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How to Install WordPress on InMotion – EASY and AMAZING!

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Do you want to install WordPress on InMotion in 2019? InMotion are definitely one of the smaller guys in web hosting but they seem to have some powerful features…it today’s tutorial we’ll setup WordPress and test them out!

View Demo Site → http://inmotionwpguide.com/

Get just the WordPress Installation steps at InMotion → 8:55

Change nameservers if you buy domain elsewhere
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Get SSL padlock icon working
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We also have an in-depth review of all features and services at InMotion Web Hosting live at the blog!

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Enjoy! Let’s try to install WordPress and learn WordPress at every web host this year so you can make a wp blog exactly how you want. Please let me know which WordPress, website help, or web hosting tutorials you’d like more of!

Thanks For Watching! Greg

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what’s up guys it’s Greg and in this video I’m gonna show you how to make a wordpress website at in motion when a viewer emailed me a week ago asking if we could set up a wordpress blog using emotion I thought well I’ve heard of them but haven’t used them much so I’m not sure but then when two more people we showed on Facebook asking to use in motion I figured they must be doing something right so we made a video we made the website and this
video you’re gonna see how you can do it too using what I now consider the best hosting package at in motion for beginners or for people that already have a website already it doesn’t matter the coolest thing is you get their awesome features like a 90 day money-back guarantee a free SSL and you get to make multiple websites if you want all with a special discount and in this tutorial were actually gonna make a real website you can visit that at
any time if you want you can find it at in motion WP guide.com we’re gonna use the super cool Astra WordPress theme to make a wordpress website perfect for an instructor trainer an online course creator any sort of expert or entrepreneur or just a blogger and you’ll get all this stuff you see right here if you complete the tutorial and it won’t even take that long so can’t wait to get started can’t wait to start using WordPress let’s go ahead and
get the domain and hosting step out of the way so you can learn how to build a website using in motion hosting all right so if you’re ready I’m ready let’s jump in the first step we want to cover is how to get a discount and I’m actually gonna hop over to Google to do it just like I think you guys would you’ll probably be starting at Google or Yahoo or wherever and you’ll want to just visit in Motion’s so let’s start at Google all right guys so
I’ll leave you a discounted link beneath the video a discounted link just means that it takes you to a page where you get a discount from in motion hosting that’ll be the best discount we can get at the current time and if you wanted to type in the link it’s just dear bloggers org that’s my blog forward slash in motion to get the discount and hit enter and we can see we get a nifty 25% off on the business hosting which we’re actually gonna get
and even more like up to 53% off on other hosting plans and that would be better than this window this is just if you visited in motion hosting comm itself I wanted to leave this open to show you that we get a better discount then in motion is offering across the board all right so we’re gonna close that window and proceed alright so as we can see here lots of cool plans to choose from in motion in motion is known for a lot of their features that
are considered premium and we’re gonna find out all about them so there are a lot of us WordPress hosting catches our eye and we can just click on that and learn more after all it is the cheapest option on this page I’m just gonna scroll down and see what we get you get a free domain with nearly all of their plans you get one website suitable for twenty thousand monthly visitors and you get access to this bold grid feature which is basically a
bundle of plugins and themes and cool tools you can use that they pack in for you what I don’t love so much is the twenty thousand monthly visitors limit here and I actually might want us to have more than one website in the future and that’s why I’m gonna have you lean towards a different plan we can just go back and I’m gonna go back back and I’m going to show you the business hosting plan right here if we click learn more we can see that this
one gives us two web sites and you get unlimited space for a traffic that’s what disk space and bandwidth mean it’s like the amount of space in your apartment and the size of the doorway to get people in so I’m willing to pay an additional dollar per month for that flexibility two websites is really nice if you want to create a sister website or a website for your family members or friends and to make it really seal the deal we get the free SSL
so that means you get the padlock icon in the upper left corner which will of course see how to set up in the business hosting area we also get access to free SSD drives free domain of course and perhaps the coolest thing of all a 90-day money-back guarantee most hosts just do 45 so that gives you the extra confidence that in-motion knows that they’ll work for you essentially they are not concerned with taking your money or your business right
