Hi guys, it's Hogan here in this video
i'm going to be showing you guys how to
start a blog in 10 simple steps
so in this video i'm not really going to
be going through like giving you tips on
how to start a blog
and sort of give you ideas on what niche
to pick for your blog
it's mainly going to be a practical
guide where i'm going to show you guys
how to start
and sort of build out your blog right so
for example i show you guys how to get
your domain name
install wordpress and sort of install a
theme and customize that theme
to anything that you guys want so for
example i show you guys how to add in a
logo how to add in
images how to add in your blog post how
to add in your sidebar and customize the
look of your blog
okay so what i've done is i've also
created a resource page so there's a
link in the description
and that's going to take you to this
page over here how to start a blog in 10
simple steps
so the first step to starting your blog
is to get your domain name and hosting
so your domain name is just basically
like your website name or your blog
name.com
and hosting is basically like where you
store
your blogs files or your website files
on the internet so that
you can you know create your blog and
people can access your website and
things like that
so for example like your domain name is
your address and
your hosting is basically your land so
the land that we can actually create a
blog on top of
okay then i'll show you guys how to
install wordpress after that
so what we're going to do is scroll down
and we're going to click on get
discount hosting so if you do actually
use that link and purchase through that
link
then i'll get a small commission for
that sale and that basically just helps
me to create free tutorials for you guys
and give you guys a discount as well so
we're going to be using hostgator for
this tutorial now obviously there are
other hosting companies which you can
use
but Hostgator is really affordable and
they've also got live chat support which
is great for beginners
so over here we've got three different
plans now what i generally recommend is
just choosing the hatchling plan
because you can always upgrade later on
so click on buy now
and over here we're going to enter in
your domain name so basically this could
be like your name
or your blog name.com for this specific
tutorial i'm just going to do like start
a blog
one two three four and we're gonna click
on the outside over here
now sometimes if that's not available
you have to be a little bit more
creative
and then once you have found it then it
will say
primary domain and free over here so
we're going to scroll down
and for the domain privacy i recommend
it but it's not necessary
basically what that does is just hides
your personal details from
public view and basically when you're
starting like a new business or blog
a lot of marketing companies might want
to contact you and offer you like
services and stuff like that
so you might want to check that to avoid
a lot of spam
so for the billing cycle i recommend you
know choosing 12 months or more
that way you're going to lock in a
bigger discount but it's completely up
to you for this tutorial i'm just going
to choose 12 months
and over here all you need to do is just
put in like your email address
and your password and also here enter in
your billing information
as well as your credit card details or
you can also pay via paypal
so we're going to scroll down over here
to the additional services
so what i recommend is just unchecking
these because you can actually do this
for free
with some few plugins and you can always
upgrade to these
um later on as well so we're going to
scroll down to here
so for the coupon code um you can enter
in bonus code
and that's going to give you the biggest
discount and also again if you do use it
then i'll receive a small commission for
that sale
and i really appreciate it as well
because it helps support these videos
okay so over here just click on your red
and greed and then we're going to click
on checkout now
so hostgator is just setting up our
accounts and we're just going to wait a
few minutes
okay so over here i'm just going to
scroll down over here
and click on skip
okay so over here we can click on get
started and that's basically going to
install wordpress directly onto our
website
okay so sometimes your hosting provider
will actually automatically install it
and you'll get a temporary domain name
right so this over here
is your temporary domain name and you
can click onto that and can start
building your website
so hostgator is sort of working on the
backend to sort of connect your domain
name with your hosting account
so they'll give you this temporary
domain and you can start building and
creating your website okay so if you
don't actually see that screen then i'll
show you guys how to do it the manual
way
so what you need to do is basically just
look for installing wordpress so you can
click on install wordpress over here
or you can navigate to marketplace
and then scroll down to one click
installs
so sometimes it does change but the only
thing that you need to look for
is wordpress so look for that and here
we're going to select our domain
okay for your directory leave that empty
and that's really important so click on
next
and for your blog title here you want to
just name like your blog
so for example hogan's blog so you can
