Hey, one here, welcome to this WordPress tutorial for beginners.
I'm going to walk you through step by step how to set up a WordPress website and how to navigate through
all the different buttons and features that it comes with.
So the first thing that you're going to need here is a domain.
OK, so you need to purchase a website domain that is going to be suited for you and your business.
Or if you're looking to set up a website for maybe a blog, whatever that may be, you need to purchase
a domain is going to cost anywhere between eight to ten dollars.
I highly recommend that you get a dotcom type of domain and then the next thing you're going to need
is hosting.
So this is essentially where you are hosting your domain.
So you have your domain, which is your website, Dotcom, and then it needs to get hosted on a server
so that when somebody goes and types in that domain on their browser, you're actually going to be able
to pull up because your site's hosted on a server.
So the next thing you're going to need is a SSL certificate.
So this is essentially up here.
How you see it is with a lock and it has the HTP s.
That's what the SSL certificate is.
It provides security on your website and it allows users to come in there and feel safe and secure and
an extra layer of protection, because if you do not have https or you don't have an SSL certificate,
what's going to happen is it's just going to be up here http and there's going to say not secure.
So not something that I would recommend.
I highly recommend that you set that up with an SSL certificate.
I believe it's nine dollars a year.
Very inexpensive.
And I'm going to leave some links down at the bottom of this video where you can purchase a domain hosting
an SSL certificate through name cheap, very, very inexpensive.
And so, obviously, number four, you're going to need WordPress, which is the number one CMS, which
is content management system out there in the market.
Super simple, super easy to set up and navigate through.
I'm going to walk you through exactly how to set everything up, how to use all the different features
and functions.
And then finally, number five, we have the plugins.
So the plug ins are essentially an extra added component to the WordPress platform where you can download
different plug ins and essentially unlock different features, different functionalities, different
types of themes, templates.
And I'm going to walk you through all that here shortly.
So, number one, we're going to need to purchase a domain.
So we're here on name cheap.
And I love name cheap, very, very inexpensive.
Looks like we can get domain's here for Eighty-eight.
So let's type in, let's say, for a local business and say I was trying to do a yoga business of yoga.
Let's say yoga are us nice and simple.
See, this domain is available.
So I would go to add to CART and then I would purchase this here through a credit card or through PayPal.
I'm not going to purchase this because we already have a domain that we're going to be working with.
So purchase that there and then you're going to need to get hosting here.
OK, this is what I recommend here at the Steller Plus.
And you can pay this on an annual installment.
And so what this is doing for you here is you have a monthly or yearly type of payment plan.
The monthly is for 88 per month, or you can pay yearly at twenty six and 40 percent.
Now, this is a killer deal because for a whole year you get to pay twenty six dollars.
Right.
And forty four cents for a full year of hosting.
And then after that it's 50 to 288.
So highly recommend this one here.
I'm going to leave some links at the bottom of this video so you can go ahead and get that picked up.
So once we purchase our domain right, we're going to go in here into the domain list once we log into
our account and we're going to essentially set up the hosting servers and the hosting servers are going
to be right here.
And it's going to say name servers right there.
And all we need to do is click on name cheap web hosting DNS and then it's going to have a little check
there.
And it's going to essentially propagate those name servers for, you know, when you purchase hosting,
you're going to get an email from name Cheap that has your login information to your C panel.
And your C panel is essentially where all your data stored, essentially your server, where you can
go in there and install WordPress and saw different features, functionalities, different domains.
And let me go ahead and show you here.
So this is your C panel here that you're going to get when you sign up for the hosting through name
cheap.
And you can see here there's a lot of different things you can do here.
But what?
We're going to focus on is installing WordPress, so go down here to the scripts, click on WordPress.
And then we're going to go to custom install and we have already WordPress on this site here, so I'm
not going to set that up.
We're going to go down here.
We're going to name the site my yoga business, and we're going to go here.
We.
Are the number one yoga studio OK, and then this is a great thing here, because what we can do here
is have our admin like one, two, three, and have our password be created here by these guys so they
can set them up here, different types of passwords that are generated and then we can hide that right
there like this, but really just select any type of password here, copy and then hide.
OK, then we're going to go down here and whatever language you're obviously using.
But for this one here, we're going to be doing English and then you want to select the email address
that you want this login information sent to.
