How To Create A Blog On WordPress With Bluehost 2021

hey what's up guys welcome to another video of mine where today i'm going to be showing you how to create a blog on wordpress with bluehost so you can make any type of blog site you want just like the ones you see here and the great thing about wordpress is that all these templates that you see right here are all free that's what makes wordpress one of the most popular free website building platforms out there today and if you guys are really new to this and you've never made a website before that's completely fine because this entire guide is going to be beginner friendly and there's not going to be any complicated coding or anything like that and i'll be walking you guys through each step along the way and what we're going to do first is make sure that we have our website hosting and our domain and if you guys already have your bluehost website hosting and your domain and wordpress setup ready you guys can just skip ahead but if you don't and you need a discount on your bluehost website hosting and a free domain name you guys can check out the link in the description and that'll give you a discount on your hosting package but just so you know if you do use the link i do get a small commission for this but this is just so i can keep making these tutorial videos for free and keep the channel going and so once we go to that link that's just going to take us to my hosting discount page on my website and from there we're just going to click on this bluehost coupon to apply the discount and that's just going to take us to this page here where we're going to select our hosting plan and just real quick too i wanted to mention to you guys that your hosting will be the only cost you'll have for building your website your domain name which is the name of your website comes free with bluehost and wordpress and their website templates are all free too alright so what we're going to do first is just click on this green get started now button and that's going to bring us to this page where we're going to select our hosting plan now you guys can select whatever plan you want but i'm going to go with the basic plan for 295 per month now this is where we're going to choose our domain name now this can be a little confusing if you guys don't know what you want already for your domain name but here's some tips if you're a little lost when it comes to choosing a name for your website and then once you figure out what name you want you can just type it in right here and then you can click on the blue next button to see if it's available and then if your domain is available it'll tell you up there in green at the top and if we scroll down here this is where we're going to select our hosting plan and i'm just going to select the 12 month for 295 and then if we come down here these are some package extras that if you guys decide that you want you can keep on there or if you don't want them you can also get rid of them i'm actually going to get rid of this one and then i'm going to get rid of this one and you guys can always go back through once you have your hosting and turn these back on if you want and then i'm gonna get rid of this one right here now i'm gonna go down here and then i'm gonna fill out this payment information and then i'll be back all right then once you guys have filled out all your billing info you can just check that box right there and then click on that green submit button and now that's done and we're going to create our account now so all you have to do is click on this blue create your account button and then when it comes here all we have to do is create a password for our bluehost account check this box and then again click that blue create account button then now we're going to click this blue go to login button and we're just going to log into our account now all right now we can scroll down here and click this create your website button and then once we get here we're going to skip a bunch of these steps coming up just because we're going to cover all that stuff later in wordpress and the reason i like to do this is so if you guys need to go back and change anything anytime you guys know how to do it within your wordpress dashboard so then once it gets here we're going to go down to where it says limitless customization click on get started we're going to skip this step this one too now we're going to scroll down here we're going to pick this later so we're going to click on skip this step all right and now wordpress is installing all right and now this is our bluehost dashboard so what we need to do now is go and verify our email address so whatever email you use to sign up with bluehost you're just gonna go there and you're gonna see an email just like this one and all you need to do is click on this green verify your email button all right and then after that we're going to log into wordpress so you can just click that log into wordpress button and now this is what your wordpress dashboard will look like and now we're going to activate our site so you can click on that coming soon active button now we're going to scroll down here and you guys can wait till your website is done before you launch it or you can launch it now we're just going to launch it now though it really doesn't matter you'll actually notice up at the top it says box temp domain that's just a temporary domain until you wait a few hours after your wordpress site has been verified and then bluehost will switch it back over to your regular domain so if we refresh later and you come to your page after a few hours you'll notice our regular url is right there and then we're going to log into wordpress you guys can log in right there on the right or you can go over to my sites here and click on manage site and then again click on that login to wordpress button right there and then we're back at our wordpress dashboard as you can see our url is final and that's it we've installed wordpress and we have our site ready to go and now we can start building okay so the first thing we're going to do is add a site title to our website and to do that we're going to go over here to settings and then we're going to click on general and then right here is where you're going to put your site title and then down here is where you're going to put your tagline and the tagline like this says here