change this later on
and your username is what we're going to
log into wordpress with
so set that in put in your first name
and last name
as well as your email that we can use
for this account
okay here we're just going to check that
and we're going to click on install
okay so that's complete now so we can
actually log into wordpress so what you
want to do is you want to copy this
password
copy it to your clipboard and paste it
somewhere on your computer keep it safe
but i'll show you guys how to change the
password later as well
so what you can do is they'll also send
you the installation details
but we're going to click on login and
that's going to take us to the wordpress
login page
okay which is over here so if you ever
want to navigate to your login page
we can just delete the top over here and
it'll just be
yourdomain.com and then it's going to be
wp
dash admin and enter okay so what you
want to do is probably just bookmark
that onto
your browser so that you can log in
anytime so paste that password in
and then click on login all right so
congratulations we've installed
wordpress so this is the back end of
your website and where you control
your whole entire blog so there's quite
a lot of things popping up
um the first thing that you might see is
to update your wordpress version so if
you do see an update
click on please update now and we just
need to update to the latest version so
that
your wordpress is all up to date and
you've got the latest software
so we can scroll down okay it does say
you have the latest version
and that's all cool and if we go back to
the dashboard section
now if you do see something like you
need to upgrade your php version
we can go back over here and we can go
to launch cpanel
and i'll show you guys how to change
your php version to the latest version
just in case you want to do that
okay so you can scroll down scroll down
scroll down
to over here so we've got the multi php
manager
so it's under software click into that
and what you need to do is select here
and then change it to php
r74 which is 7.4 and then click on apply
okay and then you can just come here
onto your blog and refresh your page and
you should be good to go
so there's a lot of things popping up
over here what i generally like to do is
click on screen options and just disable
everything
um and just clear things up a little bit
okay
um let's clear this thing up as well
right and then we're going to click on
plugins and we just want to deactivate
all the
sort of plugins they install by default
onto our blog
so let's go over here select all and
then we're going to deactivate it
okay so it just gets rid of all the
clutter a little bit
and it just makes things a little bit
more simpler
okay so what we can do now is we can go
to settings
and click on permalinks and what we want
to do is we want to ensure that the post
name
is set so basically what this does is if
you create a post or if you create a
page
then the title is going to be included
in the url so
normally it will be like this like p
equals one two three and that's not good
for search engines
you want it to be post name always so
let's click on save changes
and then if you want to change your
password you can go to users or users
and click on edit
and then we can scroll down to the
bottom and click on generate password
so what i'm going to do is generate a
password that i remember because the one
that they gave me was a little bit too
long and i can't remember that one so
update profile
and then that's just the basic settings
i'm going to add it onto my browser as
well so i can
keep that all saved and let's go to
visit our website
and this is what your blog looks like by
default right so what we're going to do
is step number two where we're going to
install a theme
so we can go back to our website over
here so what we're going to do is click
on download theme
so let's download that onto your
computer and then let's click on save
and then the file should look something
like this right so if it automatically
unzips into a folder
then what you need to do is you need to
right click that folder and compress it
back into the zip file
so let's go back over here and let's go
back over here
and we're going to go to appearance and
click on themes so let's click on add
new
and then we're going to click on upload
themes choose file
and then we're going to upload this
theme over here so themify.ultra.zip
and open and then install now so this is
the theme that i use and it's sort of
like a multi-purpose theme
so you can literally create any type of
blog that you want
so i personally use this for my own sort
of website over here and you can create
anything you can also add like a shop or
anything like that as well
so once that is done let's click on
activate
and that's going to activate the sort of
appearance the new appearance
for our blog so let's click on close for
skins and demos
and we can hover over here and visit our
site
and then this is what our new sort of
blog will look like
so step number three is to add in new
pages and also create a new menu
so we're going to hover over here and on
the toolbar we're going to scroll down
to page
and click on that let's click on close
for that so as you can see we can't see
the wordpress dashboard area
so over here on the top right we can
click on the three little dots
just click on that and click on full
