How To Create a Free Website (WordPress)

Hrishi Parkhe
4 min readJul 15, 2021

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How to create a website? That’s was not everyone’s cup of tea when we look at the past. People were misguided that they need to learn coding such as HTML language in order to create a website from scratch. But things have changed drastically and now it is possible to create a free website or a personal blog without any trouble!

By the end of this article, you will learn how to create a website for free. If you were searching for the same thing, then it is happy to inform you that you have probably landed on the right post.

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Why Should I Start a Website?

I personally own a website, and I personally think that “now” is a great time to kick start a website. I have seen bloggers earn more income than an average person who struggles at their job. I have seen blogger who was doing blogging as part-time work, but later resigned their actual job and started doing blogging as a full-time job. It sounds really pleasant to the ear, isn’t it?

Many people think that running a website is a complex thing and needs a lot of hard work, but let me tell you that it’s not true! I would say that if you have a creative idea to put into your personal blog with some smart work can do the job. And you need to give yourself a little consistency in posting content regularly.

Reap what you sow, is the perfect saying to make you understand what it takes to make a progress at your website.

Things to Know Before Starting a Website

This article is focused on how to create a website for free as a beginner. It’s more like learning the basics about how to make and run a website. Before starting your own personal final website (which is not free because you need to buy a domain and hosting) you will start earning some real money.

We will make a free WordPress website in this post. Let’s get started.

How to Create a Free WordPress Website

To create a free WordPress website, users need to do the following:

Step 1: Signup to WordPress.com

The very first thing is that we need to get ourselves signup to WordPress.com.

  1. Click on Get Started.
  2. Fill in all the details that consist of Email Address, Username, Password, and Domain name, and click on Create Blog.

While selecting a domain on a free WordPress account, a suffix will be added as “wordpress.com”. For example, if you choose to select domain as “pcboy” then the suffix will be added as “pcboy,wordpress.com”.

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Step 2: Activate blog by confirming your email

Once you finish filling up your details, you just need to activate the blog. This can be done by confirming your email. Just click on Activate Blog, WordPress will send a confirmation link to your given email.

Visit your inbox at your email, and click on the email sent by WordPress.com and activate your blog by clicking on the confirmation email.

Step 3: Setup your blog

After activating your blog, we will set up your blog. Here you need to fill in some details like Blog Title, Tagline, and language as shown in the image below.

Click on Next Step after fining the details.

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Step 4: Customize your blog

At this point, everything is done and your website is ready. You have to work on blog customization, select a WordPress theme that suits your blog. Select any of the themes as you can edit the theme later.

Customize the theme as click on Next Step.

Step 5: Connect Facebook or Twitter

Here, you can connect your blog with Facebook or Twitter. We suggest you open a specific Facebook page or Twitter account for your blog. You can do this process later. Just click on Next Step.

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Step 6: Create your first post

It’s time to post the first post of your blog. You can start writing the post but we suggest you click on Finish as you can post later.

Step 7: Visit your Website

Now, your website is live on Google’s search engine. You can check that by typing your website URL in the URL bar of your internet browser.

Now your website is all set. You have to go to WordPress Dashboard to make further changes. Work on your website’s appearances in order to make your website look good.

What is the purpose of creating a free WordPress website?

The purpose behind creating a free WordPress website is to leaning the algorithm and how a website works. Suppose you wish to work as a content writer on somebody’s blog, you can use this free WordPress website as your sample work.

Conclusion

That’s how you can create your free WordPress website. You can take the help of website tutorials available on YouTube. It will help you explore more things.

That’s it for now, hope this helps! If you have queries, you can mention them in the comment section below.

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Hrishi Parkhe

Hrishi is a passinate writer and blogger who own pcboy.org website. while you're here, don't forget to visit our website.