How to Create a Website in WordPress: Easy Tutorial

 Thinking about how to create a website in WordPress? Having doubts and questions on your mind? don’t know how to install WordPress? Here we provide you the complete WordPress tutorial explaining the whole process step by step.

Basic Requirements to Install WordPress

There are some basic requirements to install and setup a WordPress website.

1. Domain Name
2. Web Server
3. WordPress

How to Install WordPress on your Website?

There are mainly two ways to install WordPress on your website;

1. Installing WordPress using cPanel (also known as one-click install)
2. Installing WordPress manually

Know Your WordPress Dashboard & Admin Panel

Before we start to answer the question of how to create a website in WordPress, we need to get familiar with the Admin Dashboard to be able to maintain our website’s front-end from backend aka WordPress Dashboard aka Admin Panel.

First, you need to login to the Admin Panel, Login URL for your website is “www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin“. You will be asked for your login credentials, enter your username and password here to access the admin dashboard of WordPress.

5 Essential Settings After Installing WordPress

1. Remove Demo Content
2. Set Site Title, Tagline, Time Zone, Date Format and Time Format
3. Set WordPress Permalinks
4. Pick a Good Theme for Your Website
5. Improve Website Load Speed

Here are some free plugins that we recommend for WordPress speed optimization:

1. W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache
2. WP Smush or reSmush.it
3. Wp Lazy Load
4. WP-Optimize
5. AMP for WP

Simply installing these plugins won’t make your website faster, you will have to make a few changes, which we will discuss in a separate post.