 Today's topic is setting up a WordPress website for a piece of mind. So technically, we are going to be showing you how to set up a WordPress website as a non-profit. So let's get right in. We've already presented to you who we are, so I'm going to just move ahead. All right, so there are certain things we're going to tackle in this presentation. We're going to talk about how to get a domain name, then posting, installing WordPress on your web hosting, choosing a template or a theme for your website, adding content to your website. Then we'll talk a bit more about adding plugins to your website. You don't have to worry about the terminologies now. We're going to explain most of them or all of them in the course of presentation. And also this is going to be a hands-on presentation. So we're going to actually talk about how it's actually done. So let's get right in. So the first thing we're talking about is getting a domain name. So a domain name is basically the address your website on the internet. So take it like, let's say you want to start a non-profit and then you come up with a name for your organization. You come up with a vision. So the name of your organization becomes your domain name. So with the name for your organization, let's say my organization is Stem Rising Foundation. So that becomes my domain name. So mostly you see URLs that take you to certain websites, like what we have on the screen, which is HTTPS with a hyphenated, the backslashes, www.techsoup.org. So TechSoup is the name of the organization. And then we have the dot org, which is a top-level domain, which is called the extension. So and then HTTP protocol. So the hyphenated protocol, you might notice that some websites don't have the X at the end of the HTTP. So it just HTTP without the X. So those websites do not have an access certificate installed on them. So that means when visiting those websites, some browsers say that the website you're trying to visit is not secure. So your websites, you have an HTTP as attached to it. And also, so you take your domain name is just like the address or the address to your website. All right. So another thing to consider is choosing a good domain name. So in selecting a domain name for your nonprofit, it has to be simple. That's the simplicity. It shouldn't be something very long. Maybe let's say your organization's name is Stem Rising African Foundation with something, but you don't want to use that long name. You want to make it very simple and short. So you make sure your domain name is simple and short. You don't have to make it so long and become very difficult for people to guess. The next thing to consider is the uniqueness. Your domain name needs to be very unique. It needs to be destined to your organization. It needs to be directed towards what your nonprofit is doing. It's suitability. So your domain name needs to be very suitable. It needs to match your niche. So let's say you are into a nonprofit, but your domain name is DeserveBakery.com. Bakery has nothing to do with. So that's a business domain. That's a business name. So your domain name needs to be suitable. It needs to match your niche. It needs to match what you intend to do. So it becomes easy for people to remember that name and visit your website. So someone visiting your website is like someone coming to you. So once the person knows they address your office, the person can come to your office. And then the next thing is you need to use the right top-level domain. That's the right extension. Non-profits use .org extension. That's the .org. Companies are more keen to .com. So you see most companies have domain names with .com. So that's maybe my company, for instance, I would say it's betterstand.com. So it's a company. So companies are inclined to using .com. Organizations like TechSoup uses TechSoup.org. And TechSoup also has another domain, which is TechSoup.global. So the extension needs to match what your organization is doing. So you need to choose the right top-level domain. You need to choose the right domain extension. You don't start a non-profit and you get a domain and you choose .io. .io is inclined to mobile applications or software companies. So you need to get the right top-level domain. So these are the things I need to consider when choosing a domain name for your organization or in choosing a name for it. It's not always that. It's not always that. You use the full name of your organization. You can just maybe abbreviate, just make it simple and short. Your domain name needs to be very simple. It shouldn't be too long and difficult for Portuguese. All right. So then how do you buy a domain name? So now you've considered, decided that, okay, I want to go with this particular name. How do I go ahead into buying that particular name? Put a lot of hands on how to go about this. So there are thousands of domain registries. So just like how you have in some countries, when you want to register a business, you go to the registrar of businesses or the registrar general's department to register your business. The same way, when you need to register your business, your domain name, it's controlled by certain people who try to register those names. So you go to the domain registrar. So you have to choose a domain registrar. There are a lot of domain registries out there. So a domain registrar is simply a company that manages the reservation of internet domain names. So you need to choose the right registrar. So there are a host of registries out there based on