away and then we get the other features as well let me know any questions but you’re probably ready just to get started so having done that little WordPress plan 2 business plan comparison we’re gonna go with launch but the other one will work just fine if you’d rather it has a little bit more web designer and feel to it if you’re going to become a web designer versus just be a wordpress blogger so that’s an additional plus but any plan will work
great here alright so let’s click order now and now we’re gonna choose one year and actually didn’t realize that that would up the price to $6.99 a month so up to you something to consider if you know you need hosting for two years grab the two years because it’ll be cheaper per month in my case though I think I can find that extra dollar I just won’t play an arcade game or something okay so we’re gonna hit know things we don’t want to get the
upgrade yet you can always upgrade it anytime through their live sales chat really nice people and now we’re gonna configure our plan right so whether you’re on the east or west go ahead and choose what’s closest to you I’m in Minneapolis I think that’s closest to DC can I say no thanks to the dedicated IP no thanks to the web design and no thanks to the auto wordpress install because that’s a skill you should need to know on your own in case you
need to do it for a client what you most definitely will in the future all right so this looks good we’re just gonna click continue and now we’re gonna pop in a domain we get this for free so of course we’re gonna take it your domain name should be as simple and short as possible you always want the dot-com if you can because it’s most recognizable and the most profitable if you sell your domain name someday and if you can’t think of a good idea
after bouncing ideas around or asking me in the comments always go with your first name last name you want to register that at some point anyways and it’s super professional to keep it simple here I’ll ever and because I’ve already got a lot of those domain names and I built I’m just gonna grab in motion P guide we’re gonna go through comm and we’re gonna search and then we got it available so we’re gonna click Add to Cart very cool let’s just
get one domain name printout because we don’t want to pay any more now let’s continue alright so it’s worth reading this step right here I generally trust people and I don’t mind if my phone email is out there because I’m sure it’s already out there in a million places so I’m gonna say no thanks but if you want to pay for that protection by all means go ahead and now we’re going to continue and we’re going to enter a new customer email and
continue now as you to fill out our basic payment information like you would shopping anywhere like Amazon Apple eBay and so on and so forth alright so I’m just gonna do this and block it so that you can’t go on a shopping spree with my credit card all right and at the bottom I’m gonna enter my credit card information all right we’re gonna keep this one checked to use my account information for billing information time and pop the seven all right
get that signature code in that you can also pay by paypal or u.s. purchase or check but I like using credit cards so we get those points so I’m just gonna review our order at the top here we were hosting with our nice discount for using the link that is the best discount available at in motion I obviously search the web every day for discounts on domain names hosting wordpress that sorts of stuff and i’ll update the guy right away if i find a
better one what’s up guys it’s Greg and crew just dropping in you should know that I have an affiliate of in motion hosting so if you use my link and discount to sign up then all earn a small affiliate credit at no cost to you you’ll actually pay less because you get that better discard and yeah that’s it alright so our order looks good let’s just scroll down and click review my order give this information and quick little glance over you can see
the domain name is a standard price of $15.99 but our first year is free that’s pretty cool and now we can just complete our domain and our hosting set up easily just scroll down to the bottom and check I agree and then click checkout all right congratulations welcome to in motion hosting Inc when you see the screen it means it’s time to check your email all right guys so let’s head back to our email inboxes we’ll see a whole bunch of emails from
in motion let’s just take care of them right now one by one so you can move forward and install WordPress so the first email at the bottom is just gonna be a receipt of our billing all right we have nothing do so we’re all set with the motion looks good let’s go back the next one is going to be verification required so just click that and I can requires that you confirm your email so just click on this approve link that they give you all right
and we obviously don’t want the domain names to be suspended if verification is not completed this happened to me one time at a different host and it just kind of stunk because I had to go and like reactivate them so make sure to click verify information at the bottom all right success and we can now close this window and we’ll go back to it in bucks and now we have our most important email which is welcome to in motion hosting let’s open that