screen and deactivate it right so you
can always activate it
but i personally like this one and for
the title we're gonna put in home
so to create our home page and publish
so i'm going to deselect always
pre-published checks
right because i just want to click it
once and publish it so click on publish
okay so that page has been published so
over here we can navigate
to the plus again and click on page and
then add a new page
we can also click on pages over here on
the left and this is where we can manage
all the pages
so what i'm going to do is just delete
all these ones that they're pre-created
for us
right select all and then let's just
move that to trash
okay so i'm going to add in a few more
pages so add new
and you can create as many pages that
you need but it's going to be a little
bit different from post which i'll show
you guys later
so about and publish
and once that is done let's go and
publish a new page
so this one can be our contact page
and then click on publish okay
so let's go back to our site over here
on the front
and this is our new pages so what we're
going to do
is go to customize and then we're going
to click on back
over here and then we're going to go to
home page settings
and we're going to set a static page so
this basically means that uh the home
page that we created
is just going to be our domain url okay
so just make sure to set that in over
here and click on publish
and then let's close that for now so i
want to show you guys what i mean by
that
so if we click on the home page it's
going to be
just our domain.com rather than
domain.com and then forward slash home
so make sure you set that in properly so
let's go back and we can customize the
menu over here as well
let's click on back and then click on
menus
and create a new menu so we're going to
set in just a main
navigation menu so main nav and we want
to select main
navigation here and then click on next
and then click on add items
and we're going to select the pages that
we want to display in her new menu
so we're going to do the about page and
the contact page and depending on what
pages you want to display
for example if we have different
categories later you can add that in
later
and you can also add in your different
post later as well okay so we can just
close that for now and just leave that
as is and then click on publish
so if you just see like the three lines
over here and that's mainly because it's
showing the mobile menu
and we can just zoom out of our screen a
little bit and that's gonna show us the
whole entire menu
over here okay let's click on close so
step number four is to customize your
layouts
so i want to change the layout of how
this blog looks
so i want to remove the title and the
sidebar over here
and i want to show you guys how to
change the header designs and things
like that
so let's head back to our dashboard and
i'm just going to close this because we
don't need this for now
and just close everything here let's go
to themify ultra
themify settings and then let's click on
default layouts
so here we can change the default post
layout and also the page
layouts so generally i just open it in a
new tab
so i can see what we're doing and let's
click on default page layout
and for the page sidebar we want to
select
no page sidebar and delete this so let's
go back and select no sidebar
hide the titles as well and then we can
just click on save
and then refresh our page and then we're
pretty much good to go
right so for your header design let's go
back over here let's click on theme
settings
and let's click on theme appearance and
i'm going to change
the header design over here to the first
one called header block
and let's click on save and let's do a
refresh
okay awesome so if you want to sort of
remove this tagline and things like that
you can also go back over here and you
can sort of adjust
the settings so for example i want to
exclude the tagline
let's select it and let's click on save
and that's going to disappear
okay so for your footer design we can
also change and edit that as well
so let's go back over here and we can
change the footer here
so let's go back up here and then we can
click on the first one
the footer block and let's go and click
on save
let's do a refresh over here and that's
good to go
let's remove this one over here as well
so let's head back over here
scroll down to the very bottom and click
on footer text
and for the footer text 2 let's hide
that and save
and then let's refresh our page and then
that's looking awesome
so possibly i do want to remove this one
as well so let's go back
and do one last thing because i want to
make things perfect um
let's exclude this site logo for the
footer and let's
hit on save step number five
so i'm going to show you guys how to add
in a blog post sort of similar to this
where you have your title and you have
text
and you've also got images so let's head
back over here
and add in a post hover over new and
click on post
instead of pages so click on post
and here we're going to add in a blog
title so for example
um it could be like how to add
a blog post all right and then i'm just
going to click on publish
right and that's going to publish the
blog post onto our website
so i do want to show you guys how to add
in the categories as well so
on the right here we can click on
categories and then click on add new
category
so let's just say for example this is
