Hello everyone, I am Arslan Raza, and today in this series on how to make money online, we will learn how to set up a new word press website using BlueHost website hosting services. So, this is a complete step-by-step guide on how to install WordPress on Bluehost, if youâÃÂÃÂre a beginner and youâÃÂÃÂve never built a website, this article is for you. So the first thing youâÃÂÃÂll need to do is youâÃÂÃÂll need to sign up for the BlueHost. You can do this by clicking the link below thatâÃÂÃÂll take you right to the Blue Host website portal and youâÃÂÃÂll click get started now
Click Here to go to BlueHost Portal
Once you go to the BlueHost portal, keep following the guide below step by step
So youâÃÂÃÂll choose your plan. For just $3.95 a month, you can host one website, or for $5.95 a month, you can host unlimited websites. You can choose either plan. If you are a beginner I would recommend you to start with the basic plan. So once you select your plan youâÃÂÃÂll choose your domain
Your domain is the URL of your website, for instance, GoogleâÃÂÃÂs domain is google.com. Now the great thing about the Bluehost is you get this domain a hundred percent free. So just by signing up and using BlueHost as your hosting company, youâÃÂÃÂll get a domain a hundred percent free. So type in the domain youâÃÂÃÂre looking for, click Next. Then youâÃÂÃÂll put in all your information in the picture shown below and click Submit
Once youâÃÂÃÂve created a Bluehost account you should be inside the Blue host dashboard. Now itâÃÂÃÂs easy to get lost in all the buttons and options shown below
But if youâÃÂÃÂre creating a WordPress website you actually donâÃÂÃÂt have to mess with any of the stuff shown above. You just have to go down to the website section and find install Word Press and click on that. Now youâÃÂÃÂre going to choose the domain that youâÃÂÃÂre going to install Word Press. YouâÃÂÃÂve just created your account you should only have one domain but after you select your domain click Next as shown below
Now youâÃÂÃÂre going to add the admin information for your WordPress site. The first one youâÃÂÃÂll do is the site name or title then youâÃÂÃÂll choose the email address that you want to be associated with your account, your admin username, and password. The user name and password will be used to log in to your WordPress site once youâÃÂÃÂre done with all of that go ahead and click next. You will notice at the top it says WordPress is installing as shown below. All the steps are shown by black arrows as well. Follow these steps
Once it says installation complete click view your credentials here so at this point you should see your username and password displayed as well as the domain you just installed WordPress too. Follow the picture below
Now, go ahead and click on the domain that should take you to your WordPress login
Go ahead and enter the username and password you just created and click login so now you officially have a WordPress website. And if youâÃÂÃÂre logged in you should see this screen shown below
Once you log in to your WordPress Admin Dashboard, you will see the dashboard as shown below:
So now IâÃÂÃÂm going to teach you how you can customize a WordPress site. IâÃÂÃÂm going to show you how to create pages, how to create blog posts, and just a few of the basics to get you started. So the first thing youâÃÂÃÂll want to know is how to see your website. You do that by clicking in the top left corner here and clicking on the site title so that would be the website you have so far
Now you will be seeing some content on your newly created website. The reason there is already content there is because this content is part of the theme the WordPress has installed itself in
So the theme is what basically controls the design aspects of your website. YouâÃÂÃÂll have to click on the site title again and it should take you back to the dashboard
And now I am going to talk about themes for a couple of minutes. I will show you everything in the screenshots below. You can change your theme by going to appearance and then themes
So as you can see I currently have the 2017 theme installed. If you want to change it to one of the themes on here just simply click activate now. If you want to find other free themes go to wordpress.org themes. Right there shown above, and you can search through hundreds or maybe even thousands of free themes IâÃÂÃÂm not sure how many there are but there are a ton. So once you find one that you like, click install, and then click activate. So now if you go back to your website youâÃÂÃÂll notice that it is a completely different design and thatâÃÂÃÂs because you changed the theme
How to get Familier with Customize Panel?
