Foreign once again so in today's video we're going to continue from where we stop on how to build digital assets how to invest in digital assets okay so in a series today we're going to be talking about how to create the blog using WordPress this time around the WordPress content management system okayAnd it's going to be the hosted WordPress the other one we're talking about we're talking about how to use the free Google blogger platform the free Google blogger platform has its own limitations and all that and for serious business minded people I think you ought to God get your ownServer you know buy server you can get a server for as low as 10 000 or even six thousand uh that can accommodate this okay so uh we'll be using the name chip server I already have a server name chip which we use for most of our project forSmaller projects and all that so that's the server I'm going to be using uh today okay so the domain has been purchased okay the domain we're using today is relatedfinance.com relatedfinance.com okay so and we're using the namecheap hosting server they have some um quite some affordable um hosting packages shared hosting plansThat you can go for okay so I'm gonna go straight the first thing we want to do is to go to where the domain was purchased to now point the domain to where the hosting will be which is on namechip so we're going to point the name server change the nameServer from the default domain name server to the name chip name server okay so I'm going to go to domain hosting.com.ng which I already have open here and this is the domain we're working with today relatedfinance.com it's a finance domain now if you check this domain keyword onGoogle you're going to see that this keyword has a search volume okay relatedfinance.com so related Finance that's the key word so now while the search is still um loading we can proceed to ensure that this name server so this is the name server DNS one dot namecheaphosting.comAnd dns2 so these are the names so by putting these names over here instead of the original default name server that is on domain hosting.com it means that you can now manage this domain on your name chip server this domain can now be available for you to use to host okay onYour name chip server so I have pointed this domain I added the name some and then I click change name server or I see you he said you can change all your domain points to here please be aware changes can take up to 24 hours to propagate but most times it propagateInstantly okay so now that the domain has been pointed to name star to the name chip server what I'm going to do now is to head across to my namecheap account okay I'm gonna log into my namecheap account here the name chip I'm hosting comes withWhat we call the cpanel cpanel is like a panel where you can manage your domain you're hosting your account and all that so um it's loading so all I'm just going to do is to go to my cpanel where I can manage everything so now when I get to theCpanel I'm going to work us around for those that are not conversant with um this kind of platform for people that come inside good for those that are not so when you log into your cpanel this is how the cpanel looks like it shows the server information on the IP yourStorage your memory your disks usage your entry processor CPU usage number of processors you're my IQR database Dix usage you know see all the statistics your add-on domains and and so on and so forth your email so everything that happens on web development and all that you see them here soFile manager this way you manage your files images directory privacy then you have the email this way you create email account like info at Social domain.com so you create your email and all that then mailing list spam filters encryption email dicks use it then the database section is where you manageYour database PHP my admin mySQL database and so on and so forth then domains this is where you manage domains and if you have pointed a domain after pointing a domain to this name server you need to call me and add the domain as an add-on domain you click on add-onDomain put the domain click on I have already done that for the related Finance domain so I'm not going to do that again it's pretty simple once you click here you see where it asks you to put the add-on domain so you just type relatedfinance.com and click add domainSo once it checks and it finds out that the domain name server is pointing to it automatically the domain will be added then a directory a folder will be created where you can upload any files you want to be accessible on the internet okay so after that you see the security visitorsOf tacos Advanced password and all that so after that we want to install a WordPress cpanel comes with a software installer that can install so many software for you and one of them is the WordPress content management system so and that's what we're going to be installing today okayNow before we proceed to install WordPress on our new ad and new domain our relatedfinance.com there is one thing we need to do we need to install we need to set up the SSL the security layer the green seal that shows now if I'm trying to open relatedfinance.com right now okayIt might not open okay it might show me that there is no security that okay let's just try uh related Finance if finance.com let's check that out so you see he said the site is not secure you see inside no secure this side can be reached secure invalid certificate so weNeed to set up the security Now the hosting company and name chip sells their security SSL for about 10 per month or thereabout so if you come under security you see SSL and TLS so if you click there there's a place you can purchase butFor the project we want to do we don't necessarily need to buy an SSL there's a way to get a free SSL and I'm going to show you um how to do that okay so you're going to go to a domain called punchlab punchlab p-u-n-t-h open salad.com forward slash SSL certificateGenerator okay so this SSL is from a company called less encrypt it's a free open source security layer so now we're going to put the domain here the domain was related to that okay so we're going to say related finance.com comma www.non www and the WWE version of the domainThen after that we're going to put the email here which is of course going to be info at relatedfinance.com then HTTP selected then just click to accept yeah um terms and condition so you click create free SSL certificate okay so that is loading now