Create a WordPress account with Hostinger

It is not a secret that a WordPress account is best for blogs with minimum cost. It has several processes for finalizing your complete setup in WordPress. Here you will get each step to create a WordPress account. Moreover, some plugins are attached for the best performance. You will also familiar with the essential features of WordPress. Even you will know some essential customization of the Theme. So, why wait? Let start.

Create a WordPress account

First of all, here WordPress indicates WordPress.org and not WordPress.com. WordPress.com is not self-hosted. your URL will also contain wordpress.com. Another side, WordPress.org is a self-hosted website. You have full control and full customization on it. Now, know about Hosting and Domain before diving into creating a WordPress account.

What are Hosting and Domain?

You can understand it in a simple way. Web hosting is your virtual house which is a website. Here everything contains HTML, images, videos, JavaScript, text, etc. This virtual house or website needs space. The hosting provider will provide you the space for storing files.

Another side, a domain name is your virtual website address. Without knowing the address people cannot visit your website. Each website has already an IP address. For example, 25.163.2.34. It has four sets of numbers. All sets are ranging from 0-255. It means the IP address can range between 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255.

A computer can work efficiently with these addresses. But, people face it very difficult to remind these numbers. That is solved with the domain name. A domain name is a simple name like “Blogger guide pro” instead of an IP address 82.180.142.141.

A domain name is a web address where your user can reach your website. Web hosting is your virtual house where files are stored and people can interact with them. The more you have files, the more you need space or a big virtual house. That’s why different hosting plans are chosen according to needs.

Hosting and domain provider services are different. However, with the help of domain and hosting website is visible online. That’s why some domain providers also provide hosting. You can contain “domain” and “hosting” from different providers or the same providers. If you did not buy any domain yet, then choosing the same provider is recommended.

There is a lot of domain and hosting providers in the world. Some popular domain providers are –

1. GoDaddy
2. Google Domains
3. Namecheap

Many people have a GoDaddy domain in Blogger. If you are the same then you can shift from Blogger to WordPress with this detailed guide.

Some popular Hosting providers along with Domains are –

1. Hostinger
2. Bluehost
3. HostGator

Let’s create your website with Hostinger.

Make your website with Hostinger

Hostinger will provide you with 99% uptime at the minimum price. It also provides the best speed experience for the website. Firstly, you have to choose a plan to start making your website. For that, visit this Hostinger page.

You can see many arrow points in the images. It is for the best navigation. You have no chance to mistrack.

First of all decide, in which currency you want to deal with it. You can keep it in dollars (United States) or in your country. For that, Select your country by clicking on the Country flag.

After that, Click on the Hosting menu and choose WordPress Hosting. On mobile, you have to click on the triple dot menu to get this option. After that click on “Claim Deal”. Immediately, you will navigate to the purchasing plan information.

You can see many plans for WordPress. Scroll down to look into details about each plan and choose the best fit for you. “WordPress Starter” has relatively better features at a low cost. You will get a free domain valid for one year.

As I am going to purchase from India, so I converted it into rupees. You can choose according to your own country.

Make sure you read all the details about the plans. It will help to boost your confidence about features. This knowledge also helps you further understand hosting.

After looking at the features and comparison add a plan to a cart. You will find a page where 3 steps need to be completed.

In the first step, you have to choose a time period here. You can choose for 1 month, 12 months, 24 months, and 48 months. I choose 12 months. It is also good to look at the performance of web hosting.

The 2nd step is to create your account. You can simply put your email address or can log in through Facebook and Google.

Now, come to the third step. Select a payment method. It has a variety of options. I choose PayTM. You can select according to your convenience.

The fourth step is to enter a coupon code. It will give additional discounts. So, click on “Have a coupon code”. Enter “BLACKFRIDAY” in the box and press enter. You will see “Coupon applied” and a discount just like the below image.

Now, click on “Submit Secure Payment”. You will get a payment summary. Enter the payment details according to your selected method. You will get a final payment page. Click on “Pay Now”.

After completing the payment you will redirect to the Hostinger first page. Your purchase is complete. Now, it’s time to create a WordPress account with Hostinger.

