Build a site in 20 minutes

This talk is aimed to empower you to launch your WordPress site. Stop letting unimportant things delay your website and jump in!

Transcript

1. A SITE IN 2O MINUTES HOW TO BUILD KRISTARELLA.blog
2. KRISTARELLA.blog JUMP IN
3. KRISTARELLA.blog WHAT IS THE TOPIC OF YOUR WEBSITE? Art Craft Entertainment Education Fashion Beauty
 Health Travel Food and drink Sports News Politics
4. KRISTARELLA.blog WHAT IS THE GOAL OF YOUR WEBSITE? Sell physical goods digital goods content Generate leads
 Advertising/affiliate income Donations Portfolio/resume Share interests Journal
5. KRISTARELLA.blog WHAT PAGES DO YOU NEED? Home About Contact Blog Topics
 Portfolio Services Team members Shop/Products Cart Checkout FAQ Resources T&Cs Donate
6. KRISTARELLA.blog WHAT OTHER ITEMS DO YOU NEED? Subscription form Links to social profiles Instagram feed Facebook feed Twitter feed
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7. KRISTARELLA.blog HOSTING - WordPress.com - Managed - WP Engine - Pressable - Flywheel - Shared - Siteground - Conetix - VentraIP DOMAINS - Hover - Namecheap - radix.website - WordPress.com
8. KRISTARELLA.blog INSTALL SOME PLUGINS - Backup
 UpdraftPlus, BackWPUp, XCloner, Duplicator, Jetpack (paid, formerly VaultPress) - Caching
 WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket (paid) - Security
 Securi, iThemes Security, Wordfence, Jetpack
 - Jetpack - Widgets - Social links - Facebook page - Twitter feed - Sharing - Publicize - Subscriptions - Backup (paid) - Security (free brute force prevention, paid security scans) - Image speed - Instagram Feed - Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, etc
9. KRISTARELLA.blog YOUTU.BE/R5YRJITLYGA TIPS ON CHOOSING PLUGINS
10. KRISTARELLA.blog CHOOSE A THEME - wordpress.org/themes - wordpress.org/themes/commercial/ - StudioPress
11. KRISTARELLA.blog FORMS.KRISTARELLA.BLOG/ BUILD-SITE-20MIN WEBSITE PLAN: QUICK START
12. KRISTARELLA.blog 20 MINUTE SITE STEPS 1. Install WordPress 2. General Settings 3. Install plugins (if needed) 4. Create pages 5. Choose theme 6. Configure theme a. Theme settings b. Menu c. Widgets 7. Write Blog posts (optional) 8. Add domain (if you didn’t at step 1) 9. Party
13. KRISTARELLA.blog THE PLAN
14. KRISTARELLA.blog STEP 1
15. KRISTARELLA.blog STEP 2
16. KRISTARELLA.blog STEP 4
17. KRISTARELLA.blog STEP 5
18. KRISTARELLA.blog STEP 6
19. KRISTARELLA.blog STEP 7
20. KRISTARELLA.blog STEP 9
21. KRISTARELLA.blog YOUTU.BE/QHI376FUTCU WATCH IT ALL
22. KRISTARELLA.blog TEXT PHOTO CREDITS - Christopher Bowley
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/dampowls/5173165907 - grover_net
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/9246159@N06/599820538 - Michael Arrighi
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/arrighi/8562416557 - other images by me