Hostinger Tutorial - Create a WordPress Website & Blog (Step by Step)

Hi guys, I'm Hogan and in this video we are going to talk about

hostinger

, which is a service that you can use to

create

your

website

blog

or an online store at a really affordable price, so in this

step

by

step

video, I am going to explain how to

create

a

website

and

blog

in WordPress using

hostinger

. For those who are not familiar with hostinger, let me explain exactly what it is and how it actually works. If you want to create a website, you need two basic things. You need a domain name which will be the name of your website, for example YouTube domain name is youtube.com.

My domain name is hogan2.com. Your domain name can be your name or the name of your business.com. The second thing you will need is a hosting account. So hosting is basically where your website resides on the internet, allowing people to access your website 24/7 all over the world, so you can basically get those two things in hosting to create your website, so there are dozens of really popular hosting companies. So what makes staying here so special? Number one is that they are the most affordable shared hosting provider on the market with plans starting from just 1.99 per month.

The second thing is that they are available worldwide, so not only in the United States or the United Kingdom, but you can also get hosting if you are in Europe, in Southeast Asia, in India, Nigeria, even in Australia, you can use hosting to create a website. The third thing is that they also offer multiple hosting locations, so you can choose one hosting location. which is closer to your audience allowing your website to load faster and this will be an important website ranking factor when you want to rank your website on Google. The fourth thing is that they offer one-click installation of WordPress, so WordPress is really a popular way to create a website without any coding knowledge.

WordPress offers thousands of free templates and plugins that allow you to create virtually any type of website you want, and I'll show you step by step how to use it. The thing is, they also offer free domains, free emails and free website migrations, so if you want to move your website from one hosting provider to another, you can also request it for free and lastly, they have an interface really great user interface that makes it really easy. Use it with a great customer support system, so this will be a complete step-by-step guide on how to use hosting to create a WordPress website.

It will be perfect for beginners who know nothing about building websites and is also great for people. who already have hosting and are not quite sure how to proceed. I also have the timestamps in the description below so you can jump to whatever sections you need and you can also click on the settings gear icon at the bottom right. To slow down the video if I'm talking too fast or if I'm talking too slow, you can also speed it up, so if you have any questions, you can leave them in the comments section below, but let's get started.

In this video, okay, so to start hosting, you can click on the link in the description and that will take you to this page right here, so that's my affiliate link, so if you use it I'll basically get credit for that and That basically helps support the channel and the free videos on my channel so if you use it I really appreciate it if you don't then that's fine too so here you can select your country if you can find it. The benefit of selecting it is that you can select more payment options when you are paying for hostinger.

Usually if you don't see a country, choose the United States, which is perfectly fine and all the services will be exactly the same anyway, so here at the top you can click on accommodation. For this one we will select web hosting, but I will briefly explain what each one is, so cloud hosting it is. Basically, it's a more powerful version of web hosting, so it's great for people who have established websites and are looking to get started. Basically, your website will learn much faster and will also be able to handle more traffic, hence WordPress hosting. It is more or less the same as web hosting.

I didn't really find too many differences in terms of performance. You can also install WordPress on web hosting and that's generally what I recommend. You also have agency hosting so if you are a web agency you might want to look into that service but overall I recommend Cloudways for web agencies and I will leave a link in the description for that so here we can click on web hosting and we will move. down here, so we're going to look at which plan you should select, so the biggest difference is that here you have the only shared one and you can basically only host one website, so you can only create, for example, yourwebsite.com or yourbusiness. .com and that's it, here you can host up to 100 websites with the premium shared plan and the business shared plan so you can have as your website your friends' websites and maybe your parents' websites and maybe some clients' websites, all hosted in one. account and you also get more storage and it is also capable of handling more monthly visitors so here another difference is that with the shared premium you get access to a free domain which is included in the plan with the shared business plan you also get the daily Las Backups include the free domain and WordPress preparation tool.

Basically what it means is that you can create an exact copy of your live website and if you want to make changes, you can make changes to your duplicate website and you will know once it is available. ready and everything is ready you can send it to your live website, generally that is to prevent your website from crashing because sometimes if you are editing your website sometimes it may break something or it may not look good , like for example, you know. You could be doing things for your clients and you're editing something and you don't want people to see what you're actually doing because sometimes it gets very complicated and that's the benefit of using that staging tool so that you too get a little bit more resources.

