newbie's guide to setting up a wordpress website

Newbie’s Guide to Setting

Up a Word Press Website.

Yes, a step by step manual that you can follow even if you

never setup a website before!

© 2011 Newbie’s Guide to Setting Up A WordPress Website P a g e | 2 www.guidetoawordpresswebsite.org, All rights reserved

Contents

COPYRIGHT: ................................................................................................................. 3

LIMITS OF LIABILITY / DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY: ....................................................... 3

The Internet Opportunity .............................................................................................. 3

What this Manual is NOT. ............................................................................................. 4

Let’s Get Started........................................................................................................... 4

Domain Name .............................................................................................................. 5

Web Hosting .............................................................................................................. 10

Website Setup ............................................................................................................ 13

WordPress Setup ........................................................................................................ 21

Conclusion ................................................................................................................. 32

Website Links ............................................................................................................. 33


COPYRIGHT:

Copyright 2011 D. Jeon, all rights reserved.

LIMITS OF LIABILITY / DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY:

We are not affiliated with Google or any of the companies noted in this report.

All trademarks are the property of their owners.

This report is NOT legal or accounting advice. You need to do your own due-diligence

to determine if the content of this report is right for YOUR business. No earnings

claims are being made anywhere in this report or in the marketing of this report. The

publisher of this report is not liable for any damages or losses associated with the

content in this report.

In English: You are an individual person, I am a business person – you need to be

responsible for your own marketing and actions online.

The Internet Opportunity

Everyone knows about the internet. We see it and hear about it in newspapers,

television and even on the radio. We receive emails daily from family, friends,

coworkers, even strangers.

Did you know that there are people who make their living off the internet? Not

big companies such as Coca Cola and AT&T, to name a few, that want Brand

Recognition but individual people like you and me who give out information

and even sell things on the internet. You heard of the website Ebay, where

people sell “things” to buyers all over the world.

I am not here to extol the virtues of making money on the internet. I am sure

you have your own reasons to setup a website.


What this Manual is NOT.

This manual is not the be all and end all. I wrote this manual to help you get

your Word Press website, up and running, as fast as possible.

The instructions are specific and to specific vendors such as domain registrars

and web hosting companies (I will talk about these later so don’t worry). I

personally use all the vendors on my websites. Some vendors I have used for

years so I feel very comfortable promoting them.

If you are a newbie, I feel that too many choices at this time will be more

confusing than helpful.

In fact I will use the same process to get this website up and running for you.

Fair enough?

Let’s Get Started

1) Decide on a website domain name. What is a domain name? Simply this:

www.yourdomainname.com. For example, www.ebay.com, www.att.com,

www.facebook.com, etc. Next go to Namecheap to get your website

name. (All the links will be located at the end of this manual for your

convenience).

2) You will need web hosting account next. A web hosting company

provides a server (basically a user account on a computer) so that you can

put your domain name on it. So when you go to www.yourwesite.com, it

is being hosted by that server via your web hosting account. Don’t worry

about all the technical aspects of it. Just know that you are renting space

on a computer somewhere to connect to the internet. For your

webhosting account, go to Bluehost to set one up.

http://www.namecheap.com/?aff=26074

http://www.bluehost.com/track/chcllc/ebook


3) Get a notebook and write all the account names, passwords and any other

important information that you will need to refer to during this whole

setup process.

Domain Name

Domain name is just a website address. It is the information after the

http://www. The website for this eBook is www.guidetoawordpresswebsite.com.

I registered the domain name at Namecheap. I do not own the name but

basically I pay a registration fee to borrow the name for however long I paid for

it. Usually one year at a time. I have to pay yearly to have the right to use it.

I use Namecheap for domain name registration because they give me free

“WhoisGuard”. I like to keep ownership information private so no one, not even

marketers can send me email. “WhoisGuard is free with domain name

registration. Other domain name registrars charge extra for this service.

I took a series of screen shots during the purchase of

www.guidetoawordpresswebsite.org name for your information.

http://www/



http://www.guidetoawordpresswebsite.org/


I typed guidetoawordpresswebsite in the search box and pressed the search

box.

