 Welcome to WordPress Guide for Beginners, step-by-step tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a website in simple steps. Benefits of making your own WordPress website. Save a ton of time and money. It will try you to follow the market trends. You can stay ahead of your competitors. You will be able to build most things yourself. Reasons to choose WordPress. It is the most used CMS on Internet. It is an open source platform. It is free and ultimate DIY website builder. Fast, optimizer and secure core software. Auditor regularly by hundreds of developers. Extremely SEO friendly. How to choose a domain name? Go to my site, select Upgrades and select Domains. On WordPress.com, you can register a custom domain. For example, your XYZ site.com and use it instead of your site's current address such as your XYZ site.verpes.com as your sub-domain. How to configure your WordPress theme? There are two parts to everyverpes.com site. 1. Content. The content on your site is made up of pages, posts and media. You can add or edit pages and posts by going to my site. Select posts or pages. You will make changes using the blog editor. 2. Customization. You can make site-wide changes such as editing menus, adjusting colors, adding widgets and more. Done from the customizer. You can get to the customizer by going to my site, select appearance, then select customize. How to install a WordPress theme? Go to my site, select appearance and then select themes. You can change themes as many times as you like. Changing themes affects the look and feel of your site but won't delete your content. So, as we seen in the last video, how to install a theme? After selecting the themes from the settings, we will come to the page for picking the font. Which font as you like? Which font multiple fonts are there? So, then continue and next features we have to select for such as custom domains, plugins, etc. So, most of the features are provided in the premium plans. So, we have to go with the free plan. So, we select the free plan. You can see the premium plan store. So, we have selected the free plan. Now the designs are getting applied and automatically applied. So, it's loading. So, we are waiting for the design applied. So, we have got the template here. So, this is the theme you have selected. So, there are preview options after selecting. So, we have arrived at the home page as default. It is not published yet. So, after making its designs changes, we can publish it. So, we can see all the settings on the right side here. The store permalink or feature image, except etc. So, we can, this is the cover image. So, we can write the filter as just like my foot block. Here we can adjust whatever it, whether you want for bold and its alignment or anything else. Whether you want to change the color of the title or make it as you like from the custom color. Also, we can see the typography of which custom size or which font as you like. So, we select the custom size for 40. Okay, 40 is okay. This is just an example of a blog I am showing here. It's a foot block. See, in this blog I have used three comments from the WordPress itself. So, you can select your custom comments. So, it will be unique and you can show it to your friends and share it on social media. So, just to use, you can start with the free domain and later add a custom comment. So, you can make it whatever you like. Just you can customize all those things like font color or its typography, alignment, everything. According to the cover image, we have to select a good color, appropriate font color. So, it will be matching. So, moving down now we can see the social media patterns, etc. If you want it to add only one or two, you can remove it or keep it. So, whatever we want to make changes or its alignment, all the settings are here only. So, on the right blog settings and page settings, we can see after whatever we selected on the blog, the settings will reflect under itself. So, after making every changes, we have to go up and update it so that the changes will come alive. So, we can also preview it. So, it will be like this. So, after making every changes, we have to go up and click on the update button. You can also click on the right corner, visit side red button. So, it will be going to the new page and see the update. So, still now we have not launched the site. So, after making the site update, we can launch the site. So, as we seen in the last video, how to install a theme. After selecting the themes from the settings, we will come to the page for picking the font. Which font as we like. Go to my site, select pages then select add new page. This makes the blog editor open. Now you can see the pre-designed templates upon clicking on create a new page. Either you can select from them or start with a blank page. On the right side corner settings from here, you can hear the status, add categories and set a feature image and much more before publishing. In the blog editor, you will be creating pages and posts. You can add more blogs by clicking on the plus icon. There are multiple ways to add a blog and post of the blog type. In this video, I am showing you how to create a page. So, first as we seen in the last video, how to create a page. So, the detailed video in this... I am going to show you how to create the exact way of creating a page. First, in a page, first we have to give a title. The h1 section we have here given cooking tips as the h1 of the page. Then in the left side we have the plus icon we can see the blogs we can add. So, here I am checking with the blog. In the column section I have a h1 column. So, the page title is we have given cooking tips. So, we have h2 section. We are giving it as how to make a butter rubies. This title has the h2 section. So, here actually the title should be in h1 section but we have given it whatever you like. So, here sometimes the page title will be in default in some other themes. So, based on the SEO priority you can give the... So, we... let me add... I am adding the content just trying out with paragraph section. Hello everyone, here is the most awaited recipe on how to make a butter rubies. Just starting with this. Just add the sentence. I have added the sentence. Now we can add more images, cover images as we seen in the installation theme. Just like that. Here in the type of type where we can see the settings for this blog. For this respective blog we can change the typography and color settings for the background. In the background I have changed this to white or another color we can change. So, I am showing this preview. We can see the preview just like this. Adding more means you will get the more designs extra of images. So, this is a blank page I am creating with this. This is a pages data from scratch. So, previously we have in the theme installation to a sort of imported from the demo imported as... So, here in this video this is page data from scratch. How to add a new post? Go to my site select post then select new post. Now the blog editor will open and you will see a plus icon. Click on the icon to insert blogs or patterns. How to add a new post? How to