This document provides a step-by-step guide for getting started with WordPress.com. It outlines 8 steps: 1) Sign up and create an account, 2) Learn to navigate WordPress.com, 3) Choose a theme, 4) Customize settings, 5) Create posts and pages, 6) Add multimedia, 7) Connect and promote your site, 8) Add a homepage. The summary focuses on the first step which includes filling out a registration form, choosing a username and password, selecting a web address, completing a profile, and configuring basic site settings like the title and tagline.
2. Checklist
1. Get Started (Sign up)
2. Get Comfy (Navigation)
3. Get Personality (Theme)
4. Get Configured (Customize)
5. Get Published (Create post and pages)
6. Get Flashy (Multimedia)
7. Get Connected (Explore and get noticed)
8. Get a Homepage
3. Get Started
• Go to wordpress.com and click on “Log In” to create
your WordPress.com account.
7. Get Started
• Click on “No thanks, I’ll use the free address
for free account.
• Click on for a paid
account.
8. Get Started
• In this guide I have chosen the free account by
clicking on “Create Blog”.
9. Get Started
• Fill out your public profile by logging in to your
WordPress.com dashboard using the
username and password that you have
created.
10. Get Started
• After logging in you need to click on user, the
middle icon located on the upper right hand
side of the screen.
11. Get Started
1. Click on My Profile.
2. Click on Save Profile Details after filling out
the text boxes.
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12. Get Started
• Now that you have completed your profile you
need to upload a Gravatar (which stands for
“Globally Recognized Avatar”) or Avatar. Your
Gravatar can be anything you’d like — a photo
of yourself, your website’s logo, a picture you
love, whatever. Bear in mind that it’s not a
very big image, something that has a lot of
detail is going to be really hard to see.
14. Get Started
• After clicking on Edit Photo” it will connect
you to the next page where you can choose
options on how to upload a photo. In this
guide I have chosen the first option.
15. Get Started
• Configure basic site settings
Okay, you’ve got a site and a profile. One of the two
most important settings you’ll probably want to
customize right away is your site title and tagline. To
get you started, we’ve given your blog the same
title as your username, but that might not be what
you want. And right now, you’ve got a generic
tagline like “This WordPress.com Site is the Bee’s
Knees” — time to change them.
16. Get Started
• Click on your dashboard, the My Site tab
located on the upper left hand side of the
page then click on “Settings”.
17. Get Started
• Under “General” tab, enter your site’s title and
your new tagline. If you don’t want to have a
site tagline or can’t think of anything to enter
right now, just delete the text that’s there.
18. Get Started
• After entering your Site Title and Tagline click
on “Save Settings” to save the changes.
19. Get Started
• Congratulations – you are now officially a
blogger, virtual assistant, or whatever you call
yourself. Either way, you’ve got the basics of a
site.
• Next step is to get yourself comfortable in
navigating WordPress.com.
