Choose a theme (how you want your website background look like) by clicking on it. NB: you can always go back and change the theme any time you want
9. Choose a plan for your website
10. Click on the free for life plan by clicking on “select free” button
Congratulations! You have just created your website in wordpress.com Now you need to verify your email address so that you can publish your posts! Open your email from wordpress.com and click on activate account.
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(A post named “Hello world” will be automatically created. You can keep it, delete it or change its content”)
11. Start your first post by clicking on “start a post” button 12. Enter a title for your first post and then write your post 13. Click on publish (if you modify again you need to click on update)
NB: if you don’t want your post anymore you can send it to trash
14. Click on preview to see how your post looks on your website! (You can always edit it if you still want to make changes by clicking on the edit button) More options To modify and manage your website, create pages and add other options, you need to click on “my
site” on the top left corner of your screen.
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To add a new page, click on posts and pages. Next, click on pages and then on
“add” Enter the page name on the title area ex: Sports (this will be a button that will lead you to the page about Sports)
To add media in your page (ex. pictures or videos), click on add media Drop your pictures or files anywhere to upload If it is a video from a website such as YouTube, click on insert media, and then choose insert from URL
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Then insert the URL address you have by copying it from the original website ex: youtube.com
• Once you copy your URL, click on button and then click on the publish button
when you are done with you page.
• Click on preview to view your new page about “sports”
• You can always edit it or delete it whenever you want.
• Please take your time exploring all the options that wordpress.com offers. The above are just the basic steps. Please try to integrate more options as you learn on your pace all the option out there!
Assignment You can create as many pages as you want (min 4 pages are required). The pages should reflect who you are, so don’t hesitate to create any pages you want! PS: keep in mind, that at least one page should be dedicated to the music genres from your previous assignment (Presentation about Music) Have fun! J
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