Comments on: How To Start A WordPress Blog -Checklist

By: matthew scarlett

matthew scarlett — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:27:12 +0000

I’ve been blogging for many years, and WordPress is becoming so easy to use, and so easy to have a professional looking site. From your sliding headers (jquery) to creating an online store, you can do it all. I’ve never been able to retire on the income from my blog, however, now I’m very much a part timer.

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Bill@penny auctions reviews — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:50:24 +0000

It is so important to have a list made of all the things to successfully launch a WordPress blog. The customization section is where the real things start to happen. Things like permalinks, categories, plugins and doing this all with SEO in mind.

By: Syed Akram

Syed Akram — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:12:06 +0000

I’ve been following your blog for a while now and I always find a
gem in your posts. Everyday thousand of people decided to join blogging community, this kind of basic knowledge always welcome.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:02:40 +0000

I am trying to access your video mentioned above “How to change, edit, install a WordPress Theme” and it will not allow me to join the membership area…can you please direct me as to how to do this.
I would sooo love the info/help!
Thx so much…..

By: Eleisia

Eleisia — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:04:59 +0000

I’ve been planning to set up a WordPress blog for several months. I have free blogs but wasn’t sure how set up an independently hosted blog. Thanks for the checklist. Encouraged me to figure out the process with my hosting company.

By: nehlers

nehlers — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:29:57 +0000

You could also add have your ‘about me’ bio and photo ready to post. In addition, your Twitter, Facebook & YouTube channel ready to link. Core content ready.

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By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 22 May 2011 17:26:15 +0000

I wished that I had found all this great information on WordPress two years ago.
Thanks for the help.

By: Dave@online dating

Dave@online dating — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:23:44 +0000

Most definitely the easiest and most simple guide for beginners to start up a blog I have read – I constantly have people asking me what they should do when starting a website, directing them to this post would be perfect

By: Gleenn

Gleenn — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:17:21 +0000

Thank you so much Lynn for answering this query. Would like to let you know that I purchased a 1 yr web hosting plan with hostgator through you link. When I bought the web hosting from hostgator, I also requested for the transfer of my domain from dynadot (where I bought it) to hostgator which offers 1 domain transfer for free. Then now that I’m waiting for the processing which they said would take for like 7 days, I remembered reading this article of yours and went back here to check you answer. Do you think this is a bad idea? Should I keep my domain at my domain registrar dynadot, better than transferring it to hostgator? I’m a complete newbie to web hosting issues so I really appreciate your help. Thanks!

By: Lynn Terry

Lynn Terry — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:58:15 +0000

Troy & Glenn,

It’s best practice to purchase your hosting & domains from separate companies for a number of reasons. If your host goes down, you can always upload your sites to another location and point your domains there. If your domains are with the host that is down, you’re stuck.

There are horror stories too of people wanting to switch hosts, and being unable to move or point their domains when they are combined.

Also, a host is not a registrar, and a registrar is not a host – so getting hosting support from your registrar can be a nightmare. Not ideal.

Like I said, there are a number of reasons, but just know it’s common knowledge and best practice to order them separately.

By: Gleenn

Gleenn — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:15:56 +0000

Hi Lynn,

Can you give the reasons of “You always want to set up your hosting separately from your domain.”? I noticed that most promising web hosts offer free domain registrations. I’m curious about its cons.

Looking forward for your thoughts. Thanks

By: 1st aid kits

1st aid kits — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:04:19 +0000

Lynn, I forgot about burning RSS feed by FeedBurner and install a feedburner plugin to replave all RSS links to feedburner links on the blog.

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:44:29 +0000

“You always want to set up your hosting separately from your domain.”…can you explain why?

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