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Nov 16 2021
How to install a theme in a WordPress

How to install a WordPress theme?

In our last post, we have successfully created our free WordPress website with the wordpress.com extension.

Now, we have to set up our WordPress website. Update its look and fill, and make it attractive.

So, here we go…

How to install a WordPress theme?

Step 1: Log in to WordPress

Step 2: Select the Theme

Step 3: Activate Free theme in WordPress

Step 4: Customize Your WordPress Website using Twenty Eleven Theme

Step 5: Customizing Site Identity

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Step 1: Log in to WordPress

First go to your dashboard by logging in to your WordPress Website, then look for Appearance, it will be there just at the end of your screen on the left-hand side as shown in the figure. Click on Themes in Appearance. Then You will be redirected to the Theme sections in the dashboard.

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Step 2: Select the Theme

Now, you are in the Theme section of your WordPress dashboard. If you had installed the Theme already then you may want to customize it. So, click customize and make your own settings. In our case, we want to install a new theme to our WordPress Website. You can click on All Themes to see All available themes in a free WordPress plan, or Trending or Recommended. It’s up to you.

Here we searched for a Theme with the name “Twenty …”. A list of Themes with the starting Name Twenty is displayed by WordPress. Just click on any one of them and you can have a live preview. Here we selected Twenty Eleven theme.

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Step 3: Activate Free Theme in WordPress

After the successful installation of the Twenty Eleven theme, now the most important step is to activate the design (you can customize later don’t worry). Just click on the Activate the Design free button to activate the Twenty Eleven theme into your Free WordPress website.

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A pop-up will be displayed thanking you for choosing the Twenty Eleven theme by the WordPress team. If you want, you can learn more about the theme by clicking Learn More button. Else, click on Customize site, to customize the site using the Twenty Eleven theme.

Note: You can have Open Live Demo, but we suggest if you have content on your website then it will be more beneficial.

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Step 4: Customize Your WordPress Website using Twenty Eleven Theme

Now we have to customize our site as we want it to look. Just have a look at the things we can edit in Twenty Eleven theme are

  1. Site Identity
  2. Colors and Backgrounds
  3. Layouts
  4. Fonts
  5. Header Image
  6. Menus
  7. Widgets
  8. Additional CSS

Note: The pencil marks in the above image while customizing the Theme, means you can edit that section. Just click and see what happens there.

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Step 5: Customizing Site Identity

In Site Identity, You can Edit Your Site Title, as we have given our website Site Title, Tag line, and Site icon in our previous post on creating a free WordPress website. Now, if you want to update or change any of these things you can easily do it from here. But our suggestion is you shouldn’t change these things often.

Now, you can customize colors and fonts as per your taste and website. Customizing Menus, widgets, etc., we will cover in our other posts.

Meanwhile, you just go around and start writing posts in Your free WordPress blog.

If you find this article helpful, do share it with your friends. If you have any suggestion or feedbacks do comment, so that we will improve it.

 

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Nov 14 2021
How to create a WordPress website for Free

How to Make a Website for Free in WordPress?

In our last post, we discussed writing the first post in WordPress, while writing the post we mentioned the WordPress Free account. So, we thought about writing about how to create a free website in WordPress?

So, it may help our viewers to create their own free website in WordPress and they can use WordPress and become familiar with WordPress themes, WordPress Plugins, and writing posts in WordPress. Then they can purchase any hosting and make their own WordPress.

Are You New to WordPress?

Don't Know What is WordPress?

Please Click here to Know About WordPress

Note: Free WordPress websites will have the extension wordpress.com.

Step by Step Guide for making free website in WordPress

Let’s go, and make our free WordPress website.

Steps:

Step 1: Go to WordPress.com

Step 2: Create WordPress Account

Step 3: Choose a domain

Step 4: Select Free Plan

Step 5: Choose a design

Step 6: Give your site a name

Step 1:

Go to WordPress.com

First go to WordPress.com, the best platform making websites.

When you go to WordPress.com, then either click “GET STARTED” on the top right corner of your webpage or click Start Your Website in the middle of WordPress webpage as shown in the figure.

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Step 2:

Create WordPress Account

After clicking Get Started, you have to Create Your Account as you create in Gmail, yahoo mail, Facebook, etc. Creating an account in WordPress is easy. You just have to write your email address and User Name and Password and click Create Account.

Hurray! You have successfully created a WordPress account successfully.

Step 3:

Choose a domain

Now after creating a WordPress account, you have to select a domain name. Domain Name basically your WordPress website name. When you type your domain name (like allwp), WordPress will suggest the related domain (here it suggested us all-wp. in, etc) but we want a free WordPress website, so just look down we got “ .wordpress.com” extension domain and beside it, it is written free. As we are creating a free website so go for wordpress.com extension free website.

Step 4:

Select Free Plan

After Choosing wordpress.com free extension plan, WordPress will show you again “Select a Plan” but we don’t need any plan, for now, so we have to skip the plans. Just click Start with a free site as shown in the image.

Congrats! You have successfully selected a free WordPress domain for your free website.

Step 5:

Choose a design

After selecting a Free domain for a Free WordPress website, you have successfully created the free website in WordPress. Now, you have to design your Free WordPress website. No issues, WordPress comes with thousands of free Themes. The themes are nothing but the layout and design of our website.

You can select the best one for your WordPress Website or meanwhile you can click on Blank Canvas for starting from scratch.

You can Design your website with Themes afterward also.

Hurray, You have successfully created a Free Website in WordPress.

Step 6:

Give Your Site a Name

Now you have to give your Site a name i.e., Site Title, Site Icon, and a Tag line for your Site. For this click on Name Your Site as shown in the figure.

You will be taken to general settings, where you can give a title to your site, icon, and the tag line for your WordPress website. Click on Save to save your settings.