pricing, customer support, and so many. So we have names like one-on-one, one-on-one, domain king, godaddy, name.com, namecheap, blue hoes, domain. But I'm keen to using namecheap because of their and also pricing scheme of their domains. So I'm keen to using namecheap. Someone might be keen to using godaddy or choosing blue hoes as their domain registrar. So in buying a domain, you need to go to a domain registrar's website to buy your domain name. Okay. So the next thing after getting a domain name already. So first of all, I want us to go through the whole presentation then. We'll do the hands-on everything that we are doing. So I mean, the best thing is to get a web hosting. Just you need to get a website. So a web hosting is a place where the files or the content of your website will be located. So you need to get a web hosting just like how after registering a business, you need to get a location for your business and get an office piece, get equipment, get maybe office furniture and everything for your office. So that people can be able to visit that office. Mind you, we said your domain name is the address. So when someone is looking for your domain name, where do they come to? So when they go to the URL and type text.com, where does it take them to? So it takes them to a destination. That's a computer somewhere or a server somewhere. That is hosting your web files. So you need to buy a host web hosting. So the same way they are web hosting companies. So they are companies that provide web hosting services for business. Companies that provide web hosting services for organizations. So based on and they all have different pricing and different packages. So someone can decide to go for a shared hosting. So a shared hosting is basically like having a laptop and then maybe you are at home with your family and then you have a laptop and every user has an login. So you're actually sharing that particular that single computer. So that's a shared hosting. So let's take it having a shared working space. So instead of going to invest more money in from you choose to go for cookies and the advantage of that is that it's cost-intensive. That means that it's you have a limited budget organization and then you don't spend too much money getting your private hosting. So a private hosting could be like a virtual private hosting which is a VPS. So instead of you going for a VPS which is more expensive and then you can go for a shared hosting which is cheaper. So in building web-based websites there are several web hosting companies that can offer that hosting for web-based websites. Amazon provides that. Cloudways provide that. GoDaddy also provide that. But you need to also consider the you need to consider the the recognized ones. So most of the recognized ones basically are Bluehost which is WordPress recognized and then Ingym. So for me I still go with Ingym sometimes I use Bluehost sometimes it depends on who you are working for that you prefer. Is it the customer support that you prefer? So you need to consider in buying your hosting for your website. Just a second Aziri because I want to add a couple of things here. Okay. It's sometimes it's important to let's say keep the whole thing under the same umbrella. So as you've seen on the previous slides quite a lot of the web hosting companies also offer the main name services. So it helps to buy the main name from the company that ideally you will plan to host your website on. And also in terms of website hosting there are let's say three major categories of hosting providers. So there are the shared hosting providers that Aziri mentioned. Then you have also managed WordPress service providers like for example WP Engine or other WordPress focused hosting providers that also take care of your actual server infrastructure for you. And then the VPS providers that also Aziri mentioned which are let's say can be cloud providers or other type of providers if you have the skills to allow you to manage your own web infrastructure. So there are different types of providers depending on the type of let's say skills that you have in-house in your organization or the type of let's say management services that you are looking for. All right thank you very much Daniel. So the next thing is to talk about okay so now you've got in your business name, your business is registered with a registered domain registrar, you have your hosting purchase. So what's the next thing? The next thing is begin the process of setting up your business. So buying a hosting is just like buying a computer and it depends on the type of computer you bought. Are you sharing with someone which is a shared hosting or it's a private hosting which is for yourself that you have to manage on your own. So depending on what you have you would have to install WordPress only. You'd have to set it up. So the first thing is to install WordPress which most web hosting companies provide a cPanel. So a cPanel is basically an interface that allows you to access certain things on your hosting easily. So just like having Windows on it or having a MacBook and a MacOS on it or having a lot of things on it, like Windows where it's all there, macOS on your device becomes like your or the interface accessing applications or inside your application you have the code you have, fire codes you have, so many applications installed. So one of those applications that counts by default is software closed. So software closed is an extremely popular auto installer app that allows a lot