{"id":35418,"date":"2019-04-06T14:14:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T13:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/?p=35418"},"modified":"2024-02-28T07:47:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T07:47:25","slug":"create-a-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wordpress-tutorials\/create-a-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a WordPress Website &#8211; The Full Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a website with WordPress can prove to be a difficult task. In this full WordPress tutorial, we will show you how to create a WordPress website for free. But before we start, some questions should be answered. In the following few paragraphs we&#8217;ll answer some interesting questions about WordPress. Yet, if you want, you can simply jump to the <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#install-wordpress\">How to Install WordPress<\/a> section of this full tutorial and start your new website with the CMS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What do I Need to Create a WordPress Website?<\/h2>\n<p>To create a WordPress website you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A domain name \u2013 a domain name is the name of your website. <strong>com<\/strong> is a domain. <strong>AwardSpace.com<\/strong> is also a domain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WordPress Hosting<\/strong> \u2013 Web Hosting is the service that you use to store your website files, and when someone wants to see your website, our servers are sending them the information needed. WordPress Hosting is a hosting service, specifically created to support WordPress websites better. That is why this type of hosting service is the most recommended for a WordPress website.<\/li>\n<li>Give or take, 40 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How Much Does a WordPress Website Cost?<\/h2>\n<p>The truth is every website has a different price. Equalizing the price to different websites is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there are a few, more or less fixed, costs that you\u2019ll have when creating a website.<\/p>\n<p>But as to create a website and host it, has a different price, which depends on the scale of the website.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to use our free web hosting service, you can, of course, create a WordPress website for free.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, we would highly encourage you to choose the <a href=\"\/wordpress-hosting\/\">WordPress Hosting Plan<\/a> that is most appropriate for your project.\u00a0 Adding a domain name is also highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to create your WordPress website alone, by following this tutorial, the costs will be less than $70.<\/p>\n<p>So, we can easily say that this tutorial is also a tutorial on how to create a website for less than $100.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Is WordPress the Best Website Building Option?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>As you go through this tutorial, we hope you\u2019ll find out why WordPress is the most used CMS in the entire world. Whether it is the best, you are the one to decide for yourself. For one thing, it is the most used. It is arguably the easiest one to use, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Although there are a vast number of known and unknown website builders, WordPress is surely the most versatile option. There are too many options, that are not presented to a website builder\u2019s users. And on top of that, with a self-hosted WordPress website, you have the possibility to take your website files and go whenever you want.<\/p>\n<p>But a comparison between WordPress and a site builder you\u2019ll find a little further in this material.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>In this WordPress Tutorial:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#what-is\">What is WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#why-wordpress\">Why WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#com-vs-org\">WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#wp-vs-builder\">WordPress vs. Web Site Builder<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#wordpress-hosting\">WordPress Hosting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#install-wordpress\">How to Install WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#enter-dashboard\">How to Enter The WordPress Admin Panel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#wordpress-themes\">WordPress Themes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#wp-plugins\">WordPress Plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#before-posting\">Before You Start Posting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#posts\">How to Post on WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#users\">WordPress User Roles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#wp-menu\">How Does WordPress Menu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"#f-a-q\">Frequently Asked Questions Regarding WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although we\u2019ve tried to gather as much information, as possible in this WordPress website creation tutorial, the truth is that you\u2019ll have to go through just four steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Choosing a Hosting Plan to Host Your Website<\/li>\n<li>Install WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Design Your Website<\/li>\n<li>Start Adding Content to Your Website<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In today\u2019s economy, the chances are that, whatever your walk of life, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to create your own website. Whether it is a personal blog, a business website or to find out whether you are capable of achieving it, a project in school, or for some other reason, to achieve that goal, you need to know how to create a website.<\/p>\n<p>And the truth is, it\u2019s not that hard. It is getting easier and easier.<\/p>\n<p>The problem starts when you, as we all do, google \u201chow to create a website\u201d and find all those options. And with the wide range of methods and website building variations, you could easily find yourself confused, and discouraged.<\/p>\n<p>The more option we have, the more we, people, tend to get scared about whether we\u2019ll make the right decision.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a WordPress website might not be for everybody. On the one hand, it is fairly easy to create a WordPress website, but on the other, if one has the time, and money to spend for an in-house web developer team, you probably will want to go with a custom solution.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to create a website like Facebook (although not recommended) with WordPress, and a lot of large and famous companies, are putting their trust in WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s not get ahead of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Although the process that we\u2019ll go through is simple, it might take some time for you to create your own WordPress website fully. In this tutorial we\u2019ll cover all the important factors that you need to consider while creating a website, so you won&#8217;t be surprised or disappointed in the near future when your skills get better, and you discover that you\u2019ve missed something, while you were making your first steps with WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>That is exactly why, we highly encourage you to go through every step of this tutorial, so you won\u2019t find your site with, say, the wrong structure, or random permalinks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is\">What is WordPress<\/h2>\n<p>In a word, WordPress is an Open Source Content Management System or CMS.