WP Beginner – Tutorials

Looking to make your website in 2018? With the new year, many people are looking to create their own website. Having helped 130,000+ people make a website with WordPress, we have decided to create the most comprehensive step by step guide on how to make a website without learning how to code.

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In this video we will walk you through how to make a website (step by step):

- Purchase hosting
- Selecting what additions you need for hosting
- Installing WordPress
- Removing unnecessary plugins
- Selecting the design of your site
- Creating a page
- Setting up your menu
- Customizing your theme's styling
- Setting up your home and/or posts pages
- Installing plugins

All to help you get you and running with your own WordPress site.

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To start an online store, you will need the following 3 things:

1. A domain name idea (this is the name of your website i.e wpbeignner.com)

2. A web hosting account (this is where your website lives)

3. A SSL certificate (so you can accept payments online)

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In this tutorial, we will cover:

- How to Register a Domain Name
- How to Set Up Your Hosting
- How to Get an SSL Certificate
- How to Install WordPress
- How to Setup WooCommerce
- How to Add Products
- How to Apply a theme to your site
- How to Install WordPress Plugins
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- Resources to Learn WordPress

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Are you looking to set up the SEO by Yoast plugin? We at WPBeginner have helped many beginners get started with their websites and SEO by Yoast is a great way for beginners to get a handle on their site's search engine optimization. In this video we will show you how to set up SEO by Yoast.

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For this tutorial we will be using the Yoast SEO plugin found here:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

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Summary of this tutorial:

For the settings we show in this article you will want to go under SEO, Dashboard, Features, and enable the advanced settings pages.

With this and all settings you change you will want to ensure you save your changes to ensure the changes you make are kept.

For further details of all of the steps in the tutorial, feel free to take a look at our written version of this video.

The steps we cover in this video are:

- Activating advanced settings pages
- Setting the personal/company information for your site
- Where you can add webmaster verification
- How to display your site's permalinks
- Connecting your site to social media platforms
- Creating an XML sitemap for your site to be read by search engines
- Excluding pages and posts from your xml
- Setting up breadcrumbs
- Yoast advanced settings
- Settings for pages and posts

We hope this tutorial helps you get a handle on your SEO.

Looking to add a mega menu to your WordPress site? Mega menus allow you to add multi-column drop-down menus to your navigation with media items such as images and videos. In this video, we will show you how to add a mega menu to your WordPress site.

Mega Menus are helpful for sites that have a massive amount of content and are designed to show more content in the top menu. WordPress navigation menus by default let you add drop-down submenus and image icons but can take up a large amount of space. A mega menu allows you to bulk add items to your menu.

For this tutorial we will be using the plugin Max Mega Menu found here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/megamenu/

With the plugin installed and activated you will want to go to the Mega Menu section to go to the plugin's settings. The default settings for most should work but you will normally need to update the colors of the menu. To do that you will go to Menu Themes, Menu Bar, and find the menu background settings.

You can use inspect element to determine the color of your current menu. If you do not know how to use Inspect element, we cover how to in our article:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/basics-of-inspect-element-with-your-wordpress-site/

Don't forget to save your changes to your Mega Menu settings and go to Appearance, Menus. Add some top-level menu items as you would normally add to your menu then click on the mega menu button that appears when you hover over a menu item. This will cause a new popup for editing the mega menu specific options.

In here you can add any WordPress widget that you would like to appear in your menu area. To modify the settings for a specific widget you would want to click the wrench icon in the top right of each widget.

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Once you have installed WordPress it can sometimes feel daunting not knowing the next step. In this video, we will show you the top ten most important things to do after installing WordPress.

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Summary of this Tutorial:

1) Change the title, tagline, time zone, and favicon to personalize your site.

2) Change your permalink structure under Settings, Permalinks.

3) Configure your reading section under Settings, Reading if you want your posts on their own page instead of on the home page.

4) Delete any themes you do not use to reduce the chance of vulnarabilities.

5) Install a cache plugin to speed up your site to reduce the load on your server.

6) Look in to a security plugin like Sucuri.

7) Install a anti-spam plugin like Akismet that comes with the default WordPress install.

8) Install a SEO plugin, we would recommend SEO by Yoast.

9) Have a sharing plugin on your site.

10) Schedule backups on your site to protect your work.

Related Links:

Add a favicon

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-a-favicon-to-your-wordpress-blog/

Do you want to add analytics for your Pinterest audience for your WordPress site? This analytics helps you monitor how your site is performing for images pinned from your site. In this video, we will show you how to verify your WordPress site on Pinterest to get Pinterest analytics.

To begin you want to ensure you have a business Pinterest account, if you have a personal account you are able to upgrade without a charge by clicking the ellipses(...) and there should be the option to upgrade in the menu that will ask for your business name, website, and business type.

