How to Easily Create a Wordpress Blog with Hostgator
Here’s a post on how to create a Wordpress blog with hostgator hosting, easily. I wanted to show how simple and easy it really is to have your very own professional looking blog in a short amount of time. I had just setup another blog the other day, which only took me a few minutes, and I was thinking about how intimidated and confused I was when I first tried making my own blog. Most beginners don’t realize how simple and quick it really is to setup your very own blog or website using hostgator and wordpress.
Why Not use a FREE hosted blog?
Yes, there are several places to create a FREE hosted blog, but there are several disadvantages of not having your very own “self hosted blog” on your own domain name. With a FREE Hosted blog you are sharing their hosting and domain name. That means they can have complete control over your blog, so making money from it will be tough, or not even allowed. You won’t have a control panel for you to have complete access over your sites or be able to see all your stats. It’s very unprofessional and many won’t take your website seriously. Make sure you consider these things if you are planning on creating a online business, or making real money from your blog down the road. Also, having your own “self hosted blog” will make you more serious, committed and motivated on reaching success online. A FREE hosted blog url will be look like this, let’s say I’m using blogspot, then my domain name for this blog would be: mathewday.blogspot.com instead of www.mathewday.com.
Why use Wordpress (WP)?
Wordpress is the simplest and fastest way for anyone to create professional looking blogs or websites with the least amount of effort. There are two different wordpress sites. Wordpress.com is a place to create a “FREE hosted blog” and then there is Wordpress.org which is for “self hosted blogs” and you will need your own hosting and domain. Wordpress is the #1 blogging platform used by newbies and the Top Professional Bloggers. You don’t need to know any coding, programming or be a designer to have a awesome looking blog. WP uses plugins, which allow you to add just about anything to your blog with just a few clicks. Changing your theme or layout is easily done with the click of the mouse. Oh yeah, Wordpress is 100% FREE, all you need is your own hosting.
Why Hostgator (HG)?
Hostgator is the #1 hosting company with millions of domains being hosted. They’ve received numerous awards and is the most dependable company I’ve ever used. You can host unlimited websites on one hosting account. Wordpress can be installed with just a few clicks using HG, and this is the hosting I use as well. I changed over to Host gator a few years ago when I started having problems with my old hosting company and I couldn’t ever get in touch with their customer service. Everyone was telling me to changeover to hostgator, especially for WP blogs. Their customer service is intelligent and the BEST I’ve ever dealt with. They have 24/7 live support, or you can contact them by email and phone. They make everything very easy for beginners with all their tutorials, forum and their easy to use Cpanel- it’s where you’ll be able to have full control over your websites or blogs. Very inexpensive pricing and features that can’t be beat. With prices starting at only $5 dollars a month, but I’ve got some coupon codes and discounts for you to use below.
Here are the basic steps below to Create your Wordpress blog with hostgator……….
First off, if you don’t have your own hosting or want to transfer from your old host to HostGator then Click Here first and get a HG account. You’ll have to choose a domain name for your hosting account if this is your first one with them. Choose a domain name that either will be the name for your blog, brand name for your business or you can choose to just use your own name, like I did for this blog. One of my hosting accounts with HG is under this domain name “mathewday.com” but I have like 20 other domain names under this one hosting account. I suggest you get at least the Baby Plan which allows you to add unlimited websites or domains, plus all the other extras like, free transfers, FREE templates, site builder and much more. Choose whatever plan that best suits your needs.
I know of 2 Legit Hostgator discounts or coupon codes that still work currently. The first one is a 20% off your hosting purchase. This will be deducted automatically when you total everything up at checkout. This is a nice discount they give to new HG customers only. You’ll only get the 20% off one time, so you might want to pay for more than 1 month. The other discount is pay only 1 cent for your first month and you need to add coupon code wordpress if that no longer is working then enter hgc25 at the checkout and pay only 1 cent for your first month.
Now, for those of you who just opened a new account with HG it’s going to take a little time for your domain name servers (dns) to propagate properly before you can see your site/blog online. Also, you’ll get a email with details on how to get into your Cpanel (control panel). This shouldn’t take to long and if you have any questions about it just talk to your HG support and they’ll let you know the status.
How to install Wordpress on hostgator
Once you have access, log into your cpanel for your HG hosting, scroll down and click on the Fantistico De Luxe icon in the software/services section.
Now, once your in, look on the left hand side and you’ll see all the different scripts you can install onto your domain. Click the wordpress link, then click on the new installation link and now choose what domain name you want to install wordpress onto. Fill out “Admin access data”, this is what you’ll need to access your WP dashboard, so remember this name and password. Fill out the “Base configuration” with the name you want shown for your posts that you write, email address and your website’s domain name for your blog. Click install if everything looks correct and then enter a email for them to send this information so you’ll have it just in case you need it in the future. Now you’re done and just installed WP on your new domain.
