How to make a FREE WordPress blog

This article will walk you through how to set up an attention getting, operational, sharp looking blog for free.

Instructions

1. Step 1

   First Things First
   
   Let’s start by getting set up with a website for which your blog will operate from. Simply go to http://www.000webhost.com/199682.html and get set up with a free website. Be sure to name the site according to what you want the name of your blog to be.

2. Step 2

   Downloading WordPress
   
   Now that you have your FREE domain, you can set up your site however you like!! If you are going the blog route, I recommend WordPress. This software allows the web crawlers from the most popular search engines, such as Google or Yahoo, to crawl your site every time you update your blog. The crawlers will note every word in your blog, giving you excellent ratings on the search engines.
   
   So, to install this software, go to your C-Panel, and click on Fantastico Autoinstaller.
   
   This is where it starts to get tricky if the autoinstaller isn’t working. Last time I checked the autoinstaller for the free domains wasn’t working, but you can try. Simply click the new installation button. If it is working the autoinstaller will guide you through the process (be sure to install in the root folder of your domain to make sure your blog is simply the name of your website – www.example.com – and not something like – www.example.com/blog.
   
   Now, if the autoinstaller isn’t working, go to this website:
   
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install
   
   and click on “download” under the Things You Need to Do to Install WordPress heading. Then download by pushing the blue “download WordPress” button.
   
   You have now downloaded all of the files you need, and the next step will be uploading them to your server.

3. Step 3

   Uploading the WordPress Files to the Server
   
   Now, we will upload all of the files you downloaded in the previous step to the server. If you are using this free service, http://www.000webhost.com/199682.html , provided in step one, follow these directions. Otherwise, use your ftp client to upload the files into the public_html folder on your server.
   
   Note: be sure to upload the files into your root folder if you plan to use the domain name as the name for your blog (i.e. www.example.com), and not as a page preceding the blog (i.e. www.example.com/blog).
   
   1) Log into your free account.
   
   2) Select the C-Panel under Action for the domain at which you would like to set up your blog.
   
   3) Under Files, select File Manager.
   
   4) Click on the public_html folder. This is your Root folder.
   
   5) Click upload. On the right-hand side, under Archive, click Browse and find your WordPress folder. Note: If your WordPress folder is not already zipped, right click on it and select Send To and Compressed Folder, before browsing for it.
   
   6) Now click the green check mark, and the entire contents of the folder will be uploaded to your root folder. Click the back arrow, next to the green check mark, to see the contents.

4. Step 4

   Installing WordPress
   
   Now that the files have been uploaded, the next step will be installing the WordPress application.
   
   Now that all of the files are uploaded to the server, you are ready to install WordPress. Though it is not the easiest thing in the world to do, it can be done manually. I will walk you through it:
   
   1) Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it. On the free website, at http://www.000webhost.com/199682.html, go to your C-Panel and click on MySQL under Software/Services. Fill in the blanks (whatever you would like them to be) for database name, username, and password, and click Create Database. Copy the Database, User, and Host information underneath, because you will need that in a minute.
   
   2) Next, go to your File Manager in your C-Panel. Select the wp-config-sample.php file and rename it to wp-config.php.
   
   3) Now select edit under the column Actions on the far right, for the same file, as we are going to make a couple of changes.
   
   4) Inside this file, there are going to be some lines in the script that look like this:
   
   // ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
   /** The name of the database for WordPress */
   define(’DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere’);
   
   /** MySQL database username */
   define(’DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere’);
   
   /** MySQL database password */
   define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’);
   
   /** MySQL hostname */
   define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
   
   Simply replace the bold words with the information copied from step 1).
   
   5) Then, replace the security key text that looks like this:
   
   define(’AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
   define(’SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
   define(’LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
   define(’NONCE_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
   
   With the text from the Online Generator found at this link:
   
   https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/
   
   6) The last step before you can use your brand new WordPress blog is running the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in your favorite web browser.
   
   * If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/install.php
   * If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://yourwebsite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php