and let’s see what they gave us so we have is instructions to get started in your account management panel that’s the ANP and this is where we’ll of course install WordPress all right so let’s get started and click this red button now we’ll set up a password and confirm the password and confirm it and hit login all right so welcome to the amp the MP at in motion hosting if you get logged out just log back in with the email we signed up to in
motion with and the password we just created and I’m super excited now to be in the a MP because this is actually a lot more organized than most of the other web hosts I see and I think it’s a lot more press is going to be really easy as are doing other simple and really cool web designer tasks that you can now do with your new hosting account so the way your account management panel is organized is at the top you can do a County sort of stuff
like change your credit card make a payment even registered in your domain and beneath it you can do web design ease for stuff like install WordPress or create an email address and the first button I want us to visit right now in order to install WordPress is the cPanel you could also install WordPress doing the install popular software option just two ways of doing the same thing but I want us to do it the way that traditional web designers do
it because we’re blooding web designers so let’s click cPanel now when you shoul down you’ll see all these cool applications also known as scripts and we of course want to choose WordPress all right and then just click install now and obviously this is the most recent version of wordpress.org we’re installing here the full written so we can do everything what we want to do now is just leave this version selected so it’s the most recent one don’t
change choose protocol it don’t change choose domain unless you want to install WordPress on a different domain name you registered within motion or have in your account for some reason so we’re gonna keep those things the same we’re gonna leave the directory box blank and now we’re going to come down to site settings where we can change our name so the site name ideally should just be our domain name like in motion WP guide but you can change
that later on from within WordPress the description that we can just say alright I’m not gonna check enable multi-site and then we’re gonna come down and change our username so admin is like typically one that people try to hack and when we read a blog post we want to say by Greg and not by admin so that’s why it’s good to have something original as your username now let’s pop in a password if you click on the key it’ll generate a password for us
but I can never remember those I’m just gonna go with my own password now let’s make sure to change our admin email because this is where we’ll get our username and our WordPress details sent pop in the email that you used to sign up to in motion with change the language if you like at the bottom we can choose to have select plugins installed for us alright so we’re gonna choose classic editor so that we can use the traditional wordpress blog
post and page editor as a post at Guttenberg because pretty much everyone still uses the classic editor we’re gonna get rid of bull grid we’re gonna keep WP forms light there whoo I like using to collect email addresses build an email list and also sync it with Constant Contact so we can do email marketing for free we have a great tutorial on that step to start email marketing for free that people are using so make sure to check that out on a
channel if you want to do e-commerce you can select commerce but we’re okay for now and and no no jetpack we don’t want to use wordpress.com features and once you’re ready just come down to the bottom and put your email in for where those installation details will go next comes the part where you have to know all sorts of complicated code like JavaScript C++ HTML Python Linux my sequel PHP just kidding we don’t have to know any of that now
because WordPress does all the coding for us and in motion does all the coding for us meaning they’ll set up our blog for us when we click install and we just need to log in and start blogging all right so let’s click install and let’s get that job done all right I’m gonna take a minute here good time to grab something to drink okay so once that’s done let’s click the install button and we can see congratulations the software was installed
successfully great work guys all right we can go ahead and tweet about it to our friends if you like so sure we’ll post a tweet on Twitter now that we’re word pressors and most importantly what we want to do is click on the administrative URL and then we can go ahead and log in so let’s do it all right beautiful here we are logged into WordPress we didn’t even need to enter in our username and password so what we’ll do now before we finish the
tutorial is I’ll give you a little tour of your WordPress dashboard make sure you know how to edit your site and get to the front end so you can look at it get to the dashboard it can eat it backend so you can edit it and what to do if you get logged out and just some general things to clean up our site and make it perfect from the get-go so we’ll just miss some notifications all right first thing I want you to do is bookmark this link at the top
in the URL bar because this is our link to login if you logged out visit your site comm forward slash WP dash admin so I’m gonna hit bookmark and next up you can also drag and rearrange the items on your dashboard if you want to see certain things but not others next to visit the front-end of your site that the whole world will see you just click on your site title in the upper left you might get the inmotion landing page so let’s try to refresh
