In this Bluehost WordPress tutorial i will show you step by step how to
purchase and set up your hosting at the cheapest price with my secret trick.
I will then show you how to register and connect your domain and lastly i will show
you how to install and build out your wordpress website on bluehost so if you're a beginner and
you've never built a website before then this video is for you at the end of this video i'm
going to give you a very special offer if you decide to pick up bluehost through my link
i'm going to send you my six figure blogger course for free as a way of saying thank you
this course will show you how to set up your wordpress website from start to finish it will
also show you how to adjust and tweak settings for optimal website performance and lastly it
will show you how to start driving traffic and make money from your site now let's get started
first you can click on the link in the description or type this into your browser it will take you to
my special discount page where i will show you how to get the best deal full transparency this is an
affiliate link i will receive a small commission while you get a special discount and my six figure
blogger course for free so it can be a win-win situation for both of us and i also appreciate
you supporting my channel so i can bring you more free unbiased and unsponsored content so
you can see here the price starts from 395 but i'm gonna get you a much better deal than this
so let's click on get started here are four bluehost shared hosting plans you can choose from
first of all the difference between their basic and their next three plans is pretty much having
unlimited websites and storage over the one website and a limited storage so first of
all you need to decide are you a small business or a local business that only needs one website
if so then i just go with a basic but if you're looking to build an agency or planning on building
multiple websites then you'll definitely need one of these three choices now normally with other
hosting providers what you get extra between the medium and the top plan is that the speed of your
website will increase with their optimizations but for bluehost that is not the case so what
you'll get from the hire plan of the choice plus and the pro is domain privacy and site backup
the site backup can be done for free using some plugins and i've done another video to
show you this you can just search on my channel so that's not required and for the domain privacy
this is a bit fishy from bluehost to be honest because they give you the domain for free
but then they charge you for domain privacy which ends up being over ten dollars meaning that it's
more expensive than going with namecheap anyway and in the second year bluehost is going to charge
you for both the domain and the domain privacy saying you're spending up to 30 a year for your
domain name and that's crazy to me and i don't understand why no one explains and tells you this
in their youtube videos they just want to cut out the purchase barrier so that you buy it quicker
so for me i'm never going to suggest that you buy domain names from hosting providers be it bluehost
siteground or anyone it's always best and cheapest to just buy from a dedicated domain name provider
like namecheap and i have another video here that shows you how to set this up if you need it
in this case i'm just going to select basic so you can either get your free domain name
only for the first year and you still have to pay for the privacy
if you type in a name here and click next but i'm going to do it the smart way and purchase my
domain name from namecheap so i'm going to use my own domain now type here the domain name you want
now click on next fill out your account information here
now we scroll down to the package information section
now this is where i'm going to reveal the secret to you to get an awesome discount so what you do
is you hover your mouse all the way to the top of the screen like you're going to exit it and
now a special sign up offer is presented to you and you can get it for just 2.65 and this is my
method for you to save some money so now i'm going to click on claim savings and if i come back down
you can see now my price is 2.65 but you will need to get it for 36 months and that's fine with me
as once you commit with a hosting provider you should always sign up for as long as you
can because the price per month is cheaper and when it comes to renewal time they always charge
extra so if you can get it for three years go for it you have the 30 day money back guarantee at the
start anyway if you don't like them you can refund at the start now we come down to the package extra
and i recommend 100 you don't get any of these because it can be done for free with
plugins now you can see the total price for three years on their basic plan is only 95
so i think that's an amazing deal in itself now we come down to the payment information we
fill that out now you agree with their terms and click submit and here is your confirmation page
now we can click on create your account put your password in
and create account now we can log in we put in our website domain and our password and log in
now this is the step they take us through to create the website so fill these out
or if you don't really want to we can just come down and skip this step
it's all the same so now once you skipped or filled out everything then bluehost will create
your wordpress site for you so technically our site has now been created with the domain
the next step you need to do if you got your domain name from namecheap like me
then you need to point the dns to bluehost what you need to do is go to domains my domains and you
need to click on here and go to dns and now you can see the name servers that we need to point to
is this ns1 and ns2.bluehost.com so log in to my namecheap account and from the dashboard click
on manage on the domain you want and now in the name server section click on custom dns and then
paste in your bluehost name servers there's one and two and then you just click on save
now it says this may take up to 48 hours but this is really the case i'd say come back in the next
five to ten minutes and it should be ready it should be no more than an hour so now my domain
name has been successfully linked from namecheap to bluehost we can set up our website so now from
the home page i'm going to click on launch my site click launch my site anyway okay now let's view
the website okay you can see here this is our bare bones website and we still have to do a few things
to it the first being our site is not secured so we need to install our ssl certificate right away
so to install your ssl certificate we go back to our home page of our bluehost click on advanced
type in ssl click on ssl tls now we select all and click run auto ssl success you can see here it's
been installed let's refresh that page and our ssl certificate is now ready to go and now the
next step is to install a plug-in on our wordpress dashboard to activate this ssl so we're going to
click on my site now we're going to click on manage site and login to wordpress now go to
plugins and click on add new now search ssl and click install now on the really simple ssl plugin
