How To Start a WordPress Blog With Siteground
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START A WORDPRESS BLOG ON SITEGROUND
Click on this link to go to Siteground*.
1. CHOOSE A HOSTING PLAN
There are 3 hosting plans which are:
- The StartUp plan is perfect for people with one website that are starting now
- The GrowBig plan is a great value for money offer, including the option for multiple websites and the SuperCacher that greatly improves a WordPress and Joomla website speed
- The GoGeek plan is perfect for people with e-commerce and larger sites, or more geeky development needs like staging and GIT integration
I would recommend going for the basic hosting plan to start off with until you are ready to perhaps create more blogs. I personally have the GrowBig plan*.
2. CHOOSE A DOMAIN NAME
Your domain name is the name that you will be giving your blog/website. Have a brainstorming session of the names that sound good to you, and something that I would recommend is choosing something that people would search for in Google, or even better – something quirky that people are likely to remember. You want to be memorable!
If you already have a domain name, then make sure that you check the box to say that you do and it will transfer over.
3. ENTER YOUR INFORMATION
Once you have purchased your domain name, it’s now time to fill in all of your information – pretty straightforward!
4. CHOOSE YOUR HOSTING SERVICE LENGTH
5. ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY CREATED
Congrats, you have now set up your account with Siteground! Now the next step is to set you up with WordPress.
INSTALL WORDPRESS
Within the Siteground site, go to the ‘My Accounts’ tab and then to the orangey-red button which says ‘Go to cPanel’.
Next, in the ‘Autoinstallers’ section, click on ‘WordPress’.
Next, click on the blue ‘Install’ button.
After you have clicked on Install, fill in the information on the page. You can see below how mine looks (you don’t need to fill in everything).
At the bottom of the page, ignore where it says about choosing a theme, I would recommend doing this within your site once it’s all set up. Click on ‘Install’ at the bottom.
If you have any questions, please shoot me an email and I would be happy to help!
This is so detailed I love it! So easy to follow. Thanks for posting this!
Thanks Alli!
Cool overview.
I love siteground! I’ve got through 3 different hosts and they’ve been the most responsive pre and post sale. I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon! 🙂
Thanks Michael!
hiya im so interested in starting my own blog but im so stuck with what to call it. i want something people will remember do you have any advice? im a mum of 4 a 12 yr old with cerebral palsy a 14 yr old with autism and a 7 yr old boy and im breastfeeding a 1 yr old so i want something to represent all of that??
Hi Emma, you could try these sites: http://wordoid.com and http://www.panabee.com which may be of some help 🙂
Just started blogging so this is a really helpful post… I have a wordpress blog but am looking at getting a domain name and siteground sounds a good place to host me!
Thank you!
It’s really good, I would definitely recommend it!
Hi Francesca
Just used your Siteground link after reading about a gazillion “how to start a blog” posts including the EBA bootcamp stuff. Wanted to ensure I went via a smaller blogger so checked your how to post as well. Thanks for the write up. Have also got a pretty theme after you highlighted there was such a thing. Keep doing your thing as we need more UK bloggers. My blog is still under construction – totally under estimated the work involved in the tech side – kudos to you for doing yours!
Aw thank you so much Emma 🙂
Great helpful post! Thank you! Is it easy to upgrade to the next package up in the future or would you recommend just doing it now?
Glad it helped 🙂 I didn’t upgrade but I imagine you’d just need to ask them and they would do it for you – they’re very good!
Good guide. It can be really confusing when starting a self hosted blog and you did a good step by step guide here. I kind of already knew my way around and choose the grow big siteground plan but your tips will help others im sure of it.
Thanks Lee!
Hiya! I tried to follow this guide but my siteground doesnt look like this. Has it been updated?
Oh no! It may have been since I last did this. I will double check, thanks for the heads up 🙂
I always to start a blog about people with disability I have struggle with this because of a bone disease that I have its call leg calve perthes and I all ways wanted to reach out to people that was in my shoes just don’t know where to start writing I guess i should where to begin.
That sounds like a great reason to start 🙂 if you don’t want to make money off it you could just start with a free site