it and get rid of it and here we are we have our WordPress 20:19 theme live we can see our site name and our tagline that we created back in motion and what we have here is basically just a theme with a default blog post and the theme was made by the word pass team so it looks pretty good and it’s gonna work well if you want to edit it but the problem is almost everyone who installs WordPress has this theme running so I want to show you how to
make your website look not just okay but really good with a unique theme all right so let’s change our theme we can go back to our dashboard by clicking on the site title or by hovering on this section and clicking dashboard same thing I just usually like clicking on this to go back to the dashboard and now we can come down and hover on appearance and click themes so you’ll see your site is displaying the 2019 theme you also have 2017 and 2016
maybe another one or two for free depending on when you install WordPress if you click to open a theme you can always delete it in the Lord right to save a little space and free themes you can get back for free without any sort of extra burden or anything like that you just have to add it again alright now we can open 2016 and we’ll delete that guy too all right here we are with 2019 we can’t delete that because it’s active but what we can do is
click add new at the top and I want to show you my favorite theme of the moment theme of the moment I do jump around a bit with themes but I want to show you how to install the Astra theme because it’s super hot for this year and it lets you get a demo site if you’re an agency or a writer coffee shop restaurant there pretty much is something for whatever you could want to make alright so you’ll see the themes that WordPress decided to feature you
can see the popular themes a good place to start as well and in popular the one two three four five six one we see is Astra and if you don’t see it you can just search themes in upright for Astra and hit enter and there we go so to get a new theme just hover on top of it and click you can click the thumbnail to preview it if you want but you won’t really see much because there’s nothing built here so what we want to do is actually just go back to
this screen and click install and after we install we will activate the theme beautiful and now Astra is going to take us on a little sort of tour of its own so let’s just follow the Astra blue buttons it says did you know Astra comes with dozens of ready to use dirty site templates no we didn’t but we want to use them so get started now we’re gonna click elementary these are just page builders at the top which help you build pages and different
parts of your WordPress blog or website with drag-and-drop so you don’t have to make it complicated the most used one I believe is elementary so we’ll choose elementary and then we’ll get all these cool Astor sites that work with elementary the beauty of these astrocytes versus just a normal theme is when you install most WordPress themes still these days they’re not very good and they don’t come with content they don’t come built so you’ll look
up a theme online and maybe you’ll buy it and it looks really pretty because the developer has already filled everything in and then when you install it it just looks like some white screens and some forms to put stuff in so with Astra that’s not the case it’s all really easy and you actually do get the looks that we’re looking at here that’s why we love them all right now if you like when it looks but it says agency at the top that means it’s
available for a small purchase from asterisk so if you want to do that you just click purchase and then you can grab like a whole bundle of templates for a one-time fee so pretty cool in our case we’re going to keep it free and on a budget though so let’s get the best free starter site we can think of here all right there’s a handful I really like like a telling restaurant barbecue restaurant we used outdoor adventure in our past GoDaddy 2019
tutorial that was a super big hit but the one that I think will work for my viewers out there who want to become personal coaches make online courses become trainers experts in their field or just bloggers I’ve heard from a lot of you guys is yoga instructor I think this will work great if we open it see we get this cool like double texture image really slim logo and navigation at the top just like all the best sites today like Apple air B&B
Nike coca-cola they all use that strategy and of course we get this cool as featured in section you can change these logos to show where you’ve been featured around the web and it just gets better and better I mean how cool is this at the bottom all right so let’s grab yoga instructor once we run this little preview here we can just click install plugins and it’s going to give us the required plugins and then at the bottom we’re going to be able
to activate the whole theme and now we’re just going to click import this site and ok alright and when it’s done you will have your hands on one of the hottest new looks for WordPress for the year super chill really nice vibes coming from this site and you basically get a whole website and a blog and all these useful pages in one alright the progress has been updated and it says done so let’s view the site and behold your new WordPress website
