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HOW TO CREATE A
HOSTED WORDPRESS
ACCOUNT

Introduction

What Is Wordpress?

Wordpress is the worlds most

popular tool for creating and
managing websites.

Why Hosted Wordpress?

Hosted WordPress = more plugins

Free WordPress = no plugins

Plugins are mini-programs that add

special features to your website.

Next step.
is to buy a Web Host

Web Host is much like the space that you

rent out to have your business in.

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Then create a domain name

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Domain Name is a unique name

that identifies a website.

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Each website has a domain name

that serves as an address.

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.which is used to access the

website (eg. xxx.com)

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Lets Proceed With The Tutorial

15 Select Your Browser

16 Lets Choose Google Chrome

17 You Will Be Directed At Google Home Page

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Choose A Web Host

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For this tutorial lets use Hostgator

20 Type in www.hostgator.com

21 Press Enter

22 The Hostgator Homepage Will Appear

23 Click Get Started Now!

24 Choose A Plan

25 Lets Choose Hatchling Plan

26 Choose A Domain Name

27 Enter Your Domain Name

28 Choose Your Billing Cycle

29 Enter Your Username

30 Enter Your Security Pin

31 Enter Your Billing Information

32 Unselect The Additional Services

33 Check Your Email

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You will received two email from hostgator

35 The First Email Is Your Login Billing Portal

36 The Second Email Is Your Account Info

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Lets Use The Account Info To Login

To cPanel

38 Click The Link to Login To Your cPanel

39 Use The Username and Password To Login

40 Enter Your Login Details To Control Panel

41 Press Log in

42 You Are Now At cPanel

43 Scroll Down

44 Select QuickInstall

45 The QuickInstall Homepage Will Appear

46 Scroll Down

47 Select Install Worpress

48 Fill Out The Form

49 The Base Domain For Your Installation

50 The Sub Directory You Would Like The Site To

Load From, If Desired

51 Enter An Email Address Where You Want The

Admin Password Emailed To You

52 Enter Your Blog Title

53 This Is What Will Appear In The Header As

Name Of Your Website

54 Enter Your Preferred User Name

55 Enter Your First Name

56 Enter Your Last Name

57 Press Install WordPress

58 Your Install Is Complete

59 View Your Username And Password

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You Will Also Receive An Email For

Your Username And Password

61 Press The Admin Login

62 Enter Your Login Details

63 Press Log In

64 This Is Your WordPress Admin Site

65 Toolbar consist of quick-links

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Select The Logo To See The About

WordPress Page Which Contains Tabs
For Whats New, Credits And Freedoms.

67 Your Site Name Is Displayed As A Link To

Visit Your Site

68 Click The Visit Site To Visit The Main Page Of

Your Site

69 Click The Message Icon To View A Comment

70 Click New To Create New Post, Media, Page &

User

71 On The Right Side Of The Toolbar Is Howdy,

Username

72 You Can Edit Your Profile Here

73 Log Out From Here

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Lets Go With The Main Navigation

Menu

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Main Navigation Menu is detailing

each of the administrative functions
you can perform.

76 You Are Now At Main Administration Screen

Called The Dashboard

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Dashboard is the brain behind your

website, the place where you can let
your creativity explode.

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This is where the organization of

your site begins.

79 When You Click Home It Will Also Display The

Dashboard

80 Posts are the principal element of the blog

81 All Posts you can select the Post you wish to

edit, delete or view.

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is the most important part of

WordPress, where you write new Posts.

83 Categories allow the classification of your

Posts into groups and subgroups.

84 Tags are the keywords you might assign to

each post.

85 Media is the images, video, recordings, and

files you upload and use in your blog.

86 Library allows you to edit or view Media

previously uploaded to your blog.

Add New allows you to edit the information

87 (title, caption, all text, etc) of media files
uploaded to your site.

Pages is another tool to add content to a

88 WordPress site and is often used to present
static information about the site.

89 All Pages provides the necessary tools to edit,

delete or view existing Pages.

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Add New allows you to create new Pages

91 Comments (Reader Feedback) are a feature of

blogs which allow readers to respond to Posts.

92 Appearance allows you to easily style and

change the appearance of your site.

93 Themes is the overall design of a site and

encompasses color, graphics, and text.

94 Customize displays the settings that can be

customized for a specific theme.

Widgets are gadgets or gizmoz that allow you

95 to add various pieces of information to your
themes sidebar content.

Menus feature allows you to create a

96 navigation menu of pages, categories, custom
links, tags, etc that is presented to your
visitors.

97 Header allows you to manage what is displayed

in a Themes header.

98 Background allows you to manage the look and

feel of background for your theme.

99 Mojo Themes is a marketplace to buy and sell

web page templates and plugins.

100 Nirvana Settings - the settings of your selected

themes will appear here.

Plugins allow you to add new features to your

101 WordPress blog that dont come standard with
the default installation.

Installed Plugins allows you to view the

102 plugins youve downloaded and choose which
plugins you want activated on your site.

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Add New allows you to add new plugins

104 Editor you can modify the source code of all

your plugins.

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Users allows you to set up all of the user

accounts you need, as well as change user
information, or delete users.

106 All Users allows you to manage the accounts of

all your sites users.

107 Add New allows you to create new users.

108 Your

Profile allows you to change

information related to your user account.

any

Tools provide you the ability to speed up

109 WordPress, import content from other sources,
export your content, or to update your
Wordpress software to a new release.

Available
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Tools

describe

the

Press

This

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The Press This function allows quick

posting and publishing through the
use of a special web browser
favourite.

Import shows the list of the software packages

112 that WordPress can import and details what
types of data from each of those platforms
qualities for import.

Export guides you through the easy process of

113 exporting your blog. It is also useful method to
backup your wordPress blog.

114 Settings this is your configuration settings.

115 General is the default screen in the Settings

Administration and controls some of the most

basic configuration settings for your site.

116 Writing allows you to control the interface

with which you write new posts.

117 Reading allows you to manage your posts or

page, how it will be displayed as your blog.

118 Discussion allows you to control settings

concerning
incoming
and
outgoing
comments, pingbacks and trackbacks.

119 Media allows you to determine how images,

documents, and other media files will be

organized when uploaded.

120 Permalinks controls how that custom URL

structure is defined.

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Great we just finish installing

our hosted WordPress and have
an
overview
of
WordPress
Menus.

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Start
your
own
hosted
Wordpress Account now...

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To learn more on how to

customize
your
WordPress,
please proceed with the next
Wordpress tutorial.