If you scroll down you can learn a little more about what you actually get in the individual plans here, so here you'll have access to two cores for the enterprise shared plan and also more memory. I usually recommend getting the shared premium plan or higher for shared businesses. Your website will also load faster, so for this

tutorial

I'll select the premium shared hosting plan and click Select, so here you have basically four different time frames. You can choose between the month to month plan, it's not the best deal because it costs like 12.50 month to month, so I generally recommend 12 months or more, so the main difference is that the plan will renew at a higher rate economical yes Go for a longer term, so for this video I'm going to select 12 months.

I'm going to scroll down here. You can register with uh and create an account with your Google or Facebook account. I'm just going to enter. my email address so we'll set this up together and scroll down and you can pay with PayPal, Google Pay, Alipay or cryptocurrency as well and here you can enter a coupon code so I think this is going to save you a little bit too more than money, so you can type hogan and then sure, chua and click apply and that will save you a few extra dollars, it will probably save you a little more if you go for a longer term.

Okay, so we're going to scroll down here and I'm going to enter my payment details and I'm going to see them inside. Okay, so what you're going to need to do is set a password for your host a control panel area, so I'm just going to set that up and confirm that password, click confirm, so this is going to be the password that you're going to log in with. on hostinger so click start now and I'll select i'm going to create a website for myself and then I'll do it. I'm building it myself. Actually, I'm just going to click skip for this and then I'm going to click create a website, so if you already have a website, for example, if you have a website on godaddy bluehost hostgator, you can select this and they'll basically migrate your website for free so you can select it, so what we're going to do is create a website from scratch here. on the left and click select and here we'll install WordPress so if you want to install a different content management system you can also select this so we'll click select on the left and then here we're basically going to set up the account

wordpress

so enter your email address and password to login to your website so remember your password and email and you can add woocommerce later so woocommerce is basically a plugin to activate commerce functionality email on your website which I'll show you a little bit later, click continue here, so here you have a lot of different layouts and templates that you can import.

I'm going to click skip. I don't need a template. I'll show you how to do it inside the WordPress dashboard so you know how to use it, so click skip and I don't need that and that's it. Here, if you have chosen the premium shed or the commercial shed or any other plan besides the single shared one, you can claim a free domain, so if you haven't, you will have to buy a domain and pay for it. amount if you have an existing domain you can also select it from here so if you buy it like godaddy or namecheap you can select it here and then you can enter that domain and basically connect it a little bit later. here we are going to click select to claim a free domain and here you have to choose a domain that is basically not used by other people so you can't do like google.com, you can't do hostinger.com because that's taken so that we're going to try to do something, maybe create a website one two three, maybe that's taken, so one two three four and then we'll select the dot com extension, so that's generally the most popular and recommended one and then Let's go.

Click search and see if it's available. So once your domain name is available click continue and here this is important so that you can select your server location. Basically what this means is that the location of the server depends. about where your main audience is, for example if I'm in Australia I'll select the server location to be in Singapore because it's closer to my audience and that allows my website to load faster if I'm in Europe. so I might go with something like Lithuania or maybe Netherlands or something like that, so since a lot of my audience is in North America, I'm going to select this one, okay, I'm going to click on Change and here we're going to click on finish the settings, like this which here we're going to enter some details for your domain and I'm going to choose and enter my details so you can go ahead and do it yourself as well and enter your contact details so that we What I'm going to do, I'm just going to enter it quickly, like this which once you're done, you can click finish registration and that will register your new domain name so the next thing we're going to do is you.

You can click on manage your site here, so basically it will take you to hosting as a control panel, so we'll click on that first and you can also click on edit website, so where that will take you. It takes you to the login page of your website and basically this is where you actually build your website properly so this is with WordPress installed and this is the back of your website so we'll come back here on a second, but I just want to quickly show you guys, something like the control panel here, okay, right now, as you can see, it says that your domain is not pointing to hostinger and at the top it might say that it's waiting to activate for your domain, so Basically, at this point you will receive two emails, so one email will basically ask you to confirm and verify your email address with hostinger and another email to verify the contact details of the domain name you just to register, so for example, I just registered for the domain name creator123.com website and it will ask me to verify my contact details and I will make sure that you are okay with that and I will verify it now, once done, then the hosting will basically activate everything for you and So now they have given us a preview domain name to basically create our website, once everything is done it will automatically change to just your dot com domain name.

