Whether you want to share ideas, start a business, or run a store, you can do it all on WordPress.com. No matter what type of website you create, these five steps will give you a solid foundation for your website to grow.
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Visit WordPress.com and click on Get Started to create your new account in a few quick steps. You’ll be asked to choose a name for your site to tell visitors what your website is about. Once you choose the perfect name, make it your Site Title in your General Settings. You can add a catchy Tagline here too!
By signing up, you already have a site address like yourgroovysite.wordpress.com. Go further with your very own domain, like yourgroovydomain.com. Register any available domain for free for the first year with any one-year or multi-year WordPress.com plan:
Make a great first impression by customizing your site’s front page (known as the homepage). You can load any of these gorgeous themes and then change, add, or remove any elements to make the design your own.
Here, you’ll meet “blocks” — these are the building blocks of your website. You can use blocks to add virtually anything to your pages: images, galleries, columns, videos, payment buttons, and much more.
Lean on the design expertise of others with block patterns — beautifully designed, ready-to-go collections of blocks you can add in just a few clicks for any kind of layout you can imagine.
Visit our step-by-step guide to learn how to customize your homepage:
Aside from the homepage, the most common pages on a website are an About page and a Contact page. Starting from your dashboard, go to Pages → Add New Page to create a new page.
You can start with a ready-made page layout (shown in the image below) and make it your own by adding or removing any content as needed. You can also start fresh and add blocks or block patterns to create your own layout.
The menu at the top of a website contains the links readers can click to find their way around your site. You can now add the pages you created in Step 3. Get started by going to Appearance → Editor and editing the Navigation block (or Appearance → Menus for classic themes).
If you have a social media presence, your website is the perfect place to promote it. It’s common to see social media icons similar to this:
You can add these icons to your site’s menu using the Social Icons block.
If you have completed those five steps, you have a solid foundation for your website. If you are ready to share it with the world, go ahead and launch it!