like in the travel so we just put in
travel
i might just put in capital t over there
and add new
and then i'm going to deselect the
uncategorized and scroll down to tags
so whatever you're talking about within
the blog post let's say for example it's
a travel blog about
bali and then we can click on comma
and then we're gonna do maybe luxury
resorts all right so this is to help the
search engines find you and things like
that
so just add that in for now and for the
featured image we can click on that
and set a featured image so click on
that so click on select files
and we're going to click on this folder
here and i've already prepared some
images
and i might leave it on my resource page
so you can download and follow along
so i'm just going to open that and
upload all my images
onto wordpress and then i'm just going
to select this image over here
post number one and click on set
featured image
and then we can just update that post
so over here we can click on view post
now sometimes that disappears
so what you can do is you can click on
permalink over here
and you'll see the url that you can
click on so you can click on that to
view the post to see what it looks like
currently
and don't worry i'll show you guys how
to customize how it looks later
so this is our blog post so what we can
do is add in some text
so we can just click on turn on builder
on the top or over here
and i'll show you guys how to add in the
text some images
and a video so here on the left is in
modules and you can click it and drag it
and just click it onto the side
then we can scroll up over here and if
you hover over here you'll see that
you've got the row where you can drop
into the modules so let's grab the text
module and just drop it into the row
like that and over here we can just put
in text
so for example i'm just going to go to
lorem ipsum so lipson.com
and generate some dummy text so let's
just say for example
let's copy that onto our clipboard and
come back and
paste that in over there and then we've
got text right so
if you want to add let's say a heading
then what we could do is click on done
we could drop in like
another text module and let's do a
heading
so let's grab some more text over here
maybe this one
copy that onto our clipboard paste that
in and i want to set this to heading 2.
so on each page you should always have
um only one heading one and generally
this will be your heading one font
and then the rest can be like heading
two or three so that's heading two
right and then we can click on done
let's say you wanna add an image we just
look for image
drop it below and then we um find the
image that we want to upload let's say
for example this one over here
and insert and then we've got our image
so we can click on done and if you want
to add like a video
a youtube video we can also drop in a
video module
over here and just drop it below and we
can go to youtube
if you do want to upload videos upload
it to youtube first and then
what you can do is just copy the link
directly from the top
oops pause that video copy that
and then come back over here and then
what we could do is just
paste in that video and that's going to
change
right so we can also zoom out the page a
little bit or the post
and we can move things around like drag
it and drop it like that
and we can also zoom back in a little
bit and let's say you want to add some
padding we can also
hover over here you'll see the blue we
just drag it and add
maybe some spacing okay which is called
padding
20 pixels and i think that's fine and
that's looking pretty good
right so if you want to link it to like
another page
somewhere on your website so we're going
to click into the module
let's say we want to link this text over
here
okay so select the text and click on the
insert link
button click on that and just paste in
the url there
so let's say for example you have an
affiliate link or you want to link to
another page or another
blog page we can just copy over that
link so let's say we want to link it to
here
just copy the url come back over here
and just
paste that in and then we can also click
on link options
and if you've actually created like a
lot of blog posts then you can actually
find it over here as well
just by searching over here so i'm going
to open it in a new tab
and update right so that's going to add
a link within our blog post
so you can add as many links as you need
we're going to click on done
and that should be good to go so i'm
going to click on save
and i'm going to add in just two more
blog posts and then i'll show you guys
how to display your blog post anywhere
on your website
let's close that so we can go and add
posts over here but you can go back to
your dashboard
and this way we can also manage all our
post over here so click
on that and here we've got the default
hello world post
by default wordpress installs it for us
we just want to trash that because we
don't need it
and we can go ahead and click on add new
and i'm just going to add in two more
blog posts and then i'll come back
so step number six is how to display
your post on your home page
so i've added in all my blog posts let's
say we go back
to and visit our website over here now
you can't see our blog post
right because we haven't set it to
display
so let's click on turn on builder so
once we turn on the builder
then we can hover over here and we can
look for post
