WordPress is a most popular content management system. There are a lot of users use WordPress than any other CMS, also increasing user growth and relatively more.
WordPress is a free blogging platform. You don’t need to know much about to create a blog. If you do not know about HTML, PHP, etc. then you can still create a blog. Where you can share your articles and post to the public. But porn, gambling, and medicines related issues are not allowed at wordpress.com.
Before starting free blogging from WordPress.com let’s say a word blogging is a hobby, where many people start blogging with personal domain and hosting. I suggest self-hosted options but if you have no money you can start free blogging. Why am I talking to self-hosted options? Because, you do not use many things as you wish for wordpress.com such as plugins, themes etc.
First Go to visit WordPress.com than click Get started. There are 4 steps here.
Step 1
You are on the first step so this step has some questions. You have to answer the questions. First name your blog, second describe your blog, third select which category in your blog and last select how satisfied about making a blog then click continue button.
Step 2
In this second step go to the search bar and write your blog name or keyword. When you type the keyword or blog name it will be shown below that is available or unavailable. If anyone has been opened in the same name before, then no blog site can be opened by this name. In that case, you can choose an available name that nobody used before. The name of the blog site or the address such as ‘www.sitename.wordpress.com’, you can put your blog name like “sitename/(your name or keyword)”. When the name is fixed then click the free & ‘select’ option next to the name specified.
Step 3
There are 3 plans in this step personal, premium and business. These 3 options are paid and quite expensive with no advantages. So, go to the free options and click ‘start with free’.
Step 4
Step 4 contains Create your account. Here you have to put your email address, username and password then click continue button. Then your blog site will be started but your account not active. So first go to your email and click “Click here to Confirm Now”. Now your account is Activated.
How to login to your blog site?
Go to this address http://wordpress.com/wp-admin and put your username or email address then click continue and next type your password and hit the login button. Now you are in the WordPress dashboard. There are various features and tools in this WordPress dashboard. You can customize your blog from the dashboard like the theme, post, pages, widget, add users, blogroll and more. Also, if you have any problem you can help in support, for solution-click on the ‘Help & support’ tab in the down left corner of your WordPress dashboard screen.
How to choose a theme of your new wordpress blog?
Are you ready to start blogging? Before starting blogging, you can design your blog. There are many free templates and themes available in wordpress. Just go to left sidebar “Customize” -> “Themes” you can see lots of different themes available. Some themes are free and some are paid but not buy premium theme right away because the prices are quite expensive. Every theme you can watch live preview, just move the mouse pointer on the theme it show a option Info. Click the info button then you can see full screen display of your blog. If you like what you see, hit the “Activate this design” button in the upper middle on this page. But remember that you can change the theme whenever you want.
How to add new blog post and pages?
If you want to start writing post, I will suggest first you make useful page like contact us, about us, privacy policy and disclaimer.
Then, go to Site Pages >> Add. Now write the title of your page and write in the description that what you write
inside your page. Then publish the page for live.
Now it’s time to write your first blog post!
So, let’s go to first blog post go to Blog post then click on the Add.
Here you write the title, description for your post then click publish and live the post. Also, you can add a category and some tag. After creating the successful blog post you can share facebook, twitter, google plus etc.
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