blog

How to create a blog?

With these five steps, you can start your blog right away:

1. Choose a hosting plan.
   You don’t need a big and expensive plan to create a blog. We always advise bloggers to use our “Explorer” plan. It is a perfect fit for blog websites and has all the necessary features.
2. Register a domain name.
   A blog on your own domain shows that you’re professional and is more likely to attract traffic than a blog on a subdomain. It is often the best option to use the name of your blog as your domain name. After you have chosen your domain name and completed your order, you can log in to the one.com Control Panel.
3. Install WordPress.
   In your one.com Control Panel, go to ‘WordPress’ to install WordPress on your website. Here you can decide if you want your blog on your full domain (website.com) or a subdomain (blog.website.com). If the blog is an essential part of your website, we advise you to install it on your full domain. Once you have decided that, you can install WordPress and create your login details. Keep in mind that logging into your WordPress dashboard is not the same as logging in to the one.com Control Panel.
4. Select a theme.
   To finish the installation, fill in a title and tagline, and select a theme. A theme defines the appearance of your website, and as a one.com customer, you get to choose from our themes. You can always change the theme at any time and in your WordPress dashboard, you can find thousands of other, free themes. It is recommended to install demo data.
5. Start blogging.
   After the installation is complete, you can start blogging! Go to posts to create new blog posts and categories. If you have any imported demo data, you can find examples of posts here. You can delete or change these example posts when you don’t need them anymore.