So before I talk about adding blog posts, pages, menus, and things like that. LetâÃÂÃÂs get familiar with the customize panel in this section on how to install WordPress on Bluehost. You click on customize right there shown above, or if you are back in your dashboard you can find customize by going to appearance and customize that way. You will be able to see the following settings
So the first tab here tells us which theme we have installed and allows us to change it right here in the customize panel. The next tab is the site identity. Now, if you click on that it will give you the site title and a tagline, notice my site title is nomadic household, and the tagline underneath it says; here is a tagline
So if we wanted to change that too, here is a tagline we would just fill it in there and click Save and publish
Now weâÃÂÃÂll hit the back button and go back to the customize menu and the next tab colors. If we click on colors weâÃÂÃÂll notice we can change the header text color which is right here or the background color
In this section on how to Install WordPress on Bluehost, we will learn about changing colors. So letâÃÂÃÂs try changing the header text color which is currentlyIâÃÂÃÂll set it to red so there it is it changed that quickly. All you have to do is click Save and publish and itâÃÂÃÂs final. You can always go and hit clear and it will put it back to the default settings
So, if we look again at the colors there was a background color, if we change that it changes thebackground there to red or blue or green or whatever we want. And if we want to put it back towe can simply click on default and click Save and publish
So again letâÃÂÃÂs go back and take a look at the next tab which is the header image. Now you can take this site title out and put an image there such as a logo or something like that, just by simply adding a header image in here and, clicking Save
The next tab is background-image if we click on that and we were to upload an image it would replace thisbackground with an image background. And, that is the customized panel for the most part
In this section of how to Install WordPress on Bluehost, we will learn about creating posts. Before we get any further in it I want to show you how to create custom pages and blog posts. So letâÃÂÃÂs exit out of the customize panel and go back into our dashboard weâÃÂÃÂll start by creating a blog post
To do this youâÃÂÃÂll go to post right here and youâÃÂÃÂll click add new to create a new one or you can find posts youâÃÂÃÂve already created right there
So letâÃÂÃÂs click add new, and this is where youâÃÂÃÂll enter the title of your post. LetâÃÂÃÂs say IâÃÂÃÂm going to call mine, âÃÂÃÂmy first blog postâÃÂÃÂ, and youâÃÂÃÂll enter your text right here and if you want to add an image youâÃÂÃÂll do that by going to add media once youâÃÂÃÂve created the blog post that you want you just click publish now
Notice that the link for this post is my website.com, slash the date and then the name of the post
And maybe you want to change it so that itâÃÂÃÂs simply the name of the post right after your website that way you have very clean URLs for your posts. The way that you change this is you go to settings and go to permalinks notice that itâÃÂÃÂs set on day and name
ThatâÃÂÃÂs why the date is showing up as well you just click on post name and Save Changes. And now if we go back to our post and click on my first blog post here notice the date is taken out of the URL
Now, letâÃÂÃÂs talk about pages, we could go back to our dashboard but since weâÃÂÃÂve already got the panel here weâÃÂÃÂll just click on pages. You will notice the pages are created the same exact way as posts. Click add new, add the title of your page, add the text media youâÃÂÃÂd like to add and click publish
If we go back to pages weâÃÂÃÂll notice there is the sample page, and the page we just created
So now, that we have at least two pages letâÃÂÃÂs talk about menus. If we go back and look at our website this page has already been added to the menu but we can customize this
We can take pages out, add pages in, and organize them exactly how weâÃÂÃÂd like. You can do that by going to menus or if youâÃÂÃÂre back in the dashboard you go to appearance and find menus right there. So the first thing youâÃÂÃÂll do is youâÃÂÃÂll name your menu and youâÃÂÃÂll click create menu
So, we have page one and a sample page showing up on our website. If we wanted to remove the sample page from showing up we can simply go to remove and click Save
Now, if you wanted to add a home page because your home page isnâÃÂÃÂt an actual page, what youâÃÂÃÂll do is youâÃÂÃÂll go to the custom link youâÃÂÃÂll add your URL choose the text that you want the menu to display IâÃÂÃÂll add home click Add to the menu and we can drag that above page 1 and if we go to pages you can always add pages back in by checking them, and clicking Add to menu
So under the menu settings will check the navigation menu under display location, and click Save Menu. Now we should have a home, page 1, and a sample page. So thatâÃÂÃÂs how you create a menu on your WordPress site
So, weâÃÂÃÂve started with Bluehost and weâÃÂÃÂve created a WordPress website IâÃÂÃÂve shown you how to use the customize panel, how to create blog posts, pages, menus, and basically, the best way to get better at building websites is to start building them. So if you need more help with your website be sure to check out other articles where I would write more on building WordPress websites
So, in this article, we have learned How To Install a WordPress website on BlueHost in simple and basic ways. I would probably write more about it soon. Stay tuned and keep visiting this site to learn amazing ideas and ways to build your own small online business and make money online!