and a few words explain what your site is about so first i'm going to enter my site title and then after that i'm going to add my tagline and so since this is a travel website i called it one mile at a time and then i just added this traveling quote here and then after you guys do that you can scroll down here and you can click on save changes okay and then after that we're going to go over here to where it says permalinks we're just going to click on that then what we're going to do here is basically just clean up our url so as you guys can see this looks a little messy here with all the dates so instead of the date and name we're just going to put it as post name that's just going to help clean it up a little bit then after that we can scroll down here and click on save changes all right so now what we're going to do next is add our wordpress theme and to do that we're going to come over here to the left where it says appearance and then we're going to click on themes and this right here is just kind of the default theme that wordpress puts up for you what we need to do is go over here to the top and click on this add new button then once we get here you're going to notice a bunch of different tabs up at the top you guys can go through all these as you can see 4066 different themes here you always go to latest there's some even more themes favorites if you guys mark something as favorite it'll show up here then this feature filter if you guys have a specific layout that you want to go with you can go to this feature filter and they got a bunch of different things you can select here so you guys want something with the right sidebar you would just select that and you click apply filters and then it'll show you all those different themes out there with the right sidebar so you guys can just kind of browse through all these and just see if you like any of them or if you'd like to go with the one that is in the example for this website you're just going to go over here to search themes and we're going to look up the theme called powerblog and here it is right here and so anytime you want to install a new theme all you do is click on the install button then after that it's gonna be there's gonna be a button and you just hit activate and now that theme has been installed and it is now activated so now that we've covered the wordpress theme section i just want to move over to the wordpress plugins section and i just want to go over a few plugins that i think would be useful to you guys depending on the type of site you're going to make so to do that we're going to go over here to the left and we're just going to click on plugins and then after that we're going to go up here and click on add new so now i'm going to go through nine of my favorite wordpress plugins and after i go through them if you guys want to find them all you have to do is go over here to the search plugins box and you type the name in and then you'll find it and then after that you click install now and then after that you're going to click the activate button and then once you've done that you'll be able to find it over here in the left sidebar so the first plugin is called ninja forms and basically what this is is a contact form so if you guys want to collect someone's email or name and then you want to market them later this is a perfect plugin to do that with now the next plugin is called elementor and basically what this is is a website builder and so when you install a wordpress theme this will allow you to just drag and drop everything as you can see right here you'll be able to edit images you'll be able to edit videos and all kinds of stuff like that directly from your home page and this plugin is really popular if you scroll down you'll see it has over 5 000 5 star ratings and now this next plugin is called woocommerce so what this one does is if you guys want to sell something on your website or just basically turn your wordpress theme into a business site this is a great plugin to do that with and this is also a very popular plugin with over 5 million active installations and then 3 000 positive 5 star ratings and now this next one here is called shared counts and basically what this does is it allows you to put social media buttons on your website so that way the users on your page can interact with it and you can show your social shares that each post gets and now this next one here is called word fence security and what this does it's just a free plugin to keep your wordpress site safe and this plugin is also very popular i actually use this one myself for my sites and it's got over 4 million active installations and over 3 000 positive 5 star ratings so if you guys want to just keep your website safe from like this says malicious traffic or anything like that this is the perfect plugin to do that now this next plugin here this is called envira gallery so if you guys have a bunch of pictures that you want to turn into a photo gallery this is a perfect plugin to do that with and then this next plugin here yoast seo this is probably the most popular one here and if you guys don't know what seo stands for it's search engine optimization and gonna help you like it says here to rank higher in search engines this one is also super popular with over 5 million active installations and 25 000 5 star ratings like i said this one's really popular and it's super easy to use now this plug-in here is called one click demo import what this is going to do is we go over here to this wordpress theme here if you click on live demo what this plugin here is going to do is import all the demo content for specific themes out there so if you have a certain theme and you want it to look like the example all you would do is install this plugin right here and then it will import all this content that you see right here and now this last plug-in here is similar to this ninja forms plug-in it allows you to create an opt-in form so you can record people's emails and then market them later and this one's a little more popular than ninja forms you can see it has over 2 million active installations and then 1200 five star ratings so if you guys want to make an easy sign up form which is also mobile optimized this is a great plugin to use and again if you guys want to go and find any of these plugins all you would do is search for it right here find it and then