wordpress tutorial: how to set up a wordpress blog

HOW TO SET UP A WORDPRESS

BLOG

WordPress Tutorial #1

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What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service.

Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system.

WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013.WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress

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Go to www.wordpress.com

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Click “Get Started”

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This will appear on your screen

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Type in your e-mail address, username, password and blog address

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This will now appear on your screen

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Type in your Blog Title

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Your Tagline

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choose your preferred language

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and select your Posting Goal

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Then click on “Next Step”

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This will now appear on your screen

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You can choose a variety of designs for the theme of your blog. 

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Just scroll down to look at the different themes.

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Then click on a thumbnail to choose the desired theme for your blog. 

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You don’t have to over think it;

you can always switch to a different theme later.

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I chose the Writr theme for this blog

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This will now appear on your screen

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Click on “Next Step”

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This will appear on your screen

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Select an account to share your blog posts with family, friends or followers

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I will connect WordPress to my Twitter account.

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Type in your username and password

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Then click Authorize App

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Now you are connected with twitter

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Click on Next Step

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This will now appear on your screen. You can create your first post or if you want to skip this step just

click on “Next Step”.

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I will create my first post and click on Quote

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This will appear on your screen

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Type in your desired post

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Scroll down then click Save Quote

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This will now appear on your screen

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Go to your email notifications and confirm your email address

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Click on Confirm Email Address

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Your email is now confirmed and you can now publish posts on your blog

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You now have successfully created a WordPress Site!

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