Set up your WordPress account with Hostinger

You are now on Hostinger’s first page.

You have to answer a few questions here. Click on “Start now”. Look at the first question. Who are you creating the website for?

You can answer these questions in your choice or you can follow up with this article. Here, you can select “I am creating for myself”.

Now come to the second question. Who is creating the website? Click on “I am building it myself”.

Then the third question. Which type of website do you want to build? Click on “Blog”.

Now, the next question. Do you need help building your website?

Click on “No thanks”. Now deal with consecutive steps. You can see the option of “Create or Migrate a Website”.

Click on Select for Create a new website. Now select a platform.

Choose skip. We will set up the important plug-in later. Now choose any layout. We will design it later.

1. has a sort and simple, name which is easy to remember like bloggerguidepro.com
2. Does not contain numbers or symbols unnecessarily like website1#.
3. A relatable name is preferable like “Search Engine Journal”.
4. Have a unique name by which you can create an account with the same name on different social media.

Complete your domain setup process by reminding above steps. If you have already a domain name then select “Use an Existing Domain”. Enter your domain name and click on “Continue”

You will see the details of your domain.

You can click on the blue link to know how to connect your domain to Hostinger. Basically, you have to go to your Domain provider site. After that, find the DNS setting. Then, go to the Nameserver option and replace your existing nameservers with the required nameservers. Look for the GoDaddy domain provider after changing the nameserver.

Your website starts to update.

Now, wait for a minute until the loading is done. Now you are ready to go after connecting your domain. Look at the below image.

By clicking Edit website, you can modify your website. Although, we look after finishing set up. Firstly, click on “Connect” to connect your domain.

Immediately after that, click on “Let’s start” to activate the domain.

Make sure your nameservers are set up correctly. Then, click on “Continue”. Finally, you are all set.

Click on “Finish”. You will see a Block editor welcome you. Read it carefully.

It says each paragraph, heading, image, etc is under a separate block. It helps you to have the best edit in a post. Finally, click on “Next”. With that, you successfully created a WordPress account. You can see your WordPress dashboard. Now familiar with the different options.

Quick navigation on your WordPress Dashboard

Look at your WordPress dashboard. Your domain name can be found on the above header. You can always check your website homepage by clicking here. On the other hand, by clicking the WordPress icon directly you can always come back to your dashboard.

By going more deeply into the WordPress icon, you can know about WordPress. The comment icon will help you to find Comment details. Through the plus icon, you can add posts, pages, media, and users. You can see a few plug-in icons after setting up it. On the rightmost side, you can see your name. Click on it. Then, click on “Edit profile”. Complete your details there.

Now get familiar with the menu.

Dashboard: This Dashboard has two submenus. First is Home. Here you will get a quick overview of your site. Total posts, pages, comments, running theme, site health status, activity, plug-in overview, etc.

The second is Update. By clicking it, you will get suggestions for any updates like WordPress, theme, plugins, etc.

Posts: Here you will get all posts published or drafted by you.

Media: Here you will get all images, videos, etc in one place.

Pages: Here you can create pages for your website. You should create the following pages for your website.

About us

Contact us

Terms

Privacy policy

Disclaimer

You can click the above link to get an idea. You can also copy it and change it in your way. Make sure you replace your domain name in the place of Blogger guide pro.

Comments: You can see all the comments here.

Appearance: How your site will appear in form of users. You will change the theme here after completing all the introductions.

Plugins: Here you can find all the plugins. We will set up all the important plugins for the blog.

Users: All the users who manage your WordPress account.

Tools: All the tools in your WordPress account.

Settings: It can be used for changing the settings in WordPress. You can change the permalink setting here. Click on settings. Then, click on the permalinks.

After that click on Post name. The reason behind it is making the URL short. Finally, click on “Save changes”. Look at the next menu.

Collapse Menu: By clicking it you can shorten the space for the menu. Try once and then click it again to get a natural display.

You got an overview of your WordPress account. It’s time to set up all the important plugins.

