Build A Blog You Can Be Proud Of.
There are several reasons that I choose to work with WordPress over any of the other blogging platforms (such as Blogger or Typepad).
For one, WordPress is really easy to use and it gives you a lot of control over your blog design. The options for customizing your blog to look the way you want it to are far greater with WordPress than other platforms.
Secondly, if you are looking to blog for profit, WordPress also has features already built in that help with your search engine ranking (very important for getting traffic to your site) and also give you more options for easily monetizing your blog.
If you’re new to blogging, you’re going to need support. WordPress offers that with hundreds of tutorials just a google search away. If you have a question about how to do something on your WordPress blog, just punch that question into the Google search bar and, more than likely, you’ll get your answer.
How I Installed WordPress.org with BlueHost
If you have chosen to pay for hosting for your blog, chances are that your domain host will have clear instructions on how to install WordPress. I know that Blue Host (who I use and love!) makes the process very easy:
- Log in to your account (if you don’t yet have an account, click here for more info).
- Type Simple Scripts into the Find search bar on the left. Click on the link that comes up.
- Scroll down and select the link for WordPress under the heading Blogs.
- Click the Install button.
- Decide where you would like WordPress to be installed.
- Under Step 2, enter your desired login name and password.
- Click the box under Step 3, reading, of course, what you’re agreeing to.
- Viola! WordPress is now installed and ready to be accessed!
You can also find a step-by-step guide here: How to Install WordPress.
How’s your blog coming along? I’d love to see – please leave a link in the comments below!
Table of contents for Start Your Own Blog 5 Days
- Day One of How to Start a Great Blog in 5 Days – Decide what to Blog About
- Day Two of How to Start a Great Blog in 5 Days – Will You Host Your Blog or Not?
- Day Three of How to Start a Great Blog in 5 Days – Name your blog
- Day Four of How to Start a Great Blog in 5 Days – Install WordPress
- Day Five of How to Start a Great Blog in 5 Days – Design Your Blog
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One question that I haven’t been able to answer with google is how to resize my banner to make it fit. It’s so frustrating – I can’t figure out how big the banner should be, and making the banner smaller doesn’t seem to help. Ugh!
PS. Is there something I need to do to get my button I won?
Hi, Leyla – When you say you’ve made the banner smaller, do you mean that you’ve resized it before uploading it? A lot of images that I create, I edit in my Windows Draw program. I click on resize and then resize by pixels to the size that I like before uploading the image. To give you an idea of size, the Blogelina header – just the part that says Blogelina – is about 600 px wide. For your site, maybe something around 850 would work?
I’ve forwarded your info along for the button but will follow up on that. I know that Shera is pretty busy these days. I’ll be in touch via email soon! Thanks for commenting!
Too bad I didn’t find you till after I started my blogger blog. I’m not sure I can do anther one right now. One is quite enough…till I learn more anyway. How hard is it to move one from blogger to wordpress?
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Elle, it isn’t difficult to switch from Blogger to WP – it’s just a step by step process that takes a bit of time. WordPress takes some time to learn, as well, but the features you have through WP make every bit of time spent learning the new platform well worthwhile! In my opinion, that is. Here are a couple of great tutorials for moving from Blogger to WP:
• http://www.mamablogga.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-migrating-from-blogger-to-wordpress/
• http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress
Let me know if you run into any questions along the way!
My blog is very brand new (1 week old) I really don’t know how it is coming along just yet. I’m new to blogging so I’m not sure what I should be expecting.
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