I have always received enquiries from people who want to set up their own blog and learn how to use WordPress. I have therefore decided to give the complete guide here free.
However, I must emphasize that you should not handle this training with levity just because it is free. I am giving you seminar materials for which people pay upwards of N10,000 so please handle it with all seriousness of something valuable. Now, let's go get your blog set up:
Go to http://www.wordpress.com
Click on the ‘Sign Up Now’ button. Pick a username and put in your correct email address because that is where they are going to send your password, so make sure you make no mistake.
Click the ‘I have read and agree to….’ box. Make sure you click ‘Gimme a Blog’. On the next page, Click ‘Sign Up’ If the username or email address you gave had been picked before, you will have to go back and supply another one that is available.
After choosing, click ‘NEXT’. NOTE that you cannot use signs or symbols in your username; you can only use letters and numbers. If you use signs or symbols, the username will not be accepted and you will have to go back and pick another one. If your username is accepted, you will be given a blog domain address which will be http://www.yourusername.wordpress.com e.g. http://www.imanigeria.org
You will get a confirmation that your blog has been set up but that you need to activate it. A mail would have been sent into your email address which you supplied them. Open your email and click on the activation link. Immediately you activate your account, you will be given a password for accessing your blog.
Once you retrieve your password, go to the WordPress homepage and log in to your blog’s Dashboard. If you want to log in straight to your own dashboard, open a window and type: http://www.yourusername.wordpress.com/wp-admin
Click on ‘Users’. Go to ‘Your Profile’ and fill in your information. Scroll down to where it says ‘About Yourself’ and write a few words about yourself, what you do etc. Make sure you change your password to something you can remember and click ‘Update Profile’. Next time you log in, you will of course have to use your new password.
So, that's it folks, very simple and straight forward. My next posting, I shall be showing you how to complete the settings on your blog. But as it is, you have a good blog set up already. All the best!
I am a Social Media Marketing Strategist and Facebook Marketing Expert, a business coach, seminar resource person, published and serial entrepreneur. I help businesses to get extraordinary results from their marketing campaign thus ensuring steady increase in their incomes.
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Thanks a million Lekan. I saw an invititation from you about a social network site. I declined because I do not follow or add friends who hide their faces.
You’re very welcome and I thank you too for appreciating me 🙂
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Thanks a million for this. I’m sure it will go a long way to help in having a better understanding of how wordpress work. Thanks again
let me say thanks to you for your great efforts to liberate us from the hands of poverty may God help u more and more.
i really love to say a big thank u to u for this big secret u revealed to me for free, u are wonderful ma.i will wait for the next step to follow (as u promised to give me the next directive) thank u mama!
Mama you are wonderful, revealing the secret without charging for money. I can now see while you are the president of IMAN. Mama I love you and i will love to associate with you. God bless you and your family. Now i know how to create blog using wordpress. Thank U.
thank u for the simplicity of this stuff. i am waiting for ur next posting.i want it quick for i am so ready to put them to practice. thank u again and again
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