In this video, I'm going to be going over
IONOS and WordPress in a complete IONOS WordPress Tutorial so you can successfully get your
WordPress site created. Not only will I be going over the steps in
signing up with IONOS web hosting, I’ll Be covering how to install WordPress on IONOS,
how to set up WordPress on IONOS, along with Showing you how to create your site with professional
WordPress templates using a drag and drop Editor making building your WordPress site
quick and easy. I'll also be providing you with a IONOS discount
so you can save some money on your IONOS web Hosting purchase. You’ll get IONOS for as low as $1 a month
+ a free domain name. Let's get started with the IONOS WordPress
tutorial. The first thing you want to do to get started
with IONOS and WordPress is to click the link In the description below so you can be taken
to IONOS and so you can take advantage of The IONOS discount, getting you web hosting
for as low as $1 a month plus a free domain Name. The discount is automatically applied. A little disclosure. The link is an affiliate link, meaning I'll
receive a commission from IONOS at no extra Cost to you. Plus, you'll get an awesome IONOS discount. Once you click the link in the description
below, you'll be on the IONOS web hosting Page. Click the see plans button to be taken to
the IONOS plans. You'll see three different IONOS plans you
can choose from. The Essential, Business, and Expert plan. You'll see you can get hosting for a lower
price for the first 12 months. You’ll get IONOS hosting for as low as $4
a month with the Essential plan, $1 a month With the Business plan, and $8 a month with
the Expert plan. The Essential plan is a good plan if you are
going to have one website or just starting Out. The Essential plan comes with one website. This plan comes with 10 GB of storage, 10
databases, basic CPU and MEM resources, 1 Email account, and a free domain name with
an annual term. The Business plan is a good plan as it comes
with unlimited websites, unlimited storage, Unlimited databases, enhanced CPU and MEM
resources for better site performance, 1 email
Account, and a free domain name with an annual
term. The Expert plan is a good plan as it comes
with unlimited websites, unlimited storage, Unlimited databases, maximum CPU and MEM resources
for even better site performance over the Essential and Business plans, 1 email account,
and a free domain name with an annual term. Click the add to cart button on the plan you’d
like to select. For this tutorial, I’ll select the Business
plan. You’ll now be on a page where you can select
your domain name for your site. Type in a domain name you’d like to go with. Click the check button. It’ll now say if your domain is available
or not. If it’s available you’ll see good news,
your domain is available. You’ll see it’s free for the first year. Click the add to cart button. You’ll now see domain guard. Domain guard is an optional addon you can
add. Domain Guard provides protection to your domain
by making some user actions locked so that Hackers or third parties can’t take over
your domain and make changes to it. With Domain guard you can specify certain
email addresses that can’t make certain Changes and settings to the domain name. Click the continue button to proceed. You’ll now be on a page where it’ll give
you the option to add any IONOS addons to Your web hosting purchase. These are completely optional and up to you
whether you want any or not. The first addon is list local essential. List local essential will share your business
with the 25 most important directories. This addon can save you time as it’ll sync
your business information with these directories Instead of individually creating accounts
for each directory and managing on its own. Next, is HiDrive Basic. HiDrive Basic is cloud storage for your site
that provides automatic backups anytime. It comes with 100 GB of cloud storage and
anywhere data access. The next addon is Site Scan & Repair. Site Scan & Repair is powered by SiteLock
and detects and automatically removes malware On your site for up to 500 web pages. It also comes with daily spam and blacklist
monitoring and fully automated malware removal.