activate and before activating our ssl we need to make sure that our website is correct
so to do that we go to settings general scroll down and we need to change this
by adding an s and making sure it's the right website link
copy this over paste it in here and now we can scroll down to the bottom and click
save changes okay so it brings us to this page so we need to go back to bluehost
and manage site again and click on login and now we come back down to plugins and click on that
now click on go ahead and activate ssl this will make sure everything is secured on your
whole website okay ssl is activated and we can check this by clicking on visit
site you can see now lock is there and it shows a certificate is valid so our site is fully secured
and our website link is also correct now so we're ready to move on to the next step we still have
the theme installation and editing section to go but i just wanted to ask if you're getting value
out of my video so far if so make sure to hit that like button and subscribe to my channel
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now i will show you how to set up your website by installing a fast and free theme
with a page editor to help you quickly edit a beautiful looking site
so what we first want to do is go to appearance and click on themes
now scroll down and click on add new theme in this search box type in astra and now click on install
and activate so now we want to click on get started and now you see you have an option
to select a page builder i always choose elementor as that is the one i use and i believe is the best
one so now you can see these pre-made beautiful themes you can choose for your website so this
is how i always create a website is by finding a theme that most looks similar to what you want
to create and then you simply just change the text and the images and move things around a
little bit or a lot to make what you want right it's much much harder to start a full website
from scratch and no one really does that anymore these days so you can see here from the selection
there's all sorts of websites there's e-commerce websites there's blog websites there's you know
personal training website but i'll just go back up to the top and just pick the very first one
and go from there i think it's more like a blog website which is what most of us
want to do so click on that and click import complete site and tick delete previously imported
site and now click import just give it a little bit of time to install all the correct plugins
and that's it the site is ready let's have a quick look
okay you can see here right you have a very beautiful looking site and you only have
to change a few things to get started but of course elementor has three whole sections too
that you can replace for example this part with another pre-made section template no problems
so i'm going to start off by showing you how to change images
and text so we click on edit with elementor
and i'm going to replace the image but just to quickly show you everything is very easy to edit
on elementor because you just have to hover over each of the elements so if i hover over the text
you can just come and replace the text which i'll change here to dot com dollar my website
and you can change things here too but let's change the image right now so i'm going to
click on edit section and now i'm going to go to style and you see this is the image we're
going to replace now you click on choose image select that and choose the image that i want
and now click insert media now you can see i have another clean image i replace and it
still makes the website look really good so you can obviously do this for all these other images
and change them around to however you like it and even buttons you can change the text
then here or you can change the color again by clicking on the style
and changing the background color to another color maybe i choose green i can change my title
something like that if you're happy with that just make sure to always check your tablet view
and your mobile view and if everything looks in shape then you just click on update and this will
save all your changes and of course i go much more in depth on this in my six figure blogger course
if you decide to pick that up but now you have a good idea of the basics and should be able to
build out the website from here if you want to so now the next thing is i'm going to show you
how to edit the headers so click on exit to dashboard go back to our wordpress dashboard
go to appearance themes and now we want to customize our astra theme once we're inside we
want to click on menus and click on menu here this is where you can add or move around your pages
on your header so for example if i want to swap around the service with about then i just do this
now you can see it's been swapped around or if i wanted to make it a subheading
then i just bring it in and now my about page is part of my service page see another thing you can
do if you want to add more pages to the menu then you just click on add items and you can add in
either pages or posts so if you want to add in a post just click on the post either create a new
post by typing in a new post name and press add or just adding an existing post there so i will add
an existing post and you can see it appears here and if i'm happy with that then i click on publish
so that's how we edit our menu and if we want to change the logo you can also come and click
on here and in the logo section you just click on change image go to upload files select your files
pick your logo and now click choose image now you can see here my logo is there if you want
the size to be a bit bigger we can move that around like this and i'm happy with that so
i'm going to click on publish and the next thing i want to show you is how to add pages or posts
so i'm going to exit this and i want to add a post so i'm going to click on post and click on add new
and you simply just have to add your title in so that's my title and now my text goes here
it's that simple but if you rather use a page builder like i do then just click on edit with
elementor instead and now you can see we're able to edit our text add new sections we can add
anything we want it's very flexible and we can add videos we can add images anything we desire
so this is all up to you to play around with but this is just the basic of showing you how to add
a page or a post and once you're happy then you can either save it as a draft or if you're ready
for the world to see it you can click on publish and now if we go back exit to our dashboard
and click on the view posts you can see that our page is actually live now if you decide to pick up
bluehost through my link just make sure to send me your receipt to bonus dot com dollar dot com and
i'll send you my six figure blogger course as soon as i have confirmed your receipt it's that simple
from this video i'm sure you can see that bluehost has a very intuitive back end
which is perfect for beginners but what you may not know is that their speed and performance
is not all that great so if you decide to use bluehost then you need to optimize your website
and this next video is going to help you with that so check it out and i'll see you in the next one