<\/p>\n<p>The technological industry in most, if not all, of its realms, is striving to make more and more of its products usable to everyday people.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest example of that probably is personal computers. We all know that before the graphic interface, the only thing that people were seeing on their monitors, was code, code, and more code.<\/p>\n<p>And because coding was, and is not, the comfort zone for most of us, the graphics interface was created, and along with it, the market for personal computers, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>A similar shift happened in the web industry when the so-called Content Management Systems started to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>These Content Management Systems(CMSs) are the graphics interface of web development. A simple, visual way to create, and manage web content.<\/p>\n<p>As visible from the plural in \u2018Systems\u2019, WordPress is not the only CMS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-wordpress\">Why WordPress<\/h2>\n<p>If you are considering creating your website and you want to create it by yourself, WordPress is the way to go. Don\u2019t take our word for it.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s give the stats a word:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress usage and popularity<br \/>\nAs of today, WordPress is running roughly 32% of the Internet. That is a third of all the websites that you engage. A third of them are using WordPress.<\/li>\n<li>Content Management Systems are a lot. We have Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Grav, and much more others. In this, so-called \u2018red sea\u2019 with that number of competitors, WordPress has around 60% of the CMS market, which makes it the most popular Content Management System for the 7th year in a row.<\/li>\n<li>What is more, every day more than 500\u00a0<strong>new\u00a0<\/strong>websites are created with WordPress.<\/li>\n<li>A little over 14% of the top 100 websites in the world are using WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Also, 8% of the top 100 blogs are using WordPress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not enough? Here is a list of websites, that are using WordPress:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New York Observer<\/li>\n<li>New York Post<\/li>\n<li>TED<\/li>\n<li>USA Today<\/li>\n<li>CNN<\/li>\n<li>com<\/li>\n<li>com<\/li>\n<li>Spotify<\/li>\n<li>TechCrunch<\/li>\n<li>NBC<\/li>\n<li>National Geographic and<\/li>\n<li>AwardSpace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But why are all those brands putting their trust in WordPress? And why you should too?<\/p>\n<p>Well, for starters, as we mentioned, WordPress is an Open Source CMS. Which, in a word, means it is\u00a0<strong>free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And with the vast number of free themes, plugins, and other add-ons, WordPress is becoming more and more a simple rational choice.<\/p>\n<p>On top of all that, WordPress is versatile, and you can create whatever website you want, as long as you have the skills and discipline needed.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of using this CMS, when you compare it to other options like the website builders is the fact that most website builders are property to a company. Meaning that if you\u2019ve created a website by using a website builder, and suddenly you no longer want to use their services, you won\u2019t be able to make the website you\u2019ve created.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll probably be able to take the domain, but not the website, not the content, not the images. Once your account is disabled, all this hard work will be gone. Forever. On the other hand, you can use WordPress with one hosting provider, and once you want to move, you can\u00a0<a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/migrate-wordpress-website\/\">migrate your WordPress website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is so famous, because it is free, and is not making you stay in a place you don\u2019t want to be.<\/p>\n<p>It is just the perfect solution for everyone that wants to create their own website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"com-vs-org\">WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com<\/h2>\n<p>Although a lot of services are created on the core of this CMS, WordPress has two main denominations.<\/p>\n<p>Namely, WordPress.org and WordPress.com.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress.org is\u00a0<strong>the<\/strong>\u00a0WordPress. This is the main site of the organization, and here you can download the latest version of the software for free. Most plugins and themes are created for this version of WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress.com, on the other hand, is some of the full packages. There you can get a domain, and hosting, and run your website.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But WordPress.com has a policy where, if you are not paying for hosting, even if you are paying for the domain, they\u2019ll run ads on your website. What is more, you won\u2019t be able to get your website and go to another hosting, as their version of WordPress is different. That is not to say it is not possible at all, but it is harder than it should be.<\/p>\n<p>And that is done on purpose. They don\u2019t want you to go.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever hosting provider you choose, we highly encourage you to go with the WordPress.org version. You will get the software for free, as well as all of its future updates. And what is more important, you will have the freedom to download your website and move.<\/p>\n<p>Something more, you can run WordPress on\u00a0<a href=\"\/free-hosting\/\">Free Hosting With No Ads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wp-vs-builder\">WordPress vs. Site Builder<\/h2>\n<p>Site builders are great. They really are. They are making the building of your website as easy as possible. You can simply click on an element of your choice and drag it to the location that you want it to be located. Once there, you simply drop it and customize it. And you are ready to go to the next one.<\/p>\n<p>Then why so many people are choosing WordPress to create their websites instead of website builders?<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, WordPress also has website builders. Yes, most of them are paid, but it is a one-time investment that will surely pay you off over time. Also, with the latest big upgrade of WordPress \u2013 5.0 \u201cBebo\u201d \u2013 the Gutenberg editor was presented to all WordPress users for free. And Gutenberg is extremely close to a website builder.<\/p>\n<p>The chances are, one day Gutenberg will be the same as the site builders, if not better.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is also more versatile. With the plugins and themes, and website builders, WordPress has a ton of options, that are not available with a website builder.<\/p>\n<p>A self-hosted WordPress website, that is, a WordPress website, located on a WordPress Hosting server of your choosing, gives you the opportunity to get your website files and move to another hosting company or even to host it on your own computer.