how to create a blog in 2022, how to start a new blog earn money with blogging, how to buy a domain & hosting

 

       if you're looking to build a blog with easy-to-follow steps in 30 minutes or less at no cost to you then you've come to the right place. 
Hello, I'm MALIK, and Welcome to my BLOG and read this article.
use all the current web design and web development techniques to build a fully responsive blog that automatically adjusts to meet the screen needs of any computer laptop tablet phone or any other handheld device to get started the only hard cost we have is web hosting and that's where your website lives that's going to run us three to ten dollars a month with your web hosting you get a free domain with a value of $15,
          As well as an SSL key which makes your webpages secure and that has a value of about 99 dollars as for software requirements there are none everything we're going to need we're gonna do online as for system requirements this website tutorial is compatible with those windows and ios systems all you need is your favorite browser and access to the Internet and you're ready to go I recommend Chrome and Firefox as browsers have choices I've had some students in the past that had complaints about compatibility issues with Safari Opera and Internet Explorer now they're in this course if you run in any trouble,
          just leave a comment below the video and I'll be more than happy to assist you and don't be shy about asking for help
I've been a webmaster instructor aka the web gid forever 20 years and I'd love to hear from my students but if you could please pay it forward if you'd like the article to subscribe to the video Share the  article tell your friends about the article those are the kind of things
that help get the word out there so other students like you can find this article so let's go ahead and look at the blog we're going to build today is our home page and any and all posts that we put in our blog will be accessible from our home page next, we have an about the page which includes some text, we have a reviews link which is basically a collection of all the posts that we've done that were considered reviews that we added and then you can click on any of the most recent ones we're going to learn how to add this social media to the side and inside of an individual the post we click on one of these we're gonna learn how to add a play button to make a video play and we'll also learn how to add social media options for sharing your posts and finally, we have a contact page in case people want to access you and ask questions about your blog so we're ready to start our blog but we need a place for our blog to live that Rick
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 Bluehost who has been voted number one host provider by pc magazine for many years running as part of this partnership by Bueller students receive up to 75 percent off plus a free domain name to take advantage of this offer simply go to hostgator.com front slash web malik in your browser now this takes you to the partner page for Bluehost and web malik and it reveals our three choices for hosting plans currently as
part of this partnership Hostgator is going to offer us a free domain name provided we sign up for one of their annual plans and it turns out this is actually the most affordable choice for,

I recommend you if you buy hosting so Bluehost is the best for you, click here
          if we scroll down we can reveal the pricing for each of the plans all three of the plans come with a one-click install so that means when we go to install the software it's going to allow us to build our website we can just click a link and it'll install everything for us they also, come with unmetered bandwidth which means we don't pay for the traffic that comes to our website no matter how small or large that might be and finally, they also come with a free
SSL certificate which typically runs around 99 dollars a year and you say ok what is that what do I need that for well that's that little lock-up herein the top left allows your page to be secure so the information going to and from your website is secure at this the point you need to decide which one of the plan is best for you for our purposes, I'd recommend the hatchling plan if you have one domain or the baby plan if you plan on building multiple web sites and then if later you find you need additional features you can just upgrade to the business plan and pay the difference so in your case you probably need the hatchling plan which is just a single domain so we'll choose that so our first step is to pick a domain name in our case we're going to pick create dash a dash blog.com now notice here the dot-com is already there and if we click to the right it'll tell us if it is available and in our case, it is available some are gonna scroll down the next item is domain privacy protection and basically what they'll do is for $14.95
          I drew a dress for your information like your email and something like that from people being able to see it now for me it's gonna be on the website anyway so I don't feel like I'm giving anything away.
