Easy Tutorial for WordPress Website

Make WordPress Website in 8 Simple Steps (Easy Tutorial for Wordpress Website)

We have create simple tutorial Guiding you step by step in creating a WordPress website without learning any coding.

Easy Tutorial guide includes following points:-

Step 1. Register a domain name 

Step 2. Choosing the best web hosting

Step 3. Installing WordPress

Step 4. Installing a template 

Step 5. Customizing your site’s design

Step 6. Creating pages 

Step 7. Installing Plugins

Step 8. Adding more features to website. 

Step 1. Register a domain name 

• A domain name – this is the name of your website such as google.com.

• You can purchase Hosting from godaddy or bluehost you get domain name free (Tips - you can use local host wamp server for hosting and domain if you are just learning).

Step 2. Choosing the best web hosting

Choosing the best web hosting Hosting depends on what kind of website you are trying to build. A typical personal website can cost as low. The cost of a business website cost high.

We recommend all our users to start small and then add more features to your website as your business grows. This way you will save money and minimize potential losses while avoiding overspending. 

For Learning purpose we recommend using self-hosted WordPress as your website platform local host wamp server .

Step 3. Installing WordPress

When you signup with Godaddy or Bluehost using our link, they will automatically install WordPress for you. They launched this one-click WordPress installer to make it easier for non-techy users to create their website.

Simply login to your Bluehost account, and then click the Login to WordPress button to get started. This setup process has really reduced the learning curve needed to make a website. 

You can also login to WordPress dashboard by simply going to yoursite.com/wp-admin/ directly from your browser.

If you are using a different WordPress website hosting service like SiteGround, Hostinger, HostGator, WP Engine, etc., then you can see our comprehensive guide on how to install WordPress for step by step instructions for those providers.

Once WordPress is setup, you’re ready to customize your website design by selecting a new template, and creating new pages.

Step 4. Choosing right theme and Installing a template 

The visual appearance of how your WordPress website looks is controlled by a WordPress theme.

WordPress themes are professionally designed templates that you can install on your website to change its appearance.

By default, each WordPress site comes with a basic theme like this:

This is not very appealing for most users. But don’t worry, there are thousands of free and paid WordPress themes that you can install on your site.

You can change your theme from the WordPress admin dashboard. 

Visit Appearance » Themes  page and then click on the ‘Add New’ button.

On the next screen, you will able to search from 4,978 free WordPress themes that are available in the official WordPress.org themes directory. You can sort them by popular, latest, featured, as well as other feature filters (i.e Popular, Latest, Favourites, Feature Filter etc).

Step 4. Installing a Theme or template 

How to Install a Theme in WordPress.

After choosing desire theme, click on the Install button and  Activate the theme.

Once you have installed your theme, you can customize it by clicking on the Customize link under the Appearance menu.

This will launch the theme customise where you will be able to change your theme settings with live preview of your website.

If you’re using one of the newer full site editing themes, then you will see a different version of the site customise.

The default WordPress customise and full site editing doesn’t offer a true drag & drop customization experience.

You can even create a fully custom WordPress theme without any code.

Step 5. Customizing your site’s design

Add Content to Your Website: WordPress comes with two default content types called posts and pages. Posts are part of the blogging functionality and appear in reverse-chronological order (newer items displayed first).

On the other hand, pages are meant to be static “one-off” type content such as your about page, contact page, privacy policy, custom landing page, etc.

By default, WordPress shows your blog posts on the front page of your website. You can change that, and make WordPress show any static page as the homepage of your website (we’ll show you how to do that later in this Tutorial).

Step 6. Creating pages 

Head over to Pages » Add New page in WordPress admin area.

 This will bring you to the page editor screen, which will look similar to this, depending on your theme:

First you need to provide a title for your page, let’s call this page ‘Home’

After that you can add content in the text editor below. You can add text, links, images, embed videos, audio, etc.

After adding content to your page, you can click on the publish button to make it live on your website.

