ou can create a free WordPress blog to give you many features in blogging, such as ease of use and the provision of multiple free templates. WordPress is also friendly to search engines. In this article, we will learn about the steps to build a WordPress blog easily, starting with the registration steps, then how to create pages, lists, and articles, and we will see some… Important settings to configure the blog in simple steps without the need for any previous experience.
Register on wordpress.com as a new user
In the first step to creating your WordPress blog, you will go to www.wordpress.com , then the site will appear to you as shown below.
Click on Register Now.
Follow the steps, enter your email, a unique, non-duplicate name, and a strong password, then click the Create your account button
After that, write a distinct subdomain that indicates your blog, let it be wparLearn, and therefore the domain name will be wparLearn.wordpress.com. After choosing the appropriate name, the free domain will appear for you, and next to it, click the Choose button to complete the task.
Note: You can later upgrade to a main domain with the same name (wparlearn.com) for an annual fee.
After that, the welcome screen will appear
Then the free WordPress blog panel will appear for you. It is different from the basic WordPress control panel, but it helps the blog work quickly. To see the basic WordPress control panel, click on WordPress Administrator .
Then the free WordPress blog panel will appear to you. It is different from the basic WordPress control panel , but it helps quickly make the blog work. To see the basic WordPress control panel, choose the WordPress admin tab.
The main control panel will appear to you as follows, which we will continue explaining its use in the rest of the article.
A quick explanation of the WordPress.com special panel
Notice the following figure and the submenus marked in red and green. As for the one marked in red, it contains paid components and cannot be used unless you upgrade to a paid plan from wordpress.com. As for the components inside the green box, they are free and easily available for use, and they are sufficient for you in the beginning to launch your blog properly. professional.
The first of these components is statistics, and it gives you a lot of information about the number of visits to your site, articles, and pages, and which countries are visited from, and other information. As for the submenu called “ Site ,” it contains sub-elements, which are pages, articles, media, comments, and messages. As for the menu The subsection called “Design” contains templates and customization.
Note : This panel will be explained in detail in the last section of the article, since it should be an auxiliary panel and not the main panel, so that you do not get confused between the basic WordPress control panel and the blog control panel for the WordPress.com website.
Create a blog from the main control panel
We will explain what is required to create a blog from the main WordPress control panel . In order to create a blog, we must first know how to choose the template in which our site will appear, then know how to create blog pages, then how to make the list that will include these pages, and then after that we must know how to create Articles.
Choose the template in which the site will appear
The first thing you must do in order for your blog to appear to visitors is to choose a template , which will appear as a general form to any visitor to your site. In order to choose the template, go to the submenu from Appearance and choose “Templates” as shown in the following figure.
You will see a good number of free templates provided to you by the WordPress website. You can try the templates and choose what suits you to start the blog with,
then choose the template and activate it as shown below: the default template and explain what it will be based on.
Now you can open a new tab and type the site name wparlearn.wordpress.com in the browser and see your site and its general appearance.
Create pages and add them to the blog’s list
After choosing the appearance, we must start creating the important pages, such as the About Us page, the privacy policy, and other basic pages, which you want to show to the visitor.
First, we will remove the default pages provided by WordPress.com as experimental pages, by going to the Pages submenu and choosing “All Pages” as follows:
You will see the demo pages, which are pages that WordPress added specifically to speed up blog creation. These pages contain a quick design for the blog, but we will create the pages from scratch for more understanding and knowledge. Edit these pages and then turn them into a draft.
Note: You can remove these pages permanently, but it is preferable to You keep it so you can edit it and add it to your blog later.
Click the “Convert to Draft” button for all articles, as in the following example
Now go to Appearance and choose from its submenu “ Lists ”
In the next step, we will remove the page names from the main list, so that we can later create our own pages, customize them ourselves, and add them to the list instead of the deleted pages.
From the “ Lists ” page, click on the arrow next to each page, then remove all pages from the main list.
Then press the “ Save List ” button
After you delete the pages from the list, which represents the main site menu on the front end, go to the front end of the site and notice the disappearance of the old menu, as follows:
Now let’s start creating our new pages by going to the “Pages” menu and choosing “ Add New ” from the submenu
To create a new page, the following figure will appear to you, and it has several options, including creating a completely empty page, and you fill in its contents, or you can create a page from the templates added by WordPress.com, which are pre-made page templates.
We will choose “ Blank ” and then click the “ Use Blank layout ” button.
The editor will appear to you. Write a title, let it be “ Home ” to express the page that we will later use for the main page of the blog. This means that it will contain only two to three lines from each of the articles that you will publish on your blog.
After creating your home page, click on the Publish button . You will then see a confirmation of publishing, so click on it
You can now return to your WordPress dashboard by clicking on the WordPress icon on the far right
Return to “ All Pages ” in the “ Pages ” submenu from the main menu of the WordPress dashboard
Then repeat the same previous steps to create new pages, by going to the Pages tab , then from the bottom, choose Add New to add the “About Us” page, the “Privacy Policy” page, or any other pages.
Write all the information you want the visitor to your blog to see, then click the Publish button
After following the same previous steps and saving the About Us page, create a Privacy Policy page
Now we have three pages, and we must add them to the site’s special menu, so that they appear to the visitor and he can navigate between your pages easily. To do that, go to the submenu of Appearance and choose Lists.
You will see a page for selecting and adding menu items. Go to the “Add menu items ” dialog box, mark the check box in front of the three pages, then click “Add to menu.”
Your pages will be added to the list on the left side, so arrange their appearance by dragging and dropping the list items up and down as you wish, then save the list.