         
 so I'm not going to choose to pay for that next we ready pick our package, the type we chose the hatchling plan because we only have one domain so we want to look at our billing cycle within the billing cycle you purchase one month it's five dollars and 48 cents but it's
only for that first month and then the price goes up if you go all the way up to 36 months gonna be two dollars and seventy-one cents and it's going to be sixty-one percent off now to get the free domain,
         you got to pick 12 months 24 months or 36 months so let's go ahead and pick the twelve months it says seventy-six dollars and forty simple let's see if we can do a little bit better than that now we're going to pick a username in my case I'm going to pick admin malik in a security pin then we want to put in our billing information it'll scroll down to additional services now we don't need any of these services but I'll explain them real quickly the first is an SSL
certificate we already get that for free so we don't need to add that the second is for them to protect us from hackers I know firsthand they're going to give you protection whether you ask for it or not
so there's no reason to pay for this an additional thing they're gonna want to protect their servers from both the internet and from you so they're gonna definitely stay on top of this next don't need to pay for an email for our the domain name I'm gonna show you how to
make an email forward for your domain at no cost at all the next day of our backup service were two daily backups but I know firsthand they do monthly backups for you and also if you click on this link at the very top up here I'll go ahead and give you a video that'll show
you how to make your own backups without having to pay them a regular fee like that we'll turn that off if web Yacht is not in the box go-ahead and type that in so we can get the best the possible price they'll notice down here our price is $31 that's basically 75%
off and a free domain name so that's pretty good also remember this comes with a 45-day money-back guarantee in case you change your mind now all we need to do is agree to their terms and choose checkout now that your payment is complete  is getting your account ready for you now your hosting account is complete and you're ready to access your hosting account next just proceed your email account and look for an email from Bluehost comm that has your account
information if you purchase a domain name while setting up your Bluehost account then the next piece of information will not apply to you if you already own your domain name and didn't purchase one with
this process you're going to need to get
your domain name to point to your
hosting area to do that you need to
point your domain name to the name
servers for Bluehost all of my domain
names live at godaddy.com
so I needed to go into the DNS at my
GoDaddy account and point that domain to
the Bluehost name servers are shown here
now if you're not using GoDaddy calm it
should be a similar process and if you
have any trouble just contact your
domain company and they can give you
further assistance to log into our
hosting account we're going to need our
username and we're going to need a
password we're going to take that
password and we're going to copy it to
the clipboard and now you want to go to
the control panel which is how you
access your hosting space so we'll click
on this link and that takes us to the
control panel login page now my username
and password is already there so I can
just choose a login and that takes you to
the home page for your Bluehost control
the panel also referred to as cPanel by some
people that's promised I'm going to show
you how to make your own email forward
so you don't have to pay for email so
what you're looking for is an email
forwards option it could be under your
popular links and if you don't see it
there you can click on email on the left
that brings up all the email options and
you choose email forwards therefrom
this screen you choose add it forward in
In this case, it's going to be comments and
I want to pick my domain now you
probably only have one domain instead of
a pot load of them like I do and I'm
looking for creative blog.com and now
what email do I want it to go to in my
case it's going to go to my Gmail click
on add it forward and our email forward
is complete now let's go back to our
Bluehost control panel and we're ready
to install WordPress so we can get our
blog going so we're gonna choose
WordPress installer
now we need to choose our domain again
so we'll choose our blog domain
we'll hit next we'll get a blog title in
In this case, create a blog and go to the user

 it'll automatically create a database do all
the work for us we need to accept their
terms it installs this process takes
maybe 15 seconds now our installation is
complete at this point we're probably
going to have to take a small break and
that's because we just set up a hosting
the account that has a new domain the
hosting is immediately available but the
the domain takes a while to propagate across
the internet so that it's able to be
accessed to test to see if your domain
is ready the first step is to open a new