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, if a company that offers only a website builder as a service, could close doors at one point in time or another. If that happens, your website will be no longer available. At all. You won\u2019t be able to just go to another company, upload your files, and call it a day. The process of website creation will have to start all over again. From scratch.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is not only a better option compared to all the other CMS\u2019s and website builders.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is probably the best website creation platform that exists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wordpress-hosting\">WordPress Hosting<\/h2>\n<p>With the rise of the CMS, and the demand for a reliable hosting service to run a WordPress website, the natural need for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wordpress-hosting\/\">cheap WordPress Hosting Service<\/a> emerged. Although using the services of AwardSpace, you can create a WordPress website for free, we recommend that you get a premium WordPress hosting solution, as it can prove to be more reliable and secure.<\/p>\n<p>Like every other site, your to-be-created WordPress website needs hosting. And even though, you can run it even on a free hosting service, getting a WordPress optimized solution is probably the best option available.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the WordPress hosting services are, of course, capable of running other websites, and other CMSs, as well. But what is more important is the fact, that they are created with the purpose of running WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>This hosting plan is optimized for this CMS.<\/p>\n<p>To get yourself a hosting plan for the website that you want to create, you need to\u00a0<a href=\"\/wordpress-hosting\/\">choose a WordPress Hosting Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Go through the three steps of our signup. Once the process is completed, if you are not automatically redirected to your Hosting Control Panel, use the\u00a0<a href=\"\/user-login\/\">AwardSpace Login Page<\/a>, where you need to enter your Username and Password.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll be redirected to your hosting control panel, and the next step is to install WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"install-wordpress\">How to Install WordPress<\/h2>\n<p>This is the first step of this tutorial. Here we will show you how to make a WordPress installation for free.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve already covered <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/install-wordpress-zacky\/\">how to install WordPress<\/a>, in this part of the article we&#8217;ll just rediscover what we already know.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve already got yourself a WordPress Hosting account, to install WordPress, you need to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start the <strong>Zacky Installer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose\u00a0<strong>WordPress<\/strong>\u00a0as the CMS you want to install.<\/li>\n<li>Pick any\u00a0<strong>themes and plugins<\/strong>\u00a0that you want to install with the CMS.<\/li>\n<li>Configure the\u00a0<strong>website settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Install WordPress<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enjoy!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Step #1: \u00a0Get into the Hosting Control Panel and Start the Zacky Installer<\/h4>\n<p>When you enter the hosting control panel, you&#8217;ll be presented with various options to tweak your account. But to install WordPress, you need to start the Zacky Installer.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49571 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Enter-the-Zacky-Installer-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Step 2: Choose WordPress<\/h4>\n<p>The Zacky Installer will present you with the opportunity to choose between different CMSs, not only WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>But as this is a tutorial on how to create a website with WordPress, we&#8217;ll choose the <strong>WordPress Image, <\/strong>to start the installation process.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49572 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/How-to-install-wordPress-with-zacky-installer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"902\" height=\"617\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Step 3: Choose Design &amp; Plugins<\/h4>\n<p>In our installer, we\u2019ve made an effort to integrate some\u00a0<strong>themes<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>plugins<\/strong>, which you could install simultaneously with WordPress. Of course, you could skip that part by clicking\u00a0<strong>Next.<\/strong>\u00a0If you want to install a theme \u2013 click on the one that you prefer. And click\u00a0<strong>Next\u00a0<\/strong>afterward.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49574 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Choose-a-theme-887x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\nNext, there are <strong>plugins<\/strong>. You can follow the instructions above. If you like some of them mark them and they\u2019ll be installed automatically. Afterward, click\u00a0<strong>Next.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49575 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/How-to-install-wordpress-plugins-with-the-zacky-installer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Step 4: Configure Your Web Site Settings<\/h4>\n<p>Here you\u2019ll be able to choose your\u00a0<strong>domain, register a new one, or pick a free subdomain.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adjust-domain-settings-Zacky-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8226 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adjust-domain-settings-Zacky-installer.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adjust-domain-settings-Zacky-installer.png 904w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adjust-domain-settings-Zacky-installer-263x300.png 263w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adjust-domain-settings-Zacky-installer-768x877.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Adjust-domain-settings-Zacky-installer-897x1024.png 897w\" alt=\"adjust the domain settings before finalizing the installation\" width=\"904\" height=\"1032\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you already have a domain, you can use the\u00a0<strong>falling menu<\/strong>\u00a0to choose it, as shown in the picture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-a-domain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8227 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-a-domain.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-a-domain.png 902w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-a-domain-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-a-domain-768x881.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-a-domain-892x1024.png 892w\" alt=\"choose the domain on which you want to install wordpress\" width=\"902\" height=\"1035\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChoose your<strong>\u00a0Site name<\/strong>, fill in the <strong>Admin profile details<\/strong>\u00a0and click\u00a0<strong>Next.