Feel free to add any of these addons to your
IONOS purchase. Completely optional. Click the continue button. You’ll now be on the IONOS cart page. You’ll see your IONOS web hosting plan and
the price. You’ll see free private registration being
selected. This comes free for the first year. I highly recommend keeping this selected. Free private registration protects your personal
information showing in the public whois database So that spammers and telemarketers don’t
get ahold of your information to flood your Email or phone with offers of their services. When you register a domain name no matter
what company you choose the domain goes into The public whois database as domain names
are regulated. With domain privacy it'll show IONOS’s default
contact information instead of yours. Highly recommend private registration. Scroll down and you’ll see the recommended
addons. Ranking Coach Essential will provide you with
step by step guides on improving your Google Ranking. You’ll see Managed WordPress. This provides you with a wide range of plugins
and themes and IONOS will update your website Automatically in the background. You’ll now see the checkout with PayPal
button and the continue button. Click checkout with PayPal if paying with
PayPal. Click the continue button if paying another
way. You’ll now be on the New to IONOS page. I’m going to click continue to checkout. You’ll now be on the create a new account
page. You want to input your billing information. Next, select the option for the domain registration
information. Choose a password for your IONOS account. Click the continue to payment options. You’ll now be where you want to input your
payment information in. Once you are done click the continue to order
review button. You’ll now be on the confirm and place your
order page.
Scroll down and accept the terms and conditions. The second option is optional and up to whether
you want to select it or not. Scroll down to the bottom of the page under
the order now button and you’ll see your Personal phone pin showing. You can change the pin to something you’d
like if you want. This will be used for contacting IONOS support
to verify your identity. To complete your IONOS purchase click the
order now button. You’ve now successfully purchased IONOS. IONOS will now email you a receipt and information
about your purchase. You’ll now be directed to a thank you for
your order page. It’ll begin setting up your cPanel. Once it is done click the get started button. You’ll now be on a page where it says welcome
to your new web project. You’ll see WordPress. Click the start now button. You’ll now be on the WordPress installation
page. You want to input your site title name. Click the create website button. You’ll now be on a page where you want to
input the login information you want for your WordPress site and installation. Click the continue button to proceed. You’ll now see Managed WordPress and WordPress. I’m going to click continue with WordPress. The Managed WordPress is a paid feature. Feel free to select it if you want it. You’ll now want to select a domain for your
WordPress installation. From the dropdown choose the domain and click
the assign domain button. IONOS will now begin setting up your website. This won’t take long. Once it is done it’ll say congratulations
your new website is online. Click the edit website button to go to the
WordPress login page where you can login to WordPress to begin creating your WordPress
site. Before we go to WordPress we want to make
our site secure with a free SSL certificate Provided by IONOS.
You’ll see the red padlock icon. Click this. It’ll now bring you to the IONOS SSL Certificates
page. Before you can do this step you want to make
sure you verify your email address with your Domain name via the email that was sent by
IONOS. You have to complete that step before you
can activate the free SSL Certificate on your Site. After you’ve done that, you’ll see the
SSL Starter Wizard option. This option is a free option. Click the activate now button. You’ll now be on the set up SSL Certificate
page. If you click into the domain section it’ll
pull up domains you have. I’ll select my domain name. Agree to the terms and conditions and click
the set up SSL Certificate button. It’ll begin setting up your SSL Certificate
for your site. Once it is done, it’ll say operation successfully
completed. Click the okay button. Under status you’ll now see a check icon
and if you hover over it it will say your Domain is secure. Click menu in the top left of the page. Select the websites and stores option. You’ll see the edit website button. You’ll now be taken to the WordPress login
page where you can login to WordPress to begin In creating your site. You’ll see a welcome to WordPress by IONOS
the first time you login. IONOS can help you get started with WordPress. It’ll guide you through picking a theme
and choosing from suitable plugins for your WordPress site. If you want to proceed with that option click
the let’s go button. Underneath, you can select I want to configure
WordPress installation myself. I’m going to choose I want to configure
WordPress installation myself. You’ll now be in the WordPress dashboard. Before we get started with anything else in
WordPress we want to change our site from Using http to https so it is secure.