You can repeat the process by adding more pages for different sections of your website. For example, an about page, contact us, and a blog page to display blog posts.

Now let’s add a few blog posts as well.

Head over to Posts » Add New in your WordPress admin area, where you will see a screen much like you saw earlier when adding pages.

You can add a post title and then add content in the visual post editor. You’ll also notice some extra options in the sidebar like post formats, categories and tags.

You can click on the save button to store your post as a draft or click on the publish button to make it visible on your site.

Now that you have created some content for your own website, you will be able to customize and put it all in a nice presentable shape for your users.

Let’s start by setting up homepage.

Change Site Title and Tagline 

During the installation you get to choose your site’s title. 

WordPress automatically adds a tag line to your site title that says ‘Just another WordPress site’.

You can change both your site’s title and tagline at any time by visiting Settings » General page.

Your site title will be the name of your website like WPBeginner. The tag line is usually a single line that describes your website.

You can also leave the tag line field blank if you want because WordPress SEO plugins like AIOSEO, Yoast SEO, and others will override it for better search engine optimization (more on this later).

Click on the save changes button to store your settings.

Set up Comments Settings

WordPress comes with a built-in comment system allowing your users to leave comments on your posts. This is great for WordPress user engagement, but it is targeted by spammers as well.

To deal with this, you’ll need to enable comment moderation on your website.

Visit Settings » Discussions page and scroll down to ‘Before a comment appears’ section. Check the box next to ‘Comment must be manually approved’ option.

Keep on clicking on the save changes button to store your changes.

Navigation menus allow your users to browse different pages or sections on your website. WordPress comes with a powerful navigation menu system, and your WordPress theme utilizes this system to display menus.

WordPress will now create your navigation menu. But it will be empty at the moment.

Next, you need to select the pages you want to display in your menu and then click on add to menu button.

You will notice your selected pages filling the empty area of your navigation menu. You can move these menu items up and down to rearrange their position in the menu.

Now you need to select a display location. These locations are defined by your WordPress theme. Usually, most WordPress themes have a primary menu that appears in your website header at the top.

Click on the save menu button to store your navigation menu.

You can now visit your website to see the menu in action.

Step 7. Installing Plugins

WordPress Plugins are like apps for your WordPress site. They allow you to add features and customization to your WordPress site. Think contact form, photo galleries, etc.

You can install plugins from your WordPress dashboard by clicking on the Plugins page.

There are currently more than 60,000 free plugins available for WordPress. There are also paid plugins sold by third-party websites and developers.

With this many plugins, how do you find which plugins to install? We got you covered there as well, see our guide on how to choose the best WordPress plugin.

Here is our list of essential plugins that you should install on your site right away. All of them are free.

WPForms Lite – Allows you to add a contact form on your WordPress site. 

Seed Prod – Drag and drop page builder for creating completely custom designs & layouts without any technical know how.

Monster Insights – Connect your website with Google Analytics and see how visitors find and use your website, so you can keep them coming back.

All in One SEO – Improve your WordPress SEO and get more traffic from Google

WP Super Cache – Free WordPress caching plugin that helps improve your website speed

Updraft Plus – Create automatic scheduled backups of your website

Sucuri – Website security audit and malware scanner extras

WooCommerce – create an eCommerce website with WordPress. Makes it easy to set up an online store and sell physical products.

Smash Balloon – makes it easy to add social media widgets for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Envira Gallery Lite – Add beautiful image galleries to your WordPress site

Step 8. Adding more features to website.

So far we have shown you how to make a WordPress website, add a new theme, add new web pages, and install essential plugins.

Want to Add more features.

Using WordPress, you can create powerful websites capable of doing a lot more.

Add an eCommerce store

Create a Job Board website

Create a membership Website

Start your own podcast

Create a web directory

Build a reviews website

Create multilingual websites

Create a question and answers website

Create a wiki knowledgebase website

and many more....

We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to make a website without hiring a web designer or overspending money.