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-site-name-Zacky-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8228 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-site-name-Zacky-installer.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-site-name-Zacky-installer.png 905w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-site-name-Zacky-installer-253x300.png 253w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-site-name-Zacky-installer-768x912.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Choose-site-name-Zacky-installer-862x1024.png 862w\" alt=\"choose site name before finalizing the installation of WordPress\" width=\"905\" height=\"1075\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Step 5: Install WordPress<\/h4>\n<p>Check and double-check the information you\u2019ve entered, so you won\u2019t have to re-install the CMS. After you are sure, everything is as it should be, click\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Install Now!\u00a0<\/strong>button.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49576 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WordPress-installation-with-Zacky-installer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"774\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that once you&#8217;ve installed WordPress, you&#8217;ll need to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/wordpress-update\/\">keep the CMSs updated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"enter-dashboard\">How to Enter the WordPress Admin Panel<\/h2>\n<p>The WordPress Admin Panel (a.k.a. Dashboard) is where you&#8217;ll make all the magic. Here, not only you&#8217;ll tweak the design of your website, but will create your posts, pages, menus, and so much more. The admin panel is, essentially, where you&#8217;ll create everything that users will see and interact with.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it is essential to know <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/enter-wordpress-admin-panel\/\">how to enter the WordPress Dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To enter the WP Dashboard and start creating your website, you&#8217;ll need the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WordPress Installation URL\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WordPress Username<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WordPress Password<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/enter-wordpress-admin-panel\/\">enter the Dashboard of WordPress, which we&#8217;ve already covered<\/a>, you need to take the following steps:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Enter your domain name and add the\u00a0<strong>\/wp-admin\u00a0<\/strong>at the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB!<\/strong> If you installed WordPress in different than the root directory, you\u2019ll have to insert it between the domain name and <strong>\/wp-admin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong>\u00a0To access your WordPress admin panel, type in the username and the password that you\u2019ve chosen in the WordPress installation process.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve entered your WordPress Dashboard, you&#8217;ll probably want to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/limit-wordpress-dashboard-access\/\">limit the access of other people to your WordPress website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wordpress-themes\">Install WordPress Theme<\/h2>\n<p>As you probably already know or found out through the installation process, WordPress, as most if not all CMS is working on the basis of themes. That is, WordPress itself does not have any layout or look. It all depends on what theme you decide to use.\u00a0 The latter is not to say that WordPress does not have any tale-tell signs for one to understand whether a website is created with the CMS. It only means that there is no default look of WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Still, WordPress has a default theme. As of today, it is the <strong>Twenty Nineteen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although it is beautiful, you&#8217;ll probably want to install another WordPress theme, and thus, create a specific feeling for your website.<\/p>\n<p>In AwardSpace&#8217;s WordPress Tutorials, we&#8217;ve already covered the <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/install-wordpress-theme\/\">WP installation process<\/a>. And you can either go to the already published tutorial or follow the present one, where we&#8217;ll go through the process once again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Method 1: Installing a WordPress Theme from the WordPress.org Theme Directory<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Step 1:\u00a0Enter the Theme Options<\/h4>\n<p>To do so, you can either hover the mouse pointer over the <strong>Appearance<\/strong>\u00a0button, then choose\u00a0<strong>Themes,<\/strong> or just click on <strong>Appearance.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-enter-the-theme-catalog-in-wordpress.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7218 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-enter-the-theme-catalog-in-wordpress.gif\" alt=\"How to Install A WordPress Theme\" width=\"1031\" height=\"589\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Step 2: Add New Theme<\/h4>\n<p>Here, you should see two or three already installed WordPress themes. The CMS installs them automatically. You can either <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/delete-theme-wordpress\/\">delete the unnecessary WordPress themes<\/a> or just go for the installation of the one that you want to use.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the\u00a0<strong>Add New\u00a0<\/strong>button above the other themes.<\/p>\n<p>Or, of course, you can click on the huge Add New Theme button.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wordpress-theme-catalog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49577 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wordpress-theme-catalog-1024x277.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou will be given a list of themes. And again, you are presented with two options to choose from:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>You can use the search field<\/strong> and type the name or the purpose you want the theme to have.<\/li>\n<li>Also, you can find a theme by using the\u00a0<strong>Featured, Popular, Latest, Favorites, <\/strong>or\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Feature Filter\u00a0<\/strong>sections.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-49578 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wordpress-filtered-theme-search-1024x619.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"619\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\nIn the filter results, you will see all the themes from the WordPress.org theme directory that meet your criteria. As we already covered \u2013\u00a0<strong>Find what you like -&gt; Hover over it -&gt; Click Install -&gt; Click Activate.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-install-theme-in-wordpress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7225 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-install-theme-in-wordpress.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-install-theme-in-wordpress.png 1712w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-install-theme-in-wordpress-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-install-theme-in-wordpress-768x245.