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Setting Up Your Blog

hosting a blog ‘WordPress’

‘Start your website’

‘Choose a Pattern’ ‘Launch Site’

Let’s Learn

In order to set up your own blog, you have to decide what kind of blog you’re going to create. It
can be about sports, food, fashion, and even gaming! The next step is to choose a provider to
host your blog. Hosting a blog or webpage is like finding a home for it. Each provider has different
layouts and designs you could use. In this book, we will be using ‘WordPress’.

NOTE
NOTE
For this exercise, you will first need your parents’ approval
Let’s Practise to use your email to create a blog. If not, your teacher will
log in with a school email for you to complete this exercise.
Signing in to WordPress.

1 2
Start by typing ‘wordpress.com’ in the address Click on ‘Start your website’.
bar of your browser, and press ‘Enter’.

3 In the blank space, add the

name of your website. For
this example, we’ll be using
‘Smart Thinking’. click on
‘Continue’.

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