Design Your WordPress Website Yourself - A Complete Guide

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WordPress Website Design

• A complete guide to design a WordPress website.

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WordPress stands as a popular and powerful
platform to create a website with the simple
steps to follow. Till 2016, WordPress is used by
about 27 of the websites around the world.
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First Step Choose a suitable Domain Name and
Host for your website

• Domain Name is an identity for your website. It's
  structure is YourCompanyName.com /
  YourCompanyName.org

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Second Step Install WordPress

• Next step is to install WordPress on your
  computer. For installation, your computer system
  requires
• web server xamp/mamp/wamp
• database mysql, Microsoft sql server
• php compatibility
• browser support

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Download WordPress

• You have to download zip file of WordPress and
  extract the downloaded WordPress folder.

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Create Database

• Create a new database with database_namewordpres
  s , usernameroot and password on a server.
  Upload WordPress folder into your web
  server/localhost.

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Navigate the URL

• Open your browser and navigate to your WordPress
  path. As localhost/ltwordpress_foldergtand Choose
  your language and click on Continue.

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Fill the database information

• Click on Lets go. Then, youll see this page
• Fill the fields with your database information
• Database Name wordpress
• User Name as in database
• Password - as in database
• Now, click on Submit.

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Run the Install

• Once your database confirms your provided
  information, youll see the next page.
• Click on Run the install.

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Fill the Welcome page

• Fill the appeared welcome page with the required
  information.
• Site Title Enter title of your website.
• Username Enter a username to login to WordPress
• Password, twice Enter password two times
• Your E-mail Enter your validate e-mail for
  password recovery or any update
• Privacy Tick checkbox if you want to be indexed
  by search engine.
• Now, click on install WordPress after youre
  done.

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Log In

• After successful installation of WordPress,
  youll see the next page. Enter Log In to enter
  your dashboard.

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Log In Admin panel

• Then, youll see the Admin Panel to log in.
• username and password as you set and click on
  Log In. You are now ready to create your
  WordPress website.

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Update personal information

• After successful login, you have to perform
  different settings.
• Change the default Admin Login
• Change the Title, Tagline, and Time Zone
• Change your Permalink Structure
• Create and upload your Favicon
• Delete the default content of WordPress
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Third Step Select the best theme

• Now, you can have easy access to all the free
  themes and paid themes. Use them to create your
  website.
• Choose a theme you like or suitable for you.
• You can easily download any theme of your choice.
  But, if you download paid one, then you can
  access more functionality and customized your web
  site uniquely.
• To use a theme of your choice , you have to click
  on Install followed by Activate.

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Fourth Step Add your Content

• Content is a basic factor of any website. So, go
  quick with adding your content.
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Adding new page

• Adding a new page
• Look for Pages in a sidebar
• Click Add New
• Click Update to save your changes

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Add New Page on the Menu

• Adding a new page on the menu
• Look for Appearance in a sidebar
• Click Menus
• Add this menu to your page by clicking the
  checkbox next to it and then Add to Menu

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Adding New Post

• Adding a new post
• Look for Posts in a sidebar
• Click Add New
• Once you have finished with your blog, you must
  assign it to a category that you had created.

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Fifth Step Installation of Recommended Plugins

• The plug-in is simply a software to extend the
  functionality of the existing system. So, in
  WordPress we can find 1000 plug-in to support
  its functionality. Among them, we have to choose
  plug-ins that meet our sites purpose. Some of
  the essential WordPress plug-ins are
• WordPress Cache Plug-in
• WordPress Security Plug-in
• WordPress Database Plug-in
• WordPress Social Media Plug-in
• WordPress SEO Plug-in

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Thank You!!!