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-install-theme-in-wordpress-1024x327.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-install-theme-in-wordpress-1080x344.png 1080w\" alt=\"WordPress Theme\" width=\"1712\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Method 2: Manually Uploading a Theme From Your Computer<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Step 1: Enter the Theme Options<\/h4>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you\u2019ve bought a theme, or downloaded one from a third-party theme provider. To upload it to your site, you have to go to\u00a0<strong>Themes.\u00a0<\/strong>Then click\u00a0<strong>Add New.\u00a0<\/strong>This is the same as the first step from the previous method. Even without moving the mouse, you can click on <strong>Upload Theme.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-upload-a-wordpress-theme.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7222 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-upload-a-wordpress-theme.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1732px) 100vw, 1732px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-upload-a-wordpress-theme.png 1732w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-upload-a-wordpress-theme-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-upload-a-wordpress-theme-768x231.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-upload-a-wordpress-theme-1024x307.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/how-to-upload-a-wordpress-theme-1080x324.png 1080w\" alt=\"Upload WordPress Theme\" width=\"1732\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Step 2: Upload the Chosen Theme<\/h4>\n<p>A menu will show. Click the\u00a0<strong>Choose File<\/strong>\u00a0button, select the archive of your theme from your computer and press the\u00a0<strong>Install Now<\/strong>\u00a0button. WordPress will finish the operation automatically for you. Just click\u00a0<strong>Activate\u00a0<\/strong>afterward.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/upload-a-wordpress-theme.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7223 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/upload-a-wordpress-theme.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1732px) 100vw, 1732px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/upload-a-wordpress-theme.png 1732w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/upload-a-wordpress-theme-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/upload-a-wordpress-theme-768x150.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/upload-a-wordpress-theme-1024x200.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/upload-a-wordpress-theme-1080x211.png 1080w\" alt=\"Upload WordPress Themes\" width=\"1732\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/activate-a-wordpress-theme.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7224 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/activate-a-wordpress-theme.png\" alt=\"Installing WordPress Theme\" width=\"635\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen you are creating a website with WordPress, and you&#8217;ve installed the desired theme, you might also want to create a <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/create-wordpress-child-theme\/\">child theme<\/a>. Doing so will prevent you from losing any changes that you make when the theme is updated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wp-plugins\">How to Install a WordPress Plugin<\/h2>\n<p>Plugins are what make WordPress so versatile. By using these small, and often simple add-ons, you can make a really functional website, without knowing how to code. And even if you don&#8217;t understand how the machine works, you&#8217;ll be able to use it.<\/p>\n<p>The installation of plugins facilitates simple tasks such as adding Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or Google Adsense codes to your website. But what is more, is that the plugins are so many that there is a phrase &#8220;there is a plugin for that&#8221;. This means, (almost) any functionality you might need for your website, someone has already created a plugin for it.<\/p>\n<p>What is left for you is to just install and use it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already covered <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/add-plugin-wordpress\/\">how to install a WordPress plugin<\/a>. And you can read that tutorial, or just continue reading the present one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Method 1: Installing a Plugin Using the WordPress Search Engine<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Go to Plugins -&gt; Add new<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-enter-the-plugin-installator.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8168 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-enter-the-plugin-installator.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1048px) 100vw, 1048px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-enter-the-plugin-installator.png 1048w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-enter-the-plugin-installator-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-enter-the-plugin-installator-768x447.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-enter-the-plugin-installator-1024x596.png 1024w\" alt=\"How to Add a Plugin to WordPress\" width=\"1048\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Step 2: Search for the Plugin You Need<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-search-for-plugin-in-WordPress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8169 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-search-for-plugin-in-WordPress.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1734px) 100vw, 1734px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-search-for-plugin-in-WordPress.png 1734w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-search-for-plugin-in-WordPress-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-search-for-plugin-in-WordPress-768x335.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-search-for-plugin-in-WordPress-1024x447.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-search-for-plugin-in-WordPress-1080x471.png 1080w\" alt=\"How to Add Plugins to WordPress\" width=\"1734\" height=\"757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Step 3: Add the Chosen Plugin in WordPress<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8170 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1731px) 100vw, 1731px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress.png 1731w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress-768x190.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress-1024x254.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-install-a-plugin-in-wordpress-1080x268.png 1080w\" alt=\"WordPress Add Plugin\" width=\"1731\" height=\"429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8170\">Once you like a plugin all you need to do is to click the <strong>Install Now<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>Once the plugin is installed, you\u2019ll have two options. Either you can click\u00a0<strong>Activate<\/strong>, which will redirect you to the plugin activation page, or you can keep searching for other plugins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/how-to-activate-installed-plugin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8171 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/how-to-activate-installed-plugin.