Making a wordpress blog

Making a Wordpress Blog

For this session you will sign up for a WordPress account.You will need to be able to access your email account to activate your blog. If you arefollowing this guide at home with email access then skip straight to step 1.If you following this guide at the training venue, and can’t access your email then you willneed to sign up for a webmail account such as Google Mail - http://mail.google.com/ (It’s actually worth signing up with Google anyway so you can investigate Google Documentssometime)

1. Setting up your account

Go to http://www.wordpress.comClick on

Choose a username and enter apassword, and your emailaddressMake sure that “

gimme a blog

” ischeckedChoose a name that will be usedas part of the web address for your blog and give your blog atitle. Remember this blog domainname, you will need it later toaccess your blog.The title can be changed at anytime.Then click on

Signup

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Making a wordpress blog

Fill in your name details for your WordPress account.Go to your email account andlook for the registration email thatWordPress has sent you.Click on the link in the email toactivate your account, or copyand paste this link into your browser.If you do not get this email, checkyour junkmail folder, it may be inthere.It is important that you activateyour account to finish the processof creating your blog.Your blog is now active and youcan start writing!Click on

to see the blogdashboardWordpress will send you an email with your login details and useful links.Save this email in a safe place, you may need this information in the future.

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Making a wordpress blog

Making Your First BlogpostLog in

to your blogYou set this address earlier, justaddwp-login.php to the endIt may be useful to add this pageas a favourite so you can access itquickly in the future.http://

YOURBLOG

.wordpress.com/wp-login.phpThis is your WordPress Dashboard:It allows you to make blog posts, change the look of your blog and control any other blogsettings.To create a blog entry, click on

Write a New Post

(Make sure you write a new

Post

and not a new Page)

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