Here You have successfully created your Free WordPress website.

Now Write a Post and see how it is looking. Worrying how to write the first post in WordPress? Don’t worry.

We have it for you, just click here for writing the first post in WordPress.

If the article is helpful to you do share it with your friends. If you have any suggestions and feedback, then please do comment with your precious feedbacks.

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what is wordpress
Sep 20 2021
What is WordPress?

What is WordPress?

what is wordpress

WordPress is a Free and Open Source Software by which we can develop eye-catching websites

Technically, WordPress is a Content Management System. It is build using PHP language with MySql as a database.

Now, We come across two terms:

1. Open Source and

2. CMS

Open Source Software is software that is free from copyright i.e., the software can be used by anyone for any purpose.

CMS stands for Content Management System. It is software by which we can publish, edit and delete the data over the website.

WordPress is a Free and Open Source Software by which we can develop eye-catching websites.
 

Technically, WordPress is a Content Management System. It is build using PHP language with MySql as a database.

Now, We come across two terms: 1. Open Source and 2. CMS

Open Source Software is software that is free from copyright i.e., the software can be used by anyone for any purpose.

CMS stands for Content Management System. It is software by which we can publish, edit and delete the data over website.

Who Developed WordPress? When it is Developed?

According to WordPress.Org,

WordPress started in 2003 when Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg created a fork of b2/cafelog. 

What Kinds Of Websites Can WordPress Make?

WordPress is widely used to make different types of websites. From a simple blog to an E-commerce website, we can make each and every type of website without writing a single line of code.

The different types of Websites we can make using WordPress are

  1. Blog: A blog is a kind of website where an individual or a small group shares their ideas or their experiences. A blog works on the pattern of the newest first post. WordPress is best for bloggers. Millions of bloggers use WordPress for blogging.

2. News Portal: News Portal is also a kind of website where news is published at regular intervals. WordPress is also handy in making News portals also.

  1. Wedding Websites: Wedding Websites are a kind of website in which the customer wants to display the Profiles they have in a different way. In WordPress, we can also make a Wedding Eye-Catching Website easily.
  2. E-commerce Website: Nowadays, Online Business is on the Boom. For Online Business a user wants to have an E-Commerce website. By using WordPress We can have an E-Commerce Website build easily with payments options and security.
  3. Discussion Forums: Discussion Forums are the type of websites, in which discussions among the users take place. The Forum may be Technical, Educational, or Question & Answer. So, these types of websites have many visitors and all of them are interactive, asking questions and giving answers. By using WordPress we can make Forum Websites also easily.
  4. Learning Website: Nowadays, many Schools, Colleges, and Educational Institutions shifted to E-Learning. They want to track the student attendance, access to particular content to particular users or students. All these things can be done by using WordPress with the help of themes and Plugins.
  5. Business Websites: All types of different businesses, different Websites can be easily developed using WordPress.

Who can use WordPress?

Anyone can use WordPress to build a professional website. Whether You are a Teacher, Entrepreneur, Free Lancer, Employer, artist, technician and you don’t know a single line of code, then also you can use WordPress and develop a eye-catching websites.

Why Should We Use WordPress?

WordPress Is Free And easy to create website.

How can I install WordPress?

WordPress is easy to install. To install WordPress you need to have a domain and web hosting.

You have to purchase good Web hosting with WordPress installation. And after that, you can install WordPress easily there.

So What Is WordPress? It’s The Best Way To Build A Website
More than 40% of Web uses WordPress for making their website. 
WordPress is free as well as priceless as we can develop what we want using it.

What are the Features of WordPress?

Some of the Features of WordPress are

  1. Customizable Designs: WordPress provides Fully Customizable designs in it by its themes and plugins. Almost every part of the website we can Edit that too by not knowing a single line of code.
  2. SEO Friendly: SEO is nothing but the process of improving the site visibility in search engines when someone searches anything. The Whole Digital Marketing is based on Online Visibility only. WordPress comes in handy in SEO-friendly content. By Providing sitemaps to search engines and by Plugins like Yoast SEO and All in One SEO, anyone can boost up their content in Search Engines.
  3. Responsive websites: Every website of WordPress is mobile-friendly, WordPress creates responsive websites i.e., whether the user uses a desktop or a Smart Phone or a Tablet, the website automatically adjusts to the size of the device. So, All the websites of WordPress are mobile-friendly.
  4. Easy and Accessible: WordPress is easy and accessible to all. Just You should have good hosting with WordPress enable in it.
  5. Easy manageable: WordPress is easy to manage, anyone can manage it easily. With lots of themes and plugins, WordPress is almost easy for everyone to manage in the way they want.

What are WordPress Themes?

WordPress Themes are the group of files of code and graphics by which we can easily change the layout and design of the entire website by just clicking a button and customizing the website as we want. Some of the popular WordPress Themes are: Twenty Twenty, Twenty Twenty-One, Astra etc

What are WordPress Plugins?

In WordPress, A Plugin is software that contains a piece of code by which we can extend the functionality of WordPress websites. In WordPress, more than 50,000 Plugins are present that can ease the work of the developer of the website. From spam protection to Search Engine Optimisation, a range of Plugins are present in WordPress. Some of the Popular Plugins are Yoast SEO, Contact Form, Elementor, Akismet,Jetpack…

Some of the Famous WordPress Websites?

  1. Hyderabad’s Biggest Online Directory Bajrai Online Solutions
  2. Sony Music
  3. Play Station Blog
  4. Hyderabad Rishte India
  5. Microsoft News Center
  6. The Rolling Stone
  7. SAP News Centre
  8. Vogue India
  9. Harvard Gazette
  10. Al Hilal Media
  11. Asre Hazir Portal

 

Stay tuned for more about WordPress and its themes and plugins.

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