A website can get you connected to the world out there so that you can achieve a lot of things in life, whether it is in a career or as a hobby.
WordPress has managed to impress millions of people to develop websites due to its unsurpassed flexibility. However, do not take our word on it! Hang on as we take you through the simple little steps on how to start a WordPress site.
Creating a WordPress Site with Hostinger
In this tutorial, we will consider starting a WordPress site on the Hostinger Managed WordPress Hosting plan. It is WordPress-specific and provides convenient options in order to be installed easily.
1. Plan Out Your Target for Creating the Site
Before starting with a WordPress site, you should ask yourself what you intend to accomplish with the site.
The intention could be to start a blog, create an online store, or present your work portfolio, and each of them must be handled differently. Some sites you may wish to monetise, whilst others are an online presence syndrome; needless to say, it will affect how you design and launch your website.
As an example, it may influence the way you select your domain name and the tone and mood of the whole site.
Let us take a look at some of the ideas of websites that our clients, who use WordPress hosting, have.
The language applied to South Pacific Frames is action-oriented language in the web copy, which indicates that RSNL Creative is results-oriented. The business portrait of a design agency, the site looks rather stylish with a pinch of novelty, with the help of lively animations.
In the meantime, Be-Mag is an online community type of site of the culture of inline skating. It has blog posts that are conversational, which makes them interesting to follow with a casual tone of language. The mood of the entire site is enthusiastic as it is facilitated by the main pictures.
2. Purchase a Web Hosting and a Domain Name
WordPress is not hosted on the internet; that is why you require web hosting space and a domain name to have your site online.
Select a web host depending on the requirements of your website, its future development, and your budget. Above all, make sure you get sufficient uptime, a clear and user-friendly control panel, and good customer support.
In the meantime, the domain name behaves as an address that can whisk people to your site once typed into the browser. Since it is the indication of your brand, keep it short, unique, and memorable.
In case you are looking for domain idea inspiration, please refer to our AI business name generator. After this, look out below at our domain name checker and see whether your preferred domain is still accessible:
Under our Managed WordPress plans, you will have free domains when you enroll in yearly subscriptions.
Choosing the most popular option, which is Business plan, it costs only 249.00/month, and you receive plenty of AI tools that will assist you in generating content, resolving problems, and managing the WordPress administrator area. Better still, it also comes with an AI Website Builder for WordPress.
3. Install WordPress Installation
Once you have paid, you will be redirected to our onboarding set up wizard, which will allow you to automatically install WordPress by doing all the steps.
The first thing you must do is to answer some simple questions regarding the site you are going to create and create a WordPress account as the administrator of the page.
Next, you make up your mind on the way you want to develop the website. We have three ways:
- The AI Website Builder of the WordPress System: You will be able to have an immediate site using AI by acquiring Business and Cloud hosting plans.
- Creating a Ready-Made Design of a Website: This implies that all your pages on the site are already installed as well as the content placeholders.
- Creating your Website: You can create your site literally on a white paper, or you can install a WordPress theme as the foundation of the site structure. During our onboarding, you will have an option to choose popular themes of WordPress, like Astra.
In this tutorial, we shall proceed to use the AI Website Builder of WordPress that enables one to launch a WordPress site within a short time.
The second step is to bind a domain name to your site by typing it in the box. To go ahead with the configuration of your site, the use of a temporary domain will allow you to do so at a fast pace. You are free to add your real domain name at any point in time.
Upon that, select a data center nearest to your target market so that there is a maximum loading speed. Wait, and WordPress gets installed automatically. You will then be presented with the AI Website Builder page, where you are supposed to write what your site is all about.
Choose a type of Website to send it to the drop-down list. We already offer templates of AI websites, portfolios, business profiles, blogs, and many more templates are on their way.
After you have elaborated on your site, press Create.
Wait a little, and you will notice a full site prepared for you. To access the WordPress Site Editor, select Confirm & edit to enter the area.
4. Design Your Web Page
Hostinger AI Website Builder WordPress employs a block theme; as such, you can design the site by using Gutenberg or the block editor.
To revise the material, select any of the elements of the website, including headings, buttons, or pictures, and the toolbar alternatives will be visible. In case you need to include a new block, move your cursor anywhere on the page and press the plus ( + ) icon.