Well, right now you have this dot and dash preview domain once everything is set up. Then it will automatically change for you, so I'll show you how to edit your siteyou can edit your menu, so we'll close that and go back to this services page, so what you'll notice is that on this services page there's nothing transparent. header so overall I like it because it's very clear here so you can see the text very very clearly so what you want to do is if you want to have a transparent header you can go to the edit page and that's .

We'll take you to the bottom of that page and then here at the top right, click on Astra settings and then here we can go to advanced settings and then here we can set the transparent header so we can enable it like this. and then we can republish, click refresh and then click view page, you can click view page here or maybe you know the preview or you can click close here, click again on the settings permalink and you can also click on its link. From there also, like I said, there's always a few ways to do things and then your transparent header appears like that, okay, that's it and there's also one thing I forgot to show you is if we. click edit with element or is that you can actually edit the columns by clicking and dragging, so let's say for example we want to adjust the width of the column, so we can just click on it and you can drag it like that too.

If you want to change the size, it's very easy to edit, I'm just going to click the z command to undo it and here it's very easy to do, you can change it like this as well and undo it as well. Okay, so let's click refresh and click here and look at the page, so what I want to show you now is how to add a post for your website, also known as a blog post, so I want to explain the difference between pages and posts. because sometimes you might be thinking: should I add a page or a post?

So the main difference between pages and posts is that your pages are generally static, timeless content, so for example your about pages your contact pages may have different service pages and different product pages, so this Content doesn't really change too much over time and you can update it. From time to time, maybe you can update your service, you can include certain different things and you can update it once a year, but then you have a blog post, so your post will be more dynamic and the most timely content usually includes like a date an author and you can also categorize it into different categories and usually there is a comments section where people can leave a comment, so it could be informative articles like how to do certain things, for example how to lose weight, how make fried rice, um.

It could also be like reviewing the content, for example, a product plus a review, for example, you may be looking for the latest printer and want to know whether that printer is good for you or not. It will probably be a blog post. such as news articles or general updates about your business, so why is it important to write blog posts for your website? The main reason is very simple and is to generate organic traffic to your website so that with that traffic you can monetize it in different ways. You can monetize it by selling a product or service.

You can also monetize it with affiliate links and ads. For example, you might want to make fried rice for dinner tonight and you can go to Google and type in how to make fried rice. rice and you can scroll down and this could be a result that you click on, so you click on those results and this will be your blog post, so you have your title, you have your comments, you have the text. You have images, you may have videos, but the most important thing is that you may see that this post may contain affiliate links, so with affiliate links is that if you actually click on one of those links, for example , you know you click on Oyster Source, you can scroll down and You can also click on this rice cooker and as you can see, they have a link to Amazon, so if people read this and decide that they're okay, they need a rice cooker and they can buy that rice cooker on Amazon, then Amazon will pay for this website. owner commission if people buy through that link okay let's say it's like 30 bucks they might get a few bucks off of that so they're different commissions for different products and that's one way this site website monetizes traffic properly so you can do it like Well, if you are a service-based business, you could write an article, for example, on how to design a logo.

If you were maybe a web designer or a graphic designer, you could write content like that and people could follow that article and decide. maybe instead of you knowing how to do it themselves, maybe it's too difficult, they might want to hire you, so that's going to be the main purpose and if you use a tool like ubersuggest, you can find out how many people are searching for that. every day, so for example, here we write maybe how to cook fried rice and then you can set the location. I'll just do all the locations and click search and here they will show the estimated monthly search volume. there's about 22,000 every month of people searching for that specific keyword, so maybe 700 search for that every day and let's say this website here because it's at the top, it probably gets more than 50 to 60 percent of people click on that, so probably over a thousand people click on that every day because they're ranking for other keywords as well, so as you can see this blog post, they're probably making hundreds of dollars every day because There are a lot of people searching for that and let's say one percent of people click on that and buy the products correctly, so for example, you know you could do another one, which is like let's say you know the iPhone 13 Pro review and we can click search and then. here they will also have the search volume so that is the importance of writing blog posts - drive traffic to your website so you can sell them your products or services or maybe you can monetize it with affiliate links or ads to add a post is very easy, you can hover over here the plus new and click publish if you are in your dashboard section, you can also do it from here so you can click publish now, you may have a hello post world and In fact, we can just delete it from your posts section and we can click Add New at the top here to add a new post, so let's say, for example, I want to write, maybe write a blog post about how to make a free logo and then continue. here on the right side we can scroll down to categories, so I already added a category, so this is a layout.

