We're going to cover lot of the foundational stuff to set up WordPress site in just minutes including signing up for hosting, registering for domain, installing WordPress, installing and configuring theme, and installing and configuring plugins.
We've already done the legwork to figure out what domain we want to use, and some good tips are to try to get a.com domain try to use some keywords based on the topic of your blog, and try to make it as short as possible.
The cPanel is some place where we can manage our entire hosting account and we're given access to number of tools to help enhance and manage our website.
Let's Encrypt wildcard SSL allows us to use the certificate for our top-level domain, BestDeskSetup com, and subdomains.
We'll click My Accounts to get back to our area and we'll click Go to Admin Panel, the button next to our WordPress install.
If we visit the front end, you'll see that we have WordPress theme and some default content that SiteGround has installed for us, and it's time to start customizing our website.
The name of that theme is called Tiny Hestia and we're going to search for it here right in Dashboard and then Install it.
We'll take quick look at Appearance → Settings if we want to enable sharing icons, and scroll to the top.
So we'll click on the big, green, Set up Jetpack button and that will take us to WordPress com, so we're going to login with our WordPress com account.
This includes the ability to speed up our site by using CDNs for our images, Lazy Loading images, enabling or disabling Custom Content types, and lot more.
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