In this video we're going to set up
hosting with Bluehost. Bluehost is a
popular choice for WordPress hosting and
they offer lots of additional services
and help should you need that. In this
video I'll show you how to properly
setup and configure your hosting with
Bluehost as well as set up and configure
WordPress so your site will be off to
the best start possible. It's really
important to have WordPress configured
properly so you're not going to want to
miss that section. To be sure we're on
the same page use the sponsored link
below this video to sign up for Bluehost. If
there's any special deals or promotions
I'll be sure to include those below also.
Using the sponsored link costs you
nothing extra and might actually even
save you some money, and it provides me
with compensation so I can provide this
free tutorial series, so let's go ahead
and take the first step in building our
website by signing up for hosting and
configuring WordPress. Let's go ahead and
get started so it's pretty
self-explanatory when you go onto the
Bluehost website after you've clicked on
the sponsored link below, you just click
on the get started now button here and
then you can choose a plan. Now if you're
going to get your domain name with
Bluehost I definitely recommend if you
don't already have your domain name just
to keep your life simple to go ahead and
sign up for it with the same company
that you have hosting with just because
that way you don't remember where is my
domain name hosted with and who is my
website hosted with it's all just in one
place so if if your hosting company
offers that I definitely recommend that
usually the price for a new domain names
about the same whether with your
hosting company or with a separate
company so just keep that in mind. So I'm
actually recommend if you're getting a
domain name that you choose the prime
here because it includes the domain
privacy and the domain privacy basically
means that when you sign up for your
domain name they won't have your address
they'll have an address that Bluehost
has that'll just keep you from getting
junk mail, spam emails and phone calls
from people who you know really excited
that you started a new business or a new
website and just want to try to promote
themselves to you it'll keep you from
getting all that stuff and it's really
kind of a big time-saver just not to get
a bunch of extra junk, but of course any
of the plans are great they're all gonna
work great for helping you get started
building your website so just pick the
one that you think fits your budget best
do keep in mind the prices that are
going to jump up to afternoon
time period but hopefully that the you
know the initial time period will be
enough for you to get your site at the
level that you want it to be at so that
you're comfortable paying that extra
price. So let's go ahead and select a
plan. So if you're going to sign up with a new
domain name you can add it right here or
if you already have a domain name just
type that in there so they know what
your domain name is I'm going to go
ahead and create a new domain name I'm
going to click Next
I'm going to add in my basic information
here and this is exactly information
here that Bluehost is going to help you
keep private when you sign up for your
domain name and then just confirm your
plan here and to get the sort of maximum
benefit from the pricing you do need
to pick three years I'm actually going
to pick twelve months when you go ahead
and leave the default settings and then
all I've got to do is just enter in your
credit card information and click sign
up. Okay and then let's go ahead and go
ahead and create a password for your
account
I use it LastPass to manage all my
passwords I think that's a really good
idea for you to use some sort of
password management system.
I like LastPass it's one I started with
there's other great options like one
password and some other ones and then
I'm just going to use it to generate a
password for me go ahead and enter that
in. Agree to the privacy policy again.
Okay and so now here we are on our
Bluehost dashboard. The next thing we want to
do is go ahead and set up WordPress so
we can start building our website.
Bluehost and most hosting companies these
days make it really easy to get
WordPress installed because you know so
many people are eager to get started
building their website with WordPress.
