📘 WordPress Tutorial - How to Make a WordPress Website for Beginners 🌐

Want to learn how to make a WordPress website?

In this WordPress tutorial, you'll learn how to make a website in this step-by-step WordPress Tutorial! Then you can create your blog, business website, ecommerce store, or non profit website.

Starting a site can appear very daunting especially when you're new or not comfortable with technology. We've helped many different beginners get their own sites up and running. In this video, we'll show you how to create a website using WordPress.

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The video will go through the different steps in purchasing and getting BlueHost set up. The only addon that you may want to consider would be the privacy addon, otherwise, we do not recommend the other addons as they can be replaced with WordPress plugins.

Once your purchase is complete, BlueHost should install WordPress for you or walk you through the installation process for the settings that you would like to have on creation. After that, you would want to log into the WordPress site to start editing.

To remove any excess clutter we will be disabling all plugins except MonsterInsights(gives you Analytics), WPForms(allows you to create contact forms), and OptinMonster. For the others, we will click the checkbox and in the dropdown options, we will select deactivate, apply, and then repeat that process for deleting the plugins.

For the design of your site, you would want to go under Appearance, Themes, and choose the theme you would like, for this tutorial we have purchased and are using the Astra theme. You can find that theme using our referral/affiliate link below:

After the base design of the site is set up or you have a template added, we will want to fix the URLs on your site so they are human-readable. To do this we will go under Settings, Permalinks and update the permalinks to a different version. We prefer the post name default option.

The video will go through the different customization options available and different ways you can customize your site. If you use a different theme then your options may be different than what is shown in the video for appearance.

The general settings, as well as available plugins, should not change based on the theme you are using.

We also walk you through setting up a contact form with WPForms, connecting your site to Google Analytics using Monster Insights, and a nice tip for creating personalized landing pages using SeedProd.

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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:56 What is hosting and a website
1:45 Purchase hosting
3:35 Installing WordPress
4:10 WordPress overview
6:00 How to install your WordPress theme
8:50 How to customize your theme
13:25 How to update the footer text in WordPress
14:17 How to change the font and color of your WordPress Theme
16:17 How to add a call to action button in your WordPress menu
17:13 How to add a blog page to your WordPress website
17:30 How to create a menu for your site
20:09 How to create a contact form
24:16 How to add social icons to your contact page
24:48 How to Customize a WordPress page
27:19 How to connect your site to Google Analytics
31:14 How to add a coming soon page to your WordPress website
35:59 How to create a logo for your website
38:20 How to write a blog post

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[wpbeginner]

Question of the day💡What kind of website do you want to make?

[amylouisesmithart]

Thank you for doing such a wonderful job explaining and showing!

[tasteslikeyellow]

I am so happy that I found your video! I was struggling big time. Thank you for being so informative but still keeping it simple and to the point!

[TheAmutic]

Hello, I am a teacher (teaching media in the photo department) and often use videos as support. I have difficulty finding videos where presenters are understandable, pleasant to listen to and most of all experts in the field I need. Most of my students speak English (I teach in Croatia) but a clear presentation is crucial. That being said, your presentation is one of the most pleasant to watch and learn from. Thank you:)

[meowmi]

I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial. I’m an engineer and knows coding but OMG it is so confusing when I first started with Wordpress and I just couldn’t understand why none of the themes look the way they are after installation. I even attended WP’s live webnair and it was quite useless to be honest. This tutorial is however for the beginner beginners and you really cover all the very fundamentals in a very easy to understand language . Thank you again Christina! 💕

[lorrainel_uk]

Just found you and really enjoyed this helpful explanation. Thank you!

[kimberlyduke]

I'm so excited can't wait to start

[annetravel]

Perfect. Thank you. I love how you present the information in a straight-forward way.

[Web]

Great tutorial aye! Informative and straight to the point. Definitely valuable to a lot of beginners.

[CleanWPPro]

A nice tutorial for new WordPress users.

[ronpetersen]

Great Tutorial Christina. Thank you for it. I found it very helpful TRYING to learn WordPress. Although I don't know I ever will!

[isakwilkinson]

You are so awesome. I just had to say that what you showed me in this video saves me a ton of time especially in this new digital age I'm 50 years old I'm starting my own janitorial company. I still got to do a couple of more things I've got the LLC already. But yeah this video was so informative and it's so easy and so low cost to start in case I close my door after the first year of opening a business this is my second LLC. I learned a lot from my first LLC what to do and what not to do. But yeah thank you so much keep making great videos

[wherecreekwaterflows]

Thank you so much for this! Great Content!

[Glenfiddich]

Far too many online tutorials are too hard to understand and I'm NOT talking about learning code either. Some videos about how to build a website with their wellknown websites talk far too fast and with far too much information to take it in while watching their half hour or often much longer videos and then when the videos finally finish you are exhausted and can only remember a handful of what they said.



Christina from WPBeginner Tutorials really explained everything and demo'd her site as she went and I really started to understand it all

Thank you Christina (I hope I spelled your name correctly) ??

I look forward to viewing some or all of your other videos

I have subscribed and "Liked" your video too

Best regards


Glen Fiddich 😁👍

[tauqeervideos]

Great tutorial..very short and to the point for beginners

[michaelawawryk]

this is the best WordPress tutorial I have found. thank you thank you thank you!!

[stevegarrett]

Thank you. This may be the most helpful youtube video ever!!

[thekid]

thank you for this video, very comprehensive.

[adafelatenciorincon]

I see you have three tutorials like this, one dated 2019, the next 2020, and the last 2021. Unknowingly, I started watching the oldest one but after a doubt I had, I entered the channel and found there was yet another version, the one for 2019 and later, browsing through the channel, I found this other version. Naturally, I am taking this last version as the most appropriate for a newbie to learn how to set up a WordPress site.
Is it any good to watch the other two versions or should I stick to just this one to get what it takes about setting up a WordPress website?

Congratulations! It’s very beautiful and convenient to have the whole tutorial split in its component parts with time stamps, so that we can easily review those tracks that we find difficult to understand. Thank you so much!

[drnoone]

Very good thank you! Now off to my all nighter making the page for my wife ;)