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/how-to-activate-installed-plugin.png 576w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/how-to-activate-installed-plugin-300x133.png 300w\" alt=\"WordPress Plugins\" width=\"576\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Method 2: Manually Uploading a Plugin in WordPress<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Go to Plugins-&gt;Add new<\/h3>\n<p>As you can imagine, this step is the same as the first step from the previous method.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Step 2: Upload the Plugin to WordPress from Your Computer<\/h3>\n<p>After you\u2019ve entered the\u00a0<strong>Add new<\/strong>\u00a0page, at the top left corner, you\u2019ll see an\u00a0<strong>Upload Plugin\u00a0<\/strong>button. Click it. A menu will show up.<\/p>\n<p>Click the\u00a0<strong>Choose file<\/strong>\u00a0button and locate the plugin on your computer. Upload it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-upload-a-plugin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8172 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-upload-a-plugin.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-upload-a-plugin.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-upload-a-plugin-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-upload-a-plugin-768x189.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-upload-a-plugin-1024x251.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/How-to-upload-a-plugin-1080x265.png 1080w\" alt=\"Add Plugin to WordPress\" width=\"1320\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Step 3: Install the Uploaded Plugin to Your WordPress Website<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Install-a-plugin-from-a-third-party-provider.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8174 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Install-a-plugin-from-a-third-party-provider.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Install-a-plugin-from-a-third-party-provider.png 620w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Install-a-plugin-from-a-third-party-provider-300x86.png 300w\" alt=\"Install Plugins\" width=\"620\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, a new page will show up. \u00a0You can either Activate the plugin or get back to the\u00a0<strong>Plugin Installer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Activate-a-plugin-from-third-party-provider.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8179 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Activate-a-plugin-from-third-party-provider.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Activate-a-plugin-from-third-party-provider.png 659w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Activate-a-plugin-from-third-party-provider-300x102.png 300w\" alt=\"Activate Plugins on WordPress\" width=\"659\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is how to actually <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/add-contact-form\/\">add a contact form to WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"before-posting\">Before You Start Posting and Create New Pages<\/h2>\n<p>Adding a page to WordPress takes the same amount of effort and almost the same steps, which we&#8217;ll cover soon. But before you start creating posts and pages, you need to take care of something known as permalinks, and slugs.<\/p>\n<p>They are extremely important for the <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/wordpress-seo-the-essentials\/\">SEO of your WordPress website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Permalinks and Slug in WordPress<\/h3>\n<p>Permalink is an URL, leading to a given post or page on your website. The purpose of the permalink, as its name suggests, is for it to be permanent. So, after you\u2019ve decided what type of permalink (URL) structure you want for your website, bear in mind you\u2019ll be better if you continue with it, no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>In our tutorials, you can <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/whats-permalink-in-wordpress\/\">find out more about Permalinks in WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every permalink could have two or more building blocks(parts). In WordPress, they could be as follows \u2013 domain URL-&gt; category slug-&gt;post slug. Of course, pages, tags, or any other entity on your website has its\u00a0<a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/whats-slug-in-wordpress\/\">slug<\/a>.<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-is-a-permalink-Wordpress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8117 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-is-a-permalink-Wordpress.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-is-a-permalink-Wordpress.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-is-a-permalink-Wordpress-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-is-a-permalink-Wordpress-768x178.jpg 768w\" alt=\"WordPress Permalink\" width=\"1014\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe idea behind the custom post, category or page slug is for it to be user-friendlier. What does it mean for the permalink to be user-friendly, you may ask.<br \/>\nSay, one is searching in any Search Engine \u201cwhat is a permalink\u201d. As you can imagine, a <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/whats-slug-in-wordpress\/\">WordPress post slug<\/a> (and thus permalink)\u00a0<strong>\/whats-a-permalink\/<\/strong> is far more felicitous than the default \u201c?p=123\u201d one.<\/p>\n<p>To change the permalink structure, and the slugs of your website, go to the Dashboard and then <strong>Settings-&gt;Permalinks.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Where-are-the-permalinks-located-in-WordPress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8119 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Where-are-the-permalinks-located-in-WordPress.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Where-are-the-permalinks-located-in-WordPress.png 1050w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Where-are-the-permalinks-located-in-WordPress-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Where-are-the-permalinks-located-in-WordPress-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Where-are-the-permalinks-located-in-WordPress-1024x572.png 1024w\" alt=\"WordPress Permalinks\" width=\"1050\" height=\"587\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere you\u2019ll find all the types of permalinks you can use.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-types-of-permalinks-are-there-in-WordPress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8121 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-types-of-permalinks-are-there-in-WordPress.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1743px) 100vw, 1743px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-types-of-permalinks-are-there-in-WordPress.png 1743w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-types-of-permalinks-are-there-in-WordPress-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-types-of-permalinks-are-there-in-WordPress-768x335.