OK, so then you would to install it, literally take 30 seconds for this to get installed and then
you would have the login information to your email and right here on the screen.
So I'm going to go ahead and show you how it's going to look now once you install the WordPress platform.
So this is how it's going to look on the back end.
It's going to be very bare bones here.
But I want to walk you through the different things that I would do to set this up so that it's set
up properly, so that it's set up properly, so that I have the right kind of pages and the right kind
of structure.
So let me go down here.
We're going to go to settings first.
We're going to go to Permalink.
So one of the first things you're going to notice is when you go to the settings and permalink on a
WordPress website, it's going to have a day and name here.
OK, now this is your URL structure, and it's really important that you set this up properly, because
if not, you're going to get posts or even pages that have the date.
Right.
And then they have the post title.
Now, you don't want this.
There's no reason why whatsoever.
It's not doing anything for SEO.
We want to make sure that we just have the post title and we would go down here and go to post name
and go to save changes.
So now, any time we're making a post, we have the post name.
They're set up properly and we don't have a date.
OK, so we're going to go to General and we're going to set this up.
So let's say this is for a yoga business.
I'm just kind of begin off top of my head here and I'm in the Seattle area.
So I would put Seattle yoga studios or studio and I would put maybe a brand name for 10x yoga.
And then right here, no one yoga studio.
In Seattle, OK, nice and simple like this, we may set this up to be a different website, but for
now I'm just kind of going with the yoga.
And if we want to change that, we can at a later time.
So go to writing here just to make sure everything looks good.
Once we set up the pages, we're going to want to set a static page, but not right now.
Discussions.
This is where if you're coming in here and you want to have some really strict kind of moderations and
things that are going on when people are actually leaving comments, you can mess with that here.
But honestly, it's best just to leave this how it is.
And we go to media down here.
This is essentially kind of what the media is kind of set up as far as the standard.
But if you want to change this, you can I wouldn't mess with any of this.
The only thing I would mess with here is a permalink down here in the privacy.
You can also leave this alone.
Don't need to change this as well.
So let me go ahead and show you then the next thing that we would do and I would want to add a theme.
So let's go to appearance here.
All right.
So now we're going to install a theme here, which is the expression now, instead of making this into
a yoga website, we're going to make this into a marketing agency.
So we have this here.
We're going to go back down to the settings.
OK, and we're going to call this Seattle marketing agency or social media marketing agency, and then
we can put our brand name 10x your clients.
Number one, digital marketing company in Seattle make this nice and simple and easy for us.
So now let's take a look at the website here, OK?
This is essentially what it's showing.
It has different sliders here that we can implement.
All right.
So now we're going to go to the actual theme options here, and we're going to be able to set up the
theme here exactly how we want this to look.
So up here.
This is the header.
So if we look at the theme options, the header is up here and we can change this the on or off, OK?
And then if we want to actually have a search bar up there, we can turn it on or off, OK?
And so there's a lot of different things that we can do here just based off of the theme settings.
Here's a general settings.
We want to add a logo.
And so here are some custom code you can also set up.
Let's see here the homepage feature.
So this is if we want to have some additional content here, but this real simple way to be able to
update this is go to homepage here.
And if you want to have a different slider, image is right, easily set that up here and you can come
down here and see how this would look on a tablet and on a cell phone.
OK, so you can easily just go in here and change all the different features here and with the blog,
the actual footer, which is down here, the very bottom.
OK, right in here.
I'm going to show you how to update all of that.
So let's get out of here.
And then let's say we wanted to add like some pages for about us and then, you know, services.
So it's all about us.
So let's take a look at how this is going to look.
See, it's nice and simple here.
Super simple here.
OK, so we can put it in here.
Hey, Walkden, or we are a digital marketing company based out of Seattle and we can go to Update's.
See how this looks now with a preview changes like nice and simple here, and if we want to add some
images in here, all we got to do is go to add media and then upload some files.
Let's say we wanted to just add this image here.
I just want to show you guys here and we want to go medium.
That's fine.
And just show you how this would look.
So let's get a preview.
OK, there we go.
So I would essentially, you know, set this up so that it looks actually a lot better than this.
And so let's say this was a picture of you.
You could put a CEO, you know, on Galvin CEO 10x your clients.
Right.
And see how this looks.
So it's very simple, very easy to set this up here and we go, boom, right.
Nice and simple there.
