How to Create a FREE eCommerce Website with WordPress

How to Create a FREE eCommerce Website with WordPress

FREE eCommerce Website with WordPress

the first year so all these options all these great features will be available to you for one complete here for only $71 now if you are done with all these options just stigma both these things and click on Pay Now.

 now once you make the payment you once you click on the Pay Now button and complete the transaction after that you need to come to this page you a dot sight ground comm so enter this link on your URL bar you a dot site ground com now enter the email address and password that you have entered in the previous step under account information enter that information and click on sign in.

 now you'll see this page you need to click on my accounts and over here you'll see this button go to cPanel click on that button alright, guess so this is our cPanel.

 now we need to install WordPress but before that, we need to do a few additional steps.

 now in the previous step, I have shown you how there are two options available here basically, one option is that you have just registered a new domain with a site ground another option that you have already registered a domain name somewhere else like on good add your name cheap and you want to use that domain with the side ground so if you are belonging to the second category.

 if you already have registered a new domain somewhere else and you have purchased this hosting and if you want to use that domain name with this hosting let me show you that two additional steps that you need to do so for that first of all you'll go to GoDaddy or wherever you have registered that domain name.

 now sign in to GoDaddy now you'll see this page will have all the domain names that you have selected or you have registered.

 now I want to use this domain for MDOT in with side grounds so I wore a Lewis I'll click on DNS we basically need to change the DNS name service that is the only thing that we need to do.

 now you'll see this page you have the name servers by default you'll see some default name servers you need to change this so click on change and select custom from here and delete both these name servers delete it from here come back to your cPanel and at the top leftover here as you can see I have selected that I have highlighted that section you have two lines name servers okay so select the first name server copied come over and enter the first name server.

 now select the second name server copy and paste it over here and after that click on save once you click on save this the process can take up to 24 hours so just need to wait after that and after that you need to come again come back to your cPanel and you need to do one more step Click on add-on domains again I am saying these two steps add-on domain and changing DNS name server is only for those people who have already registered a domain name somewhere else like GoDaddy or Namecheap and they want to use that domain with side ground or any other hosting so this is for them.

 now you need to come over here and enter your domain name for example if your domain the name was femme calm just enter femme calm after that pressing tab when you press tab a username will be automatically selected document route will all also, be automatically selected for you you just need to select a new password to enter a password then enter the same password again and click on add domain once you click on add domain your domain name should start the show and show at the bottom okay so you'll see your domain name at the bottom once you do these two steps.

 now you can come back to your cPanel so click on this cPanel home button this red button now all these steps that we'll be doing from now on is the same for everyone.

let's encrypt

 now, first of all, we need to install an SSL certificateon your website as I have explained to you earlier that you see this log path this green lock pad when you click on this it says the connection is secure so we need to install that a thing so for that you will scroll down come under security tab and click on let's encrypt.

 now you scroll down you will see this option install a new SSL certificate and you have to select the domain name on which you want to install that a certificate so select that domain name and click on install.

 now after you click on install, your domain name will start displaying in this list in all the this is the list of all those websites on which a domain is on which SSL certificate is installed if you click on install and if your website name is not displaying over here don't worry this might take an hour to three minutes so just wait for a few minutes and after that your domain the name should start showing over here once SSL certificate is installed on your the website you need to again come back to your cPanel home.

install WordPress on our domain

 and now it's time to install WordPress on our domain name so for that, you will see this auto-installer section under that you have WordPress click on that now click on this blue install button.

 now, first of all, you need to select the latest version by default, the latest version of WordPress is selected so you.

 you should not change this thing now under protocol select the HTTPS one so there are two options HTTP and HTTPS you need to select the one with the extension s so basically either select the third one or the fourth one I am selecting the third one after that select the domain name on which you want to install WordPress.

 so we are selecting this domain name dicey 2.4 m dot in then we have them in directory make sure you don't type in anything in this box just leave it blanks after that we have this site name or site description so in this site the name basically you have to give a name to your website like I have given the name to my website as block dude.

 so I will give the same name or your site description is basically you have to describe your website in few words so you just describe your website in few words I am just typing Q&A; website ok then after that, you need to change the username and password so change this username also, change your password very important and you have this admin email delete this email address and enter your personal email address.

 so here now this username and password that you have entered over here this will be used this will be useful whenever you want to log into your WordPress dashboard so your website dashboard that will seal in the next step once we install it WordPress on our website, you will see there is a dashboard page from where will control everything that happens on your website so this is the username and password that you will be used to you know to register to that particular dashboard.

 now scroll down at the bottom you'll see this WordPress starter istic mug and take this and click on Install.

