This week I am going to show you briefly how to create a WordPress website from scratch. You do not need to have any skills at all. Perhaps some basic html skills however are a plus. I will not go into details. This is just an overview.
- Purchase a domain
- of course, you must first need to have a domain (aka a name) for your website; my website’s domain is tudorbercea.com
- you can purchase the domain from basically any domain registrars or hosting providers; just do a google search with “buy domain” and you will find plenty of websites where you can purchase your domain;
- of course, your domain must be available (aka nobody else has bought it before you)
- Purchase hosting for your website
- any website must be hosted on a server
- you can buy 1Gb, 3Gb or even more – according to your needs – from various hosting providers
- the criteria I took in consideration when choosing my hosting provider were:
- [server space / price] ratio – the higher the ratio, the better; you want to pay as little as possible for one Mb of space you purchase
- monthly bandwidth – preferably unlimited; you don’t want to have a fixed amount of data that you can upload/download to your server space
- number of domains you can host; at first, I bought 2 domains: tudorbercea.com and tudorbercea.ro and I needed a hosting provider that would allow me to host at least 2 domains
- number of MySQL databases; any WordPress website has an associated MySQL database, therefore you must be able to host at least as many databases as the number of domains hosted on your server;
- SSD – the latest Solid State Disks technology allows your website to load much faster than conventional Hard Drives
- there are other criteria and it’s always best to search for some reviews before deciding on your hosting provider;
- I chose www.xservers.ro because they scored highes at the criteria above and I also found some good reviews regarding their client service
- Add your domain to your hosting service
- usually you can buy both the domain and the hosting together; if that is the case, you can probably skip down to step 4
- you need to make sure that your newly-purchased domain will be hosted on your hosting
- for this, you need to make sure that the DNS (Domain Name Servers) of your domain point to your hosting provider; please note that this might take 40 minutes to several hours to complete;
- your domain registrar should normally send you detailed information about how you can access your domain’s DNS; I had to access http://access.enom.com (see pictures below)
- Install WordPress
- installing WordPress is easy; here is the complete guide (click here)
- Customize your website
- your website is pretty much done; all you need to do now is customize your website and add content on posts and pages; but perhaps this is a subject for another tutorial
I hope you enjoyed this first tutorial. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me or to write a comment in the comment section below and I will try to answer as soon as possible.
I am a freelance designer.
Distance is not an issue. I can work from anywhere.
