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How To Create a WordPress Website in 12 Minutes with InMotion Hosting

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Check out this step by step guide on how to create a WordPress website in under 12 minutes with InMotion Hosting. Creating a WordPress website is easier than ever with a good hosting company.

Note: As of July 2018, the prices of the InMotion Hosting Plans have changed names since the recording of this video. We recommend the new WP-2000S Plan. The new pricing is reflected in our shortcuts provided in the video notes along with discounted pricing.

hey this is Josh with a nova tech today we’re going to do a quick how-to video on how to set up a wordpress site using n motion hosting we’re going to go to www.hostgator.com if you’d like to help support the site you can also use our affiliate link provided in the notes section below which will take you right where you need to be to get started now that we’re there hover over web hosting then go to WordPress hosting and click and if you look
down towards the bottom of the screen you’ll see there’s three options all heavily discounted right now to get the best of that promotion for this instance we’re going to go ahead and do the launch package we highly recommend the power but for this one we’re going to use the launch package we’re to take full advantage of that we’re going to do it for three years so we’ll click by starting with order now if you need expert help right now you can
click right here near that greens cube in the corner to get a chat window open to walk through so to order now we’re going to click on the blue order now hover over to three years 295 we don’t want the power plan for this option we’re going to stick with launch I’m going to select no thanks you can select which center you would prefer to use for our case we’re going to stick with the DC data center when you are selecting your data center it is
important to think off-site continuity if you live in Los Angeles you might not want to have your data center located there that way your website stays online if there are disasters or other issues in your area which could take down infrastructure same thing goes for the East Coast you may not want to have your site hosted on the East Coast if that’s where you live so we’re going to select our data center for this installation we’re going to go
ahead and stick with DC on the East Coast and to go ahead and get a wordpress auto install going we’re going to select install WordPress under the content management system installer for our WordPress site we do need a domain you can purchase a new domain through in motion by selecting the top radio button in our case we already have a domain available they were using for this site now if you already have an in motion account you can enter your
information under returning customer on the right if you are a new customer you can create your account on the left under new customer we’ll start that now now we’re going to enter our account billing and payment information select if you want to enter your billing information separately or if you want to use the billing information you provided above after that we’ll select a payment method notice there is an option below for purchase order or
check if you prefer to pay via that method as well although as usual the debit or credit card is going to be the fastest option once we enter our payment information and click through will be brought to a screen where you can review your final order as you scroll down you are agreeing to the Terms of Service and check out we’ll bring us to an order details page I highly recommend you print this page to keep a hard copy for your records you will
also receive a email confirmation of your order if you do need assistance migrating a site in motion has a account specialist who is available to help you through that process it can be anywhere from a one-day to one-week migration process depending on the size of your site you can find out more information in a chat meeting with the sales associates prior to placing your order for this instance we’re going to go ahead and just create a new
website you’ll see here’s a list of all of the different education articles and tutorials to assist you with setting up your site once you’ve selected the information you want sent to you confirm your email on the left side at the bottom of the page and click send me my articles at this point if you decide that you do want to take your one-on-one call you can do so by contacting in motion at this number soon after you complete your purchase
confirmation and select your articles you will receive an email confirmation not only providing your login information to your account management panel within motion it will also provide you information on your WordPress site which was auto installed which we selected during the purchase process you’ll also notice that it includes your login administration to the dashboard you’ll see that there’s also two attachments included one for starting a
new website and one for transferring your existing website remember you can always also call back for that one-on-one phone consultation with the number we highlighted previously so we will go ahead and quickly review the starting a new website document if you notice the first thing we have to do is to point our domain to in motion so our site is available on the web if you did purchase your domain through in motion this is already done for you
that would have been done earlier in the checkout process however since we are using our own existing domain name we’re gonna have to go into our DNS provider and make that name change on our own you can find more information about how to point your DNS to in motion by clicking in the link where it says click here in this document okay so now to point your domain to the new in motion site we’re going to click here this will bring up the IP
address information to direct your DNS server to so you can access your WordPress site from the web okay so we have now updated our DNS records our cname and a name information let’s check and see if the DNS information is propagated we’ll go to our website and see if the new site the new WordPress sites accessible and we’re good so now you can go to log in and see if we can get in your login information was provided in that previous email we
discussed and once you’re in the system you can change it in the normal WordPress dashboard so he’ll go ahead and login all right and we’re in our new WordPress site you are now good to go for a blog if this video is useful for you and you are interested in setting up some WordPress hosting within motion please consider using our affiliate link included in the notes section below the link will take you right to the wordpress hosting section you
see on the screen here this helps us continue to bring you more great content at no additional cost to you thanks for watching we’ll see you next time