Here are the steps and checklist on how to setup a spanking WordPress Website. For the full guide, please visit - http://red-dot-geek.com/how-to-setup-wordpress-website/

1. How to Create
a WordPress
Website

2. “Love of beauty is taste. The
creation of beauty is art.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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3. Hello!
I am Kaya Toast
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knowledge on.
You can find me at @kayatoast
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4. 1.
Hosting

5. What hosting? What is WordPress?
✗ You will need a server and domain name
(website address).
✗ Find a company that will provide you with a
server and/or website address to host your
website.
✗ Two options – Free and paid.
✗ WordPress is a popular free content
management system (CMS) that helps you to
quickly build a website without any technical
knowledge.
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6. Free hosting
✗ Simply sign up for an account at
http://wordpress.com for a free blog.
✗ But limited in many ways – Limited themes,
plugins, customizations, no technical support,
etc…
✗ Not recommended if you want to run a “serious
website”.
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7. Paid hosting
✗ Many good hosting companies out there such as
Bluehost and Hostgator.
✗ Choose a plan and sign up an account with your
chosen host.
✗ By “default”, they will provide you with an empty
website.
✗ You will have to install WordPress by yourself –
which is as simple as logging into the control
panel that the host provides and clicking on
“install WordPress”.
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8. 2.
Initial Setup

9. Select new theme
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✗Access Appearance > Themes > Add New
Theme.
✗Search for a theme, choose one and install.
✗Activate the new theme.
✗Go to appearance > Customize.
✗Play around with the many options and
customize your website as you see fit.

10. Recommended plugins
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✗Access Plugins > Add New.
✗Search for a plugin, choose one and install.
✗Activate the new theme.
✗Recommended plugins to install – Cleantalk,
Super Socializer, W3 Total Cache, WordFence,
YOAST SEO, Ninja forms, WPS hide login.

11. 3.
Simple SEO

12. Simple SEO
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✗Create 4 pages – About Us, Contact Us,
Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
✗Settings > Permalinks > Set to “Post Name”.
✗Register your website with Google,
Bing/Yahoo webmaster tools.

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Thanks!
You can find the
full length guide at
http://red-dot-geek.com/how-to-
setup-wordpress-website/