How to Create a Website in WordPress

So you’re looking to build a website with WordPress?

Even being a well-liked and user-friendly content management system (CMS), its interface is foreign. particularly for novices, who may find things a little challenging. We may therefore appreciate if you find it intimidating.

Therefore, if this is your first time using WordPress to create a website, do not panic. We are here to assist because of it.

Our goal in writing this post was to simplify things for you.

If you follow this guide through, you will discover:

How to Install WordPress
How to Install a Theme
How to Customize a Theme
How to Create and Edit a Webpage
How to Build/Change Homepage
How to Install/Activate Plugins
How to Create a Blog Post
How to Configure Settings
How to Manage Plugins

1. How to Install WordPress
   We begin by installing the WordPress CMS from Softaculous. You will need a control panel with Softaculous application and, you are good to go. We have reference articles on how to install WordPress from cPanel and to install WordPress from DirectAdmin.
   
2. How to Install a Theme
   Themes are one of the most prominent features of WordPress. They are templates for constructing your website and have all the necessary structure for it.
   
3. How to Customize a Theme
   The themes you install are entirely customizable. You get to alter the page layout, insert images, change the menus and widgets. You will be able to effectively remodel the appearance of your website when you customize a theme.
   
4. How to Create and Edit a Webpage
   Next in line is to create and modify a webpage of your site. Extending your website by adding a new webpage takes only a few clicks in WordPress.
   
5. How to Build/Change Homepage
   A homepage is the face of your website. You should put serious thought into how it would look and what you should put there. And, of course, we will help you understand how to create and edit your Homepage in WordPress. After sitting through the tutorial, you can build/change the homepage with the block editor and the Classic Editor plugin.
   
6. How to Install/Activate Plugins
   The best feature of WordPress is the plugins. These are software applications that users can induct and run along with their website, adding more to its functionalities. You will see how easy it is to install/activate plugins for your website.
   
7. How to Create a Blog Post
   WordPress is the happy place for all of the blogging community. They have the perfect setup for building an outstanding portal for your blog content. It goes without saying that we have included a tutorial to create a blog post.
   
8. How to Configure Settings
   If you have gotten this far with your website’s construction, you will need to know about some basic configurations you need to make. WordPress offers users various options to customize and manage their site. We have discussed some of the important settings to configure in WordPress.
   
9. How to Manage Plugins
   As you might know, plugins play a crucial role in running and managing any WordPress website. There is a lot more you can do with them once you know how to manage plugins in WordPress.
   

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