Essential plugins for WordPress blog

Setting up a set of good plugins is a wise choice. It does not mean a website may overflow with the plugin. Remember, plugins have a direct effect on your site performance. Therefore, you should use the minimum number of plugins. Based on the above face, here are some essential plug-ins you can consider.

1. Yoast SEO
2. Litespeed cache
3. Site kit

1. Yoast SEO plugin:

Let’s set up Yoast SEO first. It is perhaps the most popular plug-in on WordPress. One of the big reasons is to provide many services for free. To get it, keep the cursor in the plug-in menu. Then, click on add new. After that, search “Yoast SEO” in the search box.

Then click on “Install now” for Yoast SEO. Finally, click on activate. You can look at your plug-in through plug-in> installed plug-in options. Click on settings and provide them the information for the best SEO benefit.

Whenever, you need to add any plug-in, repeat the same steps to get it. Instead of Yoast SEO, many people prefer the “All In One SEO” plug-in. You can install it if you are a like-minded person.

2. Litespeed cache:

Maybe this is installed by default. Check it in installed themes. If it has not, add the same process you knew previously. Cache increases your site performance in front of users. Basically, it stores some static data and is able to provide users by minimizing file requests.

Litespeed cache is the one-stop solution for your website speed. It can do multiple tasks. For example, minify the CSS, differing the JavaScript, Core Web Vital optimization, Lazy load images, etc.

Other popular cache plugins are –

a. W3 Total Cache

b. WP Super Cache

c. WP fastest cache

Using any one among these is enough. As a reminder, less plugin is good for site performance.

3. Site kit:

Site kit is an almost essential tool for Bloggers. It is the combination of four essential tools for blogging. These are Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Page Speed Insights, and Google AdSense. You can check your traffic, content, speed, and monetization performance in one place. You can consider adding it for better analysis of your website.

4. WordFence Security:

Protecting your WordPress account is essential. You do not want to be hacked for unconsciousness. Wordfence Security is here to solve this problem. It has a firewall and malware scanner which will help you to protect your site. You can use the free version with some limitations. You can also go for a premium pack according to your needs.

After adding plugins click on “Get your wordfence license”. Click on “Get a free license”. You can see the option “I am ok waiting 30 days…”. Click on it. After that, enter the email. In your mail click “Install my license automatically”. You will be redirected to WordPress. Finally, click on “Install now” and it is done.

Apart from that, you can consider following specific plugins.

5. gzip-ninja-speed-compression for optimizing gif.

6. Contact Form 7 for creating the high-quality customizable contact form.

7. Rocket lazy load for a lazy load of images, videos, etc.

Here is the list of essential plugins. If you did not find it through a search then nothing to worry about. Download the file from the link. Go to Plugin>add new> Upload plugin (beside add plugin) and upload the files.

You knew how to create a WordPress account. You also add essential plugins. Now, it’s time to set up a good theme.

Themes set up for WordPress account

Sometimes it is shown people are confused the entire year about the theme. The more you advance, you can understand the same. Although there is a one-stop solution. Use the Newspaper paid theme to remove any worries. Bloggers have also dreams of AdSense approval. This theme comes first to get AdSense approved. Apart from that two most popular themes are –

1. Generatepress
2. Astra

A newbie has difficulty in the beginning. First of all, choosing the theme. The next is designing the theme. Free themes are not well designed. Therefore, here you will know all the basic but beautiful designs in Generatepress.

Firstly, you need to add the Generatepress theme. For that, click on the Appearance menu. Choose theme. Then click on “Add new”.

After that, search “generatepress” in the search box. Click on “install now” for GeneratePress. Finally, click on activate. After that, let’s customize it. You can do the same thing through the Appearance > customize option.

Your theme may contain design and may not contain anything. For your easiness, let’s say your theme is almost blank. Then, how to customize it as a beautiful design without harming website speed. Nope, It does not need any technical knowledge. Just go with it. The second is said that, without harming the website speed much. You heard it right. We do not use much CSS or Javascript which can affect the speed negatively. Here HTML will be added as a priority. Let’s start.

Create a WordPress website with the GeneratePress theme

Let’s do this fun by adding essential elements without coding knowledge. You are now, in the Customization area for the GeneratePress theme. Let’s create a WordPress website from the header section.