the tab so you don't lose access to the user
name and password that we just set up
now go to your domain name and if your
domains not ready you'll get a message
that says this site cannot be reached so
you're likely to need to take a break for
about two hours and then come back again
and go back to your domain and refresh
and see if it works
when it's ready you'll get a page that
looks like this one that says the website
coming soon so let's go ahead and close
that test tab now we're looking at our
control panel again so we're going to
choose the password to copy that to the
clipboard because you can't possibly
remember that click login now and then
from here put in the username and
password in my case go to user and
here's that new password and login I
don't want to save it right now and
they're asking you if your e-mail
correct yes it is now the first thing I
want to do is give ourselves a new
password so we'll close that little
advertisement they're always going to be
advertisement so we're gonna close that
one and close that one so we're gonna go
to users
Click on my user and near the bottom is
where we can do our password generate
password
hide it and I'm gonna put whatever I
want it to be and if for some reason you
picked a weak password you simply have
to confirm that you understand it is
update your profile
and from here if we go up to this corner
we can log out and we're back to our
login screen well one of the questions
is how do you get to your login screen
the answer is to go to your domain
name front slash WP dash admin and hit
enter and that will get you back to your
login page so let's put in our username
again and our new password and now click
login and now it logs us in with our new
password with WordPress installed we're
ready to start working on our blog the
the first thing we want to do is be able to
see our blog so let's come over here
where it says to create a blog and under it
it says visit site if I right-click on
that I can open it in a new tab now if I
Click on that tab I can see what our
the blog currently looks like it's a whole
a lot of nothing now if we open up another
the tab we can go to our sample site in this
case sample dot create - eh - blog com
and we can see what the site is going to
look like so our blog we're gonna create
it's gonna take us about ten minutes
total we got a long way to go it seemed
like but it's actually gonna be quite
easy now over here we don't need the
email tab anymore so let's go ahead and
close that one so our first step in
creating our blog is to pick a theme in
In our case, if we go to a browser we open a
new window go to web Unicom front slash
theme it comes up with the list of all
the themes for the different projects we
have to do now if we scroll down to create
a blog is what we're doing we're gonna
download the Astra theme so I'll click
on that and it shows that it's done now
if I go back to our dashboard I'm ready
to install that theme but we'll come
down here under an appearance
we'll pick themes
so from here, we pick up load now we'll
choose upload theme and down in this box
you got to be careful these little
advertisement they can make the box have
to be - scroll to get to it
choose the file in my downloads folder we
see there's the theme so we select the
Astro theme click open
now we install and once the install is
complete we need to choose to activate now
once it's activated the first thing I
like to do is to see whether or not it's
up-to-date so here's our new theme and
right here new version available update
now and now our theme is up-to-date next
we want to add the plugins we're going
to use for our website so we're going to
go back to our browser and at the web
you at a site under resources where we
can pick plugins and we're going to
scroll down to this project create a
block and we're going to download these
four plugins I just click on each one of
them the question I get a lot of times
is how come you have to go here to get
them when you might be able just to do
them directly inside a WordPress well
the answer to that is is that not all
the plugins will be available on all
hosting environments in all situations
so I want to make sure there's not a
the chance that you don't have access to the
correct plugins and so now we've
downloaded the four plugins we're going
to use so I'll come back to my WordPress
the dashboard now we're going to choose
plugins and before we install any
plugins I want to remove all the other
ones because these are for somebody
else's a website so to do that quickly if
you pick the box here at the top called
the plug-in we can select all of them and
just above that, it says bulk actions
choose that down area and first, we need
to deactivate them now we hit apply now
at this point all the plugins are
deactivated now we need to select them
all again by choosing that checkbox bulk
actions now we can choose delete and
apply are we sure ok yes we're sure now
all the plugins have been deleted and
now all we have to do is upload our four
plugins so we're gonna choose to add new
upload plug-in choose file doesn't
matter what order you do these in we're
gonna pick that one first open
install now activate plug-in three more
to go add a new upload plug-in choose a file