If you do not have a Pinterest account in general then you would want to sign up at the Pinterest site:

https://www.pinterest.com/business/create/

Fill out your email, password, business name, and business type to begin with and Pinterest will ask you followup questions on the next few pages to help create your Pinterest business account.

Under the eclipse go to Settings then, go to the Claim Website page to let Pinterest know where to find your website. Once you click the Claim Website button it will have a popup that gives you a choice on how to prove a website is yours.

We will be showing you how to add the HTML tag to your site using two methods. The first is with Yoast under their Social section you can add the HTML tag in the Pinterest confirmation box. If you are not using Yoast or a plugin that allows the tag to be added then you would want to use the Insert Headers and Footers plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-headers-and-footers/

With this plugin installed and active you can go under Settings, Insert Headers and Footers and paste the verification code in the header box. Pinterest can take up to to 24 hours to verify your site but will normally do so faster than that. Once verified you will now be able to see analytics on Pinterest.

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Are you wanting to change the font size on your WordPress posts and pages? Not all themes have a simple built-in method for changing the size of text but we have taught many people the way to change this. In this video, we will show you how to change the font size in WordPress.

The simplest step would be to use the header tags which are styled by the theme you are using. By highlighting specific text, clicking the dropdown, and selecting the style you want your theme will customize it to be that specified font size. Every theme is unique so depending on the theme would determine how the text will look.

A second method would be to install and activate the TinyMCE advanced plugin found here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

Once you activate the plugin go under Settings, TinyMCE Advanced to customize the editor's settings. You will see the TinyMCE Editor and be able to add or remove extra buttons but for this, we want the font family and font size added to the editor. This will allow you to choose how large the text should be as well as how it should be styled.

The third method requires a little knowledge of CSS as we will be walking through how to manually edit the code for your site for your font size. You will go under Appearance, Customize, Additional CSS to get to the built-in editor. Target what you want to add a change to, for paragraphs, it's normally p.

If you do not know what to target you can find out using inspect element, we have an article on how to use inspect element below:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/basics-of-inspect-element-with-your-wordpress-site/

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WordPress displays your content in a blog format on the homepage normally but not all sites should be displayed that way. Some sites you want to display a welcome page or other custom content but can still find use for your posts. In this video we will show you how to create a separate page for blog posts in WordPress.

You would want to start by creating two new pages on your site one to be the new home page and another to be the page where you list your blog posts. For the home page you will want to add whatever content to it that you want someone visiting your site to see first. For the posts page you will want to leave that blank for your posts to be added to the page.

With the pages set up you will now go back to your admin area under Settings, Reading. From this page you can set your separate blog page by changing how your home page is displayed to a static page where you can set your home and posts page to the pages you want.

Now that you have set your page for blog posts you will need to ensure there is a method to find your posts. Under Appearance, Menus you can add the pages to your menu and ensure to include them in your menu and the menu display checkbox is checked. With that you now have a separate page for your blog posts in WordPress.

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After installing WordPress itself the first thing tutorials want you to know how to do and what most beginners want to know how to do is how to install a plugin. Plugins give you the ability to easily add new features to your site such as a slideshow, gallery, and many other tools for you to improve with. There are thousands of free and paid plugins available and in this video, we will show you how to install a WordPress plugin.

Note: If you are on WordPress.com, unless you have a business plan you will be unable to install plugins, our tutorials are for hosted/WordPress.org sites.

The first method would be the simplest, under Plugins, Add New, there will be a screen where you can search for plugins using the search bar in the top right. These plugins are the free plugins found in the WordPress.org plugin repository. After you find the plugin you want to install you will want to click the Install Now button followed by the Activate button once it is installed. If you do not activate the plugin, you will not see any change to your site.

There are some plugins that are not on the WordPress.org plugin repository where you would purchase them and need to manually upload them to the site. When you purchase a plugin from a different site, they should send a .zip file that you will need to upload.

On the Plugins, Add New page at the top you would want to click the Upload plugin button at the top of the page. For this method, you do not need to remove the folder from the zip file. Once you click the link you should have the option to upload the zip file to your site which will automatically unzip and install the plugin on your site for you to activate.

As the third method, we will be using FTP. If you do not know how to use FTP you would want to take a look at our article:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-use-ftp-to-upload-files-to-wordpress-for-beginners/

Should for some reason you do not want or are unable to use the previous two methods then you can use FTP. With the FTP connected you will want to navigate to your wp-content folder then to the plugin folder. Inside this folder you want to upload the unzipped folder with the plugin's files. This should add the plugin to your site where you will activate it under Plugins, Installed Plugins.

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