click on install now and then activate after that and now that we covered the plugin section i'm just going to go back over here to the dashboard now one last thing too i wanted to mention to you about the plug-ins is that if you don't know how to use a specific plug-in all you have to do is go to youtube and search the name of that plug-in there's going to be a ton of videos that are going to come up that'll show you exactly how to use it i just didn't want to spend too much time going over the ins and outs of nine different plugins in this video but what we're going to do now is create our first post so what we're going to do is go over here on the left sidebar and click on post and this right here is where you'll see all your different posts that you make and this post right here this is just a example post that wordpress includes every time you install wordpress on a new site but what we need to do is come up here to where it says add new and click on that and this is what our blank post is going to look like we have a place for the title and then down here is where we're going to put all the content and right here on the right is going to be the sidebar for our post and if you click this button right here you can make it disappear so if it ever disappears you can click this again and you can show it and then if we scroll down here you'll see all the different things that are on the sidebar here like the permalink settings where we can switch the link we can decide what we want our link to be called and then also our categories which we'll get into we'll create categories for our site and then tags right here this is basically just going to show google and other search engines what our post is about and i'll also get into those and then if we keep going down we got our featured image right here and basically what this is it's just going to be the main image for this specific post and then there's also a block section which we'll get more into in a little bit so what i'm going to do now is create an example post for you guys so you can just see how everything works so the first thing i'm going to do here is i'm going to add my title for my first article and since this is a traveling website i'm going to name my first article my top five favorite national parks and then down here like i said before is where we're going to add our content and i have some ready to go already actually so what i'm gonna do is just paste it in right here just very simple text and now i'm just going to make a couple changes and show you guys a few basic things i'm going to switch the size of this right here and i'm going to put this down to h3 heading 3 so it's a little smaller and then i'm also going to bold it and then i'm going to go down here and do the same thing to this one okay now i just finished the last one here and then i'm going to go back up and i'm going to add a little bit of space between all these right here so first i'm going to put some space in between this and this is where we're going to get into the blocks and if you see these little buttons right here like this and like this you'll notice if you just go down and you just put your mouse there they'll just automatically pop up and so i'm going to click on this and what i'm going to search for is called spacer and i'm going to click on that and this is just going to give you some space in between your text and over here is where you decide how much space you want so just for this right here we'll put this down to 10 actually and then we got 10 pixels of space between that and then the actual content and then i'm going to come down here and on this one i'm going to add a little more space so i'm going to put this one to 25. okay as you can see there's a little bit of a difference there and do the same thing for this one 10 here and 25 here again and then i'm going to do that for the rest of these ones too okay so i just finished doing that and another thing i want to show you guys too is if you're ever in the middle of a post and you just want to save it but you don't actually want to publish it and put it out all you have to do is come up here and click on save draft and then once you go to that post again it'll all be saved but it won't actually be published until you click the publish button here now the next thing i want to go over is how to put photos in your post and if you guys need any free photos any stock free images rather you can go to pixabay.com or here's another one called pixels.com they have thousands of free stock photos you guys can use all for free and that's actually where i got my images that i'm about to upload to this post right here now there's a few ways we can do this if you go down here and click on this block and then you look up image you'll see right here you can just select an image and you can upload images or you can select them from your media library or you can insert from a url and once you upload images they're automatically going to be put inside your media library so you could upload them each individually or you could do this which is go over here to media and you can go to your library right here and you can click on add new and you can select all the files that you want to just show up in your media library and so all you have to do is go to wherever you saved your images usually in downloads and what i'm going to do is i'm going to select all these images right here that i'm going to be putting in this post i'm just going to click on open and as you can see right here all of them are going to be uploaded and now those are in my media library so if i go back over here actually i'm going to click on save draft first and then i'm going to refresh this page and scroll back down here and click on media library and there's all my pictures right here and so i'm just going to select the image that i want for that and then after that click select and you'll see it'll pop up right here and if you click on the image and then scroll down you can do a few different things you can change the size of it by going like this clicking these i'm going to set it to i think i'm going to set it to 75 and if you guys want to describe the image you can just put it in right here like for example this one i would just type in yellowstone if you go up here you can also click this and it will make the image rounded or you can just keep it default