Header section:

Click on site identity.

Then, Write the title and tagline. You can set up the logo also. Finally, click on Published. You will see the displaying effect in the header section.

Once you add the five pages through the WordPress dashboard > pages, you will find the page section in the header. Later, settings will help you to make it in the right section. You can also set the category here according to the need.

Layout:

You can set a layout or follow the process. Once you understand the basic thing, you are able to modify yourself to an advanced level. Look at the options.

Click on Layout. Then complete the settings.

a. Click on the header. After that choose the following settings.

Header presets – Navigation right or default

b. Now, click on the “Primary Navigation” part and choose the following settings.

Navigation location – Float right

Navigation search – Enable if you want to look at a search button. Choose to disable it if you do not want to look at it.

c. Now, click on “Sidebars” and follow the following settings.

Sidebar Layout – Content / Sidebar
Blog Sidebar Layout – Content / Sidebar
Single post sidebar layout – You may want to display your content, then the sidebar. So, choose “Content/Sidebar”.

Here only one sidebar is chosen. You can choose more sidebars if you want. But, here editing is done by reminding the website speed. Now the next.

d. Click on the “Footer” option and select the following settings.

Footer Widgets – 1

Footer Bar Alignment – Left

Back to Top Button – Enable

Finally, click on publish. Here, the layout section is completed.

Colors:

Now set colors for different areas. You can keep the same or change the color accordingly. If you want to customize then take this basic familiarity. Although, it is recommended to change the color after completing all the settings. Here are the terms for editing colors.

Global colors – Contrast for colors

Body – Your blog section

Top bar & Header – Top sections of your website

Primary navigation – menu areas

Navigation Search – About search button

Content – content title, headings, etc.

Sidebar widgets – color modification for the sidebar

Footer bar – Lowest section of your website

Back to Top – Color change for Back to Top button.

You can find these details in the menu itself. The reason behind it to explain is to boost your confidence. You can change them separately with the available option. Whenever you have time, you can do trial and error to get the best match. Now come to the next section.

Typography:

Typography is about fonts. You can keep it by default. If you want to increase the font size then make

Body – 20 px

H4 heading – 21 px

H3 heading – 22 px

H2 heading – 23 px

H4 heading – 24 px.

Now, the next part – “Menus”.

Menus:

Click on Menus. Then click on “Create a new menu”. Give your Menu name “Menu”. Mark the tick box in the Primary menu and click “Next”. Then, Click on “Add items”

You can add posts, pages, categories, custom links, etc. Add “Home” and other options. Finally, click on “Publish”. Your Menu setup is completed.

Now, come to the Widgets.

Widgets:

Click on widgets. You can see many widgets here. First, click on the Footer bar. You can see a plus icon. Click on it. A search box will open. Search “Page list” and select it. Now come to the right sidebar.

Right Sidebar:

Here we will add many things.

Author details:

Click on the right sidebar. Click on the plus icon. Search “Custom HTML”. Select Custom HTML. You will get a box. Paste the HTML code here. You can enter the code for simple author details with HTML. You can also add your picture through Plus>search “Avatar” and select. However, few people prefer this type of detail because it does not harm the website speed. Now, copy the code and paste it into the HTML box. After that, replace the details which might look professional.

<h3>About author</h3>

<address>
<b>Bishwajit Mandal</b> <br><i>
(Founder of <a href="https://bloggerguidepro.com">Blogger guide pro</a>)<br></i>
A passionate blogger for producing helpful article which has practical action on the market.
</address>

Finally, click on publish. Now, add social share icons.