of content management system applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and a host of others. So you don't have technical skills maybe you don't have to know CSS, you don't have to know JavaScript, you don't have to know PHP to set up your website. So we just click off a button, you can install WordPress on your server and then you're good to go. So domain, hands-on, buying a hosting hands-on and all that. Okay, so after you've installed your WordPress using the software closed app, we're demonstrating it shortly, you'd have to choose a WordPress theme or template. So the WordPress theme or template is the design and field of your website. So maybe you want your website to look like, maybe you've seen a particular website that you want your website to look like so you'd have to choose a template that matches that particular website so that you can look at that and set it up or you have a UX or UI designer create a mock-up for you that you want to create. So you have to look for a template that matches that mock-up. So after you've set up WordPress on it, you then go and install a WordPress template. Okay, so the next thing is how do you choose a WordPress template for your website? So we have three WordPress templates on the WordPress.org website and then we have premium templates. So you have to choose a WordPress template from different price range and different domain for different domains or different purposes. So you go to Team Forest to be able to get access to premium templates or you can just use a free template from the WordPress which you call Premium. So I think what I have there is in choosing a WordPress theme, you can either opt for a premium theme or a free template. If you choose a free theme, make sure it's up to date and it has good rating. Yeah, that's very important. When I use it a free, what people are seeing about that template? Is that template secure? Does it have bugs in it? I think in our previous presentation, Daniel actually was on that presentation where he spoke about securing a WordPress website. So you need to consider the security of your website because one, you might need to know that you are handling data. So maybe your organization is handling data, people are going to be submitting applications to your website, they're going to be buying through your website, they're going to be bringing donations to your website, they're going to be subscribing to newsletters to your website. So you're going to be accepting personal data. So you need to ensure that your website is secure, the template has good rating. What are people seeing about that particular template? So it's best to go for a premium template where you are guaranteed that, okay, this template, these people are using it, I can also use it, and then it has frequent updates. Okay, so we have here some save and popular templates that you can use, top-free templates. So as I said on the website, so when you go to the website, you can have a save, because they are highly customizable feature. So once you buy the template, you need to customize it to match the to as a okay. So it's about adding content to your website. So first thing, you've got in your domain, you've got in your web hosting, you've installed a personal template on your website using starter clause, and then you've gotten a template, whether free or premium, then and you've installed a template on your website. So the template usually comes with demo content, some templates come through demo content, that matches the design that you saw that made you like that template. Then next thing is to add content, and we have two ways of adding content to a website. We have post and then pages. Okay, so we have two basic formats, I would say, which are the pages and then post. So pages are put in a generic, like you have an office space, pages would be like maybe you have the reception, you have the CEO office, you have the staff working room, you have the washroom. So those are like pages. So every website needs to have a home page. Every website, a home page is where you display information with who comes to see first when they come to your website. So maybe at your home page, you need to have the vision, the mission, and then the values of your organization. And then maybe some project you're working on and certain testimonials you might want to put on your website. And every website needs to have an about page. So an about page is where people get to know what your organization is about. So you need to tell the people about your organization. So an about page technique is like an office or a location in your office that tells people what you do or what you are about, what is driving your organization. So that is where your about page goes. And then we have the Contact S page. The Contact S page is where people get information on how to reach get back to you. So basically a website, you have a home page, an about page, a Contact S page, technically, and then another important thing or page is the privacy policy page. Most people ignore that a lot. There's a whole software website that you don't have privacy pages. And webpages make it easier to create privacy pages. You just have to edit an idea as a template. And it's so easy to set up. But it's very vital because you're handling personal data. How are you going to ensure that the personal information of people are collecting is secured. So you don't have to set up your pages, which is the home page telling people about your organization, your