so let's look for post over here and we
can drag it and drop it into here
so drag it and drop it and that's going
to display your blog post
right so let's say if you want to have a
sidebar on the right hand side or on the
left hand side doesn't really matter
we can hover over here the gear icon and
we can set the columns to
something like this so on the left here
we've got the main sort of body section
where we display the blog post
on the right we're going to add in our
sidebar so we can click
into this module again and we can change
the layout of the blog
so it could be like that or it could be
like this
you can arrange it to anything that you
guys like or something like that
okay so let's go back and just change it
to the default one which is
completely fine and looks pretty good so
the other thing i want to do
is we're going to scroll down and maybe
you want to hide certain things so
let's say for example you want to hide
the summary over here
that is the display and we can change it
to none like that and that's going to
hide
the text and things like that so i'm
going to display excerpt just a little
bit of that
and the thing i want to remove is maybe
the post meta
so the post meta is maybe this one over
here let's
click on that and that's going to hide
it all right so i'm also going to align
everything into the middle
so what we could do is click on the sort
of uh brush icon or the paintbrush icon
styling
font and we're going to align the text
to the middle
like that so that looks a lot better now
and here let's display our sidebar so
let's click on done
and display your sidebar we can click on
widgetized over here
and click it and drag it and move it
over here and drop it
okay so for the widget ties area i'm
going to select sidebar
over here and this is your sidebar
section
all right so that's looking pretty good
let's zoom out of our screen a little
bit so we can see
how that looks okay
so step number seven is how to customize
the sidebar section
so if you see on most blogs you've
probably got like a featured image over
here
maybe a little bit about text and maybe
you've got categories
and also a subscribe to email or
anything like that
so how to customize it's really really
simple
so we can hover over here and we can
click on widgets
right so let's click over there let's
zoom into our screen a little bit
and here is your sidebar section so what
i'm going to do is just open a new tab
again
and here is your sidebar widget section
so we're going to remove
certain things because it's just we
don't need it like for example this
thing over here we don't need that
we don't need this thing over here we
don't really need that either
so let's go back and we can just remove
it so
let's say for example the meta which is
deleted
categories we can leave archives let's
delete that
recent comments we're going to delete
and recent post that depends on you so
you can just save it if you need to
i just keep it nice and simple and what
we're going to do is let's drag in let's
say
image so where is the image i over here
so the widget drag it and drop it into
here
and add an image let's click on
this one over here and then add to
widget so something like that so i might
click on edit image
and i'm going to set it to
this one maybe so a little bit higher
quality right and then update
and then you can also link it to
something which i'll show you a little
bit later so let's click on save
and done so now we're going to add in
maybe a text module
so this one over here so let's drag it
below that widget
and we can do like about me and then we
can paste some text in here so
i'm going to grab some dummy text so get
me
yep just that and copy that to clipboard
let's come back over here and let's
paste that in
so let's click on save
and then click on done so let's refresh
our page
and that's just the basics of it right
so that's the really really basics of it
now the next step is i'll show you guys
how to add like a little banner
so for example you might have a little
banner like this like how to start a
blog or
you know you've got different
advertisements maybe you're linking to
affiliate marketing sort of products
like amazon affiliate product and things
like that
so let's go back over here and
what we're going to do is we can just
drag in another image module
so let's grab the image over here and
drag it
below there okay
and then add image so i just created
this banner on canva.com
so i'll also leave a link in the
description or on that resource page
sort of show you guys how to create a
logo and a fab icon so canva you can
literally create anything
for your blog um really really useful
tool
so set that in and add to widget and
then you've got your banner
okay so this banner could be for
anything you can just create your banner
and then you can link it
so i logged into my amazon associates so
let's just say for example we click on
business and money
and we want to link it to that product
so we just select it
and let's say for example atomic habits
we can click on get link
and that's going to generate an
affiliate link and basically if someone
purchases through that link
then you get a commission for that sale
so we can just click on like text only
and then what we could do is we can
click on the short link
and just copy that link over here and
come back over here
and we're going to paste it into here
and then click on save