Social Share icons:

Again click on the Plus icon. Search and add custom HTML. After that paste these codes into the HTML box.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<style>
.fa {
  padding: 20px;
  font-size: 30px;
  width: 50px;
  text-align: center;
  text-decoration: none;
  margin: 5px 2px;
}

.fa:hover {
    opacity: 0.7;
}

.fa-facebook {
  background: #3B5998;
  color: white;
}

.fa-twitter {
  background: #55ACEE;
  color: white;
}

.fa-linkedin {
  background: #007bb5;
  color: white;
}

.fa-youtube {
  background: #bb0000;
  color: white;
}

.fa-instagram {
  background: #125688;
  color: white;
}

.fa-pinterest {
  background: #cb2027;
  color: white;
}
.fa-tumblr {
  background: #2c4762;
  color: white;
}
.fa-reddit {
  background: #ff5700;
  color: white;
}
</style>



<h2>Hit social share</h2>

<!-- Add font awesome icons -->
<a href="#" class="fa fa-facebook"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-twitter"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-linkedin"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-youtube"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-instagram"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-pinterest"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-tumblr"></a>
<a href="#" class="fa fa-reddit"></a>     

Your social sharing icon is ready. You can remove or add more icons. You have to remove or add two sets of codes for one social media. Now, add a search button.

Blog Search:

Click on the plus icon. Write “Search” in the search bar and select it. You will get a search bar. Now, adding the newsletter subscription.

Subscribe to the newsletter:

Again click on the plus icon. Then, add the custom HTML. Finally, enter the code generated from your newsletter.

If you do have not one, then go to the Mailchimp website. Create your newsletter. Then, follow these steps

1. In the Mailchimp dashboard click on “Create”.
2. Click on “Create form” for the Embedded form.\
3. Set your form and click on “Settings” Add the tile. Click on remove CSS styles to get rid of CSS. You can also keep CSS if you want. Then go back to the setting area. Click on “Continue” for further advancement.
4. Copy the generated code and paste it into the WordPress right sidebar HTML box. Finally, click on publish.

Now, add the latest posts.

Latest posts:

Firstly, click on the plus icon. Thereafter, Search “Latest Posts” and select it. Then, click on the box. After that, click on the triple dot and choose “Show more settings”.

Activate the “Display featured image”. So, your latest posts with images are ready.

Are you enjoying these things? let’s add your social profile.

Adding social profile:

As usual, click on the plus icon. Search “Social icons” and select it. You will find a box. Click on the plus icon of that box. Add your favorite social icons where you are active. Let’s say, you added Facebook. Now, click on the Facebook icon and Put the URL of your profile. Repeat the same process by adding all other social icons.

Now, select the entire box. You can do it also by clicking the “edit” icon of displaying social icons in the right sidebar. Again, click on the triple dot and choose to show more settings. Under the “Link Settings” activate the “Show labels”. Finally, click on publish. Look at some feed adding quickly:

RSS:

Click on the plus icon. Add RSS. Put the RSS link and it’s done.

Pinterest feed:

Click on the plus icon. Add interest. Add your interest profile link and it’s done. Your users can show Pinterest feed on your website.

You can add any social feed like this. Although, it will affect your site speed. So, you can ignore this type of feed depending on your requirements. Now, the “Contact Form”

Contact Form:

You can use Contact Form 7. If you want a contact form that has minimum effect on speed, then follow these processes.

Click on the plus icon. Add custom HTML. Pase these codes into the HTML box.

    <h3>Contact us</h3>
    <form id="fcf-form-id" class="fcf-form-class" method="post" action="contact-form-process.php">
            <label for="Name" class="fcf-label">Your name</label>
            <div class="fcf-input-group">
                <input type="text" id="Name" name="Name" class="fcf-form-control" required="">
            </div>
        <div class="fcf-form-group">
            <label for="Email" class="fcf-label">Your email address</label>
            <div class="fcf-input-group">
                <input type="email" id="Email" name="Email" class="fcf-form-control" required="">
            </div>
        <div class="fcf-form-group">
            <label for="Message" class="fcf-label">Your message</label>
            <div class="fcf-input-group">
                <textarea id="Message" name="Message" class="fcf-form-control" rows="6" maxlength="3000" required=""></textarea>
            </div>
        </div>
<div class="fcf-form-group">
            <button type="submit" id="fcf-button" class="fcf-btn fcf-btn-primary fcf-btn-lg fcf-btn-block">Send</button>
        </div>

</div></form>

Click on publish and your Contact form is ready.