vision, your mission, your values, some testimonials. You need to have an about page telling people about what your organization does or what you are about, maybe what made you start the nonprofit, what made, what was it right behind, what's your story. So over there, you put that about content there because when volunteers or sponsors or donors come to your website, the very first page you would like to go to is your about page. You want to know what this organization is doing, what's your story, what would I want to do? They go to your about page too. So you need to have a very catching story on your about page. And then the website mostly are posts. So that's another way of creating content. Posts are like creating news. So maybe you do a fundraising, you need to tell that story on your website. You organize an event or a campaign, you need to tell that story on your website. So you use your post pages to create blocks for your website. So yeah. The next thing is adding plugins to your website. So now let's say you set up your website with your home page, your about page, your contact us page, your privacy policy page for the basics. The next thing is to add plugins. So what are plugins? Plugins are like apps that enhances the functionality of the website. So they add more features to your website or they enables you to secure the website. So there are a host of plugins that help you secure your website. So installing plugins for your website. So in installing a plugin, there are thousands and thousands of WordPress plugins. Developers are creating plugins every day, updating plugins every day. So in getting a plugin for your website, you need to first of all ensure that the plugin is up to date. Has it been updated recently because WordPress released updates frequently as a plugin you are using also up to date with the current version of the WordPress you are using. Another thing is, is it widely used? How many active installations that template that plugin has? Has it been tested with your WordPress version? As I said, you need to ensure that when WordPress releases a new update and you update it, those plugins need to also need to be updated. Ensuring or using that template, that plugin on your website again because there is likely with that website that plugin can bring any vulnerabilities to your website or can make your website unsecured because it's not up to date. Okay, so and also WordPress has a community. So before you go in for a particular template ensure that the community is going with it. I'm swimming pool talking about it. I'm actually using it on one very common template plugin is Elementor. So, okay, so I think I'll jump into that. Let me just go sequentially. So what are the core plugins for your website? Every website needs a security plugin. Every website needs a security plugin. You first of all need to secure so you notice that we have four plugins in this video. We have the website security, that's for firewall in my webcam. So it protects you from people, from unauthorized users from accessing your website or it prevents hackers from boot forcing into your website or it prevents boot photo attacks. So when people try to log into your website, you are notified. So these are plugins, these are, we have the website security, we have the jetpack, we have the security malware scanned by, so these are from different different organized companies or developers and then we have the site on security and you notice that the, and then the website security has 3,750 ratings. So you know that, okay, if I want to go for a plugin, if I want to choose a plugin from our website, this is the best one, this is good. Jetpack is widely, I don't see that I put two ratings, so that means it's good. I can go in for that. So yeah, so this is going to ensure that you install a security plugin. The next thing is, if once you've installed your security plugin, you need to back it up your website. People think it depends on the approach you use on your website. So you need to ensure that I'm veriting your website frequently or you back it up. So you go back to your website online or outside so that in case something happens, you can restore it. Okay, the next step is, okay, my website is secure. My website is frequently backed up. How do I ensure visibility? How do people get to know that my website actually is this or having a website magnetization? How do I tell my community? I'll write to my sponsors. I'll write to my donors that have a new website, which are search engine optimization plugins. So search engine optimization plugins that ensure your website is very visible in searches. So when someone searches for non-profit helping deprive people in Africa, your non-profit should show up because that is what you're doing. So we have several good plugins. The best one is the USSU, which has five star ratings. So it's obvious that that is awesome. Yeah, so WordPress plugins are like apps for your website that enables you to extend their features to your website and add some customers. Okay, so once you have that done and then your website is visible, now people are now seeing your website online. They need to have a way to contact you because your website is now showing up everywhere. It's showing up on Facebook, it's showing up on Google search, it's showing up on several different places. So how do you ensure that you get feedback that you need to use certain forms? So we have WP form, contact form seven. So these are the plugins that allows you to receive