i'm going to keep it default then i'm going to add a little bit of space in between that got my image and you can also go here and you can center it which i'm going to do right there and then also if you guys ever want to make this image clickable so when people click on it it will send them to a different link you just make sure the image is selected and you click on this insert link right here then you just paste your url in right here and then you click on the apply button and then anytime someone clicks that image it will take them to whatever link you put that you put in right here and then also if you want to write a caption down here you could put in yellowstone and that will be a caption right under if you guys want to label it now i'm just going to go through and i'm going to add the rest of the images down for these other ones right here okay so now i just finished adding in my last image here and i'm going to go back up and what we're going to do now is add our featured image for this post and this is going to be the same way that we upload any images like these right here it's the same thing you just click on this and once you have a new media library or like i said before you can just upload it you just select your image click set featured image and that's it and while you guys are working on your site if you ever want to see your progress or just check out your post all you have to do is click on preview and then click on this preview and new tab button and that will show you exactly what your post is going to look like so far and now what i'm going to do is i'm going to add a tag or some tags for this specific post here and usually what tags are just basically like i said earlier in the video shows search engines what this specific post is about so for example this one's called my top five favorite national parks i'm actually going to add that in right there and then you can as it says right here separate with commas or hit the enter key just going to hit enter and that's going to add that as a tag so something else you might want to put like for this one i might just put in national parks or best national parks stuff like that that just basically describes your post here and i'd recommend probably adding about maybe one two five different tags if you guys want to now we're going to add some categories to our website and basically what this is for is just to categorize different posts that we might be writing about so maybe in one post i'm talking about travel or the next post i'm talking about food this way we'd be able to separate them into the respective categories and if we go over here on our right sidebar you'll see there's only one category right now and this is the default one that wordpress puts in and it's the uncategorized category so we need to do is click on this add new category button and this right here is where we're going to add them so it's going to be different for everybody's website what i would recommend is just go and check out similar websites to the one that you're trying to create and see what they're doing for their categories then we're also going to be using some of these categories here as our menu for the top of our website so i'm just going to add a few of them and the first one i'm going to do is destinations and after you put it in right there all you have to do is click on add new category and then there it is right there and now i'm going to add another one and put it as food and now if you look down here you'll see a parent category and basically what that means is if you guys were talking about food in your post but you wanted to maybe you wanted to separate it by chicken or beef or anything like that different types of food you could go down here where it says parent category after you add your main category and say i typed in chicken right here if i wanted that to be under this main food category i'd go into the parent category and then i just select food and so under the food category would be a separate parent category called chicken so if i did that you'll see that right there so say you were writing about food but your specific post was about chicken recipes or something like that you would just go and create this parent category and then you could put it under this specific category you can add as many categories as you want depending on the type of website you're making so what i'm gonna do is just add a few more and then i'll be back okay so i just added the rest of those categories and now i'm just going to choose which category that i want this specific post here to be under and that's how i'm going to get rid of all these right here and i'm just going to keep it under destinations and you guys can put each post under multiple categories or just a single category but for this one i feel like i'm just going to keep it under destinations and then i'm going to go up here and click on save draft again now we pretty much covered most of the stuff on the post section here but what i'm going to do is i'm going to go over some more block category stuff so if we click on add block right here and you go over here down here to browse all you're going to notice a bunch of different things here if you scroll down and i'd recommend just going through these things and just checking each one of them out because it could be beneficial to your website and it might be a good idea to use it so we're just going to keep scrolling down and taking a look at some different stuff this is how you create a button so if we click on this and then here's your button right here you could type in click here and then so if you maybe wanted to send somebody to a link you would just go and select this and then you would paste your link in right here and then click on submit and then again if this disappears over here your sidebar you can click on that and you'll notice some different things right here you can click outline you can have it fill you guys want to change the color settings on it you can switch the text switch the background color to blue if you want or any other color get the border radius switches it up like that with settings if you want it really long you want to keep it shorter like that you can also add your link in right there another thing i want to show you too is if you highlight your text right here say you want to change your color of the text or the