As you can see, the domain name guidetoawordpresswebsite.com was available

as well as .org, .net, .co, .cm, etc. Always try to get the .com extension first. If

is not available then .net and .org. I have bought .co and .info in the past but I

prefer the .com extension. The .com extension stands for company, .org for

organization, .net for network. The other extensions are not as widely popular

and the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing recognize them less.


I will push “ADD TO CART” button and move to the next screen.

The next screen is the shopping cart. The “shopping cart” is the online version

of taking all your purchases to the register to be bought and paid for. My total

price for the domain is $10.16.

Did you see the free “WhoisGuard” in the shopping cart?

I can purchase more domain names here or check out. Since I am purchasing

one domain name for one year, I will press the check out button again.


If you haven’t created an Account, you will be prompted to create one.

You will need to complete all the information in the all the contact sections.

In the Checkout Domain Options section, check the “enable WhoisGuard” and in

the Nameserver settings, select the “Use Custom Name Servers” box and type in


“NS1.Bluehost.com” in the first box and “NS2.Bluehost.com” in the second box.

See the screen shot for example. Click the “NEXT STEP” button.

Next is the payment option. You can pay with a credit card or a paypal account.

If you do not know what a paypal account is, don’t worry.


Complete the required information and checkout.

After your purchase goes through, you should see a screen similar to this.

Congratulations! You have just purchased your very own domain name. If you

want, take a break and we can start up with the web host account.

Web Hosting

To setup a web hosting account go to Bluehost (All the links are provided at the

end of this manual).

http://www.bluehost.com/track/chcllc/ebook


Once again, I have taken screen shots of the step by step process for you.

Select the “Sign Up Now” button.

Type your website into the “I Have a Domain Name” Box. Select next.


Complete the account information. Select next.


Unless you feel you need the upgrades, I would skip them at this time.

Remember, you will be billed the total amount for the monthly plan that you

selected. Of course, the longer the term, the cheaper it will be per month.

Congratulations, you have just purchased a web hosting account. Now, to

setup your wordpress website.

Website Setup

It will take some time, especially for those who have never setup a website. So

please be patient and just follow step by step.


Go to the Bluehost cpanel login at https://my.bluehost.com/cgi-bin/cplogin

Type in your “domain name” that you purchased and the password that you

created when you created your web hosting account.

https://my.bluehost.com/cgi-bin/cplogin


Once you login to your account, you should see this screen. Click on the

“Domain Manager” Tab.

Next, click on the “Assign a domain to your cPanel account”.

In Step 1: Select “Use a domain that is not already associated with your account”


Step 2: Not applicable.

Step 3: Select “Addon Domain”.

Step 4: Select “Create a new directory” and type in your domain name without

the .com, .org, .net extension.

Select the Add Domain button.

You should see your domain name in this area of the Domain Manager section.

I have numerous addon domains on my web hosting account so I have masked


them for privacy. You can add numerous domain names to your account. Your

first domain name will be the primary type while all others added later will be

the Addon type.

Next, select the “cPanel” tab. Screen shot below is what you should see.

Scroll down until you see the WordPress Logo. There are two, one in the

SimpleScripts Installation section and one in the Software/Services Section. See

the screen shot below. Use can use either one.

Click on the WordPress icon.


You will see the “Install WordPress” screen below. You probably will not see any

domain in your screen if this is a brand new installation.

Click on the “Install” button.


Your next screen will display the installation preference. We will make a few

changes.

Step 1: leave default. 3.3 is the latest WordPress version. In the “Where would

you like WordPress installed?” section, I select the www.domain-name.com

selection.

Step 2: Click on the “Click here to display” link.


Type in your website information in the new site a name section.

On the username, type in “Admin” and then a password for the Admin access.

This password is very important. You will need it to make changes to your

wordpress site.

Step 3: Leave everything as is.

Step 4: Check the terms and conditions box.

You are done. Select the “Complete” button.

Your next screen should look similar to this below.

Congratulations, you have installed the necessary files to setup your WordPress

site.

You are thinking that is it? What do I do next? What do I do now?

Hold on a minute. I am getting to that now but first do you see the Site URL

and the Login URL info? You will need them to access your site.


