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When you start a blog, probably the first thing you need to take into consideration is what type of CMS (blog publisher) you’ll use to compose it.
There are a lot of CMS’s out there. The most famous among them is WordPress. It is easy to install, and easy to use, and even easier to customize. Therefore, it is best for you to choose WordPress for the CMS with which you will establish your blog. Especially if you are not a tech savvy.
So, with this guide, you will be able to install your own self-hosted wordpress easily without any technical coding knowledge.
In fact, this guide is absolutely for beginners who didn’t have any knowledge of website coding.
But before we start, I want to ask : why are people choosing WordPress ?, why is it that 95% of the successful bloggers are using WordPress ?.
why WordPress is considered the best blogging platform in the whole world ?, is WordPress really the best blogging platform ?
Yes! WordPress is the best blogging platform I have ever known especially for beginners who have no experience in web development.
Here are the reasons:
Why You Should Choose WordPress Today
1) I can say it bold and clear that more than 40% of the blogs on the internet are running on WordPress. For a beginner, it has all what you need to build a blog, publish and maintain it.
4) Your website will be optimized for SEO on google
5) You can run Google AdSense on your website.
6) You can install any theme of your choice.
7) Your website will be a responsive one without any advertisement or brand.
8) The domain that will be given to you is free of charge.
9) You can also integrate ecommerce to your website. i.e online store,where you can sell your products online.
Examples of such websites are Amazon, Jumia, Alibaba and so on.
10) To mention few, in term of customization, there is no thing you can not do on your website because you will have a total control over your website contents and monetize it in any way you want.
HOW TO GET STARTED
But before that, you need to have certain things.
Note 1: To be candid, you can not compare self-hosted wordpress to any other blogging platforms outside there in term of total control
Note 2: WordPress.org is different from WordPress.com. Here are the differences:
3) A domain name that will serves as your website address through which a visitor can visit your website.
1) web hosting that will provide you the web server on which you will install WordPress and save all your website’s files and documents.
STEP 1: VISIT AWAKESERVER.COM SIGNUP PAGE
STEP 6: INSTALL WEBSITE PUBLISHER: WORDPRESS
In this page, we want to install WordPress as our chosen website publisher software. Now click on Zacky App Installer as in the page below :
You will be directed to the page below, where you just need to click Browse and Install Apps.
After that, you will be redirected to the below page where you will be asked to select the app you want to install on your given free web server.
1. WordPress has already been automatically preselected for you. But if it has not been automatically preselected, select WORDPRESS.
2. Click NEXT.
Then you will be directed to a page where you will enter your website information for WordPress installation.
According to the page above,
- 1. Write your website title.
- 2. Enter the username you want to use as an Admin.
- 3. Enter the admin password, you will be using it whenever you want to log into your website backend. Try to make it strong.
- 4. Enter admin email address. Enter your mail address here.
- 5. Click Install Application.
Wait while WordPress is being installing.
STEP 7: VISIT YOUR NEWLY CREATED WEBSITE
After a successful installation you will see a page with this message “Congratulations, your WordPress was installed successfully!”
Now, according to the page above,
1. Click the link to access your website’s frontend. e.g http://yourwebsitename.subdomain.com, you will see something like the page below, that is your website and this is the way it will looks to the your site visitors.
Now, we need a look that is more beautiful than this, therefore we have to log into the backend to change this default theme to our preferred one (beautiful).
STEP 8: CUSTOMIZATION: CHANGE THE DEFAULT THEME
According to the page above.
2. Click the second link to access your website’s backend. e.g http://yoursitename.subdomain.com/wp-admin you will be asked to log in with your admin username and password. So enter that username and its password, then click Log in.
After you have logged in, you will be directed to the page below. This is your website backend.
To change your theme, kindly click change your theme completely.
Then,you will be directed to this below page.
In the page above,in no 1, type NEWSUP and click search.
Then no 2, click INSTALL & PREVIEW button.
After that,go back to your dashboard and click on view your site as in the photo below.
After you have clicked on view your website, the below is the new look of your website, a very beautiful, attractive and responsive website.
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