Now, if you want to go and create a logo, I highly recommend you go to Canberra and you create it
for free.
I mean, they have a lot of different templates that you can use for free and can easily create a logo,
nice and simple.
So now we have the about us there.
Now we're going to go and create another page, which is our services.
I'm going to go to publish.
And this is essentially where you would lay out your services, you know, let's say you do, you know,
Facebook marketing, and then if you wanted to get, you know, an image for Facebook marketing and
then so let's say let's go Facebook, Facebook marketing image.
So.
OK, so we could just open this in a new time.
And then download this image.
OK, great.
And then.
Go back over here.
Look at media upload files drag right there.
OK, nice and simple.
So we provide Facebook marketing.
Again, this is just giving you a quick overview of how to set up a WordPress website, how easy it
is to to navigate and the different types of plugins that we're going to go over here in a second as
well.
So there you go.
If you only want to make this a little bit larger and even move this around, you can move it around.
But let's make it a little bit larger here and we'll go to full size and go to update.
See how this looks.
Go to preview.
OK, so there you go, it looks a little bit bigger, and so that's essentially how you're going to
set up all of your different pages.
Let me actually go up here and see how this looks.
OK, great.
So everything comes up here at the top.
You see the different pages home about us and services.
Now, let me show you where you would modify and adjust that so it would go to menus, OK?
And you would have a menu here.
You go to create a new menu, put header menu.
OK, and this is already set up.
Right.
So we don't really need that.
So Primary Hederman this is for if you didn't have it already, automatically going to the top of the
menu, which a lot of teams do not.
So we're going to go to a primary header menu, OK, and then we're going to add two different pages
here.
OK, we don't need the home page or we can just put home OK, and then I'd move this up here.
The very top home service is about us going to save money, and this would essentially have our menu
set up.
So let me see if this even changes anything here.
OK, so it does not have a great.
And so now if we want to actually go and mess with the widgets, this is where things are on the side.
So let's say you wanted to have a sidebar.
This is where you would set up different posts, different categories, different types of things that
you would want to set up on the side.
And here is a different available widget that you can use.
I mean, you can have custom code.
Let's say you have a blog.
You want to put recent posts, you want to have a search bar there.
You want to have like custom code through a text calendar, custom HTML, an image, whatever that may
be.
Right.
If you want to add that in there.
So now let's look at the plugins that I like to use.
So let's go to add new number one plug in electric uses, Yoast.
So now this is going to help with your SEO for getting picked up by Google and just having well optimized
page titles and meta description.
So it's going to activate and I want to show you how to set this up here properly.
So we go down here, we go to General.
OK, and then we're going to go to Dashboard.
Or actually right here, search appearance, and then we want to go to Taxonomies and we want to actually
not have these show up, we want No.
Four categories.
OK, and what else tags we want know as well.
OK, we want to go to save.
This is for duplicate content.
We want to make sure that the categories are not actually being showing up in the search results because
we can risk being hit with duplicate content.
Same thing here with the tags.
So we're going to save this.
Then we're going to go to the archives here.
We want to disable the author archives because again, this could be another duplicate content issue.
So save OK.
And that's essentially how we set up the yose.
So let's say that I wanted to create this page here and I wanted to actually make sure that it's well
optimized for the Jozwiak.
So this is how I would set it up.
OK, because right now our home page, the title is homepage.
Right.
But we don't want that to show up in the search engines.
We want it to show up with the actual page title.
So it's go to edit snippet here.
OK, so we want to go to not title.
OK, we want it to be the actual title of here and so we could just type it in Seattle.
Social media marketing.
One of the key things here that I want to talk about is Google reads your content and page titles from
left to right.
So it's important that you had the keywords there at the very beginning.
Right.
When somebody's searching for social media marketing agency or a company in Seattle, you want those
keywords at the very beginning, then you have your brand to your clients.
OK, great.
This is the meta description.
This is a little content down here.
And this is where we would put essentially the call to action.
So we are Seattle's.
Shadows number one, social media marketing agency.
Call us at two 06.
And this is not a real number.
Don't call this number here, please, for a free quote.
OK, that's essentially how we would set that up and then we would go to update and then we would be
good to go there, OK.
And so you're obviously not going to do any modifications here for the home page because the home page,
you're going to be changing any kind of modifications through the custom customized bar up here.
OK, so if you wanted to change this right, I already showed you how to set this up.