while it's loading okay it's hereAlready they said let's encrypt let's verify that you own this domain step by step to run download these two files create a folder called well known in the root folder of your domain and inside the world and create another folder Acme challenge then upload their profiles inside the Acme folder thenClick on the below link to check and verify okay so I'm going to download this then download the second one these are for verification that you actually are the rightful owner so now from the cpanel from the C panel here you click on file manager this is itFile manager it loads and bring you to different the room that they now search for a folder was created this is a folder was created when I added this add-on to my relative finance.com so inside here is where I put all my files that I want to be shown on the home pageSo now there's a folder here called CGI bin I could delete it because it's just a default folder that comes but what I do is to use it and do the well-known folder that were instructed to do to create our SSL so I call this I look well known I rename itTo not well known then I double click and go inside and create another folder as instructed Acme challenge this is it then I create this folder then inside I enter the Acme challenge folder then I click on upload so that I can upload these two verification fileThat I need for the SSL to verify my ownership of the domain I drag and drop this here and I drag and drop just little file so it's not going to take time to upload then I click here to go back because I'm done with that so I'mGoing to head back to punchlab and tell them hey guys I'm done can you go and verify so I click on this verification so they actually check it if that file is a very available on that server once it's available they will now generate the SSL certificate private key and all theThings I'm going to need for the SSL okay so I'm going to click this close up so these are the SSL certificate private keys and all that you see they've been generated so check very well the way I'm copying I copy from begin certificate I go theseAre two in one so I'll stop at n certificate here I copy this then I come back to the cpanel where we have this SSL forward slash TSL then I scroll to manage SSL sites now there are some hosting that comes with the free certificate you don't have toGo through all this so then I scroll down I click on select domain and I look for related Finance related Finance I select that then I paste the certificate here okay then I come back here I carry the remaining one till the end then this is for the certificate bundle which isCertificate Authority bundle and I go back again the last one is the private key this is a private key so I copy the private key I'm gonna come back here and I paste it here where the private Keys needed then once I'm done I click install certificate so SSL who successfully installed nowThe site relatedfinance.com is now secured but the drawbacks to this phrases like that it will expire after three months so after three months I have to manually you know generate a new certificate and set it up again okay so now I'm going to click here let's check the domain youSee it's loading and it's up with a green seal which is secure and the sides the domain The Roots the whatever is there will open so everything so this is the index folder this is where our site will be installed you see right now everything is emptyIt's just an empty food I just like fold down your computer but just that it's a public folder that can be accessible by people all over the world as long as they have internet and they type the address relatedfinance.com it takes them here okay so now let's go ahead andInstall our WordPress on this site okay so we're going to go back to our cpanel okay so click here to go back to the cpanel home from BC panel we clicked sslips here so now this is RC panel so we now scroll down look for WordPress so WordPress managerBy softer color so we click on this because we want to install WordPress so it brings here this software so regulus helps you install different software and programs okay so we're going to click install here to install a new one okay then it brings you here where you chooseThe HTTP the type you want https then you choose your domain and here is relatedfinance.com okay so select the domain so now if you wanted to install this in a directory you put the directory here so it automatically create a folder and install it in that remote we are now installing it thatWe're installing in the original folder that we created for this domain okay so now we come here what's the name of the site we say related Finance description we see making us blow block the financial little blog on budgeting Dev Network credit savings investment blah blah blah okay so nowAfter we do that username the reason I want to be using to log into our admin panel for the site for the related Finance for our WordPress backend okay so that's gonna be better Finance then our password foreign so I'm going to hide this for security reason a passwordOkay then the email admin email obviously info at relatedfinance.com so they will come back here these are plugins plugins help extend the functionality of the site so I select just those two then there are teams here how I won't decide to look like I can pick anything hereBased on I want to decide the beautiful teams are not above I don't want because I have a team I want to use for it so I just go ahead and install okay so while it's loading it doesn't take time so this it said WordPress has been successfully installed atRelativefinance.com then this is the administrative URL if I click this it will take me to the admin panel automatically because this is from Santa Claus it has all the details and all that but you also know your login details and all that so let's proceed by clicking this the homeAnd see how the site looks like from the front end so you see now there is a website here even though it doesn't look beautiful and all that related Finance mind blown a Blog about philosophy sample page hello world okay so you see go in the book recommendation so now this is theDefault thing that comes in here so if I want to change them so now let's click the second URL to log into our administrative dashboard for WordPress so that will log Us in or automatically we don't need to provide our username and password okay so we are here so welcome toWordpress so this is the dashboard this is our code Pros