background if you go over here to the sidebar once it's under black you can click on color settings you can switch the color of that that'll change the text to green if you want or say you want to keep it that color but then put a background under it just to highlight it you guys can do that too if you want to get rid of it click clear clear that'll bring it back to the original color you can also click on this little arrow right here and you can click on text color and change that or if you want to strike through some text you can click on that and now if we go back over to the block settings and click on browse all we can continue scrolling down here check out some more of these you guys can add social icons in right there also another one here is a youtube video if you guys want to embed a youtube video in your post it's really simple all you do is just click on this here you go and you grab your url from youtube and you just paste it in right here like that and then click on embed and then right there you have your youtube video it'll pop up you can also do whatever you want click on center full width anything like that and sometimes it's just good to add in some you know youtube videos or anything like that just to add some extra stuff to your post and then if we keep scrolling down here you'll notice this few more things you guys can add a tick tock video if you want and most of these are really self-explanatory so if you just click on them don't be afraid to click on them because for the most part they're going to be really simple like you just add in a link or something else like that and it's going to make it work now that you pretty much do it for the block section and one more small thing i wanted to mention to you guys was if you have some text that you want to be clickable and have it go to a link when somebody clicks it all you would do is same thing is pretty much linking to anything else you'd highlight what you want there click the link enter your url here and then that text right there is now a clickable link and now i've already went over all the plug-in stuff already but i just wanted to mention too that you guys are planning on maybe doing anything on amazon like selling anything through amazon through the affiliate program that they have here's um a couple of plug-ins that i recommend you guys checking out this one's called aawp it's just a plug-in for amazon affiliates and this is another one right here too that you guys can check out called azon press so maybe if you're thinking about doing anything on amazon you guys can definitely go check those out and now that's going to cover everything for the post section so what we're going to do now is we're going to click on publish and we're going to actually publish our post so we're going to click on publish and then we're going to click on publish again and now the post has been published and we click here view post we can check it out so what it's going to look like and now we're gonna head back to our dashboard now the next step we're gonna move on to is creating our menu button so if we go to our home page right here we will see our first post then we'll also see a add menu button if we click on that that's if you're using this specific theme if you're not you can go over here and go to appearance and click on menus and that will take you to the same place and now this right here is where we're going to create our menu so we have to do is first give our menu a name and it can be anything you want nobody's going to see it besides you so you could even name it menu 1 and that would be fine that's actually what i'm going to call it and once you give it a name you can just click on create menu and then also to make sure under here where it says display location make sure this primary box is ticked that's just going to make sure that it shows up here at the top of your site right here now we're going to go over here to where it says add menu items and we're going to either add pages posts custom links or categories to our menu now this all depends on what you guys want to show up in your menu but like i said earlier about the categories that's actually what i'm going to add here first and if you look down here you're not going to see any of the categories that we created but if you go to view all you'll see all the different categories that we did create and now i'm just going to go and select the ones that i want to show up in the menu so i'm going to select this one these right here and this one and this one then i'm going to click on add to menu and as you can see right here all of these are actually main categories and like i explained before with the food category and the subcategory being chicken i'm actually going to need to take this if i want this category to be a subcategory to this one i'm just going to take this select it hold it and then move it over to the side if you can see the box kind of changes right there if i put it down there it's now a sub item and then if you guys want to rearrange any of these like maybe you want this one to be up here you can go through and just switch them up in whatever order that these are in for example this destinations one this category is going to be the first category in the menu and then this is going to be number two three and so on and if you guys want to say you want to create a link that just links out to your home page so you have a home button right here all you would have to do is paste your website link right here so for example i'm just going to take this i'm going to paste that right there and i'm going to call this home i'm going to click add to menu and then we now have a home button right here that i'm actually going to put that first and then also too if you guys wanted to maybe create a contact page or an about me page or anything like that this is where you would find it all you would do is go up here to pages and pages are just like posts they're pretty much the same thing they look exactly the same so all you would do is say for example you wanted to make a contact page you could just put contact us and you could even go on google and figure out how to write a good contact page and then write your contact info down here and then once you publish that page you would just come back here and then refresh this and that page would show up right here and then you would just add