pick the next one
open install now always activate the plug-in
two more to go add new upload plug-in
choose file pick that one open install
now activate plug-in we have one more
add new upload plug-in choose file pick
that one open install now finally
activate plug-in now these new plugins
are available and we want to see if any
of need to be updated the easiest way to
update them used to choose this box
again to select all our plugins bulk
action now we'll choose update to apply and
it'll update all of them for us now that
our plugins are updated we're ready to
start working on our blog so if you want
to follow along I have a collection of
all the content used in this example so
we'll go back to web yatta scroll to the
top and resources website content
now under here, we picked the same one
and we're going to choose content great
blog zip and that downloads it in from
here I can show it in a folder
and now I can right-click on it and
extract all and it makes a folder that
has all that content and so I'll just
close that other one and we'll keep this
one available for working with also
within this same section, we have a
script for what we're about to build so
if we click on create a blog script
it'll bring that script up and when you
scroll down there's all the content that
we're gonna have to put for each of the
posts in and all the way at the bottom
if you keep going down our step-by-step
instructions that we're gonna use to
follow along so let's go ahead and go
back to WordPress now to work with our
blog the first thing we need is a couple
of posts so we're going to add some
posts first now remember in our script
over here are our instructions for
doing that and over here I'm gonna walk
you through it so I'm gonna click on
post and the first thing I want to do is
get rid of the hello world post if I
hover over it I can choose trash and
that's gone now to start a new post from
post you go to add new and now you want
to enter a title and the title for our
The first post gonna be Jim great designs
now I want some content for my post so
I'll paste in my content now on the
On the right-hand side, we want to add a
category in this case this is a review
so we're gonna add a category we'll call
it reviews and new category and now
that's selected categories are the
different types of blog posts you're
going to do so for example we're gonna
have reviewed and we're gonna have articles
so let's go ahead and make the second
one so I add another category videos add
category and I'll uncheck that because
this isn't a video next we're going to
add some tags are basically
keywords that are associated with the
post so in the case of Jim Gray designs
we're just gonna put home theater add
tag now we're going to scroll down some
more and finally we want to add the
a featured image so we're going to select
a featured image and we have no media
content right now we could click on
select files but an easier way to get
access is to bring up that folder that
we made and I'm gonna actually select
all that's in that folder because I'm
gonna have everything at once and just
drag it over here and it'll insert all
those at one time and I'll have all the
stuff that I need
now being organized is really a great
way to make this work quickly for you
and they load pretty quickly now going
forward everything we need will already
be there now for Jim Gray design this is
the picture we're gonna use for his
a feature I make all these 800 by 450 set
featured image and at this point we want
to scroll back up and we're gonna hit
publish now we have a post now if we go
back to look at our website we'll hit
reload now we have a post so all of sudden
we have something however it looks
nothing like this let's go back to
WordPress goes back to the top and let's
add another post this post is going to
be bliss spa by Lauren then we'll put in
the content for her post we'll scroll
down she's also a review our tags will
be spa services we'll hit add scroll
down set the feature image and now since
they're already all here it's easier to
pick one we'll pick this one that's
gonna be hers again all mine I made 800
by 450 let's set featured image now that
one's set to go to the top hit publish now
we're going to add a new post and this
one's going to be a video post so let's
see how that's going to differ in this
the case is going to be how to create a blog
which is basically the post about the
the site we're making there's our content
and above the content, I want to put a
a button that's going to allow us to click
to view the video so I'm going to put
the cursor just before the content right
there then click on add media and I made
a button in advance so we'll click there
we're gonna insert it and now I'm going
to click on the button the image and I'm
going to tell it to be centered and now
I'm going to click on the pencil and I
want to give it a link and sounder
display settings you see the link to will
get a custom URL and we're going to put
that link for now obviously we're making

the particular post will scroll down set a
featured image feature image for this
one that's right there set featured
image and let's make one more come up to
the top notice there's no add post
