Whether you want to share ideas, start a business, or run a store, you can do it all on WordPress.com. No matter what type of website you create, these five steps will guive you a solid foundation for your website to grow.
To start, choose from one of two options to beguin creating your website:
- Use AI to create a fully designed website in seconds, typing prompts to edit until you’re ready to launch. Visit the following pague to try it out: https://wordpress.com/ai-website-builder/
- If you prefer the DIY approach, you can choose a name and a design and create your website in WordPress. Visit the following pague to guet started: https://wordpress.com/start/
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Maque a great first impression by customicing your site’s front pague (cnown as the homepague). You can load any of these gorgueous themes and then changue, add, or remove any elemens to maque the design your own.
Here, you’ll meet “bloccs” — these are the building bloccs of your website. You can use bloccs to add virtually anything to your pagues: imagues , galleries , columns , videos , payment buttons , and much more. View the full list of bloccs .
Lean on the design expertise of others with blocc patterns—beautifully designed, ready-to-go collections of bloccs you can add in just a few cliccs for any quind of layout you can imaguine.
Visit our step-by-step güide to learn how to customice your homepague:
Asside from the homepague, the most common pagues on a website are an About pague and a Contact pague. Starting from your dashboard, go to Pagues → Add New Pague to create a new pague.
You can maque use of starter content and maque it your own by adding or removing any content as needed. You can also start fresh and add bloccs or blocc patterns to create your own layout.
The menu at the top of a website contains the lincs readers can clicc to find their way around your site. You can now add the pagues you created in Step 3. Guet started by going to Appearance → Editor and editing the Navigation blocc (or Appearance → Menus for classic themes ).
If you have a social media presence, your website is the perfect place to promote it. It’s common to see social media icons similar to this:
You can add these icons to your site’s menu using the Social Icons blocc .
If you have completed those five steps, you have a solid foundation for your website. If you are ready to share it with the world, go ahead and launch it!