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-types-of-permalinks-are-there-in-WordPress-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/What-types-of-permalinks-are-there-in-WordPress-1080x471.png 1080w\" alt=\"WordPress Custom Permalinks\" width=\"1743\" height=\"760\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn order to be able to have a user-friendly post, the best option you could choose is the\u00a0<strong>Post name<\/strong>. After that, while creating a post, you can change the post slug with something that you find the most relevant to the content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"posts\">How to Post on WordPress<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already created an exhaustive article on how to post on WordPress, and you can see it <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/how-to-post-on-wordpress\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you are curious, you can find out how to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/schedule-post-wordpress\/\">schedule a post in WordPress<\/a> and more about the <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/lets-talk-posts\/\">WordPress post types<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of building a WordPress based site,<strong>\u00a0Posts<\/strong> are the main ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>To start posting on WordPress, go to your Dashboard, hover the mouse pointer over <strong>Posts. <\/strong>Then click <strong>Add New.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/add-new-post-wordpress.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7251 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/add-new-post-wordpress.gif\" alt=\"WordPress Post\" width=\"1886\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the post editor (a.k.a. WYSIWYG) will show up. \u00a0If you are just to create a new post without adding anything additional, except for words in it, pay attention to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Post Title\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Post\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0<strong>Visual<\/strong> (use the editor to format your text visually)<br \/>\n\u2013\u00a0<strong>Text<\/strong> (use the Text editor to format your post, by adding, or changing the code).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you are ready with the content of the\u00a0<strong>Post,\u00a0<\/strong>you can either\u00a0<strong>Save it as a Draft<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Preview<\/strong>\u00a0how it would look on the site, or just<strong>\u00a0Publish<\/strong> it. In this same menu, you\u2019ll also be able to delete the post by clicking <strong><em>Move to Trash.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After you are ready with the\u00a0<strong>Post Title,\u00a0<\/strong>and the\u00a0<strong>Post<\/strong>\u00a0itself click on\u00a0<strong>Publish.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/post-creation-wordpress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7252 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/post-creation-wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Post Format\" width=\"1600\" height=\"613\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now you can go to the front end of the site to see your first post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/first-wordpress-post.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7254 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/first-wordpress-post.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1901px) 100vw, 1901px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/first-wordpress-post.png 1901w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/first-wordpress-post-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/first-wordpress-post-768x236.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/first-wordpress-post-1024x315.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/first-wordpress-post-1080x332.png 1080w\" alt=\"New Post WordPress\" width=\"1901\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interested in <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/add-images-media-wordpress-posts\/\">adding images to a post<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"users\">WordPress User Roles<\/h2>\n<p>By giving a different role to users, you also give them different capabilities. AwardSpace has an <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/wordpress-user-roles\/\">in-depth tutorial on WordPress User Roles<\/a>, that you might want to take a look at if you are interested to find out more about user roles in the CMS.<\/p>\n<p>The role of a user in WordPress is to represent the user\u2019s hierarchy level. By default, a user could be <strong>Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor,<\/strong>\u00a0and, of course,\u00a0<strong>Administrator<\/strong>. Every one of the roles has its predefined capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/change-author-wordpress-posts\/\">How to Change Author in WordPress<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The subscriber<\/strong> is at the lowest level of the user role hierarchy. By default, the <strong>subscriber<\/strong> will be able to only change their profile information. This is the only right that they have regarding the backend of the website. On the front end, they\u2019ll be able to comment on your content.<\/li>\n<li>Having <strong>contributors<\/strong> is a great choice if your site is new, but there are people that are eager to help. <strong>Contributors<\/strong>\u00a0are almost as limited as the\u00a0<strong>Subscribers<\/strong>. But they can <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/how-to-post-on-wordpress\/\">create posts<\/a>. They could only create, edit and delete their own content.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Author&#8217;s<\/strong> role is for those users that will write, edit, publish and delete their own content. Also, they\u2019ll be able to upload files. Authors also have the right to edit their profiles and change their passwords.<\/li>\n<li>Excluding the\u00a0Administrator,<strong> the<\/strong><strong> Editor <\/strong>is the one with the most rights. <strong>Editors\u00a0<\/strong>are capable of writing, editing, publishing, and deleting posts. The <strong>Editor<\/strong>\u00a0is able to do all of this to any post on the site. It doesn\u2019t matter if he is the one that created the content in the first place. You may or may not need an\u00a0<strong>Editor<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong> The administrator<\/strong> is usually just one. This user is automatically created in the WordPress installation process. Of course, you can give someone else the same rights, by creating another <strong>Administrator<\/strong>\u00a0profile. But that will allow them to have full access to everything on your website. The users that are assigned the role of\u00a0<strong>Administrator<\/strong>\u00a0are able to install, delete and edit themes and plugins. The same goes for posts, pages, categories, tags, even other users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"wp-menu\">How Does the WordPress Menu Work<\/h2>\n<p>WordPress comes with a well-structured and efficient menu building system. By using it, you can create not only a navigation menu (the one on the top of the page), but also sidebar menus, and footer menus.<\/p>\n<p>There are WordPress themes that will provide you with more than one menu type. And some even do have in-theme menu building logic. But for most of the themes out there, the default WordPress menu building page will be more than enough.