a button that's because I haven't
published this one yet
we'll hit publish now the add button
shows up we'll add one more this will
also, be a blog post this one will be
make a website for free 
pick our featured image set featured
image scroll it to the top and we're
ready to publish now for some reason you
wanted to publish this at a later date
you could click Edit and set a date and
it wouldn't publish immediately it would
publish it on whatever date you set
there is I just want this to publish now
so I'll just hit publish now if we go
back to our page and hit reload you see
that these are all they're the four we
made also they're in the reverse order
of how we added them so we added that
one first and then this one and then
this one and then this one so what
happens if you want this one to be at
the top all the time meaning we want to
pin this to the top of our blog so I'll
go back to WordPress now we'll click on
posts now we want to select the post
that we want to pin so in this case it's
how to create a blog then I can either
Click on this or click on edit and then
go back in and I'm editing that on the
right-hand side over here it says
visibility public if I hit the edit next
to that, I can choose that box and
that'll pin it to the top
now instead of publishing, it says update I
come back to our site we hit reload now
we scroll to the top and now that will
always be at the top and we add newer
ones they'll be between these two I'll
come back over here and go back to post
so we currently have four posts I'm going
to use a little magic to add a bunch
more and there we go now that we've
added a bunch of new posts notices under
categories and tags if you scroll up and
down you can see if you missed any by
accident the next thing we want to do is
to learn how to add a link within a post
so let's choose the josè one post right
here we'll choose edit and within the
content select Jose one now we can
choose the link tool to enter the URL hit
enter on our keyboard and now there's a
the link there we hit update if we get back
to our blog and reload
we'll see that it's not here in the
review of it but when we click on more
now there's a link to it if we click on
that it takes us to their website and
these guys do a really good job if
you're looking to improve the SEO for
your website blog or a video whatnot
alright so back to our blog now at this
the point I want to add an extra couple of
pages and I want to make a menu right
here and right now it just says sample
the page which came with the
the product so we'll go back over to our
dashboard for WordPress let's click on
pages and sure enough there's that page
that was the sample page now if we click
title here at the top selects all
those under bulk actions move to trash
hit apply we can go ahead and get rid of
all of those so let's add a couple of
pages we're not going to put anything on
him yet but we will just add them first
and so we're going to click on add new
and the first page is gonna be about and
we'll just publish it and let's make a
the second page add new this one will be
contact and we'll publish it now we have
all the pages for building our menu to
build a menu you want to go to
appearance menus and the first thing we
need to do is name our menu so I'll name
it main menu create menu now we can add
items to our menu so we're gonna add our
contact on our about page add menu and
then I'm gonna add our categories I'll
choose both of those add menus and then
some people like to have a home button
if you want to do that we'll go to
custom links put in the URL for your
website and which name at home add to
menu and so now we have all the items
and then we can drag them around and put
them where we need them out and I like
that so we can hit save menu now we
scroll down we need to choose where we
want the menu to show up I'm going to
choose primary menu
and then click the save menu again come back
over here reload and there we have it we
hit home it takes us back to our blog
now let's replace this text with a fancy
the logo so we'll come back to the dashboard
and now we're going to go to appearance
customize header site identity and under
logo choose the select logo and we already
have a logo let's use that one we'll hit
select and we don't want a crop so we'll
skip cropping and it'll show up there
and we don't need a different logo for
mobile devices so we'll turn that off
and now for the logo width let's just
put 350 and now I scroll down and we're
trying to get rid of this text right
here so we'll just turn this off and it
goes away let me hit publish get back to
our page hit reload and now we have a
great logo and now you're seeing
yourself but you know I don't have a
logo guess what I got a free solution
for you just click on the link at the
top right it'll create you to an article that
I made on how to create your own
professional logo free of charge online
and about five minutes now that our
the header is complete let's update our
footer so if we go to the top we can hit
this back arrow hit it again and then we
can choose footer and we can choose
footer bar and right here where it says
theme author, I'm just gonna put web you
dink now you can put anything you want
in this box now I can hit publish
