Welcome to the first step in launching your WordPress site! If you don’t know what a hosting company is, don’t worry you don’t need to! But if you want to know what it is, it’s basically a company that has a building, or buildings, full of computers. All of those computers are then connected to the internet. A hosting…
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Start Your WP Hosting With WPEngine
One small step for man, one giant leap for man/womankind!! You’ve decided that you want to use one of the highest level WordPress Hosting products around. Alternatively, you could choose to host your site on WPLauncher’s hosting platform to get the same features at a lower price. Also, if you decided that you want to use Dreamhost as…
Start with your Shared Hosting Provider: Dreamhost
You’ve decided that you want an easy and cheap way to launch an infinite number of websites. In other words, you’ve decided to use Dreamhost as your shared hosting provider. If you’ve already signed up for WPEngine then skip to the next step or follow the link to How to Get a Domain Name. Now,…
How to Get a Domain Name
Now that you’ve purchased the host that is right for you, let’s move onto: How to Get a Domain Name for Your WordPress site (and in our opinion it’s prettyyyyy awesome and much more fun than the previous steps). If you already have a domain name, feel free to skip this step. But, you’ll miss out, because we’ve shared some…
How to Point a Domain to WPEngine
So, you have purchased a domain name and have decided to host your website on WPEngine. If you haven’t purchased a domain name, check out our post on Finding and Using a Custom Domain Name. Start off by going to the WPEngine login page and login to your WPEngine account. Then, you need to find the IP Address…
How to Point a Domain to Dreamhost
Howdy Partner! Now that you bought a domain name and have chosen to host your site on Dreamhost, we’ll show you how to point a domain to Dreamhost! If you haven’t bought a domain name check out our post on Finding and Using a Custom Domain Name and if you haven’t bought a host for your WordPress site then check out Picking the…
WordPress 5 Minute Install for Dreamhost
You’ve arrived at Step 5 – welcome! We’re going to show you the WordPress 5 minute install process for Dreamhost. If you have a managed WordPress hosting solution like WPEngine, you can skip over this post and move onto the next step, Installing Your WordPress Theme. If you are using a host other than Dreamhost, you need to follow…
How to Install a WordPress Theme for Your Website
The most tedious and challenging aspects of the build are over so congratulations, you made it through the gauntlet! Now, you get to work on the fun part and immediately see how cool you can make your website 🙂 . To start installing your WordPress theme go to: www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php in your web browser. It should pull up the…
How to Add WordPress Plugins – Starting with the WP Contact Form 7 Plugin
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Add the WordPress Disable Comments Plugin
Generally speaking, we don’t really love the default WordPress comments. There are a lot of reasons to use the default WordPress comments, but we can’t really figure out what they are! Instead, we prefer using something a little more sociable, like Facebook comments. When you get a visitor to your website, you want to make it…