hey everybody in this tutorial I'm going
to show you how to create a wordpress
blog on WordPress com that's very
similar to my site Hershel Patel com
complete with your first blog post as
well as how to create a quick page so
before we begin you're gonna need a few
things
first is a image of a logo and that
image file needs to be preferably in a
transparent PNG file at least a thousand
pixels wide
next is a fav icon which is a favorite
icon or bookmark icon depending on what
you want to call it that appears like in
this example right here where you see
the icon of my website shows up in the
browser if I were to bookmark this it
would show up as a bookmark and if I
were to save it on my smart phone to my
home page for example that same icon
would appear there the next thing you'll
need is at least five pre-written blog
posts now all of my friends family
colleagues and network that ever asked
me for advice on creating their first
blog or a blog section on their website
I always recommend having at least five
blog posts already written before you
even begin and the reason for this is
when you create your blog or your
website with a blog and you send all of
your family there and friends and
colleagues and network the worst thing
that could possibly happen is for them
to go over the blog and it'd be empty or
only have one post so before you begin
it's always good to have at least five
blog post the other thing is if you've
committed yourself to let's just say
having one blog post per week created
well now you're five weeks ahead and so
as you create new blog posts and maybe
there's a lapse of a week or two at
least you have the next few weeks
covered the last thing you're going to
need at least in this example is an
about Me section or the content of some
page you would like to create this is a
static page that's different than a blog
post or your blog page in this example
I'm using an about mean because
generally on any blog you'll see that a
lot of people they have a little bit
about themselves and why they're
qualified or a little bit background
about how their blog began etc so to
start off we're gonna go over to
wordpress.com
now when you get to wordpress.com you'll
find a start your website button here of
course the home page of wordpress.com is
changing all the time so the one sure
way to get there is right here where it
says get started this button probably
won't move in the future so I'm gonna go
ahead and click that right now now in
this step you're taken to the login
screen you could either login or create
your account here is where you can
create the account or what I'm gonna do
since I already have an account is to
jump over here to this link and go ahead
and log in now whether you log in or
you've created an account it's gonna
take you to this step where it's asking
you what kind of site are you building
of course in this example like I said we
are creating a free blog the next
question is what is your blog about in
this example I'm just gonna create a
travel blog since that is already there
but you can type things like hey this is
a business site and so it'll give you a
preview of something they've put
together that I guess looks businesslike
or something I'm not sure but I'm just
gonna go ahead and create a little
travel blog and click continue now the
same template I'm gonna use is also good
for photography blogs for food blogs for
local blogs and so it's a very universal
theme that I'm gonna be using so now
it's asking for a name for the blog I'm
gonna give it the name Herschel's travel
adventures and click continue now this
step is where things get a little tricky
so it's asking you to get a domain now
what wordpress.com is trying to do is
trying to direct you to a purchase like
I promised you I'm gonna help you create
this for free so just follow these steps
so you can put in any website name here
and it'll give you some suggestions of
you know suffixes that it may want or
whatever whatever it presents we're
gonna click right here to review our
plans to get started we're gonna click
there and then just select this personal
one and then it's gonna take you to this
screen now it shows you that your site's
already being created it hasn't asked
for any payment information you haven't
paid a dime yet so what we're gonna do
is just skip all this and
back to wordpress.com now you'll find
that you're already logged in and it
says your site's been created and over
here in the plan section it shows that
your plan is free now you're probably
wondering hey what is this site where is
it
well right up here you'll begin to see a
little preview of a URL I'm gonna go
ahead and click that and then right up
here it's gonna give me this URL now I'm
gonna open a new tab and go up and go
ahead and go to that URL you'll see that
the site's already there now up here
does say your site has not been launched
yet and we'll do that in a second but
you'll also notice that the URL is
something very unattractive very hard to
tell your friends and family about and
colleagues and so what we're gonna do
right now real quick is to change this
to something that's a little more
friendly so I'm gonna go back click the
manage tab and then go to domains now
over here you'll see that that big long
ugly URL shows up here so I'm going to
click that and then it'll give me the
option to change site address and I'm
just gonna call it Hershel travel and it
says that it's available I'm gonna go
ahead and change the site address and
then it kind of warns me about the risks
which there aren't any yet and I'm gonna
go ahead and change site address so now
we've changed the URL of a site to
something a little easier to remember
and to let people know about now we're
gonna go and start to design the site a
little bit so the first thing I'm going
to do is I'm going to apply a theme that
I think is really good to use for
beginners and I even use it on my site
so we're gonna go over here to the
design tab and go to themes and we're
gonna apply this 2020 theme so I'm gonna
go ahead and click that theme and
activate this design I'm gonna go ahead
and click to view this site and then so
you can see that the theme has already
been applied I'm gonna close that go
back
to my site and the reason why I really
like the 2020 theme is because it was
created by the makers of WordPress and
so all of the features that WordPress
have all of the plugins they're designed
to actually work perfectly with 2020 and
so anything you do whether it's fancy
galleries you want to apply later or
things with images or fonts or anything
else it's gonna work really well with
the 2020 theme because the 2020 theme is
created to use WordPress the way it was
attended so now that we've got our theme
there the next thing we want to do is
add our logo the fav icon that I
mentioned before and then we'll get on
to creating our first blog post so in
order to put in your logo we're gonna go
over to design again now to customize
and we're gonna go right down each of
these options so first we're gonna go to
site identity
you want to make sure that your site
title is what you want it to be and then
the tagline it could be anything I
travel the world and talk about it and
so that's a little tagline you'll see
that it shows up there now we're gonna