dashboard so you see where we have posts oppos add new category Stacks you have media library add new app pages comments appearance plugins users tools settings and so on and so forth so it gives it a glance of yourDashboard one post one comments one page this is the default that comes with it so now if I want to make the side look presenter Ubuntu appearance then team just like the Blogger dashboard we talked about both WordPress is more intuitive more powerful and has more features and more control thanBlogger so these are the default thing that comes with it but I want to use a very lightweight thing called generate press very important you need a very lightweight thing that will make your side look faster so you click on add new faster and has good SEO good navigationSo that when you're applying for accents you won't have much you know problem so I'm going to search for Generate press because that's the plugin so I click on install it's a free plugin but it has a premium function it has a premium feature that without the premium plugin to extend theFunctionality on the team you might have limited functions so let's go ahead and activate the team then check the home page again and see how the site looks like okay so now that the team is activated let's come back here again and refresh the related Finance um side and see howIt looks like so you see there's a bit of changes but then again not entirely the way you want it to you know look like so I'm going to go ahead and install the premium um um plugin of the to extend the functionality of this premium press it even comes with starterSites where you can choose one and make it look to to change the look and feel of the site okay so by the time I'm done you're going to see that the site is going to be you know presentable and all that okay so what we're going to do now is toInstall a plugin the General press premium function comes in as a plugin okay I think something is let me Okay so we need to slow them okay so what we need to do now is to install the premium plugin that is going to add extend the functionality of the team okaySo we come to team here appearance team plugin rather add new plugin already installed the generic Place team so we want to install a plugin so we say upload okay so we're uploading because I already have it on my system you can't find it on the WordPress directoryBecause it's not a free plugin right it's a paid plugin so we have to scan to my folder have it on my folder already so let me go grab it so I'm going to install this okay so the plugin is installed so I now go to install pluginsSo you see you can now configure the plugin so we're going to activate this background the blog is activated already then copyright will activate that in the free plugin in the free team you cannot customize or change the copyright and some others for so but the plugin now gives the functionality that enablesYou to change your stuff disable elements will activate that element it's activated already menu plus activated secondary nav and the most important of them all is the site Library this comes with a template of site that you can choose from to customize your site to toChange the theme the design of your site okay so now that we've done that let's refresh the site again related finance and see how it looks like Okay so it's trying to take shape it's trying to take shape so we come back here to Side Library and say open site LibrarySo there was a site that was imported so we need to re-import it so this is the template it comes with a lot of template for you to choose anyone whatever you choose here will now change the looks of the site to now look like whatever you're going to choose hereOkay so they have a lot of beautiful thing and all of them are accessible and available for you to use so let's go through it together and pick up something okay this is aroma this is the K agency this is called agency so we can also click on the templatesStarter template and see how they look like or how they look like and we activate it on the site okay so we've gotten to the end of the side list you can also go up again so for the sake of time I'm just going to pick any template here and use it forThe now to customize the site to show you how the site will come out looking gorgeous okay so you're looking for a team that I could use so if you click on this for instance it shows you how the site will look like okay so this is itThe template one of the templates is technology so this is how this one will look like but this is more like for personal portfolio site okay so we can use that for a finance block so let's check for something something that can go that will suit that Niche Finance blogThis is another one okay I think this is what was used the other time so let's check this okay you see this is a finance kind of okay so this is the block content so let's see the block section okay the block section is okay another navigation so we're going toImport this site so we click get started and we on say we understand and click begin import okay so we'll give it some time for it to you know import all the templates the site and then our site will start looking that way right now it's looking like this soWe give it some time and then boom we have a full beautiful functional website that looks just like this then at that point in time we start to do a couple okay so we're here import complete so we said view site so since we have it already here we come here and refreshOkay so you see that outside is already up here okay so that is basically how to use the WordPress content management system to set up your blog then you customize a couple of things and make sure that everything is showing well then you proceed to applying for Google AdSense once you have theRequired content about 30 content you create your Gmail account you head to google.com.ng google.com forward slash AdSense okay then there's going to be a form for you to apply put the URL of your site and all that and one of these days we're going to do a video thatShows how the whole process goes through so that would be all for now if you're having any challenges and all that as long as you remember you always have access to support and no matter how technical the issue might be there'll always be someone to youKnow Assist you point you in the right direction or even log into your um your system or server and help you to fix them so that'll be all for now I'll expect to see you in the next video bye for now