Here your website design is completed. Now, you can play with the colors. You may be stuck in between. For the first time, it takes a while as everything is new. You can save it on your social media to complete the steps later. If you have completed the design, well done. You are great. You knew, how to create a website account. you also design a multielement website. It’s time to get familiar with the posts section.

Post section of WordPress

To know about it, go to the WordPress menus. Click on the post. Now, take a look at all the options in your dashboard.

Let’s get familiar with these options.

Submenus of posts:

All posts – To look at all the posts in your WordPress account.

Add new – To create a new post.

Categories – Your category details and to add, modify, or delete it.

Tags – Your tag details and to add, modify, or delete it.

Now, look at the top sections.

Screen information – For displaying the information of your choice. It is also shown in the dropdown box. Here Author, Categories, Tags, Comments, Date, SEO score, and Readability score is chosen. Moreover, you can choose SEO title, Meta description, Key phrase, Outgoing internal links, and received Internal links. Make sure, you have the Yoast SEO plugin to get this information.

Help – To know more about documentation

Add New – To add a new post. You have to use it multiple times while writing a new post.

All – All posts

Mine – Writing by you only as an author

Published – All published posts only

Drafts – The post which is not been published yet

Cornerstone content – a few (4-5) articles that you selected as most important in your website. Basically, a detailed article or a keyphrase you are passionate to rank for.

Filter options – For easy navigation through your posts.

Post elements:

Title – Your post title

If you keep your cursor on the title, you will see a few options. These are –

Edit – For editing post

Quick edit – Some important elements, like Title, Categories, Tags, etc.

Trash – For removing posts. You can delete it permanently by going trash section.

Preview – How it looks to your users.

Now, the other options.

Author – Name of the author who wrote the post

Categories – Category is used to organize your post. A category should have many unique posts. Let’s say you have a pet blog. You can set categories as “Dog”, “Cat”, etc.

Tags – Tags also help to organize your content but to a lower extent. It is optional. However, it is greatly useful to help your user hoving on their interested topics. It can harm SEO if it does not set up properly. To avoid it go to WordPress menu > Yoast SEO > Search appearance > Taxonomies. Then scroll down and find the tag section. Click on the dropdown menu. You can see “Show tags in search results”. Select “off” for that option.

Now, you can add new tags through the WordPress menu > Posts > tags.

Here, the name is the name of your tag like the WordPress plugin. Make sure, you always use the name in this format without changing uppercase and lowercase. Slug is the URL for search engines that contains only letters in lowercase, numbers, and hyphens like WordPress-plugin. The description is optional. Finally, click on Add new tag. You can add your all important tags here.

Now, the question comes, how to add categories and tags in your post. For that, click on the settings icon in your dashboard. Click on the post. Scroll down. Find the Categories and tags options. Select suitable categories and tags.

Now, the other options.

Comments – The comment status of your particular post.

Date – Published or last modified date

Triple dot – SEO scores

Feather icon – Readability status.

That is the navigation of your posts section.

Now, some important things to know about writing a high-quality post.

1. Make Your title SEO friendly
2. Learn about keyword research properly before writing your content.
3. Do proper keyword optimization in your all posts.
4. Make sure you add alt text in your images to increase the accessibility of your website
5. Add a canonical tag for your all individual posts.

Apart from that, keep spending time to know about other features in WordPress. It has vast options which you can implement with zero coding knowledge. For example, during writing your posts you can add quotes, code, etc. There is a lot to learn in this journey. Best of luck. Now, it’s time to Wrap up the create a WordPress account journey.

Wrap up for Create a WordPress account with Hostinger

I think you got a lot of resources here. Firstly, Hosting and Domain are explained. After that, you knew how to create a WordPress account in Hostinger with your suitable plans. Then, you found a quick navigation all over the WordPress dashboard. You set up essential plugins. You have also done an amazing thing, that is WordPress design without coding knowledge. Finally, you know the options in your posts dashboard. With that, you are ready to publish your posts. Why wait? Do that.

You can save it to visit whenever is required. If you faced any issues, you can share them in the comment box. You are very welcome to share your experience also. Do you like this content. Then, hit the share button.