There are a lot of ways to create a blog website and there are many options out there. The question you have to ask yourself is whether you want to manage the blog yourself or do you want someone to control your server and your content.
There are cheap options and expensive options it’s really a matter of preference for what you want and what you want to pay for. You don’t always need all the services that come with whatever service or subscription that you are paying for.
In this tutorial we are going to show you how to create your own wordpress blog using your own managed server but you can always use wordpress.com also.
Get Server Set up
If you want to run your own wordpress blog you will want to sign up for hosting so you can install wordpress. This allows you to control your entire site without the risk of someone else shutting it down for whatever reason.
Go to Hostinger to get hosting. See below for reasons why we recommend it!
Why Hostinger?
Hostinger is an affiliate partner and what we normally recommend because of the speed, the price, the customer service, and how easy it is to use. With Hostinger, there really are no issues with hosting the wordpress websites we have made including blogs.
Choose the plan that is best for you.
I would probably choose the premium plan if I was making a blog website since I don’t need a lot of the things the business plan offers. That’s just me.
Install WordPress and Register Domain
Now we can go through the set up wizard to make sure we install wordpress and install our domain. It’s pretty straight forward so there isn’t too much to say.
Going with a blank site is better, it will allow you to choose from more themes once you are on the wordpress dashboard.
Install Theme for Blog Website
Once we have everything up and running we can go to the admin dashboard for the WordPress website. This will redirect you to the wordpress dashboard.
Let’s install the theme we want to use to create our blog website. Also, you can use any theme to create a wordpress website if you want instead of a blog also. There’s a few things you need to change but it’s not too difficult and there are plenty of tutorials showing you how to do this on the YouTube channel.
Website Settings
If you want to change your website settings you can do so by doing the following:
- Go to WordPress Dashboard
- Click on settings on the left hand side
- There is the general tab for general settings
- Reading tab for the static page option for a blog
- Permalinks for URL structure
You can also go to your theme settings to see if you can customize anything
- Go to the WordPress Dashboard
- Hover over Appearance
- Click on Customize
- Go through the tabs
- Click Publish to save changes
Writing Blog Posts
To write blog posts you can hover over posts on the wordpress dashboard for the blog website and click on new
If you are on the blog website homepage, you can hover over new and click on post
Writing a blog post is pretty straight forward, but you can always add some additional details such as adding images or video using the built in page builder.
Once you are done. You can add category names and tags on the right hand side and add a featured image.
Click publish once you are ready for the post to be seen.
Customizing Blog Website
If you want to do more to your blog website you can always change the theme or add some additional plugins.
You can look for premium themes on the themeforest website which is a marketplace for wordpress and other things or you can use another free wordpress theme or upgrade to a premium option.
There are a lot of options and you can ask if you need some help!