The first thing you need to do if you want to build a WordPress site that's live for the public is to
purchase hosting hosting is the back end of your Web site where your actual files are saved.
Wordpress is the framework that allows you to edit your web site but it's not where your files are hosted.
There are many different hosting services out there.
I've used blue hose for a number of years for all of my web sites and I can recommend it.
There's other ones out there that other people recommend Like host gator but I'm going to show you how
to install WordPress with blue because that's what I would do if I were you.
Now for other people if you're using a nother post I'll try to include resources for how to install
WordPress on those hosts as well.
So to get started I'm going to actually walk through the entire process.
If you go to Blue Dot Com what you're going to want to do is click get started.
Now you can select your different plans these different plans have different options so if you go with
the basic plans you only get one Web site.
You have a limited amount of space for that Web site even though 50 gigabytes seems like a lot.
It potentially could get filled up if you end up having a huge web site with lots of files photos those
kinds of things that you upload to it.
You can only have up to five domains 25 subdomains.
These are things that as you grow you might want to consider upgrading and that's another thing you
can upgrade to any of these accounts later on.
These other ones include different types of things like unmetered bandwidth and space and Web sites.
But for this class I'm just going to go with the basic one just to get started.
If you already have a domain name you can submit it here on the right and you're going to have to transfer
it say you purchased a domain name from go daddy dot com or name cheap or another domain registrar.
You're going to have to transfer it to blue post if I want a new one.
Then I click over here and I can choose a new one for this Web site test.
I'm going to create a Web site based off of my very simple woodworking designs.
So I'm going to call it Ebner designs.
Now dot com is the best one.
But if I want something cheaper just to play around with I can use ADOT site or some of these other
different domain extensions.
So I just click next to make sure that this domain name is available.
It looks like what is available.
So the next thing you would do is fill out your name and all of your information and then under your
package information you can choose which package you want.
So for example on blue hose there's different packages.
And the deal gets better the more month that you pay for up front.
So choose the price that fits your plan.
Now there's different options that you might want to consider.
One is domain privacy protection.
This is really important and if you click any of these more information buttons it will give you more
information about it.
If you don't have domain privacy protection then your address and your e-mail address are actually out
in the public.
Once you register for your domain name I would consider that one.
The other one site backup pro search engine jumpstart site locks security all of these things were going
to be learning how to install plugins that do just the same thing but for free and some other options
so I wouldn't recommend not using any of these over here.
Lastly you put your payment information and then click submit.
So go ahead fill this out and purchase your hosting before moving on to the next step.
Once you have signed up for blue host log into your account and under hosting.
Click on see panel then click install WordPress.
It'll take you to this new page and say get started.
You're going to choose the domain name that you just registered for me I have different domain names
that I've purchased.
I'm actually using my main account for blue house now because I can purchase multiple domain names under
the same host.
So now I can click Ebner designs dot com which is the new Web site that I want to build for this course.
Select that domain and leave the directory empty.
Unless you want it to point to a separate web site so if you typed in home for example then when you
go to Ebner designs dot com it would take you to Ebner designs dot com forward slash home so leave it
blank so people can get straight to that domain.
Click next and then it will show you your admin user name email address and password.
Check these two boxes saying that you understand that the install will take place on this domain and
that you've read the terms things click install
once you get this installation complete banner up here you're ready to rock and roll.
You'll also receive an email with the web address and your information for logging in.
So go ahead and go to the Web site address which will be your domain name dot com or whatever your extension
is.
Forward slash W.P. dash admin.
This is how you log on to your wordpress site now input the user name or email address and password
that you were given in the last step of installing WordPress.
Great.
Now you have WordPress installed for your brand new website now to log on and to edit your Web site.
Always remember that you're going to go to your website you're all dot com forward slash WP dash admin
and then put your username and password the blue host account or your hosting account is seperate and
you might have to log into that to adjust things to register new domains or things like that.
But for the rest of this class we won't be dealing with hosting as much as just with your web site itself.
So whether you're using the free option of server press or a hosting option like blue host we now have
WordPress installed and are ready to start building our own Web site.