that to the menu right here and then so once you have everything in the order that you want it all you would do is come down here where it says save menu and like i said make sure this display location this primary is selected you just click on save menu and now our menu has been saved so if we go here to our page we refresh it you'll notice here's all our different menu items and if you look under food there's a subcategory right there and that's how easy it is to create a menu okay so now that we've completed the menu i just want to go back over to the post section real quick and explain a few more things i've actually went and added a few more posts as you can see this is kind of giving you an idea of what it'll look like when you get some more post up but what i wanted to explain is if you guys ever want to get rid of any of these like for example this um example post right here that wordpress automatically puts in you just go up to here and if you want to get rid of it and click move to trash and then click apply and it's not actually deleted yet if you go here in the trash it's still there and if you want to completely delete it you can just select it and then click delete permanently and also too when you have all your content up like this and maybe you're thinking about switching your theme you don't have to worry about any of your content ever getting deleted if you decide to switch your theme and install a different one and then activate it and just to see how it looks all your content will still stay there and stay the same so if you guys want to go through and just try out a bunch of different themes you can and you don't have to worry about ever losing any of your content so now i'm back over here at the dashboard and the next thing we're going to go over is how to edit this sidebar right here it's right here and you can see there's a bunch of different stuff and the way you do that is once you're at your dashboard if you go over here to the side and you go to appearance you go down here and you click on widgets and this right here so you can see it says primary sidebar this is where you're going to control everything that's on your sidebar and kind of like the menu that we created earlier whatever one is first for example like i put the search back up here or i put this recent post back up here that's going to be the first one that shows up here like if i refresh it now the recent posts are there before the search box so what i'm gonna do is i'm actually gonna remove a few of these things i'm gonna remove this archives here and i'm also going to remove this meta box right here too so i'm going to go back over here and where it says archives i'm just going to come down here and click delete and same thing with the meta i'm going to delete that too i'm going to put the search box back up here and then over here is a bunch of different widgets that you guys can activate so say you wanted to add a image on the sidebar but you want to make it so when people click on it it actually takes them to a certain link well all you would have to do is grab the image here like this and then just put it right there and then you would click on add your image and then you just select your image like i said you guys can just upload it to your um media library by going here and then adding it and then once you go down here to where it says link you would just add your link in and you can click on save now if we go here and we click on one of our posts we scroll down that picture or image is right there if we click on it it'll take you to that exact link that you set up right there now one last thing too before i wrap this video up if you guys are looking for an additional way to customize your theme here you can go up here to where it says customize and you can click on that and then depending on the theme that you have it's going to have a bunch of different boxes here on the left and you guys can go through and check them out and they're basically just more ways to customize your site like if you guys wanted to add a logo or edit your site title and tagline you can also do it right there or say you want to come over here and get rid of the search button that would get rid of that search or if you guys wanted to switch up the color scheme of anything you can go down here to advanced settings and there's a color section where you can switch all these to different colors if you wanted to ever switch them back you can click that default button right there you can also add a background image so it's not just a color and if you guys do decide to edit anything right here just make sure you go up here and click on publish to save all your changes before you close it and i've actually already talked about this plugin right here called elementor but again if you guys are picking a more complicated theme to go with this is a really great free plug-in that you guys can use to build your website and as i said to earlier before in the video if you guys don't know how to use it all you have to do is go and look up elementor on youtube there's a ton of videos that will cover it and that same thing goes to for the themes if you guys don't know how to use a theme or set up a certain theme all you have to do is go and look up the name of the theme on youtube and there's probably a ton of videos covering it alright guys so that's going to do it for this video and like i said want to keep everything super simple make sure it doesn't take too long to set up and now it's up to you to post your content to really bring your blog website to life and if you keep working at it before you know it you're going to have a full website full of content ready to go so i want to thank you guys again for watching this video if you liked it give it a thumbs up and if you have any questions or comments you can leave them down in the comment section below this video and i'll make sure to get back to you right away so enjoy your new blog website and i'll catch you guys later

Channel: Create WP Site

Views: 19,540

Keywords: how to create a blog on wordpress with bluehost, how to create a blog on wordpress with bluehost 2021, how to create a blog, how to create a blog on wordpress, how to create a blog 2021, how to create a blog on wordpress 2021

Id: aARWSLF2VKo

Length: 42min 28sec (2548 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 18 2021