apply our logo so the logo like I said
I've already got one that's ready to go
so I clicked
just let you know I clicked select logo
now I'm gonna jump back here to where
I've actually got my logo ready to go
already I'm gonna drag it and drop it
right in now as you can see the logo is
already loaded I'm gonna drag this back
and hit select now it's gonna ask me to
crop my logo I'm just gonna skip that
for now I really need to crop it and as
you can see it's toss it in there it's
really nice-looking and I'm gonna check
the retina logo option as well so that
my logo looks nice and smooth and crisp
on Retina screen the next thing is that
fav icon that I mentioned before so I'm
gonna do the same select the icon and
then drop in my icon
let's go back and I'm gonna hit select
no cropping really necessary but I'll go
ahead and prop it since that's the only
option he gave me and the icon is there
you don't see it anywhere just yet
but we'll we'll get there in a second
now we're gonna go through this footer
credit real quick it gives you a bunch
of options because you are using the
free version you do have to give
wordpress.com some credit so you can
really select any of these doesn't
really matter and then we'll go and hit
save now heading back the next thing
we're gonna head it is the colors
background color as you can see in this
preview you can actually change the
color of your blog background to any
color you'd like and as you can see the
font colors actually change
automatically depending on how light or
dark the color is so just for simplicity
I'm just gonna go with a white color and
then your header and footer background
colors which are that navbar at the top
and the footer at the bottom of the page
because I've got a black logo and I
don't want it to disappear I'm gonna go
with something kind of great
and I'm gonna hit save once again go
back now for theme options here you'll
see a number of options show up
depending on what theme you're using but
in this section for example I don't
think there's any reason for a search
bar on my blog I'm just gonna go ahead
and check that and you'll see that it
disappears over here so that's the only
option that I really care about author
bio doesn't really matter to me either
but I'm gonna go ahead and save that now
and then I'm gonna go back so I'm gonna
jump over the cover template because we
don't really need that for that for this
tutorial and I'm gonna go over to the
font section in this section you can
edit the fonts that you want appearing
on your site but just for simplicity
sake I'm gonna go ahead and just go with
the default on this one I think it looks
nice it looks clean so I'm gonna go
ahead and save that go back and I'm
gonna jump over everything to go over to
the home page settings section now what
I want to do is on the home page of my
site I actually just want to keep my
latest post there and I don't need a
static home page if it's gonna be a blog
so I'm gonna go ahead and select that
option and then we're gonna select to go
ahead and hide the page title and it's
safe now I'm gonna hit the X here let's
go all the way back and now let's create
our first blog post what we're gonna do
is go to site posts
and as you can see there's actually two
example posts that WordPress is already
stuck in there for us so what I'm gonna
do is actually just delete both of these
and very quickly they've now been moved
to trash and I'm gonna add a new post
now this post is gonna be my Taj Mahal
post and what I'm gonna do is I'm just
gonna drop in a bunch of text that I
copied off of Wikipedia just for
demonstrations sake and now I have my
title and the body of my blog post the
next thing I want to do is have a
featured image so once again you can
click there and I'm gonna pop over here
because I've already got an image ready
to go of the Taj Mahal that I shot that
I'm very proud of by the way and I'm
gonna hit insert now as you can see that
image doesn't appear anywhere here but
it does appear right here in this
preview section and I'll show you where
it actually shows up in the blog itself
so I'm gonna hit publish here and now we
can go to view post now this is where
the image will show now this is the
individual page for this post but what
we can do is actually pop back to the
home page and it shows up there too now
let's just say you don't want your
readers to see the entire post right
there on the home page what we can do is
actually edit the post now in between
paragraphs you'll see this little plus
sign appeared now if that doesn't appear
then you probably have to add a space
before the first and second paragraph so
this should always appear between
paragraphs I'm gonna click that now I'm
gonna type the word more and you'll see
that this more option has come up now
I'm gonna click that and show you what
it actually does I put that in and I'm
gonna hit update now we're gonna go back
to the blog post
and now you can see well we're on the
post but if I go to the homepage you'll
see that it actually inserts a continue
reading button right after the first
paragraph and now takes me to the blog
post now the next thing we're going to
do is create an about me page so we're
gonna go back to my site pages and as
you can see once again WordPress has
kind of created two pages already for us
we're gonna remove them now as promised
I'm going to create a about me page I've
already got some pre-written text so I'm
gonna go ahead and drop that in and then
what I'm gonna do is put in a photo on
the about Me section and I'm gonna click
over here to add block select an image
and as before I've already got an image
ready to go I'm gonna click upload and
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there you have a photo of one very Suzy
astok traveller and now this is gonna
appear a little bit goofy right now but
I'm just gonna go ahead and show you
what it looks like so now you've got an
about me page so up here you'll see that
the about me has already popped up in
the navigation bar so what I'm gonna do
is actually gonna go back here and show
you how to edit that menu if you need to
over here in customize we're gonna run
down to the menus section and click on
primary and now what you can do is put
in pages so I now that we've deleted two
pages you'll see that two of these items
actually appear invalid so we're gonna
remove those and we're gonna add items
at the home page and add the about me
and hit save and then it's asking where
do you want to add this menu we're gonna
go ahead and put the desktop horizontal
menu so now you see that it's come up
there and that's pretty much it the
mobile menu that's good to have and
that's pretty much it so I'm gonna hit
save go back and you'll see that that is
now there so the last thing you want to
do is we want to get rid of this banner
now so I'm gonna go back and what we're
gonna do is we're gonna launch our site
so I'm gonna click over here on the the
URL over here and then click launch site
now it's going to ask you to give your
site an address we're gonna go ahead and
skip purchase
continue with your free site
there you go the site is now live
thanks for watching and I'm gonna go
ahead and leave this site up so it'll
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