Okay so to get started just go ahead and
click on the get started button right
here I'm going to turn off these plugins
that they want to automatically install
for you I don't think you need them and
then down here these are some options
that you can use where they'll install
WordPress and configure it for you but
the whole reason why you're watching
this video is because I'm going to show
you how to do it so it's a great savings
right there. Now if you just signed up
for Bluehost and you're eager to get
started on your website
just know that it might take some time
for your domain name to fully propagate
across the internet basically to fully
get set up so if you're eager to just
get started right now
so if you just signed up for Bluehost
for the first time and you just added a
new domain name you're eager to get
started just know that it might take
some time
even though Bluehost says that your
domain is ready to go
it might take some time for your domain
name to fully propagate and get fully
set up so if it doesn't work the first
time you try to install WordPress
you know just walk away for you know 30
minutes an hour and then come back and
then see if it's working it's just sort
of a tip it happens with all hosting
companies just the domain names take some
time to set up and it can take longer
sometimes depending on you know where
you are on the world and how fast the
domain name propagates across the
internet so just keep that in mind. And
down here we've got a marketplace with a
bunch of different themes but I already
have a great recommendation for a theme
that we're going to install later on in
this series so if you up here where it
says installation complete and we're
going to click here to view our
credentials and we've got as messages as
your installation was successful and our
we can access our website here using
this link here and we want to make sure
you remember that URL so you'll be able
to use that URL later to access your
site and then we've got our username
that we send up with and our password
here just go ahead and go to the backend
of our WordPress web sites let's click
on this and it said before you're going
to want to remember this actually you
don't need two slashes you just need one
slash this is going to be your domain
name slash WP dash admin and that's how
you're going to log into the back your
site back end of your site and we're
going to use that email address and
password that we set up click login and
since we're watching this video and I'm
guiding you guys through this whole
process on this is sort of a tutorial
that you can go through the Bluehost is
set up but you don't need that because
I'm going to show you how to do
everything that you need so just click
on this I don't need help okay so here
we are on our dashboard we've got an ad
up here for help which I guess is
through Bluehost
so if you wanted that you can just close
it by clicking this close button right
here
and then we've got just a few settings
that we want to adjust on our website
typical WordPress installs don't have
this marketplace this is something added
by Bluehost and I'm gonna use our own
theme and our own setup so we don't need
to worry about anything in the
marketplace there so let's see which
plugins Bluehost is installed for us
okay so under our plugins here a few
things we can get rid of so we can get
rid of this Hello Dolly plug-in the
jetpack plug-in is something you may or
may not want so you can choose to leave
it in here or deactivate it and add it
in later we're not going to discuss that
in this series it's not something I
personally use but there are a lot of
benefits to it if you're interested in
it and we're also going to remove this
Mojo marketplace thing because we just
don't need it I've got some great
recommendations for plugins and and a
great recommendation for a theme for you
to use and the great thing about
WordPress is that there's just so many
options out there and so many great
tools and you've got access to them just
through the regular internet so I'm
going to go ahead and remove that and
Akismet um is a great service I use it
on my website and it does help protect
your site from spam I don't think it's
something you need to have right when
you first set up your web site cuz it
takes a while for people to find your
website and then also for spammers to
find your web sites if you're trying to
save money in the short term there's a
fee for it I do recommend it but it's
not something you need right when you
first start out with your website base
if you're starting to notice you're
getting a lot of spam comments on your
site and it's something you're probably
going to want to activate and install
I'm going to leave that installed and
leave jetpack because I think that
those are good options for you to look
into to see if you're interested in it I
definitely use Akismet, I highly
recommend it and jetpack I don't use but
it is definitely very useful for some
people and something I kind of debate go
back and forth on whether I want to use
it on my site or not. Let's go ahead and
deactivate these two so you do it
by clicking the deactivate button here
or you can do them both together by
clicking deactivate up there and then
clicking apply and then after they're
deactivated we can delete them by
clicking on those buttons there and then
just clicking delete and then clicking
apply yes okay there we go now let's go
ahead and go down here to settings and
we can see here we've got the
title / website if we wanted to have a
special tag line up here we can add that
right there it's not simply it usually
displays prominently on your site but
you do want to have it set up because it
might show up in search engine results
and then whenever you change settings in
WordPress you also make sure you scroll
down to the bottom and click the Save
Changes button so the next thing we want
to do is want to go down here to perma-links this is probably the most
important setting to change on your
website this is going to really help
your search engine optimization
automatically and what we want to do is
we want to change it to post name and
what that's going to do is when you
create a new page or a new post on your
website it's going to use your URL and
then plus basically the name of your
post or page right up here and if you
created a great title for your post one
that's got search terms built into it
it's going to help search engines to
find that content on your site it's
really important to make this change so
click on post name here and then click
Save Changes okay and then that's it now
we've got the basic set up for WordPress
and we're ready to install our theme so
the next video I'm going to show you how
to install a theme and I will also
introduce you to one of my favorite
themes for building WordPress websites
that makes building WordPress websites
fun fast and easy so head over to the
next video
