WordPress Essentials

Welcome To WordPress

WordPress will send you an email to confirm ownership of the account you just created. Shortly after signing up, go to your email inbox and check the email from WordPress. Follow the instructions to confirm that you signed up with WordPress. You must acknowledge the email in order to access some of the platform’s functions.

Following your confirmation, you will receive the following email from WordPress.

Thanks for signing up for WordPress.com!

Selecting a Theme

What is a Theme? 

A WordPress Theme is a pre-designed website template that is available to give your website a special look. A Theme modifies the way the site is displayed. You can change your website’s Theme as many times as you wish without changing or deleting the content (photos, posts, pages, menu etc.) of your website.

 Select a Theme  WordPress will display several themes for you to choose from. Mouse over each theme for details then make your selection. If you do not select a Theme, WordPress will automatically install a default Theme on your site. You can change the Theme later on.

If you wish to change the default theme Watch training video below for how to instructions…..

This brings us to the end of this lesson. 

Please click on next lesson for instructions on how to create and write your first blog post.