Go to the front to see your new menu items
Create articles for the blog
After that, your site is ready to use and you can start publishing your new articles and blogs.
We will now publish the first blog article, by going to the “ Articles ” submenu and choosing “ Add New .”
The article creation engine will appear, through which you can write the title and content of the article, and then format it appropriately
Now add an image to the article by going to the settings as follows
Then select the Article tab
And choose “Select and add a picture”
A drop-down menu will appear, choose “ Media Library. ”
A dialog box will appear to add the new image. Choose the Select Files tab, then click Upload
Choose the image you want
The image will appear as follows after uploading it. Click on the “Set featured images for the article” button.
Then publish the article and confirm publication
Then go to the front end of the site to see what the new article looks like
After creating the pages and articles, we need to know some important settings to display the name and description of your blog, and also some settings so that the articles appear on the main page of the site. To do this, go to Settings and choose “General”.
To change the blog title and description, do the following as shown in the figure, and then click “Save changes”
Go to the front end of the site and see the title and description change
Now we want the “About Us” page to appear as the site’s entry interface. We also want the articles page to appear grouped on the main page. To do that, go to Settings, then choose “ Reading ” from its submenu.
Choose the “Fixed Page” radio button, then choose from the “About Us” Home Page checkbox, and choose from the “Home Articles Page” checkbox.
Save the changes by clicking the Save button at the end of the page
To see the changes, go to the front end of the site and click on “About Us” from the menu. You will notice that the first special page has become About Us. You can change this page to any other page by following the previous steps.
Click on “ Home ” from the menu and notice that it turns into a page to display all articles
Explanation of the WordPress.com private panel
The blog control panel designed by WordPress.com, through which some tasks related to managing your blog can be accomplished. Its explanation has been postponed until the end so that the reader can know the basic rules for creating a blog in the correct manner, and then this panel is explained to manage the rest of the tasks.
This panel is divided into two parts, as shown in the figure
The first section contains submenus:
- statistics
- the plan
- the site
- jetpack list
- design
- tools
- Content management
- WordPress admin
As shown below
Statistics: It is everything related to visitors, their number, the number of pages they visit, the number of clicks, and the countries from which the visits come. If there are files for download, how many times they have been downloaded, and if there are video links or video files, how many times they have been watched, and also the most important terms, see the following figure.
The “ Plan ” submenu : It contains the plans and their prices if you decide to upgrade your blog to paid systems, and billing, which is the method of purchase and payment.
“ Sites ” submenu : From it you can create “pages” and “articles” of the site and you can add and upload “media” such as photos and videos. The submenu also contains “Comments” from which you can view all comments from visitors to the site, and finally there is “Messages” This is the messages that are sent to you.
“ Jetpack ” submenu : This is a special add-on known by this name. This menu is also paid and you can upgrade through it. The menu also contains a “record of your activities” and what you have done in the order on the site, such as adding pages, articles, settings, changing the template, creating lists, and other events that you have done. In it, there is also “Backup” and its use is done through upgrading as well, and there is “Search” which also needs to be upgraded.
The “ Design ” submenu contains customization and templates, from which you can change the template and deal with and change its properties. .
“ Tools ” submenu : It also contains paid items that need to be upgraded such as “Add-ons” and “Marketing”, and it contains free items such as “Import”, “Export” and “Make Money”. Add-ons are utility programs and unfortunately they are not allowed to work. The WordPress blog is free, and you must upgrade to get its services.
Marketing: It contains several tabs such as “Marketing Tools,” “Traffic,” “Links,” “Share Buttons,” and “Business Tools.” Marketing and advertising tools. You will notice that to use them you need to upgrade, and there are many paid tools. Traffic is used. To connect to Google search console and Google Analytic tools, in order to use both, you need to upgrade to the paid premium plan as well.
“ Links ” can be used to create your own links on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Tumblr. It can also be used to connect to Google Images, Instagram, and mailchimp.
“ Share buttons ” is another free feature for sharing your articles quickly through social media buttons. Through this tab, you can control the appearance of the buttons in several ways, such as the appearance of its icon, text next to it, and so on.
“ Business Tools ” contains paid tools except the Evernote tool, the last item is “Make Money” which is also only available in paid plans.
The last submenu is “ Content Management” : It contains the items “Hosting Configuration”, “Domain Names”, “People”, and “Settings”. As for hosting configuration, using it requires upgrading to the paid plan, Domain Names to change your domain name, The “People” element, through which anyone can be invited to contribute to the blog, and the last element is the settings, through which the site settings can be changed, such as the title, description, site icon, and language.
Then let’s talk now about the second section
The second section in the WordPress.com blog panel is the quick links section, and contains quick creation links
Such as “Edit the home page” to write and edit the page that will be the entrance to your site,
and the second link is “Add a page” where any page is created, such as about us, the privacy policy, any page you want to create and their contents.
The third element is “Write an article” which is to write and edit your articles, where you will be taken. Directly to the writing editor to quickly start creating any article.
The fourth element is “Edit Menus” to add and delete new elements such as pages for the main menu that will appear on the front end for visitors to your site.
The fifth element is “Customize the Template” and is used to control the settings of your site’s template such as changing The site logo, colors, background images, and many features available by the template developers.
The sixth element, which is “Change the Template,” from which you can use and activate any new template you want to be an interface for your site. The
seventh element, which is “Add a domain,” which is for upgrading, converting, and adding the domain to become a main domain.
The element Eighth, “Create a logo with Fiverr,” which directs you to the Fiverr website to create the logo you want to appear for your site if you do not already have a logo.
In the end, we hope that you have benefited from this article to create a free WordPress blog and fully customize it to launch your own blog and start in the world of online blogging