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a truly <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/how-does-wordpress-menu-work\/\">in-depth tutorial on WordPress Menus<\/a> if you need it. If you don&#8217;t need an in-depth tutorial but just want to know how the WordPress menu works, we&#8217;ll cover that in this full guide on how to create a WordPress website.<\/p>\n<p>Enter your WordPress Admin Panel.<\/p>\n<p>You need to look for the\u00a0<strong>Appearance<\/strong>\u00a0option in the sidebar menu.\u00a0 And then go for the\u00a0<strong>Menus\u00a0<\/strong>option.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what you should be looking for:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/how-to-create-wordpress-menu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20461 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/how-to-create-wordpress-menu.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/how-to-create-wordpress-menu.png 287w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/how-to-create-wordpress-menu-191x300.png 191w\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After you click on the\u00a0<strong>Menus<\/strong>\u00a0button, you\u2019ll land on the menu creation page. It looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WordPress-Menu-Creation-Page.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20462 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WordPress-Menu-Creation-Page-1024x276.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WordPress-Menu-Creation-Page-1024x276.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WordPress-Menu-Creation-Page-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WordPress-Menu-Creation-Page-768x207.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WordPress-Menu-Creation-Page-1080x291.png 1080w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, you are not presented with many options. To change this, you need to create a menu.<\/p>\n<p>Add the name of the menu you are about to create, and just click one of the <strong>Create Menu\u00a0<\/strong>buttons, located on the right part of the page.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you\u2019ve created your first menu, you need to choose the pages that you want to be presented in it.<\/p>\n<p>To add pages, posts, or categories to the menu, they should be published. And what you are adding in the menu from top to bottom will be presented from left to right on the front end.<\/p>\n<p>To add elements to the menu you need to first choose them, by clicking on the empty squares on the left of the elements.<\/p>\n<p>Mark the elements you want to add to this menu and click the <strong>Add to Menu\u00a0<\/strong>button.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/add-elements-to-wordpress-menu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20463 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/add-elements-to-wordpress-menu-1024x195.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/add-elements-to-wordpress-menu-1024x195.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/add-elements-to-wordpress-menu-300x57.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/add-elements-to-wordpress-menu-768x146.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/add-elements-to-wordpress-menu-1080x206.png 1080w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while you can be cautious of the sequence in which you are adding the units to the menu, there is an easy way to rearrange them, once they are added.<\/p>\n<p>You can just click on the element and move it around. Changing its position in the menu, or making it a part of a drop-down menu.<\/p>\n<p>To create a sub-menu, that will emerge when a user hovers a specific element of your menu, drag and drop the elements you want in the sub-menu just a bit on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Like so:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Create-a-DropDown-WordPress-Menu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20464 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Create-a-DropDown-WordPress-Menu-1024x295.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Create-a-DropDown-WordPress-Menu-1024x295.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Create-a-DropDown-WordPress-Menu-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Create-a-DropDown-WordPress-Menu-768x221.png 768w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Create-a-DropDown-WordPress-Menu-1080x311.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Create-a-DropDown-WordPress-Menu.png 1468w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>Once you\u2019ve arranged the elements of your menu, don&#8217;t forget to click the blue <strong>Save Menu<\/strong>\u00a0button, which you\u2019ll find above and below the menu on the right part of the\u00a0<strong>Menu Structure\u00a0<\/strong>window.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, we learned how to start a website with WordPress for free. The following are some frequently asked questions the answer to which can be really helpful to anyone who is new to WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"f-a-q\">Frequently Asked Questions About WordPress<\/h2>\n<p>There is a set of WordPress questions that are often asked, and way too often left unanswered. Here are the questions and their answers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Is WordPress the only way to create a website?<\/h4>\n<p>As mentioned in this tutorial, there are many ways to create a website. Not only you can use another CMS or a website builder. You can also learn to code and create your website in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, we believe that WordPress is the best and easiest way to create a website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>How do I make money from my website?<\/h4>\n<p>After you\u2019ve created a website with WordPress, you might ask yourself whether you can make any money with it. Of course, in the cases where you\u2019ve created a website to sell products, that question, or a business card website, this question won\u2019t appear.<\/p>\n<p>For all the other types of websites \u2013 blogs, social media, forums, news media, etc., etc., you can use your website\u2019s estate, to sell ad space. You can start referring to a product, which would be affiliate marketing.<\/p>\n<p>You can also, create a shop to sell your own merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>How do I start a website where I can sell products?<\/h4>\n<p>WordPress is easily transformed from a blog to an eCommerce Shop. Check out our step-by-step guide on how to\u00a0<a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/woocommerce-tutorial-create-ecommerce-website-wordpress\/\">create an eCommerce Website with WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Do I have to know how to code to create and customize my website?<\/h4>\n<p>To create and customize your website with WordPress it won\u2019t be necessary to know any programming language. Yet, the truth is, it will help you a lot to know at least a basic level of HTML and CSS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Can I get a free domain for my website?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, AwardSpace is offering a free domain (TLD) with a number of our hosting plans. Here you can check out how you can get a <a href=\"\/domains\/\">free .com domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a website with WordPress can prove to be a difficult task. In this full WordPress tutorial, we will show you how to create a WordPress website for free. 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