How to Make a WordPress Website 2024 | Beginner's Guide

In this hosting tutorial, we show you how to host, create, customise, and configure a professional, functional WordPress website for your business with cPanel in under an hour using our AI WordPress hosting: https://www.hostafrica.com/wordpress-hosting/. The AI Builder and Site Assistant in the video do not come standard with WordPress or hosting providers, this is unique to our WordPress hosting that we offer as a leading hosting provider in Africa. With headquarters in South Africa and operations in Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, we're renowned for our exceptional client support to clients all over the world. If you’re a complete beginner with WordPress and are intimidated by it or you just don’t have days and days to spend building, designing, and setting up your WordPress website, then this tutorial is for you. We walk you through every step: - ordering a WordPress hosting plan, - to getting your welcome email, - logging in to your WordPress admin dashboard from cPanel, - creating a starter website with our AI WordPress Site Builder in just a few minutes and clicks, - learning your way around the WordPress dashboard with our helpful Site Assistant, - customising your homepage and doing your SEO with the vanilla WordPress core editor, - creating new pages with our amazing design library, - customising your site header, footer, font, colours, and layout, - managing your plugins and themes, - and lastly, configuring important website settings to set you up for success, such as search engine indexing, site title and admin email, best permalink structure for SEO, comment moderation, and how to add a privacy policy page. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:26 Our AI WordPress Site Builder Technology 02:30 Buy WordPress Hosting 02:56 Log In to WordPress 04:39 Exit AI Site Builder 05:15 How to Re-install WordPress in cPanel and Launch the AI Site Builder 06:20 Create a Starter Website with our AI WordPress Site Builder 09:21 Get to Know Your Way Around WordPress 09:46 Take the Welcome Tour 10:25 The Help Center 11:33 Customise Your Website 11:57 Upload a Logo and Site Icon 12:07 Add a Site Description 12:28 Edit Your Homepage: How to Use the WordPress Editor 16:14 Our Design Library 17:28 Customise Page SEO 18:47 Add New Pages 20:55 View New Pages 21:18 Edit Site Header and Footer 22:23 Add New Pages to the Navigation (Nav) Menu 23:51 How to Customise Header Design 25:26 How to Customise Footer Design 25:53 How to Change the Font 26:50 How to Change the Colour Theme 27:20 How to Change the Layout 27:32 How to Customise Social Icons in the Footer 28:10 How Navigate Between Your Website and the WordPress Admin Dashboard 28:26 Manage Website Plugins 29:50 Delete Unused Themes 30:30 Configure Important Website Settings 30:37 General: Edit Site Title, Tagline, Admin Email, Language, Date and Time Format 31:06 Writing: Default Post Category 31:15 Reading: Search Engine Visibility 31:50 Discussion: Post and Comment Settings 32:29 Best Permalink Structure for SEO 33:04 Privacy: Create a Privacy Policy Page 33:25 Next steps ____________________________________________ 🌍 Our sites: International site: https://www.hostafrica.com/ & Blog: https://www.hostafrica.com/blog/ South African site: https://hostafrica.co.za/ Nigerian site: https://www.hostafrica.ng/ Kenyan site: https://www.hostafrica.ke/ Ghanaian site: https://www.hostafrica.com.gh/ ____________________________________________ 🔔 Our socials: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hostafrica/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HOSTAFRICA_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hostafrica/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hostafrica_ptyltd/ ____________________________________________ 🥳 Client Reviews: Trustpilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/hostafrica.co.za Hellopeter: https://www.hellopeter.com/hostafricacoza Facebook reviews: https://www.facebook.com/hostafrica/reviews Google reviews: https://g.page/r/CesN75T06--3EAE ____________________________________________ 👥 About us: Our mission is to help Africans easily get their businesses online by providing them with world-class hosting services through excellent support, a reliable partnership, and cutting-edge technology. Since its inception in 2008, the Host Africa (Pty) Ltd family has grown to include 10 hosting companies. For more information, visit our websites or give us a call. ____________________________________________ #WordPress #AI #2024 #WordPressTutorial #WordPressHosting #cPanel #WordPressWebDesign #Website #BusinessWebsite #WebsiteBuilder #BeginnerFriendly #WebsiteDevelopment #WebsiteTutorial #WebHosting #WebHostingCompany #HostingProvider #CloudComputing #HowTo #WebsiteTutorials #BeginnersGuide #SiteBuilder ____________________________________________ 🙏 Thank you for watching! Comment below if you have any questions or requests for tutorials you’d like to see. Happy hosting! 😁