In this course, you will learn, how to create a WordPress blog for free. This is a great opportunity for beginners to learn how to use WordPress. You will not need to spend any money on hosting or to learn how to install WordPress locally.

For this course, I will use 000webhost as our web hosting. They offer a free web hosting plan, it’s enough for small blogs and business websites. Once you reach the limitations you can always upgrade to a better plan.

Setting up Your Hosting

In this part of the course, I’ll show you how to set up your web hosting and install WordPress. As well, I will walk you through the control panel of 000webhost. You will learn what are the most important tools and settings that you might use in the future.

If you will decide to get a domain name for your website I’ll show you how to point it to your web hosting. If you are planning to use your website, and not just learn how to use WordPress then in this case I highly recommend you to get a domain name. This will help a lot for SEO and you will get more organic visitors

Starting With WordPress

After you understand how to use hosting, we will move to the WordPress lessons. Here you will learn how to navigate the WordPress dashboard. At first glance, it might look very confusing because there are a lot of different settings. I'll walk you through each section so you would understand how everything works.

From here, we will move on to the WordPress settings. I'll show you what adjustments you have to do if you want to have a proper running WordPress blog.

Since Wordpress is free and an open-source content management system, there are plenty of various themes and plugins. By using them, you can create almost any type of website. I'll show you how to install them on your WordPress blog and how to activate them. With various combinations of plugins and themes, you'll be able to create your unique-looking website.

For this course, I'll be using a free, yet very customizable, WordPress theme, which is called "Bam". Using this theme, I was able to create a nice-looking website, which you will see at the beginning of this course.

If you will want to create a different looking WordPress blog, I'll show you where you can get premium themes. These are usually way more customizable, but they cost money. From my own experience, I can tell that they are worth it, but you need to know how to choose right. And this is where I'll help you by sharing some tips for picking premium WordPress themes.