1. How To Create a Website In Wordpress

2. Contents • About Wordpress • Choose a Domain • Choose a Hosting Package • Upload Wordpress • Install Wordpress • Choose A Theme • Basic Configuration • Secure the Site • Create Pages and Posts • SEO • Backup your site • About MarkupBox

3. About Wordpress • Over 75 million websites use WordPress as a primary or secondary tool. • WordPress holds over 60% market share among Content Management Systems. Websites created using this tool are scalable, mobile responsive, search engine friendly and most importantly fully customizable.

4. Key Steps

5. Choose a Domain • This is the first stage of creating a website in WordPress. • Here you need to choose the domain name smartly as it would have bearing on SEO and brand recognition. • Try sticking to your name or that of your business or institution that people identify with. • You need to choose among a range of TLDs or top-level domain that include .com, or exclusive ones such as .info, .edu and .org, or country specific ones such as .co.uk or .in

6. Choose a Hosting Package • A wrong hosting package can spell dooms for your site. While there are many lucrative packages in the offering, choose one that would meet your needs. • Does it support WordPress? Does the package support multiple domains? • How much bandwidth and storage is being allocated? • What percentage of up-time is being guaranteed? You need to consider these closely before making the choice.

7. Upload Wordpress • In the next step download the latest version of WordPress and upload it into your hosting account using the FTP (file transfer protocol). • You may need to download a FTP client program for this. Once done you need to create a database. • This is where all your data i.e. content, configurations and user data would be stored.

8. Install Wordpress • Once you log onto your domain, WordPress would seek some additional information to complete the installation. Here you would need to set the login id and password. • You would receive a confirmation mail. Choose a strong login id and password to prevent hacker from taking advantage.

9. Choose a Theme • There are thousands of free and premium themes available for WordPress so take your time in choosing a theme that meets your requirements. • There are a few things you need to look for these include – brilliant design, valid HTML and CSS, support, strong code base and compatibility with the latest version of WordPress. • Download the documentation available as it will help during customization. If you still can’t find a good theme, you can design one in PSD and convert it into HTML/XHTML and CSS.

10. Basic Configuration • In the next step you would need to configure the basic settings of your site. Start by activating Akismet which helps in checking spam. • It comes in-built with WordPress. Next configure the permalinks. By default it would be something like yoursite.com?p=232. • You can change it to post name to make it friendly for the search engines. Next you can disable the comments if you want to.

11. Secure the Site • It is very important to secure your website as it would constantly face threats from malicious sources. • Keeping WordPress up-to-date, not using wp_ as the database table prefix and removing WordPress’ version from the site header can go a long way in securing your site.

12. Create Pages and Posts • In this step you need to create all the essential pages for your site including your Home, About Us, Contact Us page. • You can additionally create Products and Services page and other pages. • When you have large numbers of pages make some as parent and others as child as this eases navigation. • You can also post a blog and announce yourself to the world.

13. SEO • Search Engine Optimization is vital for your site’s growth and hence you need to take care of its basic SEO. • Start by installing WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin which will take care of all your basic needs. • Also generate an XML sitemap that will helps search engine crawlers index your site faster.

14. Backup Your Site • The last step to back-up your site. It ensures that your site data isn’t lost in case of a virus attack or when you are upgrading the site. • There are a number of plugins that you can use to backup the site and these include WP-DB-Backup, BackupBuddy and VaultPress. • The above mentioned steps would help you create a basic WordPress site. There are millions of ways to customize it and make it more functional. As they say, sky is the limit with WordPress.

15. About Markupbox Markupbox provides cross browser compatible and responsive theming and conversion services. Markupbox is an experienced service provider and having features like Non-Disclosure agreement, dedicated project manager and reasonable pricing. It has worked with 5600+ satisfied clients from across the globe.

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