After we answered a previous topic: What is WordPress? In detail, and who are the most important and most famous users in the world. Today we will explain how to create a free WordPress blog step by step with illustrations.
Sometimes the idea of creating a blog for beginners is terrifying, but through the following explanation, you will discover that creating a blog on WordPress is very easy, and it is not worth all the fear.
The explanation here is dedicated to creating a blog on WordPress.com… WordPress.com is a complete solution for creating and hosting a blog, so in this case, you only need an account on WordPress.com, and then you start creating your blog, and in minutes you can be done completely (All of this will be covered in detail in this topic).
WordPress.com has paid plans with a lot of advanced features and features, but it also enables you to create a completely free WordPress blog.
Before starting work, you must define some important points first, to facilitate the work afterward, and define the broad lines that you intend to follow, to achieve the best results in the future.
Points to be identified before creating a WordPress blog
Define the name of the blog
The name should be related to the field in which you will work, or related to the content that you want to publish.
You should also search carefully, and check that there is not already a blog with the same name. In this case, you should always keep alternate names.
Define a payment plan
You can always take advantage of the free “com” plan that WordPress offers, but be aware that your blog will be just a subdomain for a WordPress site like this: wordpress.yoursitename.com.
But in any case, you can always upgrade to paid plans in the future, so that your site name is not linked to WordPress like yoursitename.com.
Here is a link to the WordPress site that allows you to compare the plans it offers and their prices: wordpress
The choice in the aforementioned plans is due to the size, purpose, and budget of the blog. Here we advise beginners with the free plan, in the beginning, to explore the work first, develop ideas and measure the possibility of success, and when you feel that you are standing on solid ground and want to grow your blog, you can upgrade to the paid plan with ease.
Determine the purpose of creating a blog
You must define your goal for creating the blog before you start creating it. You must determine whether the blog will be for entertainment, marketing, or profit purpose.
You must also specify the goal that you want to reach through your blog, do you want it only as a blog for your family and friends and serve as an archive for your writings, or do you want to share your interests with the world and strive to reach the largest number of visitors to it.
This of course contributes to shaping the decision of which payment plan you want to sign up for.
Create an integrated plan for your blog
You can only achieve success with a solid and clear plan, you have to limit the number of times you want to publish each day or week, and you also have to choose between hiring other bloggers or getting enough yourself.
If you want to create a professional blog, you should also create a marketing plan to help others reach your blog and the topics on it.
Now you are ready to start with the actual steps of creating a blog on WordPress.
Steps to create a free WordPress blog
Fortunately for us as Arabs, the WordPress site is available in Arabic, and this makes the task of creating a WordPress blog much easier and simpler.
In the next steps, we will explain how to create a free WordPress blog in Arabic.
The first step
Access the Arabic version of WordPress by clicking on this link >> wordpress
Click on the start button, as shown in the image below.
The second step
You will be redirected to a page with 3 data that you must enter: email address, username (compound name without commas), password, as shown in the figure below:
Fill in this information, then click the blue Continue button.
The third step
When you click Continue, you will be taken to another page containing several other data, as shown in the figure below.
- In the first field, enter the name of the blog (choose a suitable name for your new blog).
- In the second field, write the area of specialization to which your blog belongs.
- In the third field, select the goal for which you want to create a blog.
- In the fourth field, specify your level of experience in creating websites.
- After filling in the information, click Continue.
The fourth step
This is as shown in the image below
The fifth step
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the ninth step
You can also upload your templates (outside of WordPress) via the free “FTP" protocol to upload files and folders.
the tenth step