How to Start a WordPress Blog

WordPress is a free and open source publishing platform. Written in PHP and uses MySQL for database management. WordPress is the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (CMS). It was released on May 27th 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little.

WordPress Blog

Features of WordPress Blog

Themes : Theme is the most important part part of any website. It gives attractive looks, well design and good loading speed of website. WordPress have various type of  featured themes in its own store such as News Themes, Gallery Themes and more.

WordPress Themes

Every WordPress website requires at least one WordPress theme to run the website. Themes may be directly installed through the WordPress or you can also manually upload it through file transfer protocol (FTP). WordPress themes are classified in two types main theme and child theme. Any changes in the main themes will be lost if you update the theme but child theme are made to keep the changes of the theme permanently even you update the theme.

Plugins : WordPress plugins allow users to extend the features and functionality of the website. Most of the plugins are available in WordPress store either downloading via outside store.

WordPress Plugins

Mobile Friendly & More Features :  Almost all WordPress themes are mobile friendly it resizes according to mobile resolution. WordPress also have clean permalink structure, search engine friendly, category and labels. 

Why You Need a WordPress Blog ?

WordPress is free, powerful, flexible and multi functional blog which also provide strong security by installing some good WordPress security plugins such as Akismet, Jetpack etc.

What Do You Need to Start a WordPress  Blog ?

A domain name : choosing a good domain name is similar to choosing a company name, your domain name is the identity on the web.
Web hosting account : Choose a right web hosting plan according to your need such as memory space, bandwidth etc. one is my favorite web hosting is BlueHost and BigRock 
Install a Theme : Choose a good featured theme for your website according to your branding and goals for your website.
Steps to Start WordPress

• Purchase a web hosting account : A good web hosting not only provide good service but also have good uptime, so before purchasing a web hosting make sure it fulfill your requirements.
• Install WordPress from your hosting cPanel : After purchasing web hosting account go to your hosting cPanel and login through your credentials after successful login you can install WordPress, Joomla etc here i'm discussing about WordPress so i'm going to install WordPress Blog.
• Install a WordPress Theme : Theme is a dress of any website. If you look good you need to wear a good cloths, in a same way every website also need a good theme.
• Configure the links if needed : It is very necessary to provide your social profile link in your website, this increases the user traffic as well as people believe and trust in the website.
• Installing some necessary plugins as your need, following is some popular plugins..

Akismet : Akismet is an advanced hosted anti-spam service aimed at thwarting the underbelly of the web. It efficiently processes and analyzes masses of data from millions of sites and communities in real time. To fight the latest and dirtiest tactics embraced by the world’s most proficient spammers, it learns and evolves every single second of every single day. Because you have better things to do.

Jetpack : Back in the day, WordPress.com blogs had lots of nifty features that were only available to self-hosted sites through a complicated system of pulleys and levers. Tricking out your self-hosted site with all the features of WordPress.com meant installing and maintaining dozens of individual plugins. Jetpack is a single plugin that gives you the most powerful WordPress.com features, hooking your self-hosted WordPress site to WordPress.com’s infrastructure to take advantage of robust stats, easy social sharing.

Yoast SEO : Yoast optimize websites. Not just one aspect of websites, but every aspect. It make websites more usable, easier to navigate, faster and more reliable. In other words: make websites work. For the owner and the visitor. The added bonus is that if you do all that right, a website becomes easier to find too.

WPForms : WPForms helps you to create beautiful responsive online forms for your website in minutes.

Yeah ! your WordPress blog is ready, post your first article.

Publish Your First Post

Today it is very difficult to get a traffic in a website because of thousand of website is already present in internet and why people come to your site? to get good traffic your post should be meaningful, well formatted, good headers and sub-headers, use proper punctuation, use readable font and font size. use images for supporting the articles.

WordPress Post

For search engine optimization (SEO) use images, tags, labels, post description and related permalink, avoid to use stopping character in post titles and permalink.

Congratulations ! you have created your WordPress blog and successfully posted your first post.