we'll get back to our page let's scroll
to the bottom and hit reload and now it
says web get it right there now if we
scroll back to the top let's work on our
about page right now our about page is
empty
we're going to back to the WordPress exit
out of that to go to our dashboard from
here we're going to go to pages and then
we're going to either click on about or
edit either one of those takes us to the
Edit and we already have a title so
we'll put our text in there sometimes
you got to take extra spaces out and now
I want to make this bold and I want to
make it clickable to our article again
since I don't have the link yet I just
have to put something in there as a
temporary placeholder and now I want to
have a picture to the right-hand side
and so we're going to choose to put our
cursor there again right there at the
beginning of our content add media
choose a picture of me
hit insert now we're going to click on
the image we're going to choose this to
align right and we can hit update
go back to our page hit reload
and now we have an about page finally we
need to work on our contact page to put
a form in here is actually quite simple
we're going to go back to our WordPress
in the dashboard, there's an item called
contact I'll choose that and then for
the contact form it's already built for
us we can click on that and highlight it
copy that to the clipboard now if you
Click on this particular form under the
mail tab shows you what email address
this form is going to go to it's the one
you use to set up your WordPress but you
can change this to whatever you want
that's the email it's going to go to so
let's go back to our pages well click on
our contact page now we're going to
paste in that shortcode
we'll hit update go back to our page hit
reload I can send a message from Bethany
to me hit Send
message sent successfully now that our
pages are complete I wanted to make a
few updates to the individual posts
themselves so if we click on the home it
takes us back to our main home page and
if we click on any one of the read more
or on the graphic, it takes you into a
post now if you scroll down one of the
The first thing you'll notice is this says by user
well maybe we want this to say something
different than that and when you click
on and it comes up with this information
that says you go to the user what if I want
to be able to customize that information
we go back over to WordPress and then we
go to our users we click on our username
and in here if we give it a first name
and then we give it a nickname and then
you can give it a display name in this
case malik, you can put what you
want I'm just giving you an example and
then you can put a biography in there if
you needed a picture to change the
the picture you can click on that link to do
that you hit update profile
hit reload and now it has really nice
information about the author now if we
back up notice where it says you had a
user when we reload now I'll say Yoda
hit say whatever your name is now we
want to add social media to our blog
post there are two ways of doing that one
is social media that shares your post
and that's what's right here when we
added a plug-in one of the plugins
automatically added that to the bottom
of all of them, another thing is we want
people to be able to go and visit our
social media so we're going to add some
links over here to the right to do that
so we're gonna go back to WordPress and
under appearance, we're going to choose
widgets and one of the plugins that we
installed do just that so we're going
to choose this social media widget now
let's drag it here right under recent
posts we can scroll down and now you
need to add your social media and to do
that you first need to click this Add
icon button and I'm gonna do three of
them so I'm gonna click this button
three times so make it a little easier
to understand and then I'm gonna pick an
icon so the first one I'll pick is Facebook
a second one I'll pick is Twitter
and the last one will do is Instagram
now I need to put the link for my social
media for each one of these there's
Facebook and Twitter and Instagram will
hit save and go back over we hit reload
and there it is ready to go
another neat thing to do is to have the
tags that we added to our pages show up
in the list on the sidebar as well so
let's go ahead and add that so we'll go
back to our WordPress, we're already in
the widgets section so we can go-ahead
and add the tag cloud here I know this
The last time we just drug this over you can
also, pull down on this choose which one
of the areas you want to go to in this
case it's already choosing the main sidebar
and then when you scroll down you can do
add widget and it'll show up in the list
so we can close that backdown and now
it shows up at the bottom of the list
and you can drag these wherever you want
just like that so now we can go back to
our page hit reload and now we have a
tag cloud notice some are bigger than
others that means that that word was
used more often and what's neat is if
you click on one of these let's say I
click on free it brings up all the posts
that have that in it notice how the tag
is capitalized
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