right so we can click on done and then
that is your affiliate link
right so that can be the same for any
affiliate link that you want to add
and then let's come back over here and
refresh
and then you've got your banner okay so
i'll show you guys how to add in an
email opt-in
really quickly as well so if you guys
want to add in an email opt-in to
collect emails and then you can send out
newsletters and things like that
then what i recommend is probably
signing up with mailchimp for free
and then you can just log into your
account and then what you need to do
is we can click over here click on
profile and we just need to get
the api to sort of connect your website
together so we can click on
extras i believe and api key and then we
just copy that api
so let's just grab that link and copy
that
let's come back over here and let's go
back to dashboard
and we need to add it to our website so
themify ultra
themify settings and then let's go
to the integration api so
click on opt-in and obviously you can um
sort of connect it with other things as
well like convertkit or get response
let's click on that and let's just paste
that in so that's connected
and let's click on save so let's go back
onto our site over here
and let's turn on our builder
and let's look for the opt-in form over
here and let's say we want to add it
onto the side over here we can just grab
it
and just sort of drag it and put it
under there okay and that's your opt-in
form
so over here it will automatically
connect to the mailchimp and also the
list
and then you can also select you know
how it looks and customize it
right so i'm going to make like a
separate tutorial on this um to show you
guys how to
you know sort of style it properly um
generally i just
you know click it like that and then you
can go to styling over here
and then you can change the style like
the background and the buttons and
things like that
so i didn't want to make this video too
long because that's going to take like
5-10 minutes
to sort of style it i'm just gonna um
delete this for now
but that's just the basics of it so step
number eight is to add in your logo
and your fav icon which is the little
icon that you see over here
so right now we've got like a little
cartoon alligator because that's
hostgator
here we've got like a little dollar sign
here we've got l
youtube's got this youtube one so to add
a logo let's click on customize over
here
and then let's click on site logo and
click on site logo
and here if you don't have a logo yet
then just put in site title
um we can click on logo image and click
on plus
and then we're going to upload this logo
over here right so make sure it's a png
file
so like i said before i've also um you
know gonna put the video over here as
well so you can click into it and learn
how to create your own logo
um let's go and insert image and let's
resize that a little bit because that's
too big so let's do like 2
56 like that which is fine
and let's click on publish so that's how
you add a logo
and if we see we we scroll down you'll
see that their
header like sticky on the top like that
so that is your sticky header
so if you want to sort of customize that
we can
click on sticky header over here right
so sometimes you might not see it you
might need to click on advanced options
click on the sticky header logo add that
logo in again
and then we're going to change that size
to just a little bit smaller so
half that size so one two eight
like that okay so it's going to be
smaller so let's click on publish
the other thing which is really
important is the site tagline
so click on site tagline and you want to
change the tagline which is basically
like
the title of your website so for example
if we go to this blog over here and
let's click on the home page
so if we hover on the tab over here then
you'll see the title
of the blog which is making sense of
sense and then a personal finance blog
so that's your tagline
let's go back over here and let's just
say this one is like a
travel lifestyle
oops let's go back up here lifestyle
and food blog something like that
all right so let's click on publish
and then that's pretty good right so
let's close it
and then let's say if we hover on on our
tab over here
then we should see it okay so let's go
change the fab icon so let's go back to
dashboard
and let's click on themify settings
so fab icon click on that and click on
upload
and then we're going to choose this one
over here like this
and then we're going to open so for
example if it doesn't work
then what you can do let's click on save
first is go to media
and this is if it doesn't work because
sometimes it doesn't work for some
reason
i don't know why but we can just upload
the fab icon over here
and then copy that url right click on
that
come back to the themify settings and
just paste it in manually and then save
right so you can see the little plane
there that's the little fab icon
and that's looking pretty good so make
sure that's like a png file if you want
it to be like that
okay so i'm really excited about this
part because i think this part is the
fun part of the tutorial where we get to
customize and change the fonts and style
of our website
so the first thing that we can do is we
can go to like another website that we
like
and we can download a chrome extension
called what font and you can actually
hover over
like the fonts to see what font they're
