How to Make a WordPress Website FOR FREE – 2016

How to Make a WordPress Website FOR FREE – 2016


LARGEST HOSTGATOR DISCOUNT!: http://www.nyctechclub.com/hostgator/ Learn how to make a wordpress website 2016 – Step by Step! 🙂 Demo site at http://www.howtowebby.com

UPDATED VIDEO TUTORIAL: https://youtu.be/y1tpusD9UwA
please watch this new video linked above. it is up to date with changes.

ALL I ASK IS PLEASE LIKE THE VIDEO AND SUBSCRIBE IF YOU FIND IT USEFUL.

Text tutorial at: http://www.nyctechclub.com/how-to-build-a-wordpress-website-2016-updated/.

HOSTGATOR Link: http://www.nyctechclub.com/hostgator/ (affiliate link)

Video on how to set up email: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02i0I… (updated version coming soon!)

Google analytics tutorial: https://youtu.be/uzGAQXYXAXE

If you like this free version (which we use in this tutorial), you might love the premium Sydney theme: http://www.nyctechclub.com/sydney-pro/
(you do not need to buy this but might want to for the additional functionality it offers)

More to come…2016 edition.

7:40 – Step 1: Get Domain and Hosting

10:55 – Step 2: Go to Email Inbox

11:09 – Step 3: Log Into Cpanel

11:40 – Step 4: Install WordPress

13:20 – Step 5: Log Into WordPress Website

14:09 – Step 6: Download and Install Theme

15:04 – Step 7: Install Suggested Plugins

15:49 – Step 8: Download Plugins

19:44 – Step 9: Download and unzip all of the demo content

How to Build a WordPress Website 2016 – New and Improved!

20:28 – Step 10: Import Theme Settings
For help with importing settings watch this video: https://youtu.be/pf8Rh6-tCPw

21:34 – Step 11: Download and Install Lightbox Colorbox Plugin

22:14 – Step 12: Upload demo content

23:56 – Step 13: Create Homepage and Blog Page

26:24 – Step 14: Change Slider Images

31:41 – Step 15: Change Theme Option Settings

35:49 – Step 16: Create Logo and Favicon

41:00 – Step 17: Create About Section
For help locating your categories watch this video: https://youtu.be/bXxCeUsLQjk

51:05 – Step 18: Create Call to Action

1:01:03 – Step 19: Create Blog Post Section

1:02:40 – Step 20: Create Another Call to Action

1:05:46 – Step 21: Create Social Media Widget Section

1:11:11 – Step 22: Create About Page

1:28:29 – Step 23: Create Employees Page

1:43:40 – Step 24: Create Portfolio Projects

1:52:04 – Step 25: Create Contact Us Page

2:01:48 – Step 26: Create Testimonials Page

2:20:10 – Step 27: Create Blog Posts

2:23:39 – Step 28: Select Comments Options

2:25:44 – Step 29: Customize Widgets Section

2:30:17 – Step 30: Make Header Menu

2:31:59 – Step 31: Modify Footer

2:33:54 – Step 32: Add Custom CSS

2:35:10 – Step 33: Modify Permalinks

This video teaches you how to make a wordpress website in 2016 and lets you customize it so you can build it any way you want 🙂 You don’t need to know any type of programming.

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Where to get a custom logo: http://www.elance.com http://www.odesk.com (not affiliate links)
Everything you need @ http://www.nyctechclub.com

Hey everyone!

This video tutorial is going to walk you through how to make a website using wordpress in 2016. For those of you that have no experience on how to make a website have no fear…All you’ll need to do is watch this video and you’ll build something amazing and save thousands of dollars. This is some of the best work I’ve done so far in creating a design that I think is very versatile for a variety of websites.

Fyi: I receive a small referral commission if you sign up with Hostgator. This just allows me to continue to run my site and provide videos like this for you. So thanks in advance! 🙂

(Tl;dr) If you need help on how to make a wordpress website, this NYC Tech Club tutorial walks you through building a website in 33 simple steps.

I’ve taken a lot of the design features of professional and successful businesses to create this custom wordpress website theme for you. Just watch the tour of the wordpress website we are going to build and you’ll see for yourself! New videos coming soon on how to make and customize a wordpress website so make sure you subscribe!

We have new videos up on how to make a wordpress website on the youtube channel. Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss a new tutorial as we continue to publish new how to videos on making a website with wordpress. 🙂

If you have any questions about your website or what you’re creating/building, and anything related to wordpress – feel free to leave a comment. Enjoy this “How to Make a WordPress Website 2016” tutorial! Let’s get your website up and running!

Cheers and welcome to NYC TECH CLUB!

Jameson

Please send a URL to the wordpress website you are making if you have a question in the comments below.

ps by free (in the title) I mean, you’re saving thousands of dollars building this site yourself in 3ish hours. That’s a huge saving!

26 Comments

26 Replies to “How to Make a WordPress Website FOR FREE – 2016”

  1. Is there a way to change the title size on the blog page? Not the page title, but rather the title of the individual post.

  2. Following this youtube tutorial doing great. When I added services and published it worked great. Now it has totally disappeared from the website although the info is still sitting in services. Tried deleting the services info and added back in but again with no results on the live site. Anything I can troubleshoot before deleting everything and starting over?

  3. Is the Sydney theme still available in 2017? If not, is there a theme you would suggest for this tutorial? Wanting to keep my website super clean like what you chose with Sydney! THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!! One thing to add, thank you for an AMAZING TUTORIAL!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. Hello young man I can use you help. I’ve set up my contact page but I’ve sent test emails and I’m not receiving them, what have I don wrong? Also my website still has the wordpress login bar across the top, how can I get rid of that? Amazing video, thank you for doing this for us old guys!!!!!

  5. hello can anybodyhelp me here why is the username that the hostgator send me to signin to cpanel is not valid?

  6. Thank you for the tutorial video. It really helped a lot anyway I am trying to do the project section…can you explain to go about it.

  7. Hi , thanks for sharing the great video. I am getting spam of social media sites at the bottom of the page. Can anyone help?

  8. Great video tutorials , super professional and super cool way to teach !! Great Job thanks!!

  9. I don’t see the Services part. On the homepage where I have my sliders, I don’t see anything below that. Any suggestions on what I’m doing wrong?

  10. hello can you help me to record my voice form phone cells then attached with email from contact page like whats up >>>

  11. HI on the areal of changing css i replace it with the code from the line 32 ” .widget_sydney_latest_news .roll-button {
    display: none;
    }
    body > .preloader{ display: none; }
    .widget-area .widget {
    padding-top: 0;
    }
    .site-info {
    text-align: center;
    }

    #gallery-1 {text-align: center;}
    figure.gallery-item {margin: 5px; width: 267px; display: inline-block;}

    but the new button did not disappear , how to fix it , and after replacing with this code the side bar continue the same , how to remove side bar from certain pages independent to affect others ? Thank you .

  12. Help – Your website is down and I need your xml demo content download. Where can I get it?

  13. Hey man Im having trouble with the install, I didn’t receive the verification email even though I downloaded the wordpress.

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