feedback through your website. So you can add a contact form on your website that allows you to get contact information of who wants to reach out to you. You can add a subscription button where people can both subscribe to newsletters. So plugins actually helps you to ensure that people are able to give you feedback once you enhance your search engine optimization, once you've enhanced the visibility of your website. Okay, so now we're going to wrap this up and then we're going to jump into the process of setting up the website hands-on. Before I jump into that, if anyone has any questions based on the presentation you can ask before we jump into if there are any questions you can just bring it up before I jump into the hands-on presentation. Am I still being heard? Yes, we're hearing. Yes, you're fine, Desiree. All right, and I think I'm a bit too far. I talk very far so I'm a bit too far. About how many plugins versus more are slowing down the site? Well, this highly depends on a lot of things. Most importantly your web hosting package, but you can have almost any number of plugins. It also depends how they work with each other if there are incompatibilities or things like that. For example, I run websites with anywhere in between 10 and even 65, 70 plugins, but of course the ones with a lot of plugins are very complex sites with big data. Okay, I'm actually not going through the... Okay, so I think that's the only questions we have in the chat box I guess. Does anyone on the panel have experience integrating a WordPress site in Azzui for hosting or alternative Google websites? Okay, I have a bit of experience with Azure. I usually use Amazon Web Services because through the TechSoup program, nonprofits get 1000 credits every year for this. So I run an infrastructure with multiple Amazon Web Services accounts for different nonprofits that I work with, but it can be done in Azure as well. It's pretty similar, let's say, as an approach. You can create an app service in Azure and deploy the WordPress application in that app service. Okay, Sydney says if you suspect a plugin is slowing down your website, you can try this. You activate the plugin, don't install it, then activate them one at a time. So yeah, so what she's saying technically is if you notice that maybe, yeah, that's what the website, I think we... reactivate one after the other to see what is causing the problem. That's what we want to divide the website. So I think I can now just step into the practical aspects, unless Daniel wants to ask something else. No, it's all good, I know. All right, so I'm going to share a different screen. Okay, so I'm technically going to be working, as Daniel said, it's best to have a single company for both your domain, actually domain registrar and also hosting. So if you're going in Bluehost, it's best to have your hosting and then your domain with them because it makes it easier when you want to be new as well. Yeah, so I think for the purpose of this presentation, I'll be going in with Namecheap. When it comes to WordPress websites, they say Bluehost is the best, but I don't really use Bluehost. It's okay, it's WordPress certified, but I don't really use Bluehost. I use Namecheap because of their customer service. It's not because of anything, just because of their customer service. They're very responsive in order. So in case something goes wrong, they're able to assist you in order. So I'm going to jump in and share a different screen right now. So okay, so share again. Okay, so the first thing we said was that you need to get a domain name. So you need to register a domain name. We spoke about finding the best domain and how to choose your domain name. You need to consider simplicity. So the first thing you need to do is go in for a domain hands, yeah, instead of that. So okay, you have a business name, you need to pay to check whether it's your business name available. And then mostly, you can have an organization and then you want someone else. But you will legally register your business or your non-profit in your country, but someone has that domain. So the best thing is you also need to, you are starting a new non-profit. You need to consider is the domain name available before you choose that name as well. So let's see, I'm going to go in for an organization like TechSoup, okay, TechSoup, let me just start with TechSoup.org. So let's say I'm starting the best non-profit and the name is TechSoup.org. So I'm doing a domain search for that domain name. So it goes in and search for that particular domain name to see whether it's available and also gives you alternative domains like maybe TechSoup.com.com and other extensions. So it's really going to tell me that, I know the result of this, don't tell me that, by someone else because TechSoup owns this domain. So wow, this domain was registered in 1999. Yeah, so this domain was registered in 1999. So it's like this has been registered and all that. So that means it's not actually available for you to buy. So you might have to choose a different name. So let's see, let's add TechSoupConnets and let's search again. So you notice that the TechSoup.Connets is available. So we just technically add it to your cart. After adding the domain to your cart, you can just check out TechSoup. Sorry, Nameshift offers a lot of discounts. So this domain is actually going in for $8.68, but you can actually get it for 33% off. So Nameshift runs those discount offers very often. So you'd be getting the domain for actually just $5. So I'm going to view my cart. And then check out. So once then you check out Nameshift's information, and then there you have it. So another thing is that there's a privacy and authentication for securing your privacy information. So that's a quick search on a particular domain. The person is able to find out who owns that domain. So what Nameshift does is they hide that information from the public. So it wouldn't get to know your contact information. It wouldn't get to know your phone number, your email, and then your name when it's searched for domain names and who owns them. So Nameshift hides that information and you don't pay anything for it. I think some of the hosting companies provide it and some of the companies will provide it for at the fee. So but Nameshift's privacy is free. I confirm the order and then I check out. If you have created a new account, you'd have to sign up. If you have already created a new account, you'd have to log in. To make this presentation easier, I'm going to log into my account. So okay, now after you've gotten, let's assume I bought my domain. Let me do that of the hosting as well. So several different hosting. So we have the shared hosting. They actually have a WordPress hosting like what Bluehost provides. So you can actually go in for the WordPress hosting. Or if you want to use your hosting for other things, a side website, a side WordPress, then it's best you go for the shared hosting. So if you just want to host only your website on it, you can just go in for the WordPress hosting that pre-installed WordPress for you and all that. But maybe you want to do other things on your website, on your domain. Maybe you want to host another website. That is not WordPress on your website. Then you can go in for the shared hosting. So we're going to try the shared hosting option. Then once we come there, you get to choose a plan. So we have the shared hosting. We have three packages which are the seller flattened. Depending on what you, the space you have, this one gives you allows you to set up three websites on your own. So it's like having an office and sharing it. So the gig, the site of the office and three content delivery networks. So I think that a content delivery network is seven locations. So once someone asks you a website from you, a single location, it's seven, it's a two-sixth location. So if that means they can help your website, it's best to refresh your site faster. So maybe I choose this package. I register, I sign up and then I have the hosting set up. So you'd have to connect it into, you have to connect a host, the domain to, the hosting to a domain. So every domain, every hosting is attached to a domain. So it is automatically attached to the domain added to my cart. I might decide to change that. If it doesn't have the domain I want, then I check out and I buy it. So once you have those two gone, you now have your hosting and your domain. So now let's continue with the next piece. I'd like to learn into my account. Okay, my password. Okay, I usually don't use password that I can't remember. So I have to copy it from somewhere, please. So I don't use passwords that are websites. They are automated passwords. So I really can't keep my password in mind. So now I've learned once you have hosting and then your domain, Namecheap gives you an account or a dashboard to manage your domain. So this is my domain. So I have one hosting here. So this is my hosting package. I'm using this telebusiness. And this is my access certificate I have installed on my domain. So I can now go into the cPanel. But first of all, if this is the first time you're buying a domain, you would have to first of all, to your hosting. If it's not connected to the hosting. So let me just do a login to the cPanel. Okay. So you notice that we have something called name service. So name servers are kind of like where they can find your website. So every hosting company provides servers. So those servers have addresses. So this is Namecheap's service. But if you're hosting with the same company, that means you might have a different name service, which are normally a URL. Just like a domain. So it could be ns1.txtu.org or ns2.txtu.org. So you would have to connect the domain to your hosting. It's connected to Namecheap hosting. So that means the domain is with the same person, the same person hosting the other person. If it's a different custom one, which is then you enter the name service that your hosting provider provided you. If Namecheap is not hosting your domain, then after that, you can all come back and log into your dashboard. And then you would to set up your website. Just a quick comment here. For example, if you're looking for a good domain name management platform, you can use the Cloudflare free services. Cloudflare also has a partnership with TechSoup in terms of the offerings that they have. But Cloudflare is a very good, not only DNS or domain name management platform, but it also offers quite a lot of security functionalities like free secure certificates for your website. So you can move it from a HTTP to an HTTPS connection. It offers a web application firewall. It offers distributed denial of service, protection service, and all of these into their free tiering. So it's a really good option to consider for Namecheap services in DNS management. Okay, awesome. Okay, so now you can get in and then log into your Cpano. I already explained what a Cpano is. It's like an installation, an operating system installation on your