alright guys and gal is so to make your first changes you just need to hover in the top navigation menu and click edit with elementary everything on a new WordPress website it has the point-and-click technology or you can just point out what you want to edit click it and then you can either change it on top of the screen or if you’d rather make the changes in your editing column on the left sometimes that’s a little easier depending on how it
looks you can do that as well if you don’t like your changes command or control Z is your friend I use that all the time in WordPress you don’t want to use the back button as much because sometimes where press gets confused by that scrolling down we can easily move things around you can click and drag and rearrange you just need to get a little bit comfortable with the buttons here in elementary again this is the most commonly used drag-and-drop
page builder of WordPress which is a pretty big claim to fame basically that means it’s a good skill to use it’s not going to go anytime soon and you can use these skills here to go ahead and build all sorts of websites for different clients if you want to Elementor is broken down into sections and columns so the blue is going to be a section you can click on these dots to edit the whole section or you can also right-click it to do things like
duplicate or delete and again if you delete something and you don’t want it just hit command or control Z and get you can also do the same thing with individual columns you can just right-click on what looks like a little book here with the black background and make your changes alright so obviously these sections have been set up with care by the ask your team they’ll have spacing on them borders on them and fonts that look good but you can
change all that just click on top of a section like this counter you can change how long it takes you can change the duration or the ending number I mean and you can click style and change the color all that is super easy in WordPress fonts are all located right here to an elementary so go ahead and play around if you want to get different fonts on any part of your site and you can click advanced if you want where you can change the spacing
around objects alright so keep in mind that you might have to delink the margin of the padding if you just want to put some space on the top for example and also keep in mind that the way it’s designed is supposed to look pretty good so you may or may not need to change the margins or the padding but that’s a good skill as you become a custom web designer you need to make things from scratch or of course you can just make Astro starter site
templates from quote-unquote scratch for your clients all right down at the bottom you’re gonna want to replace these testimonials with real ones to change the images you just need to be in a testimonial box click on choose image now when you get this window it you can select files from your computer alright so I could put up this image of my girlfriend if I want you can just double click it or select it and click open the same thing and then we
have the image uploaded to our web hosting in WordPress all you do is hit insert media and it will replace that image and the circle is already set up for us alright scrolling down you can see that there’s a background on some sections like we have this background of the woman doing yoga looking super cool to change a background image you can just click on this section and then you’re going to be in the settings for the entire blue box so you
want to click style and then you’ll find the background image right there and you can change it with the same method we change that little circle box right there if you want to add more sections just click on the plus choose how many columns you want and then go ahead and start dragging in elements you click on these 9 boxes to get the elements and then you can just drag in to your heart’s content however you might find that because the site
looks so good already you just want to duplicate or drag around what’s already made totally up to you I’m just going to change the description at the top so that people who visit our site know that it’s a demo site and then we’re gonna make a couple less changes and the tutorial is done you guys can go off and enjoy your websites alright guys and guys I’m gonna hit update and our site is done for now to get back to our dashboard we can click on
the hamburger menu and then click exit to dashboard in what’s your in dashboard I want you to make one more change just hover on settings and click permalinks and make sure it says post name this will make sure there’s no number symbols archives whatever in your URLs they’ll keep your URL as Google friendly and simple which is good for SEO with that post name so save that we can click on the site title a suit made and we’ll have it say to say
that we’re all done thanks so much for watching guys because I really enjoyed making this for you you now know how to make a wordpress website within motion hosting on the cheap and hopefully it was easy for you if you got stuck or have any issues or just want to chat about work best then let me know in the comments below please also make sure to hit like and subscribe that’s like the easiest way ever given back to me and let’s YouTube know that
the video was good and let’s the whole world know that the video was worth a try so I really appreciate it thanks again for being here and hope to see you soon around the channel or somewhere around the blogosphere that’s a crazy word I don’t know why I still use that word alright good luck thank you so much again I’m going Ryann and I’ll talk to you soon