using so you can
find out exactly what fonts are using
and just apply it onto your own website
so that you can get a similar style so
let's head back over here
on our own blog and we need to turn on
the customize section over here
and then what we can do is we can click
on the advanced tab if you want to show
more options sometimes
you do need to click on that if you want
to change more things on your website so
let's say for example we want to change
the body
so click on body body font and right now
my favorite font is
monster rats and we're going to select
that and that's going to change the
style of the body of your website
okay so let's change the font weight to
normal because that's a little bit too
thin
and let's change the size to 14. so i
want to make it a little bit more modern
and i think
making it smaller does do that so
we can do that and then we can minimize
it now we want to change the body link
color
so right now i think it's like a red so
let's change that so click on that
and let's change it to maybe like a pink
maybe like a
darker sort of pink something like
that okay you can change it to any color
that you like but
don't try to change it to too many
different colors trying to keep it all
sort of the same style
so like maybe choose like a main color
and then like an accent color
and then just use two colors on your
website so for example i've got a little
bit of pink there
and then i've got pink links over here
and then i've got that color over here
as well
so that's really cool and you can also
change the body link hover as well if
you need to right now it's just the
default with the underline
so let's minimize that so the next thing
i want to change is maybe the blog
titles
so we can go to the post and post title
and let's just change this one to play
fair
display like that which i think is
pretty cool makes it nice and elegant
and you can also edit it as well but i'm
not going to go too much detail into
that
let's scroll down and let's see what
else we need to change so let's click
into the blog post this one over here
and what i generally like to do is
actually change the sort of
heading 1 fonts as well like heading 1
and heading 2 fonts
so for example whenever you add like a
heading font then it's going to
keep that same style so let's minimize
that and let's go to headings
and this is a heading 2 so we can
actually just right click it
and let's click on inspect
and you'll see the heading 2 tag so h2
h2
right and let's go back over here let's
click on heading 2
and let's just change it to the same
style so we keep the sort of headings
the same style
similar to this over here and you can
edit it however you like as well maybe
reduce the size a little bit or
whatever you need to do so let's click
on publish
and let's head back to our home page and
there's something that i want to show
you guys which
i think some of you might want to do so
let's go to the sort of page with so we
can do that by going to
layout and we can't see it over there so
we can click on more options
so we can go to layout containers over
here and click onto that and let's click
on page width
and let's change the width of that to
maybe 950
oops 950
and that just makes it a little bit
skinnier okay so it brings it in a
little bit
and it makes it a little bit more sort
of minimal feeling
so if we change it to like you know like
let's say like 850
then it might be a little bit too much
so let's just keep it 950 i personally
think that's
pretty decent and then click on publish
and then let's close that so step number
10 is to actually add plugins to your
website
so we can click on plugins over here and
plugins are sort of like applications
that
add extra functionality for your website
so for example like on your phone
iphone you've got different apps like
dating apps social media apps
productivity apps
the plugins are exactly the same thing
and
we can click on add new over here and
there are thousands of different plugins
made by different developers
which you can add for extra
functionality so let's click over here
and let's add an instagram feed so let's
search for that instagram
and then click on enter okay so we're
going to just download this one by smash
balloon so this one's got over a million
installs
and there are obviously other ones that
you can add as well but i find this one
to be the best
let's click on install and then activate
the plugin
and then once that is activated on the
left over here we can click on instagram
and then what we need to do is basically
just connect it to your instagram
account
so just click on connect and connect it
up so just log into instagram
and let's just continue and just connect
the instagram with the plugin
okay connect that one and then once that
is successfully connected
then what we need to do is we can change
the display settings let's just save the
changes first
and then we can click on the customize
tab on the top
and then here you can customize how you
sort of want to display your feed
so we can limit the number of photos to
let's say eight photos
and we can change the columns you can
also change the spacing around the
images which is the padding
to none if you want to let's just keep
it as default scrolling down
and i'm going to disable the header
section we're going to scroll down over
here
and for the load more we can also change
the color and things like that so for
