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How to start a WordPress Blog on Bluehost

Start your WordPress Blog on Bluehost Step by Step Tutorial

Click here to start your blog on Bluehost and then follow my easy tutorial below for step by step directions.Starting your blog on Bluehost will get you up and running quickly and in the most frugal way. Bluehost is a great webhost and I personally have had a great experience with them.

Click on the “Get Started Now” and select your plan.

How to blog step by step Bluehost signup 1

If you are just starting out, I would select the “Basic” plan.  You can upgrade later. If you sign up for a whole year at the beginning you will also get your domain name free for a year – it’s a real good deal. Next you select your plan.

Bluehost How To Blog signup 2

Now you register your domain name.

How to blog with Bluehost choosing a domain name

You enter your personal information and make choices regarding your hosting package. You don’t need a lot of extras at this point but I would definitely opt for the Domain Privacy Protection.  Its only 99 cents and eliminates a lot of aggravation with unwanted contact. I don’t opt for SEO as I use the Yoast plug in but more about that later.

Bluehost How to Blog - personal info

Next you enter your payment information.  Check the box after you read the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.   When you have finished that, you just hit “Submit”.

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Next you will have to create a password for your account.  Be sure to write everything down in a notebook. Click on “Create Your Password”.

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Learn to blog creating yur Bluehost Cpanel password step 2

You have finished signing up for your hosting plan and you have an official domain name and you have a password to your Cpanel. Your next step will be to install WordPress. You will need to log In to your Bluehost C-Panel Dashboard.

Learn how to blog logging into your Bluehost account

Next you will pick a theme.

How to blog- picking a WordPress theme

Then you are all done with the sign up. Click on “Start Building”.

How to blog log in to WordPress dashboard

Your WordPress dashboard will open. It will ask you to choose either “Business” or “Personal” or “I don’t need help”.  Choose “I don’t need help”.  This gives you more flexibility and you will have me as your helper through the next steps.

How to Blo WordPress DashboardLaunch WordPress Site - Learn To Blog

Type in your Blog name that you have chosen. Under blog description, just give a brief description.

 

Look around the dashboard and familiarize yourself with it. A great website for WordPress beginners is  WPBeginner which has tons of information on every aspect of WordPress.  It is the best WordPress reference on the web, in my opinion, and is written in easily understood language as opposed to the “geek-speak” of many tech websites.

Time to move on to the next lesson -How to Blog – 3.

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