WordPress 101 How To Rock Your First WordPress Website

Did you know? WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world – in fact, more than 30% of websites worldwide are powered by WordPress.

But as great as WordPress is, it does come with a fairly steep learning curve. Fear not! Our experts have got your back. We’re taking on the challenge and helping you create you first WordPress website!

Everything You Need To Know To Build Your First WordPress Website

In this 1+ hour long video, the experts at HostGator will break it on down, give you everything you need to know about WordPress hosting. This WordPress tutorial will help you become comfortable in WordPress, decide if WordPress is the right choice for you, and how to get cranking on your first website in WordPress.

What you will learn:

  • A guided view of the WordPress dashboard
  • Plugins to get the most out of your new website
  • How to choose and install design themes
  • How to edit and publish posts
  • And more!



Want Me To Install WordPress for You?

If you don’t want to take on the challenge of installing WordPress yourself, I’ll be happy to do it for you for free.

All you have to do is order your web hosting with HostGator and I’ll set up your new blog for you. Not only that, I will also install for free the following plugins to get your blog started on the right foot:

  • All In One SEO
  • Google Sitemap
  • W3 Total Cache
  • Show Top Commentators
  • WordPress.com Stats
  • Akismet Spam Filter
  • After The Deadline

All In One SEO is the ultimate SEO plugin for WordPress and will help your blog rank higher with the search engines. In addition, I’ll set up your new blog with search engine friendly URLs. Google Sitemap will help get your blog pages indexed quickly on Google. W3 Total Cache will make your blog load a lot faster and handle more traffic. Show Top Commentators encourages readers to comment on your blog. WP Stats will let you know who is visiting your blog. Akismet kills off the comment spam and After The Deadline will proof read your blog post for grammar and spelling. These are some of the best WordPress plugins available and they’re included free with the WordPress installation service.

All you have to do is order a web hosting plan from HostGator, then forward me the cPanel login information to johnchow [at] johnchow.com, and I’ll install WordPress for you. Afterwards, I’ll email you back the login information for your new WordPress blog and you can start blogging!

I will also include instructions on how to change all your login passwords. I will not keep any of the forwarded information from HostGator. Once WordPress has been set up, I will destroy the email.

$100 of Google AdWords Credit To Promote Your New Blog

Not only will you get your blog hosting at a once-in-a-year discount, but every hosting plan at HostGator comes with $100 of Google AdWords credit that you can use to promote your new blog. Start your blog for up to 60% off, get a free domain name, get WordPress and plugins installed for free and get $100 of AdWords credit. You won’t find a better web hosting deal anywhere!

If you were thinking about starting your blog, RIGHT NOW is the time to do it! Order your web hosting plan and let me set up a new WordPress blog for you.

start a blog