How To Start A Blog, Easy And Fun- Wordpress Blog

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Follow the step-by-step directions to find out how you can start starting a blog in under one hour.
Starting a Website in Five Steps:

1.    Pick a blogging platform, domain name, and hosting choice.
2.    Design your site with a very simple theme.
3.    Modify your site to receive your desired look and feel.
4.    Select the best plugins to your own blog.
5.    Write persuasive content which adds value to readers.

How to Begin a Blog: Step-by-Step Instructions

So you're considering starting a site, but you do not have any clue where to begin, right? We were clueless. When we created this site a couple of years back, we had no clue how to begin a blog or how to become a blogger. Heck, we could barely spell HTML, let alone build a site.

But great news: it is easier than you think. We have learned a ton of lessons during our ascent to 4 million subscribers. And now you can learn from our pain and suffering to circumvent a lot of the tedium involved in setting up a blog.

1.Domain Name and Hosting.
First thing we did when beginning our blog was visit Bluehost and register our domain name. We didn't even have to set up a WordPress site, that is the stage we use, because Bluehost does all that for you. Bluehost's basic cost is $2.95 per month, which works for 99% of people

When we had questions we could chat with the "live chat" people at Bluehost at no cost. They pointed us in the right direction and made beginning our own blog super simple.

2. Theme

A fantastic theme provides you the look and feel you need for your site, enabling you to make a blog that appears exactly how youneed it to look. If you are not a coder (we certainly were not), then a theme makes the layout work a million times simpler. Plus, as soon as you buy a motif, which can be inexpensive for the time they save, you have it for life. A motif has two halves: the frame (the bones) and the Child Theme (the beauty):

There are many WordPress theme frameworks on the marketplace, but Genesis is undeniably the very best and most flexible option. Many themes merely deal with the aesthetics of your site, but Genesis provides a crucial basis for your Child Theme. Simply visit StudioPress and buy the Genesis Framework.

Child Theme. Once you get your Genesis Framework, you will want to discover the proper Child Theme (that is just a silly way to say "blog design"). The Minimalists utilizes the beautiful "tru" theme, which can be found at BYLT, the Genesis Community Marketplace. Head on over to BYLT, navigate their carefully curated collection of topics, and find the design that is appropriate for you.

3. Modify Your Blog

After we had our domainname, hosting, WordPress, and theme, we invested plenty of time tweaking the subject to have the appearance and feel we wanted (i.e., making our vision a reality). Then we spent much more time tinkering with the subject and arguing about it and tweaking it some more. After we had created our website, we put up a free Feedburner account so people could subscribe to our website via email and RSS subscriptions. And we then found a free Google Analytics account to track our stats. Feedburner and Google Analytics were equally simple to register for, and we still use both now.

4. Plugins

We use just a few plugins on our website: "Google Analytics for WordPress" and really simple Facebook and Twitter share-button plugins (because human beings are wired to discuss value, it is important to create your articles easy to share with others). They take only a couple seconds (literally a couple of seconds, it is just a click of a button) to set up as soon as you've started your own blog.

5. Write Compelling Content

Last, Through WordPress, we Began Uploading and Writing the content to our pages: About Page, Contact Page, Start Here Page, Books Page, Tour Page, Archives Page, etc..
We made our logo using free pictures we found on the internet and text from a normal word-processing program. Then we put an image of ourselves in the header (this is important because people identify with individuals, not logos). Finally we began writing new blog articles and publishing them frequently (at least once per week), accompanied by free pictures from Unsplash, Pexels, and the Library of Congress. And the rest is history.