How to Create a WordPress Website or Blog: A step-by-step guide to get your website up in less than an hour.

by Lisa Groen

Get ready for a do-it-yourself, paint-by-numbers guidebook for blog and website design site that’s affordable, easy to change, and under your control.

WordPress is free website software, perfect for small businesses and individuals who need a presence on the internet but don’t want to spend a fortune to achieve it. Unfortunately WordPress does pose a steep learning curve if you’re not a natural-born computer genius. Maybe you’ve discovered that already! The authors did, as two entrepreneurs who turned to WordPress for websites and blogs. They’ve cut through the confusion to provide you with a guide that will lead you easily through the process.

Once you’ve built a site that establishes your internet presence, promotes your products or services, and gives people a way to contact you, the authors will help you delve deeper into the details.

This book will show you how

• Register a domain
• Set up a low-cost web hosting account
• Install WordPress
• Create a blog
• Create a website
• Set up email for your new site
• Install a “theme” for your site
• Upload a header image
• Create a menu
• Add additional pages and posts
• Understand the WordPress menu
• Link to sites like Facebook and Twitter
• Find additional tutorials on formatting
• Research high-traffic keywords
• Install “widgets” and “plugins”
• And much, much more

How to Create a WordPress Website or Blog has been rigorously tested by both novices and experts. This guidebook will hold your hand all the way through the process!

102 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 18, 2012

About the author

Lisa Groen loved getting to know Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt in her first historical novel THE CASSATT SISTERS, coming in October 2025. She is author of THE MOTHER'S BOOK OF WELL-BEING, a book of essays for new moms. Lisa's writing also appears in the textbook THE FOURTH GENRE: Contemporary Writers of Creative Nonfiction.

Lisa holds an MFA in writing from The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. She lives in Utah and shares city and mountain homes with her husband and their dog, George Harrison. They have a blended family of five adult children and one grandchild.

⭐️ Early Reviews for THE CASSATT SISTERS:

"The Cassatt Sisters is hard to put down, intensely revealing, and a work of art itself.”
- Midwest Book Review

"A well-crafted portrait of two famous artists, their suffering, and their joys."
- Kirkus Reviews

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