How To Set Up A Wordpress Blog – Part 1
Posted on 12. Jul, 2009 by ciarandoyle in Wordpress
How To Set Up A Wordpress Blog
Setting up wordpress can be a bit of a maze if you dont know what you are doing. There are so many plugins and widgets and many more amazing and wonderful tips and tricks that can really help your blog explode from the word go.
So what are the first steps you need to take to set up a great wordpress blog?
1. You need to buy a website. I get mine from godaddy as I think they are the easiest and best. A .com domain name will probably cost you about $9.99, but you can find coupon codes all over the internet to get about 2 bucks knocked off the price of it. Just do a quick search for Godaddy coupon codes and you will find one. Then after you have selected your domain name it will come to the billing screen, just simply enter the code that you find into the coupon code section and press update. (Sometimes you might need to check a few different codes before you get one that works). For everything I buy on the internet I always do a search for coupon codes, it’s a real good way to save a bunch of cash.
2. The easiest way that you can do this is to get yourself a great hosting package. The one i use and I would recommend it so much is Hostmonster. Hostmonster has a backend system called a CPanel which I feel is an absolute must for anyone in Internet Marketing for ease of use. You will get a domain included within the hosting package, but I like to keep this as a backoffice domain that i do not use.
When you set up this hosting account you will get some details that you are going to need to keep in a safe place as we are going to use them in the near future. Your hosting account will be given a USERNAME & PASSWORD. Keep them safe!
3. Once you have your website and hosting in place, you are going to need to change your Domain Name Servers (DNS) from godaddy to hostmonster. The domain name servers for Hostmonster are as follows:
ns1.hostmonster.com
ns2.hostmonster.com
To change the DNS to point to Hostmonster you must log in to your godaddy account. Under the drop down menu cann ‘DOMAINS’ you will see a tab that says ‘MY DOMAINS’. Click that and you will be taken to a screen that will show you what domains you own. Once in that page, click the box beside the domain you want to change your DNS. Then click the icon called ‘Nameservers’ and a new screen will pop up.
Click the button that says "I host my domains with another provider" and then enter:
‘ns1.hostmonster.com’ in the Nameserver 1 box &
‘ns2.hostmonster.com’ in the Nameserver 2 box and then press OK
It will take a few minutes for this to take effect.
This is only the beginning, so get stuck into this and in a few days I will have the follow up to guide you through the next steps. Until then.