So let's go and change different things here.
So the dashboard.
OK, so you have the posts here where this is if you want to start like a blog and you want to set up
some posts, I mentioned the categories and tags.
You don't want to get these to be indexed in Google because it could lead to duplicate content.
So I would just set up a post in here, OK?
And I would write a different post.
As you can see, I already have posts in here from a different example that I was working on.
But it's important that you have the post set up here properly.
I'm actually going to go ahead and delete all these because we do not need them.
OK, and media, this is where you're going to be able to upload different images, different, you
know, stock photos that you're able to get.
And so really, as I mentioned, this video is just really a WordPress tutorial to show you kind of
how to navigate the platform here, how to install the theme, how to set up the website really quickly,
how to set up the pages.
And so if you want some additional photos, you can actually go to pics of Betacam to get free photos.
You can go to pixels, dot com as well to get free images.
And then if you want to pay for some images here, you can go to Shutterstock and pay for those here
as well.
So going back over here now to the actual WordPress website, this is essentially all you're really
going to need now if you want to add your contact form there.
For the contact page show, you had to set that up as well.
So contact seven.
OK, contact form seven and what this is going to do is give us a piece of code that I'll show you where
we would set that up on.
OK, so this is good here.
It's go to pages.
And then we would set up.
Contact now or contact us, contact their.
Would a publish?
OK, so now we go back over here, go to settings, and then this code right here, OK, we copy that.
And then we go like this.
We go to update let's go to preview changes, OK?
And there we have our contact form.
Looks super nice.
Nice color scheme there.
I mean, I think it looks fantastic.
So that's essentially how you set that up there.
And then let's say we wanted to do anything with the footer.
I believe you can make the changes through the customization here.
So let me show you.
So let's go to visit site.
And if you want to customize the footer, there's typically a few different ways to customize the footer.
So let's go to let's go to theme options here.
So we've got the footer, what I would do is I would set up a menu down here for the footer to I didn't
like the terms of service privacy policy.
Let's go ahead and exit out of this.
So another cool thing that you can do for your website is making sure you always have.
A privacy policy and the terms of service, so it's called auto terms, we're going to add new.
Auto terms.
OK, so believe it, this one here, so this will automatically create a terms of service and privacy
policy page, all you got to do is fill out some information and spit out these two pages for you.
All right.
So let's go up here now.
Let's go to WPRO auto terms and then we want to add legal pages.
OK, and this is essentially how we can set this up super easy, so they said we wanted to create a
privacy policy will create here.
OK, and you literally answer these questions, your country can your users, what is it?
Can you just create an account on your website?
Yes or no?
Answer those questions and it'll automatically pop this out.
So let's even go through this here.
US.
Washington, no.
Name it first and last name and that email address, telephone number.
No.
No go to create.
And now we have a privacy policy page that's created for us within a matter of seconds.
So now this page is corrected.
And so let me show you how I would set this up for the footer.
So the privacy policy and the terms of service, I recommend you both have those set up and that we
set them up at the very bottom of the website.
So let's go ahead and do that.
Let's go to menus.
And if you don't have a photo menu, I recommend you create one.
So this is the photo here, and we want to make sure that we have the privacy policy and the terms of
service in here for this one.
We're just going to add the privacy policy, because that's all we created.
So that set up there.
So let's go to say menu.
We want to make sure we have the primary footer down here.
Footer menu.
OK.
And so now we can see down here.
We've got a privacy policy link right there and link right there, so it looks to me like this particular
theme is a very unique and we don't even need to add this down here, so because it's adding it already
by itself.
So let's let's even delete this here.
A lot of teams out there require you to come in here and add in the actual footer links manually.
But for this one, for some reason seems to be not needing.
So it's right here is automatically added.
So we can either have it down here or have it right there.
Both places, however, you want to set that up.
OK, so that's really it for this video here.
I just wanted to give you a quick walkthrough of how to navigate WordPress, the different plugins you
can use.
I mean, there are so many different plug ins in here that you can essentially search for and utilize.
And this video is just really giving you a general overview of how to navigate the WordPress platform,
how to install theme, how to install different plugins, and what exactly are plug ins, how to set
up the proper structure, the proper framework and features and components here within the WordPress
platform.
So let me know if you have any questions.
That's it for this video.
And we'll see you guys on the next one.
Thanks.