You can also add a new one, let's say for example, maybe like YouTube like this and then add a new category and then you can select it, so let's say for example we select layout here and then we can also add some tags, so if You have a search function on your website, people can search for this article or help with the search as well. engine purposes as well, so it could be like make a free logo and then we can click on the comma or enter and then we can type in maybe the logo design, enter and then we can scroll down here and add a featured image for we can set that up, we can click on upload selected files and then we can select a file from a computer, so this one here, usually with the featured image of the blog post, I like to keep the same sizes, so In this case I cut it out. to about 1280 times 720, so with your other blog post featured images you probably want to crop them to the same size so that when you display them on your website they are the same size, like if you were building a house that you want.

Make sure you cut things very precisely now. One way to edit your photos is to go to a website called photo.com, so f-o-t-o-r.com and then upload your photo and then let's say, for example, we want to crop this image. here because sometimes it is too big and sometimes it is also different size so in this case the size is around 1900 approximately to 1300 click on edit photo and then from here what we can do is crop and resize of the image, so I'm I'm going to click on exit this and then on the left side we can click on resize and I want to click on this lock icon, so basically when we resize here we'll also edit the height, so you could do the following. 1280.

So everything around it is pretty good, you don't want it to be much smaller or bigger because then it will take a long time to load, so we can click Apply from time to time for what we can. What you need to do is click on crop so we can crop it more so we can do 1280 and then here let's do 720 okay um and then click apply so once you have your image you can download it to your computer, so click download. at the top and I usually download it as a jpeg, okay, and I usually click custom quality.

I'll reduce it to about 95 and that reduces the size dramatically, so you can see if I make 100 quality. Bring it down, it will change it a lot, okay, so you don't want it to be too big, so download it to your computer and then you can upload it here. Set up an image and we can scroll down and you can also edit. the excerpt which is basically like the summary of the page if you want and then we'll come back here and then what we could do is you can also set the visibility to private and you can also edit when you want to publish it okay and then we can click publish and then click publish again, okay and then click view post so you can edit and add content in various ways, you can do this with the default WordPress block editor by clicking here. and add a paragraph and then add a text, you can also add images, but I usually like to edit it with Elementor because I can see it very clearly on the home page and it has a lot more features to really design. post okay so it works like this like if you build a page that says how to make a free logo you have your image here and then here we can click on more and let's add just one column like that and then here let's click on refresh , click on the plus sign, so let's add some text so you can add some text like that and we can click again here, okay, the nine dots and then let's say you want to add an image like that and then maybe you want to add another text module, put it underneath and maybe you want to add maybe a video and you can do it like this so that's your blog post okay so that's the basics and you want to update it and then you want to click again here and maybe exit again, that will take you back to your blog post here and you want to make sure you update that as well and then here. we can scroll down, we can also edit the permalink structure, okay, so what it actually shows, if you remember before, we set the permalinks to show the post title and this is what will show the title correctly, a sometimes you can edit it because sometimes the title is too long you can delete part and click refresh also so you can also click on astra settings at the top here and you can change the layout of the content e.g. we could add a sidebar to it so we can click on the right sidebar and refresh it and take a look and see the changes there so it looks more like a blog post and you can edit the sidebar section to edit the sidebar section and show what you want.

We can go back to our dashboard and then we can scroll down to the appearance and click on the widgets. Let's click close for that and this will be your main sidebar. Well, to edit the sidebar basically what we do is we click on it and we can click here, okay, these three dots and just click on delete inherited widgets and maybe delete some others. uh let's delete maybe this one here, just delete that one and let's delete this one too. We can click. on delete also just add the delete recent comments button uh, let's just delete that one and then, okay, this is the search in the recent posts categories.

You also have another recent post, so let's delete that one and we can move it up. Okay, so we move it up and you can also drag it if you want to delete this one too, okay, so we have the categories, move this, files, delete that, recent comments, delete categoriesalso so you can check it. If you have any questions, please let me know and I will try to get back to you. If you want to log out of your website, to do that, we can hover over here and log in. okay, so you should do it every time you're done editing your website and this is what it's going to look like.

Okay, so you can't access your website to log in again. You need to type forward slash wp-admin, click enter and then enter your username and password, so thank you everyone and I'll see you in the next video.