How to Make a WordPress Website For Beginners

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Youtube video How to make a wordpress website for beginners 2019

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Step 1: Domain and Hosting

The first thing we have to do in order to make a wordpress website with the brizy pagebuilder is get a domain and hosting.

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Step 2: Install WordPress

Now that we have our domain and hosting, we need to install WordPress, the best content management system so we can start learning how to make our website with wordpress.

Once everything is installed. We will see our login information for our new wordpress website! Congrats!

Let’s log in and get to making our new website with wordpress for free!

Step 3: Install Theme

Now you need to log into your new wordpress website.

The login URL for the wordpress website you are learning how to make its www.YOURDOMIAIN.COM/wp-admin/

Your username and password can be found in an email.

Once you login, we want to install a theme so we can start learning how to customize our WordPress website.

Now we have our theme installed and we can move on…we are so close to building a beautiful website all for free 🙂 I’m excited for you!

Step 4: Install Plugins

Now we want to install some plugins that we can use to build and create our website in wordpress 2019.

The first thing I want you to do is go to this website so you can go and download the zip file you need for the Brizy Pagebuilder Plugin

You might need to go into your download folder and right click and compress the folder so it turns into a zip file. It needs to be a zip file for you to upload.

The two plugins we will be installing are

To install Brizy

Step 6: Demo Content

Before we move on to creating our website, we need some demo content! We’ll not really. But I want to give you some, so you know how to upload images and what not into the media library.

So click here to download the demo content.

Now to upload it, we will go back to our wordpress dashboard.

Step 7: Create Homepage and Blog page

Now we are going to set the page in our theme settings so when someone goes to our website, they to go the new WordPress website homepage we are making.

Step 8: Theme Settings

We need to set our homepage and we need to show you how to upload your logo and site icon. And if you want to change any colors for links on your website, we can also talk about.

Now lets go back to the home page and edit it with the Brizy

Step 9: Make WordPress Website Homepage

Now we are on the edit page and we want to change some of the page attributes for our website homepage

We will be adding a Cover, Features, Services, Testimonial, Contact section, and social media block

Step 10: Create About Page

To create a new page for the wordpress website you are learning to build, you need to go back to the wordpress dashboard

In this page, we create it by adding a feature section, another feature section, a testimonial, contact section, and social media block.

Step 11: Create Gallery

To create a new page for the wordpress website you are learning to build, you need to go back to the wordpress dashboard

Here we add a gallery showcase block and the social media buttons

Step 13: Create Contact Page

To create a new page for the wordpress website you are learning to build, you need to go back to the wordpress dashboard

Add a contact block and a social media block

Step 16: Header Menu

To create a header menu, go to your wordpress dashboard and hover over menus

Step 17: Footer Menu

To create a footer menu, go to your wordpress dashboard and hover over menus

Congratulations!

You just completed this video tutorial on learning how to make a wordpress website with WordPress. I’m so happy you chose this video to learn how to make a website in wordpress for free.

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