I've just completed a series of posts that will help you start your WordPress blog by walking you through the entire process of buying, setting up, configuring, and launching your very own WordPress blog... from scratch, zero, nothing, nada, zilch, for under $25, with a new domain & hosting plan, … Keep reading >>>
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Starting your WordPress Blog: Part 6 – Publish Your First Blog Post
We are almost there. You've conquered the first 5 steps of completely setting up your WordPress blog. You have your first draft. You're ready to hit "GO", and publish your first blog post, right? Just a minute, we'll get to it, now that we're on Step 6. Just a few … Keep reading >>>
Starting your WordPress Blog: Part 5 – Writing Your First Blog Post
Part 5: we're finally to the actual "blogging" part! For many people, this is actually the hardest part. But you're here for a reason, and that's to blog. So, below, I've put together the actual technical steps to creating a new post in WordPress and combined that with some guidance … Keep reading >>>
Starting your WordPress Blog, Part 4: Configuring WordPress Settings
WordPress is simple, but powerful. With power comes complicatedness, and that's not even a word. For many of these settings, you'll simply be accepting the default settings for most of the screen, but you'll need to make changes to almost every one. In the meantime, you'll be learning where things … Keep reading >>>
Starting your WordPress Blog, Part 3: Configuring Plugins
Welcome to Step 3 of starting your WordPress blog from scratch, which is by far the longest step in this process, in which we will configure six powerful plugins for your new WordPress blog. If this post is where you've jumped in, you may find Step 1 and Step 2 … Keep reading >>>
Starting your WordPress Blog, Part 2: Installing Plugins
This post is step 2 in a step-by-step series on how to start, launch, maintain, and grow your very own blog using WordPress and Godaddy. In step one, you bought a domain and a hosting plan, installed WordPress, and activated the 2015 WordPress theme. In this step, you're going to … Keep reading >>>
Starting your WordPress Blog, Part 1: Domain, Host, and Theme Setup
This post is the first in a series laying out a simple course for new bloggers - personal and business - to take in creating, launching, maintaining, and growing a WordPress blog. This step is the only part where you'll need a few bucks. In this step, you will start … Keep reading >>>