 Now WordPress is getting installed on your domain name it generally takes 10 to 12 seconds so let's wait all right guess now as you can see WordPress is successfully installed on our the domain name now you'll get two links first one is your website link so open this link in a new tab

 and the second one is your dashboard link open this as well in a new tab and you can cancel this or cut this tab.

 now this is your website whenever you install our new WordPress installation whenever you do a new WordPress installation this is the page that you'll see this is how your website is looking at present and this page this is your dashboard so this is a very important page as I said you earlier that this is a page from where you will control your website if you want to do anything if you want to change the design of your website.

 if you wanna add something delete something whatever you want to do it you will be doing that from this page so whenever you want to come to this the page you simply type in your website name after that put in this thing forward-slash WP - admin then you will be redirected to this page.

 now whenever we do a fresh installation of WordPress we need to do a few basic things so from the left-hand side you'll see few options so under that you'll see this appearance option click on that.

 now over here three themes are already installed we need to delete these themes now basically first let me explain to you what a theme is a design of your website for example at present 2019 the theme is installed and this is how our website looks.

 now let me show you one a thing for example if I just activate some other theme this was the 2019 theme let's activate this theme 2017 click on activate.

 now as you can see we have just activated another theme we haven't added anything we haven't created any post anything we have simply changed the theme.

 now let's come back to our website and refresh it now as you can see your website looks completely different now it looks like we and we have come to some different websites so that is basically what our the theme does a theme changes this style the design of your website.

 now we need to delete these themes because we won't be using them and so let's delete him now from the left-hand side you see another option plugins click on that you'll see one plug-in already installed over here SG optimizer you'll see this plug-in as your optimizer only if you are using or if you have purchased this site ground hosting.

 so site ground gives you this particular plug-in and this plug-in will link your WordPress application your WordPress a website with all the performance optimization that side so basically it will optimize your website will improve the speed and performance of your website.

 so that is basically what a plug-in does plug-in adds some extra functionalities and features to your website for example as you can see this plugin what is this plug-in doing this plug-in is doing some additional the thing to your website this is optimizing your website.

 now there are different plugins for different purposes for example if you want to create a contact form by default, you cannot create that with this particular setting that we have right.

 now to create a contact form we need a plug-in we need to install there are hundreds of different plugins for creating a contact form you can install any one of those plugins and using that you can create a contact form so that is basically what a plug-in does now again from the left-hand side you'll see settings click on that.

 now over here if you have not already changed your site title and description you can change that from here make sure your personal email address is present if some other email the address is present over here delete that and enter your personal email the address.

 now take mark this thing membership anyone can register this is a very very important option if you don't do this thing no one will be able to sign up to your website that is a problem so make sure anyone can register is a stigma now scroll down and click on Save Changes.

 now again under settings, you will see permalinks option-click on that by default day and name is selected you need to select this one post name select post name goes at the bottom and clicks on Save Changes alright guess so these were all these basic settings that you need to do every single a time when you install WordPress now let's do one thing let's click on appearance

 now, first of all, we need one thing we need themes and plugins theme to obviously, change the design of our website and plugins to add extra functionalities so that we can create a beautiful website like this so to get this plug-in and themes you can just open a new tab and type in blog.com slash dicy di SC y this link is also given in the video description below so you don't even need to type in this thing simply click on that link and you should be redirected to this page.

 now this is the team that you'll be using as you can see dicey social questions and answers WordPress theme now with this theme, there are many different plugins that you will also get four that will add some features like badges point all those different features that have talked about in the introduction of this video.

 now if you see over here this theme has sold around five hundred more than five hundred copies and this is the best one of the best-rated themes on the platform you know as you can see it has got 127 ratings and all of them have rated it five stars so that is really amazing this is a very simple easy to set up and very amazing very a nice and well-designed theme.

 let's see how we need to purchase this theme this is $60 around $59 now this is a one-time payment you don't need to make this payment every single a year or every five years or anything like that this is a one-time the payment you purchase it once you can use this on many different websites and also throughout the lifetime, you will be getting the updates.

 so whenever this the theme is updated which is a very common thing themes you know keep on getting updated new features are added very frequently so whenever that thing happens whenever this theme is updated you will keep on getting those updates for lifetime just by paying one single amount so make sure to purchase this theme simply click on add to cart or click on buy.

 now to purchase this theme once you have purchased this theme you need to hover your username and click on downloads.

 nowhere you will see all the different themes and plugins that you have downloaded and purchased now you will see your theme link list over here and you need to click on download.

 now when you click on download you get different option what kind of download you want to make I just want to make this seems a second one install WordPress file only ok installable WordPress file only click on that, you'll see that one new file will start downloading.

 now let me cancel this because I already have this file now once you download this the file you can cancel this page now come back to your dashboard and make sure you're under the appearance so if you are not under appearance simply click on the appearance you will come to this page now click on add new.

 now click on upload theme choose file and just select the file that you have just downloaded so this is a file that we have downloaded select this file and click on open now click on install now so this theme is getting installed 1 it is since once it is installed we need to activate this theme so as you can see this is successfully installed.

 now click on activate all right guess so once you activate the theme you will get this notice this theme requires following plugins so there are only two plugins that are required so we can click on begin installing plugins now as you can see only two plugins just tick mokou here this will select both the option.

 now under bulk actions select install and click on apply this will install both the plugins at once and after that again we need to activate those plugins so click on return to required plug-in installer now again select both the options under bulk action select activate and click on apply and both the plugins will be activated.

 now again let's come back to our website and refresh it now as you can see the design is totally changed and this has already started looking very much similar to the demo website as you can see very much similar to the demo website.

 now what we need to do is we need to start creating the website so first what I'll do is I'll start with the home page ok this is our home page I'll start with this page so I'll come over here to add a new page you need to hover over pages and click on add new.

 now let's give it a title of home because this is our home page so we'll give it a title of home now once you put in this title you need to select the templates so at the right-hand side under the document, you will see this page attributes option under page attributes, you have.

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