example
something like that and then let's just
leave that as is
let's click on save changes and you can
also go
back down over here we can also change
and edit the follow button as well so
let's just change that to the black one
and then let's scroll down and then we
can also edit some of the settings
let's just leave that as is and click on
save and then click
on this tab to display your feed and
then all we need to do is just copy that
to our clipboard which is the shortcode
and you can also edit the number of
columns and things like that here
if you want to sort of display multiple
feeds on your website
so let's go back and visit site and
let's turn on our builder
and then to display the shortcode all we
need to do is to add in a text module
so it's really simple to do so let's say
for example want to drop it below here
or
let's say if you want to create a new
row we can add a new row
and let's drag in a text module drop it
into there
just like that and we can just paste in
that short code
and click on done so normally that's how
plugins work
you add a plugin and then just add in a
short code anywhere on your website like
that
so if we click on save and we close it
then it's going to display our instagram
feed
so scroll down like that and that's
pretty cool right
so if you want to display like your
social media on your website so let's
quickly show you guys how to do that
click on dashboard and then let's hover
over here click on themify settings
let's go down to social links over here
click onto that
and here we just need to paste in our
url so just grab your instagram profile
url
and all your sort of social media urls
and let's just paste it into there
paste into there paste into there so
obviously just put in your profile url
i'm just showing you guys an example
click on add link and if you want guys
want to add like
instagram because it's not here we just
add that in like that insert icon
and then all we need to do is click on
font awesome
let's search for instagram so you got
different brand icons as well which you
can add in
and we can click on save okay so that's
added into themify
now if you guys want to display it we
can go to widgets by clicking over here
or we can hover over here and click on
widgets
so what we need to do is to find the
themify social widget
which is over here click it and just
drag it
and bring it up to the footer social
widget section
and drop it in and then let's select
open link in a new tab
okay and select then we can go back and
visit our website
and then scrolling down you've got your
social media links down here
right so if you want to add it like
anywhere on your website
um you can add it to your widgets
section um you can also just use the
widget module like this
and just drag it below there and we can
select the widget which is like the
themify
social widget so like that one and then
we can do the same thing
and let's click on done so then you've
got social widgets over there
and you can also click on styling and
sort of align it into the center like
that as well
so it's extremely customizable let's
click on close
the final thing i want to show you guys
is how to make sure that
your website shows secure so on the top
here says not secure and that's not good
like over here on most websites it's got
the lock icon
right so we need to hover back over here
let's click on dashboard
and for this we're going to use another
plugin so click on plugins
let's go to add new
and then let's search for a plugin
called really simple
oops ssl and hit on enter
and then this one over here let's click
on install
and then click on activate okay so what
it's going to do now is basically going
to log you out once you click on this
button over here
so sometimes you might see an error and
that is because the ssl certificate is
not added onto your website yet
so what you need to do is go to your web
host and contact the
live chat support and ask them to add in
the let's encrypt ssl
onto your domain so once you actually do
that then we can easily just click on go
ahead and activate
and we're going to log back in again so
and then let's click on login
and that's going to show the lock icon
over here now and let's visit our site
to see if like the home page has got the
lock icon if it doesn't show the lock
icon
all you need to do is turn on the
builder again and just click on save or
edit something and then
just close the builder and then it
should show up
so step number 11 is to log out so
basically we finished this video for
those of you who do want to watch
additional videos where i show you guys
how to customize it more and add more
things onto your blog
i'll leave it in the sort of resource
page so the videos will be on the bottom
right so you can check those out i
didn't want to make it too long because
a lot of people don't like long videos
so that has just broken it down into
smaller type of videos
so the only thing that i do want to ask
you guys is like what type of struggles
are you having with your blog like is it
to make money or is it to
customize it more or what else do you
want to learn so leave it in the
description below so then i can get a
better idea of it
i can't guarantee that i can create all
the videos but like at least it gives me
some idea and then i could
create more videos on that topic okay so
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