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How To Create A Free Website On WordPress

This document provides a 7-step guide to creating a free website on WordPress.com. The steps include signing up for a WordPress.com account, confirming your email, setting up your blog details, choosing a free theme, connecting social accounts, finishing the process, and visiting your new website. It also describes how to change the appearance of your site by modifying existing themes or switching to new ones from the WordPress dashboard.

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How To Create A Free Website On WordPress

This document provides a 7-step guide to creating a free website on WordPress.com. The steps include signing up for a WordPress.com account, confirming your email, setting up your blog details, choosing a free theme, connecting social accounts, finishing the process, and visiting your new website. It also describes how to change the appearance of your site by modifying existing themes or switching to new ones from the WordPress dashboard.

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How to Create a free website on WordPress

BY CHAITANYA SINGH | FILED UNDER: BUILD WEBSITE

In this guide we have shared the steps to create a free website on


WordPress.com Platform. There is a big difference between WordPress.org
and WordPress.com, I will cover the differences in separate post, for now you
should only know that you can build a free website on WordPress.com not on
WordPress.org. Here, we will show you how to build and host your website on
WordPress.com for free.

Let’s start with step by step process of building a site.

Step 1: Signup to WordPress.com

First you need to signup at WordPress.com so go


to http://wordpress.com/ you would find a screen like the below one. Click
on Get Started. You would be redirected to a signup page.
Fill out the signup form. The fields you must need to provide are E-mail
Address, Username, Password and Blog Address (Domain name). Click
on Create Blog!

There are few things which you must know – The domain name you choose
would be suffixed with WordPress.com (since you are using WordPress
platform for creating free website), for example I choose a blog name as
easysteps2buildwebsite and it has automatically been suffixed with
wordpress.com so my complete domain name (Website’s address) is
easysteps2buildwebsite.wordpress.com.
Step 2: Confirm email and Activate Blog

Once you are done with step 1, you would be able to see a screen like the
below one, which will ask you to confirm your E-mail Address.
Head over to your email and Click on Activate Blog! in order to confirm the
Address. The email you get would look like the one shown below.

Step 3: Setup your blog

Once you are done with step 2, you would be asked for the few details about
your new website such as blog Title, tagline and Language. Click on Next
Step after filling up all these details.
Step 4: Choose and Customize WordPress theme

In this step you must need to choose a theme for your website. There you
would find free and premium themes both. Choose any of the free theme,
select it and head over to the next step.You can also browse more free
themes at http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sort/free/.
Customize the theme if you want otherwise click Next Step
Step 5: Connect with Facebook or Twitter

You may choose to configure your twitter and Facebook accounts here. You
can also skip this step and go to next step. You would be able to configure
these items later.
Step 6: Finish the Process

Click Finish! You have successfully created a free website on WordPress. It’s
time to check how the website looks.
Step 7: Visit your newly created Website

Go to the browser and give your complete domain name (Website’s URL). You
would be able to view your website. Cool huh! The whole process took just
couple of minutes to setup everything. Wait!! We are not yet finished, it’s just
the beginning, you would need to change the look and appearance of your
website to make it look attractive. You can do so by referring the next section.
Change the Appearance

In order to change the appearance of your newly created website. Click on My


Blog at the menu bar and then click on Change Appearance. Refer the below
snapshot for the same.

You would find the below screen. This is your WordPress Dashboard, you can
do lot more things using the left sidebar. We are on the Appearance tab in the
left sidebar which allows you to customize existing theme and switch
between new themes. Are you able to see the left black sidebar? let me cover
few basic things about the sidebar before I finish this tutorial.

• Dashboard: For WordPress, Plugins and Themes updates.


• Posts: For editing, deleting and writing new posts.
• Media: For managing and uploading new media files such as
images and videos
• Pages: For Managing and creating new pages on your Blog.
• Comments: For Moderating comments – Here you can approve,
delete and reply to the comments.
• Appearance: We already covered it earlier – for trying out new
themes and customization.
• Settings: Lot more things to do. Go through the settings and
configure them as per the need.

Final Words
That’s all for this. I’m pretty sure you must have created a cool website for
free by following the above mentioned steps. If you have any questions and
doubt regarding this, please feel free to drop a note at the comment section
below, we will be pleased to assist you. Share your views and ideas on this to
make it more informative so that even a beginner would be able to do it on his
own. If you like the tutorial, share it with your friends on Facebook, Gplus and
twitter.

Courtesy of: https://beginnersbook.com/2013/10/create-a-free-website-on-


wordpress/

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