Once you are done with the page, do remember to save.
Then, select the Edit Pages option on the top toolbar to view other pages that you can customize, and on the desired page, click on the Edit to proceed to design it.
To insert new pages, get out of the page editor interface by clicking the WordPress logo in the left corner at the top of the toolbar. Then you are to enter the WordPress full Site editor area.
Go to Pages and click on Add New Page and type a name, and click on Create draft. At that point, you may begin designing (using WordPress blocks) the fresh page of the site.
Do not forget to publish after you are done designing the page.
Did you know?
The difference is that pages are more of static content, which you are not going to edit frequently, as compared to posts, which are rather time sensitive and are mostly used when there is a blog or news. Learn more about the distinction between WordPress pages and posts.
5. Add WordPress Plugins
Using the WordPress plugins, you will be able to add features to your site, such as improving the admin area, improving the security, adding interaction aspects for visitors, among others.
Their installation and activation are as simple as accessing the WordPress dashboard, then clicking on Plugins Add New Plugin. There, you will be able to find thousands of free plugins in the official repository.
Otherwise, when you receive a high-quality plugin elsewhere, you must install it by uploading the .zip file downloaded to the file. To do that, just press the button Upload Plugin.
Important! It is also advisable to only download plugins from trusted sources and not to use the cracked version, as it will endanger the security of your site.
The following are some of the most excellent WordPress plugins which you can use:
- Yoast SEO – one of the most useful plugins that allows you to optimize the site as far as search engine optimization (SEO) is concerned.
- Wordfence – offers various security functions for your site.
- Google Site Kit WordPress – creates connections between Google services, such as Google Analytics, and your site without any fuss.
- WooCommerce is a plugin that can be trusted to create an online store. It is ideal when you need to sell your products or services using WordPress.
Where are We Going Next?
Your website is very nice! As long as this is an embodiment of your online life, the following activities should improve it:
Search Engine Optimization of Your Site
WordPress SEO best practices are important in ensuring that your site is exposed to your audience using organic search.
Hence, you need to research the keywords that your target audience could type to access your site. The initial way to rank higher on the search results is by using the keywords in your content on your site.
Installing a plugin such as Yoast SEO will install various SEO attributes on your WordPress dashboard. This simplifies the task of making your content search engine-friendly by using keywords, meta descriptions, and image alt tags.
After that, you should enter your website in the search engines to get indexed faster.
Keep track of traffic at your site
Knowledge about how your site works is the beginning of the efficiency of your site, to assist you in achieving what you desire. Install Google Analytics and check out the traffic, behavior of users, as well as popular content.
Simultaneously, using heatmap tools such as Hotjar, you can display how people on your site respond to various elements on the page, including buttons, links, forms, or pictures. This will assist you in identifying places with the highest engagement and those with low engagement, hence eliminating the chances of people leaving your site too quickly.
Increase the Content of Your Site
The best practices of SEO include writing content that is relevant to the readers and supportive to them; this is a good way of drawing new customers to visit your site. To have a maximum effect, share new WordPress posts regularly, and think of creating a content calendar to keep on track.
Alternatively, you can think about sending email newsletters, where you can communicate with your audience and spread the updates, exclusive materials, or offer promotions.
Reach out to your audience
Communication with your followers will enable you to develop a cult following for your site. Allowing the users to talk on your posts will make them more active with each other.
Therefore, be aggressive in answering the comments or emails, as this act tells your audience that you are appreciative of their input. You can also carry out a survey or a poll to know what your readers prefer and give them accordingly.
Stay Up to Date on Your Site
Don’t forget to tend your site regularly. To avert such loopholes to security, make sure you update your WordPress core files, its themes, and all the plugins whenever they update them.
Moreover, you should conduct regular testing of your site to see how it performs on the whole, its loading speed, and functionality. Based on that, introduce appropriate changes that will ensure a high-quality experience for the user.
Conclusion
You learn how to start a WordPress site now! It is actually pretty easy, and with Hostinger’s AI website builder functioning with WordPress, you can even speed up this process. In short, the procedure will be the following:
- Determine your objective for creating your site
- Enroll in a hosting package and a domain name
- Install WordPress
- Design your site specifically
- Add plugins to WordPress
At last, you are ready to start your online journey and bring your WordPress site online!