hosting. So it's like you bought a hosting with the computer, then you need an installation and operating system. So the Cpano becomes like an operating system. So when I come here, notice that I have several different apps in store already. I can go to create emails with a click of the button. I can find where I can put in my website files. I can create databases. I can be able to, so we have software close here. So these are software that I've installed. So we have sort of close up installer. So with this application, as I mentioned earlier on, you can move to install a lot of content management systems like Drupal, WordPress. So with that, I can be able to log into software close installation. You notice I have like 13 installs. So we click on the button. If it's new, you will have zero installations in here. So if you are using Jumla, you can also install Jumla. So by clicking this button, I'm able to install WordPress like I mentioned in the presentation. So click on this button, install WordPress on your server. No hassle, simple, just a single step. Okay. So I would have to go back to my Cpano. Okay. So and there's this beautiful app. So you notice that they also have WordPress. That means these apps are actually being installed. When you add more, they show up here. So I can now open, okay, let me just open the same tab since I'm changing the single tab. Okay. So this is the WordPress installation, which, so you notice I have several different WordPress installations already set up because my hosting allows me to set up a limited number of websites on the same hosting. All right. So by clicking install, I can be able to install WordPress on my domain. Since I didn't buy a domain technically, I might have to use a subdomain. So let me show you how to create a subdomain on a particular domain. So just on the Cpano, you can create subdomain. So as I indicated earlier on, a subdomain is just technically a domain on a particular domain. So maybe you have an organization and then you have maybe TechSoup.org. Okay. Let's just use the word I brought you to this event. We have event.techsoup.org. So event is another website all together on the TechSoup domain. So we have a mean, we have blocks.techsoup.org. So you have several different like a sub office inside your office. I'm going to call it TechSoup.net. Then I'm going to put under this particular domain and then I create that. Then this is a bit slow. Okay. So the beautiful thing about Namecheap hosting is that once you install any new subdomain, it provides you a free one-year access certificate on that particular domain. So you don't have to install access certificates for a whole year. So yeah. So it's enabling the free access certificate, meaning that this means that the domain has been created and it's in green. This is a one ensuring that it's enabling the SSO. It's not fully completed. That's not in green. I can now go back and then be able to install WordPress on that subdomain. So you're assuming that subdomain is a domain. Okay. So I click install. So this is the software close-up I spoke about. So I can now be able to search for the TechSoup subdomain I created. So this is TechSoup.net. Then where do I want to install it? I want to install it in the main directory. So if I want to install it in a different directory, you have to add the directory. And what version of WordPress am I installing? 5.82, which is the current version of WordPress. Then I add my site description. So what's the name of that on my TechSoup.net WordPress. Okay. So then your site description. So what's the description for your website? A new website format. So then I'd have to enter my admin information. So the admin account allows you to be able to log into your website. So it gives you a secure access to log into your website and edit content. So one thing you need to know is that you don't have to use the web admin because people already know that most websites use admin. So you have to change your name to something else and not admin. When it comes to WordPress website, the person already knows that your username is admin. The only thing you need to guess is your password and then is able to get into your website. So they use the same default admin username. So I can use maybe X, tag, they can soup and then. So they have a pretty way of creating user names. Can do this. And then I can copy the connect and paste it this way. So this becomes very difficult for someone to guess my username, talking of guessing my password. So I can maintain this default password and then I'll copy it to a secure location. My login. So you have to copy your login information to a secure location. You need to ensure that your password is not easy to guess. Your username is not easy to get. Then you enter your admin email. Let me use that. You go down. You can decide to choose a template. So this is a beautiful thing about using starter clause. You can go to select a default template in here and then you are good to go. So you just find a template in here and you install. But we might have to choose to install the template once we get into the installation. So where do they know your installation information? So where should the installation be sent to? Then once you are done with that, now click install. So in a few seconds WordPress is installed on your domain with a default template. So it provides you two URLs. We have the website URL where people can base it to you. So you can now share this with the public and they can go to access