create a menu? Go to my site select appearance then select menu. Now in the primary, create a homepage then select and add similar items such as about and contact pages. Set home as the front page of your website. WordPress customization. The customizer is where you can adjust various things like background color, menu, swipe name etc. Check first with the swipe name you can set the name or even hide it by uploading a logo. The color option may give you the chance to change the color on fonts and heading and for the site background. Go to my site select the appearance then select customize the customizer dashboard will open and you can see sites identity colors and backgrounds. Widgets homepage settings and additional CSS can be accessed via the box icon in the top left corner of your customizer. You can schedule a date for your customizations to go live once you save the draft. Additional menu options may also be displayed depending on which theme you are using. At the bottom of the customizer menu you can hide or view your site in a desktop, tablet or mobile model. You can either choose to display the site title or the site logo. Add site icons to appear in the browser tabs, bookmark bars and within the WordPress. The customizer allows you to preview your site blog as it would appear on a tablet or mobile device. The customizer also allows an administrator to create changes and save them as drafts. This will let you publish the changes to your live site if you are hosting the site. Users will see a gear icon next to the public spot in your visitors when you make changes to your site's customizer settings. Users will not see these icons. Users will not see these icons only appear to the site owners or administrators save changes. This is chosen by default. Selecting this will let you publish changes to live sites. This option will change the save changes button to save draft button. You can choose to publish the changes live at your date and time of your choice. Share preview link once the customizer is saved as a draft or a preview of the changes can be shared with the collaborators. By sharing the link at the bottom of the action panel next in the colors and background, you can change the background color of the site. Different themes have different color options. Some have a very basic option of changing the primary color while others provide more extensive color palettes. You can also change the color settings of different blocks within the block. So even if your theme doesn't have a color and background section, you can add color to your pages and posts. Font styles can be changed to different font phases, width and size. Changes to the font phase and size of the base font can be changed now in the menu section. The customizer option is used for managing navigation menus for content you have already published on your site. For example, if a responder prefers to use a different font than the one used in the body of your site, this can be controlled by going to primary and making the menu location change. If you have created a new page or poster and it is not showing up in your navigation menu, then go to appearance and select customize select menus. You may add pages, posts or categories in the menu for existing content such as pages, posts, categories, tags, formats by adding an obligation menu widget. From here you can add new pages or posts to the home page settings menu. You can change what we still see when they first access your site. Some themes display categories on the blog page, some display them only on the single post page. If you do not want to have a blog page, select your home page from the list of pages you created through my site. You can set your site private and still publish your page without worrying that people will see your site and the pages publisher widgets. Some themes have multiple widgets while others just offer sidebar of section. You can add multiple widgets in the photo tabs you may choose to display the future damages on top of every page and then save the changes you made. Some themes include the content options menu. These are some of the common choices found in content options. Some themes however, they can differ from theme to theme depending on who has this feature image display for example. Some themes only support specific content options. Settings for example, great base themes that don't display the full post on the blog page like cubic and don't include the blog displays action. You can up to display your bio on a single post, on the single post view on supported themes. The post state section allows you to show or hide the post state category tags. Post details decide what specific details about the post to display such as state category tags or other. Some themes only display some of these elements either on single post or the blog page feature images. You can choose whether or not to display featured images on single post and pages. You can also up to display a featured image on blog archive pages. If you choose to hide the featured image, it will still be used as the sharing thumbnail on social media sites. Maintaining a featured image for a post will override any automatically added images. If you manually select the first image in your post or gallery, it will only display the same magnificent image. Custom CSS can be added to sites with the WordPress premium plans. Under the menu, you can make subpages using drag and drop additional CSS. Additional CSS stands for Gas Cading Style Shields. It is a markup language that controls the appearance of HTML elements on a webpage. Click on the add. Configure your WordPress settings. Go to Settings and select General. Here in the General tab, you can give your site title that means your website name and tagline if needed. Next, on the right tab, you can see categories and tabs. When you scroll down, you will come to see the default post format. You can change it if you want and when you go on to the content types, you can adjust the blog post per page display so the changes after you make it. Next, go on to the discussion tab and you can see some settings over there. You may change article settings and comments too. Okay, in the WordPress configuration settings, we can go to settings then select general. We can see the general section. There are site titles and the performance section. Next, the writing section. You can see the categories for articles or blogs. We can set the blog post, number of blog posts to be displayed, per page, and also the scroll settings and default post format. Make it as standard or not. Yeah, then save the settings. Now, going to the discussion settings, we can see the default articles settings. Whether the people need to post comments or not, you can turn it or not. Also, we will get email notifications whenever we visit your comments. You can also turn it or not. Now, these are all the essential settings coming in the general settings or for WordPress configuration. Now, what we are going to do is to launch the site. Select the free address in the free plan. Now, it is getting ready to publish. Click on visit site to be the live site.