After you’ve installed Wordpress onto your domain name, enter the domain name into your address bar and checkout your new Wordpress blog. Now look for the “Meta” section on the right sidebar and “login” to your WP blog. This is where you’ll be able to get into your WP dashboard and add content, change things around and change your theme/template with just a few clicks. Enter the admin nickname and password you previously created when you were installing wordpress onto this domain.
Once you are in your WP dashboard scroll down and look on the left for the section that says appearance. Now just click on “add new themes” and you’ll be able to find new themes or layouts and install them with a few clicks.
How to install Wordpress if you already have hostgator hosting, but added another domain
This is the same steps you would take if you already had hostgator hosting and just added a domain to your hosting account. If you purchase another domain name with hostgator, remember to first change the dns for the domain to your hostgator servers after purchasing, and do a addon domain in your cpanel. After you do those two things, then you can add wordpress onto it just like above.
Now all you need to do is add content, SEO, and work on getting traffic to your blog. I know you’ll be happy with hostgator hosting and with wordpress. Honestly I barely have made any money online with my FREE hosted blogs, but once I got my own domains and used wordpress, I’ve created a real online business and do this full time now. I hope my tutorial on how to create a wordpress blog with hostgator was helpful and not to hard to follow. Let me know if you have any questions or leave me a comment.
WhyDoWork – Cool Adsense Plugin for Wordpress
I just recently heard about the Why-Do-Work Adsense Plugin for Wordpress. It’s not a new WP plugin by any means, it’s been out for a good while now. I had found out about the WhyDoWork WP plugin because several established bloggers I know have been trying it out lately, and have reported they have Greatly Increased their Adsense Revenue with it. There are many cool features that aren’t available on many of the other Adsense plugins, so I changed over to this one as well. This is a totally FREE plugin by the way.
What I like about the WhyDoWork Plugin
With this plugin, you can add Adsense adds on your WP blog with just a few clicks, without having to modify your template. Big Deal right, that’s what they all do. Here’s where it starts getting better. You can pick and choose where you Don’t want your adds to show up too, just enter the post ID or just use their no-adsense tag.
It’s gets even better, choose X amount of days you want adds to show up on certain posts. Choose 15 days and your adsense adds will only show up on your posts that are at least 15 days old, only. A ton of different variations are available through this feature. The best part of this option allows you to not directly affect any of your loyal readers with the adds, but will show the adds to traffic coming to your older posts, great for search engine traffic.
The Why-Do-Work Adsense Plugin took little time to set-up, and I’ve seen no problems with it so far. I’ve already seen a little increase of clicks with my adds, and it should definitely help me make more money with adsense as soon as I am more established, and get more search traffic. I was just content with my regular adsense plugin, but this one just has some really cool features. It’s totally FREE, so why not give it a try.
Theme Wars Review – WP Themes Battle!
UBD just recently launched their latest creation called Theme Wars – A WP theme site that will have The Most Popular New WP Themes available to purchase. Now why is Theme wars so Popular right now. One it’s made by UBD the creators of affiliate theme and one of the best designers for wordpress themes and 2nd theme wars allows designers and bloggers come together in a community to showoff and vote for favorites.
WP theme designers can submit their themes for battle and bloggers can vote for the theme they want to win. Every week one theme will win and be added to Theme Wars site. This is great for designers and bloggers for more exposure for designers and being able to choose what we bloggers actually want in a theme not just having to choose whatever they have to offer.
I heard the winning designers will make a nice percentage per every theme sold if their theme wins and bloggers and other people who are interested in purchasing any themes from theme wars can purchase single themes or pay a mthly membership like a wp themes club and have access to all of them.
If you’ve ever wanted to have your opinion heard about what type of wp themes you wanted available to purchase then vote now for this weeks battle against two great themes at Theme Wars and help choose this weeks winner.
Wordpress Version 2.8 “Baker” Just Released!
The latest and greatest Wordpress version 2.8 nicknamed “Baker” in honor of the trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker was just released just a little while ago. Time for all wordpress bloggers to upgrade. 
One of the best new features with the new wp 2.8 version is faster overall speed but includes 180 new features, upgrades, improvements on the Codex and etc…. Checkout the video below to see more features and details.
Features of the new Wordpress Version 2.8
- Faster overall speed
- improvements to themes, widgets and taxonomies
- Over 790 Bugs fixed
- looks and feels much like version 2.7 at first but once you dig into it more, you’ll see the changes
- Easier theme installation from theme directory
- New Codepress editor
- Completely redesigned widget interface
- New Screen Options on every page
- 180 total new features, changes and etc….
I think many of us have been waiting for the new Wordpress 2.8 version to come out but I wasn’t expecting all of these Awesome new changes. Checkout the entire 180 new changes here —> Wordpress version 2.8 and be looking for the next wordpress 2.9 and 3.0 versions coming out very soon.
cheers!