Any WordPress website can be accessed by the Admin user by typing

http://www.your-domain-name.com/wp-admin in your web browser. I

usually have the two web browsers up so I can make changes to the website

and view the changes immediately on the other web browser.

WordPress Setup

Now, type your wp-admin site or just click on the link from the previous screen.

You should see the screen shot below.

Type in “Admin” in the Username box and “Your Password” in the Password box.

Click on the “Log In” button.


This is your “admin” view of your word press site.

I like to use the WordPress website template because of its ease of use. The

WordPress website templates were originally designed for use with authors and

writers so it was designed to be easy and simple. You didn’t need a computer

science degree to program it. You also didn’t need to learn html programming

or use complicated software such as dream weaver, adobe, etc .


I could just stop here because my goal was to help you setup a wordpress

website and I did. However, I like to give my readers something more. I feel

that we still are not done.

I will walk you through some basic settings in the WordPress site. Here we go.

First, let’s go to the plugin section. Plugins are individual programs that are

designed to work hand in hand with your Wordpress site. Plugins are designed

to make tasks simple. Tasks such as putting an advertising banner on your site

for example. You will become more familiar with plugins as you modify, update

and use your website.

Select the Plugins link and click on it.

You will see several plugins already installed. I want you to delete some of

them.

Just click on the delete link on the individual plugin. Delete all of the plugins.


I left the Jetpacks by WordPress.com plugin for this example. If you deleted it,

that is no problem.

Next, I want you to install some plugins that I feel will be beneficial to you and

to show you how to install a plugin.

Click on the “Add New” link.

Next, type in “All in One SEO Pack” in the search box. Click the “Search Plugins”

button. There will be many plugins that will show up in the search. Be sure to

select this one.


Click on the “OK” button on the window that pops up asking you “Are you sure

you want to install plugin?”. Click on the “Activate Plugin” link. You will need to

activate all your plugins that you install.


Next install the “Google XML Sitemaps” plugin. This plugin will create a sitemap

automatically for your site. It not only helps the search engines such as Google

index your site (which search engines love), it will let the search engines know

the existence of your new site. Follow the directions previously stated.

I guess you noticed the big red section stating that the All in one SEO must be

configured. Let’s fix it now.

Select the Settings link and click on the “All in one SEO” link. Just follow the

example below. First enable the plugin. Type you information into the Home

title, Home Description and Home Keywords sections.


You will see a bunch of “jargon” written in the various “Format” sections. Just

leave them alone.

Scroll down and make sure the rest of the section looks like what I have in my

screen shot below.


Select the “Update Options” button. That is it for the “All in One SEO” Plugin.

Let’s hold on configuring the “Google XML sitemap” plugin for last.

We need to do some basic changes to the setting in our website. Click on the

settings link. Go to the general settings section.

You need to type in your information in the Site Title and Tagline sections.

Wordpress and site address should be the same as you domain name address.

Now, type in your email address. This email address is where you will get

notified if someone posts on your website.


We will skip writing, reading, discussion and media sections. You can configure

them as you see fit. The default settings are good for most websites.

Click on the Privacy section. Be sure the “Allow search engines to index this

site” is selected. Click on the Save Changes button.


Next, click on the Permalinks link. Click on the “Custom Structure” button and

type this in the box: “ /%category%/%postname%/ “.

Permalink means how a URL of a WordPress post appears. Setting your desired

Permalink structure is a very first thing you should do after installing your

WordPress site because search engines index your blog based on post URLs and

if you change from one to another then you will loose your rankings. And also

other web sites link to your blog using them and changing can also stop those

traffic flows.

Be sure to click “Save Changes” button. Next click on the XML Sitemap link.

Click on the “Click here” link to generate your sitemap.

You should see something similar to the screen shot below.


Congratulations once again. You have configured your very first WordPress

blog website. Open a new browser and type in your domain-name address to

see your finished website.


Conclusion

There are countless configurations that you can make to your website. What is

shown is the standard WordPress template but there are others. Some

templates are free and some you have to pay for it.

Whether the template is free or you have to pay for it, you should pick a

template that appeal to your taste, matches your subject or category of your

site.

I hope this manual was very helpful to you. If you like what you read please

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Contact me at [email protected]


Website Links

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