Step by step tutorial on how to create wordpress website

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Skyrocket your Virtual Career with

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WordPress

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What is WordPress?

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WordPress is the easiest and

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Blogging and Website Content

Management System (CMS)

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With WordPress, you have full control of your

WEBSITE DESIGN using features that are very

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No HTML editing or FTP

software required

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Any beginners can use this

without a fuss!

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Let’s get started!

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Open a Browser

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Click the icon on your desktop

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Or at the tool bar

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Go to Wordpress.com

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Click Create Website

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Think of a catchy URL foryour WordPress account

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My own example

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Fill out the details required

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When done, Click Next Step

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For Free account, click No Thanks

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Scroll down for more Themes

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Choose Plan of your choice

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My choice for now is the Free PlanClick Select Free

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Verify your email address

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Log in to your email then OPEN the message from WordPress

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Confirm your Email Address

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You will now be redirectedto your

WordPress site

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Start by creating your Pages

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But you might be wondering..

What are Pages?

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Pages are menu/tabs to organize your posts

and/or topics

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We use Pages to organize and manage any content/s

or otherwise known as Post/s

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How to create Pages?

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Hover to My Site

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Click WP Admin

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Hover to Pages

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Click Add New

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Fill this out

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Page Title

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Describe your Page here

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If you want to add Image

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Click Add Media

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Upload Files from your computer

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Click the image for the settings

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Perfect! Now click View Page

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Let us check your current Pages

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Click the menu icon

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These will appear

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You now have 3 Pages

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Home and About tabs are your Default Pages

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Let us add more Pages

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Hover to My SiteClick Add just beside Pages

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Type the title and content

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When done, click Publish

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Add more Pages as needed

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Next, let us put contents on your Pages by creating Posts

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By default new posts goes directly to your Front/Home

Page

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Let us set up your Front Page and put new

Post/s to specific Page/s

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Make sure you have

alreadycreated a Page that you’d

like to be on your Front Page

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To create a Static Front Page go to WP Admin

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Hover to Appearance then click

Customize

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Click Static Front Page

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Front Page Displays should be

set to a Static page

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Select a Static Page

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Select a Static Front Page

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I will choose the Page I created

to be my Home Page

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When done, click Save and Publish

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You now have a Static Front Page

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Every time your visitor check your site this is the

Page that they will see

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Make sure to make a very good

first impression

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Now let us create a post

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Posts are content entries listed

in your Pages

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To do this we need to set up your Post Page

first

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To set up your Post Page go to WP Admin

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Hover to Appearance then click

Customize

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Click Static Front Page

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Select a Posts Page

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Select from your Pages where

youwant your new Posts to go to

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For now I want to post

somethingto Tools and Apps Tutorial Page

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When done,

click Save & Publish

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Click the x Button

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To create new Post Hover to My Site then go to WP Admin

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Hover to Posts then click Add New

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Type the Title

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The content of the post

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Click Publish

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Your 1st post! Congratulations!

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Let us check where your post went to

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Hover to My Site then click View Site

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Your Static Page Showed up

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Let’s check your Pages

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Click the Menu Icon

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Here are the latest Pages I created

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The Quest Page becomes your Home Page

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Your Post goes to Tools and Apps Tutorial Page

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If you want to post on other Pages

Please refer to slides 70-75 to do it

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Now, let’s customize your site!!!

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Go to WP Admin

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Hover to Appearance then click

Customize

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Go to Custom Design

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Custom Design is available for Premium Accounts only

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Click the go back button

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Go to Site Identity

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You can change Site Title

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Add a Tagline

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Add a Tagline

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If you don’t want a header text uncheck the box

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Click the back button

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Premium accts can change colors here

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Let’s explore this option

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Change Headings Font here

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Click this to change the Font settings

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Select the size here

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Click Default Theme Font

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Select Font from the list

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You can change the size here

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When done click Save and Publish

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Click the Back button

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Let’s put an image to your Header

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Click Add New Image

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Click Select Files

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Wait till it’s done uploading

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When done, click Select and Crop

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Adjust as need. Crop Image when done

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Wait till it is done loading

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Whoa!! Click Save and Publish

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Click the X Button

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Hover to My Site then click View Site

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Congratulations!! You now have a Website

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Let us reshuffle the order of your Pages accordingly

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Hover to My Site and go to Menus

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Click create a new menu

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Create Menu name the clickCreate Menu

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Select Pages the Pages you want to manage

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Click Add to Menu

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Click and hold the Page/s you wish to move

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You can move it down and up, and move a

little to the right to create a sub Page

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Move it down or up to move the order

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When done, click Save Menu

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You can also arrange the order of your post here

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Check the posts then click Add to menu

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Check the posts then click Add to menu

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Click and Drag your posts to create sub item

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Click and Drag your posts to create sub item

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Now your tabs look like this

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Manage your site the way you want it!

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Add more Pages and Posts

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Invite your target audience

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I hope this tutorial helped you!

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Success is intangible. It can never be measured nor grasped. Success is an attitude and a lifestyle.

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