How To Start A Blog – Beginners WordPress Tutorial 2024

How To Start A Blog – Beginners WordPress Tutorial 2024

In this WordPress tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a blog website. Not just any blog website. I’m going to show you how to start a blog that looks and runs like a professional blog. You won’t need to know how to code or really have any special skills. But the results you will get will make people think you are a professional website designer.

This video is an Elementor WordPress tutorial that is perfect for beginners who want to has some design control over their blog, but don’t need to or want to design their entire blog website themselves.

In this Elementor Tutorial, I’ll cover how to:
– Get a domain name
– Get an email address at your domain
– Set up professional WordPress hosting
– Configure and use WordPress
– Install and get familiar with Elementor Pro
– Find and install a professional blog template
– Edit and modify that template to make it a custom website for you
– Ensure that your pages are mobile friendly
– build and edit your own blog posts

By the end of this tutorial you will have the skills needed to build, set up and edit your own professional blog with confidence.

WordPress Tutorial Chapters:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:07:27 – Getting a Domain Name
00:13:12 – Setting Up An Email address
00:15:14 – Signing up for Pressable Hosting
00:18:07 – Connecting our domain name to our hosting
00:19:43 – Adding collaborators to your blog website
00:20:56 – Plugin management option
00:21:54 – Logging into your website from Pressable
00:22:32 – WordPress Dashboard Tour
00:27:51 – Setting the Permalinks
00:28:17 – Clearing out the default content.
00:29:42 – Enabling Theme auto update
00:31:08 – How to view your website from the dashboard of WordPress
00:31:31 – Adding in sample blog posts
00:33:40 – Adding and editing WordPress Users
00:35:23 – Setting up The Jetpack Plugin
00:36:21 – Setting up WordPress.com and our Gravatar
00:39:34 – Installing Elementor Pro
00:45:04 – Installing the Blog Template and envato elements
00:56:49 – How to add pages in WordPress
00:58:49 – A little bit about post categories
01:00:02 – Setting the Blog page design to the design from our template
01:03:17 – Tour Of Elementor Builder Interface
01:13:06 – How to save a page section in Elementor to use on another page
01:15:11 – How to set the Single Post Page design in Elementor
01:15:55 – How to edit the design of the single post in Elementor
01:18:45 – Saving the styling of an Elementor Widget as the default
01:19:03 – Changing the posts widget to display random instead of the most recent posts
01:21:25 – How to remove the annoying animations from the template
01:25:18 – Editing the Home Page
01:26:33 – Setting the correct page layout for designing with Elementor
01:27:16 – Setting the default page layout for elementor and elementor site settings
01:36:54 – How to add your blog posts to your home page
01:37:06 – Explanation of Elementor Sections
01:44:00 – Editing the home page flip boxes
01:47:14 – How to change the home page top slider
01:50:39 – Editing the header
01:57:19 – Editing the social icons widget
01:58:18 – Editing the Copyright in the footer
01:59:43 – Adding the about page
02:02:48 – Adding the contact us page
02:05:49 – Making sure your pages are mobile ready
02:12:23 – How to add a blog post in WordPress
02:15:19 – How to structure your blog posts for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
02:17:45 – How to add a featured image to a post in WordPress

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