From the WordPress dashboard hover over the
settings icon. Click General. You’ll see the WordPress address URL and
Wordpress site address URL. Change both from http to https. Scroll down to the bottom and click save changes. You’ll now be logged out of WordPress and
taken to the login page. Just log back in to WordPress. At the top in the menu you’ll see your site
title name. Hover over this and you’ll see visit site. Click this. You’ll see your site is now secure using
https. Hover over your site title name and click
dashboard. Now we want to pick out a theme to begin creating
a site. To pick out a theme for your site. On the far left, you will see tabs. Find the Appearance tab and hover over it. Click themes as this is where you can pick
out a theme for your site. Next, Click add new theme. You'll now see WordPress themes you can choose
from. There’s thousands of free themes to choose
from. Now I want to show you how to access free
professionally designed WordPress themes and How to edit them easily with a drag and drop
editor. Type in Astra in the search field. Click the install button. Once it is done installing click the activate
button. Once it is done activating the theme you want
to find the plugins tab in the side menu. Click add new. In the search field type in starter templates. You want to click install on it. Then click activate. Hover over the appearance tab in the side
menu. Click on starter templates. You now want to click the build your website
button. Choose Elementor for the page builder.
It’ll now showcase a bunch of WordPress
themes you can create your site with using Drag and drop. You can type in the type of website you want
to create to pull up templates based on that. You’ll see a bunch of categories you can
hover over and select to build your site. If you click a theme it’ll show you what
it will look like so you can preview it. Click the x button to go back to the themes
page. Now let me walk you through the steps on how
to choose your theme and build your site with The drag and drop editor Elementor page builder. Select a theme you want. I’ll choose this one. You can upload a logo if you’d like. You can do this at a later time so if you
don’t have one now no worries. Click the skip and continue button. You now want to choose the colors and font
for your site. You can update these at a later time or change
them whenever you’d like. Click the continue button. You’ll now be on the tell us a little about
yourself. You don’t have to fill this out if you don’t
want too. Just make sure under advanced options you
have each one selected. Click the submit and build my website button. It’ll begin building your website. Once it is done you’ll be on the congratulations
page. Click the view your website button. It’ll now take you to your website and what
it looks like. Now let’s go over how to make edits to the
WordPress theme and how to use the drag and Drop editor to create your site. To make edits to your site click the edit
with elementor tab on the top of the page. It’ll now bring you to the drag and drop
editor where you can create your site quick And easy. To make edits to a part of the page just click
where you want to make edits and start making Edits. I can change A Wonderful Gift to My Demo Website. If you want to make edits to the background
image right click on the section. Click edit selection.
Click style. Hover over the image and click the trash can
icon if you want to remove the image. Click over the image and you can upload a
photo to place here or click media library To upload images already uploaded in WordPress. I’ll click the x button. I’ll click the 9 dots at the top to get
back to where you can drag stuff in to the Page. I’ll scroll down a bit on the page. You can select what you want over on the left
and drag it in wherever you’d like it. If you right click on an area you can delete
it if you don’t want it. By right clicking you can duplicate something
if you need to duplicate it. You can drag something over to somewhere else
on the page by selecting it and dragging it Over to where you want it. Over on the left you’ll see where you can
link out the text to a page. Change the alignment of the text. If you scroll down to the drag widget here
section. Click the plus icon. You can select the structure of the section
of the page you want. I’ll select this one. You can then drag in whatever you’d like
in the sections. If you click the folder icon. Then click blocks in the menu. You can scroll through lots of pre-made blocks
that you can add to a page of your site and Then start replacing with your content. This makes designing your site quick and easy
because you can find almost any kind of design You want for a part of the page and start
building it easily. I’ll select one. Click the insert button to insert it to the
page. When you click the insert button on the block
you like at first you’ll need to create A free Elementor account. Once it is created you’ll be able to add
the blocks in quick and easy. I’ll click the insert button. What I selected is now inserted on the page
where I can begin editing. I’ll scroll back down to the drag widget
here section.
