Following the last posting ” WordPress website with Bluehost for beginners’ guide part 1“, I will share how to create WordPress Website Pages and posting tips. This part will be the process of selecting a theme for the WordPress website and filling in the content. WordPress themes specify the look of your website and some of your website’s features. It’s like clothes on a website. Before coming out to the public, your website must also have a theme to work.
1. Choose your WordPress website theme.
WordPress website come with a default theme, but most people want to make their site their own.
WordPress is very popular, so there are thousands of free and premium themes to choose from.
If you are new to creating a website, it is recommended that you start with a free theme.
There are many pretty premium templates that have already been made, but you can change the theme at any time.
So if you are familiar with it, I recommend you to think about it.
Install your Theme.
Go to Appearance → Themes in your WordPress website dashboard
Click Add New
For me, I choose Astra Theme. Many bloggers recommended it. And It is easy to change the header and footer to your design.
Once you choose the theme, click “install”
Make sure to click the Activate button to make it live on your website
How to install theme
Customize your theme to make it your own
Once you activate your chosen theme, you can start to customize it to make it your own.
You’ll be able to see the changes to your wevsite in real-time, but those changes won’t be made live until you Publish them.
To access this area, go to Appearance → Customize in your WordPress website dashboard:
customise pannel
Feel free to play around and get creative with all the available settings because you can’t break anything
2. Choose some WordPress plugins on your website
Whereas themes are mostly about appearance, plugins are all about functionality.
There are many useful plugins depends on the pourpose of your website.
From a simple contact form to an entire eCommerce store
And, you can use as many plugins as you want, but you should try to only use what you need. It can be casued your website speed down.
You can find both free and premium plugins for your site.
popular types of plugins:
Backup plugins: Jetpack backup -Good WordPress backup tool that includes offsite storage and runs on their own servers.
Page builder plugins: There are many page builders. Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi Builder, WPBakery Page Builder are the most popular.
Mailing list & opt-in form plugins: ConvertKit, MailChimp, Constant Contact are the most popular.
Social media sharing plugins
SEO plugins: this is the important plugin for your website to get traffics. I am satisfied with Yoast SEO premium.
Contact form plugins: WPForm, Ninja Form, JetPack Form, etc. Most of them offer email marketing functions as well, such as opt-in, mailing list, landing page.
Security plugins: This is also an important plugin and Bluehost offered Cloudflare.
That should be enough to get you started.
How to install WordPress plugins
To install WordPress Website plugins:
Go to Plugins → Add New in your WordPress website dashboard
For free plugins you found at WordPress.org, search for the plugin by name and click Install Now
For premium plugins, click Upload Plugin and upload the ZIP file
Once you install a plugin, make sure to Activate it. Then, you can read the plugin’s instructions for how to actually use the plugin on your site.
How to install plugins
3. Create some essential pages
Now, you’re finally ready to start creating content for your home and blog pages.
But before you jump into writing your first blog post, it’s a good idea to create some core pages.
When you post blog, You need to think that Things to consider before starting a blog. You can read this article.
Even though you can change the theme or design pages, posts will always be there.
At a minimum, most blogs have pages for: Please see the article “How to Blog post with Bluehost guide”
Also, you need About and Contact Pages.
About – This tells visitors what your blog is about, as well as a little more about yourself.
Contact – A surprisingly large number of readers will want to contact you. Your contact page makes that happen.
Before installed the page builder plugin, you can use this plugin to drag and design your pages.
You might have more information that you want to share – but those two pages provide a good baseline to give readers the information they need.
How to custermise a new page in WordPress website.
As installed your theme pages are already quite nice, you should still do some basic customizations to make them fit your needs.
To begin, go to Appearance → Customize. You’ll see the main WordPress Customizer interface.
From there, you can fine-tune a load of things. We’ll start with the homepage since it’s the most representative.
How to create new page.
To do that, simply go to your WordPress dashboard, and then Pages → Add New. You’ll see this screen:
how to create new page
(1) A place for the headline of the page.
(2) The body section – the main content of the page. The interface is very similar to MS Word. You get all the basic text formatting features (like bold, italics, aligning text to left/right/center, creating lists, etc.).
(3) You can add images by clicking this button.
(4) Switch between the Text and Visual editors. Use the former only if you’re at least vaguely familiar with HTML code.
(5) The Publish section. This is where the main Publish button is.
(6) Discussion. Decide whether or not you want to allow comments. The “trackbacks and pingbacks” setting you can leave unchecked.
(7) Featured image. Most WordPress themes take that featured image and display it somewhere in a prominent spot alongside your page.
When you’re done editing the page’s content, click on “Publish.”
4. Adjust your WordPress Website page’s navigation.
If you use a pre-made template, you don’t worry about it. However, if you create another page, this page should be linked with your Home page. To do this, for an instant, new blog page you’ve created:
We’ll focus on two elements here:
Menus
Menus are the primary vehicle through which visitors navigate your site, thus they’re crucial when figuring out how to make a website.
Depending on your theme, you will have a couple of options to choose from regarding menu settings. Here’s what you can usually do (on Hestia’s example):
First, go to Appearance → Menus in your WordPress dashboard.
You’ll see this default panel:
adjusting menu option
To the left, there are all the pages you can choose to add to a menu. To the right, you can see the menu structure itself and all its settings.
Let’s start by selecting a couple of key pages and adding them to the menu. A good idea is to pick About, Contact, plus whatever other one or two pages you consider to be important, and add them to the menu.
The great thing about this whole panel is that you can drag and drop the menu items to reorder them.
Usually, selecting the location labeled “Primary Menu” will result in showing the menu in the top section of the website. This is probably what you want for your main menu. Click on “Save Menu” to save the settings.
Also, you can create additional menus as well. Just click on the “create a new menu” link that’s visible in the screenshot above. This will show you the same menu creation panel. Each menu needs to be displayed in a different location. So, for this new one, you can assign it as the “Footer Menu.”
When you go to your site now, you’ll see the menu in place.
Widgets
A widget is a small block of content that can be displayed in various places around the website.
The usual placement of those blocks is in the sidebar or the footer of the site. To see what this might look like and to set your widgets, go to Appearance → Widgets in your WordPress dashboard. You’ll get this screen:
Widget panel
To add any widget to a widget area, just grab it from the left-hand side and drag-and-drop it onto your chosen widget area on the right.
Conclusion
That’s it! You’ve just learned how to start a website.
I am still learning about the website. So I will update whenever new things are learned.
Now, let’s start to post what you want to share!!
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