the website and then the administrative URL for admin. That's where you're going to log into your admin account. Let me interrupt you for a moment because we're still seeing the name chip browser window. Are you trying to share another tab? We may have to do, in a future session, we may have to cover the topic of installing WordPress themes and using child themes, which are always a good idea. Just how you install it, how you configure it, how you figure out how to configure a theme. That might be a really good topic. We are running very short on time. Is there a whole lot more to your presentation, Desiree? Okay, I think in five minutes I could be there. I don't mean to rush you, I'm sorry. Yeah, I could be there in five minutes. So once we are done setting up, you have your website URL and your administrative URL. So when you click on this, it takes you to your website URL. Let me see. Okay, I think I need to share my entire screen, but if I share my entire screen to be a disaster. Okay, so there you have it. This is your website now. So the next thing is you can now be able to edit your website, add content, add pages, install plugins. So I log in the admin dashboard. So this is my admin interface. So over here, I can be able to create posts, as I mentioned earlier on, and then pages from my website. So I'll start with the pages and then come to the post. Then we do it with the plugin and we are good to go. So you see that, automatically, a privacy page is created for you. Privacy policy page. So you can go to add a new page like the home page and you add a bit of content. Okay, so you don't have to know coding to do this. You just have to type in text. This is home page. You can now add the content of your website. Then you publish it. Once you publish it, you can preview it on your website and then that's what the public sees. So you can now view it on your website. So now you now have content created on your website. So you can actually choose a very good template instead of what we have now. Or if you both have premium templates, you can install it on your website. So then we'll go into setting up plugins. Desiree, if you want to showcase the way that the template is installed, for example, we can go to the appearance themes and install, let's say, I don't know, the Astra theme. Yeah, I'm actually trying to rush it because of the time. Yeah, I know it's going to take two minutes. If you find the Astra theme and install it, we showcase the way to install a new theme. Why it's not? Yeah, add new. Astra is one of the most popular ones. Yeah, it's there. It was there. Because basically, if you follow this route, you can have a fully built website in a couple of minutes. You basically install a theme. After you install this theme, Astra has a companion plugin that it's called Starter Sites. So activate this theme and then go to plugins and add new and find the Starter Sites. Okay, so I think that actually deals with what we intend to do in a simple term. So you've now set up a template or a theme, and then you add a plugin. So the same approach you used to set up the adding a plugin can use to add all the security plugins which are in this presentation. So Starter Sites, yeah. You should find the Astra Starter Sites in the top plugins. Maybe put Astra into the name Astra Starter Sites. Yeah, Starter templates, it's called scroll up because I think it was the first one. Just that. Okay. Yeah, that's the first one. Just that it has a different name because they changed. I see that they offer now for multiple things, not just for Astra. Okay, it has elements as well. That's great. Yes. Okay, so you activate it and then, so basically, technically, that's how you install any other plugins, the security plugins and all that. So once you have that set up, it's just about customization of your website. And if you go to Appearance Starter Sites, you will see all the readymade templates that you have there, Starter templates. And you can search for, I don't know, let's say Elementor, Page Builder and Charity to find the Charity template. And you can install it in a couple of clicks and have a full, let's say Charity-oriented website. Okay. So just select an editor. It can also be the block editor or the Elementor page editor. Just search for Charity that are, I think, three, at least three templates. No Charity because they don't use non-profit as a, yeah. Hey, I'm gonna go ahead and wrap us up, guys. It's 16 after. I'm sorry. We've really, so much good stuff that we've covered and we could just keep going. I know. There's so much more. So think about, like, if you want to do a future session, definitely let me know. So thank you to everybody who stuck it out. And we're going to be doing our next WordPress Connect section. Sometime in March, we don't have an exact date chosen yet. It will most likely be a Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern. The topic right now we have selected is converting your WordPress pages from the classic editor to the Gutenberg editor, which was released with WordPress 5.0. And if you have an older site, that's really, a lot of people are having trouble, a little bit afraid to convert to the Gutenberg editor because they don't know what they're in for. And we're going to talk about that. So Daniel Desiree, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the group today. And we will be sending out an email to everyone with the recording. And we'll see you in March. Have a happy holiday. Take care. Thank you. Take care.