If you click the Starter templates icon. You can click blocks in the menu and then
it’ll give you lots more page design ideas You can choose from. For these, you can just click one you like. I’ll click this one and then I’ll click
the import button to import it to the page To then start adding your own content and
editing it how you want it. Now I want to cover the contact us form to
show you how this works. I’m just going to drag over the WP Forms. You can select a form. If you want to make edits to the form click
edit the selected form. You can click the create a new form if you
want to create a new form. I’m going to click edit the selected form. It’s now going to bring up the builder for
the contact us form. You can hover over an area to delete it or
duplicate it. You can click an area and drag it to wherever
you’d like it. If you want to add something you can drag
it over from the side. If you click Field Options you can click on
a part of the form and then make changes from The side. You can select to make this part of the form
a required or not required part to fill out. If you click advanced you can click the part
of the form you want to change and you can Select between the size of the form field
for that area and then change if you want Anything to show in the form field where they
input their information. You can click preview to preview the form. Click save to save changes. When you are done click the x button and you’ll
be taken back to the editor for the page. Let’s get to know the drag and drop editor
Elementor better. At the bottom left of the page you’ll see
the update button. Click this when you want to update the changes
you’ve made. If you click the arrow you can save it as
a draft or save this page as a template to Then use for another template of another page
you create. To view changes you’ve made to your site
click the preview changes button and it’ll Showcase your site. If you click responsive mode you can view
what your site looks like on desktop, tablet, Or mobile devices.
If you click the menu icon in the top left
and click site settings you can change the Colors of your site, fonts, and more. I’ll click the x button. Click the menu icon. If you choose view page it’ll show you the
view of the page and this is the easiest way To get back to the WordPress dashboard. If you want to make edits to a certain page
on your site you can click it in the menu And then click edit with elementor. To go to the WordPress dashboard hover over
your site title name and click dashboard. If you hover over the pages tab click add
new to add a new page to your site. If you click all pages it’ll showcase all
the pages on your site. If you hover over the media tab and click
on library it’ll show you all the images You have uploaded in WordPress. If you click add new at the top you can then
upload or drag in an image into WordPress. If you hover over posts and click add new
you can create a new blog post for your site. If you click all posts, it’ll pull up all
the posts you have on your site. If you click the comments tab you will see
all the comments you have on your blog posts. You can easily reply, mark it as spam, or
trash the comment. If you hover over the plugins tab and click
add new you can then search for or browse Plugins to add to your site. Any feature or customization you might want
on your site, more than likely there is a Plugin for that. If you hover over the appearance tab in the
left side menu click on menus. This is where you can edit the menu on your
site. You can add new pages to the menu or drag
a page to a different order. If you click the tiny arrow you can change
the name of it or completely delete it from The menu. If you want to create a completely new menu
you can click create a new menu. Now let me show you how to make edits to the
footer area of your site along with uploading A logo, favicon, and other customizations. If you hover over the Appearance tab in the
side menu and click Customize you’ll be On the customize page. Click the footer builder. You can then click an area in the footer area
where you see the pencil icon to start making
Edits to that section over on the left side. You can also click what you’d like to edit
in the left-side area. Both will take you to the same place to make
edits like seen here. If you click the plus icon you can then add
whatever you’d like to the footer area in That section. If you hover over an area of the footer and
click the design button you can then design Things like link colors, font colors, fonts,
and more. You can click the x button to remove that
area from the footer. If you click the pencil icon here on the left-hand
side you can then choose how many columns You want your footer to be. You can then click the plus icon to add sections
to that part of the footer. I’m going to click the back arrow twice. If you click Site Identity you can then upload
a logo and a favicon which is the site icon For your site. Click select site icon to then upload your
site icon also known as the favicon for your Site. If you click site title and logo settings
you can then change the logo to your own and Make other customizations to the logo area
for your site. I’m going to click the back button twice. You’ll now see a bunch of different options
you can select from for different parts of The site such as header builder, blog, pages,
sidebar, performance to help speed up your Site, and more. You now know how to access pre-made professional
templates, how to use IONOS and WordPress Together to create your WordPress site and
making edits to it using the drag and drop Editor Elementor page builder. That is my IONOS WordPress tutorial. Give this video a thumbs up and leave us a
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