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  charliedw572 · Member · May 28, 2020 at 4:56 pm

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  Starting a blog… Any insight is much appreciated. Peace .

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  writer0001 · Member · May 28, 2020 at 7:10 pm

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  Hi there,

  Once you’ve made a domain name and started your website, there will be a list of steps (including customising your home page) on the My Home page to do with setting up your website.

  If you want to edit what’s written on a page, go to My Site > Site > Pages and select the page you want to edit.
  There’s a support post on this: https://wordpress.com/support/pages/#edit-a-page
  If you want to go to the Customiser, you can go to My Site > Design > Customise.
  The support post about customising your website is https://wordpress.com/support/customize/.
  You can also check out video tutorials on customisation at https://wordpress.com/support/video-tutorials/customize-your-site/

  If you’re not sure whether audiences will find your site interesting, one idea might be to set your site to Private, give access to it to people you know who have a WordPress account, and ask for their feedback. (You can still do this if your site is Public, obviously, but if you’re not quite ready for that yet you can give certain people access to your Private site.)

  One way to get more traffic (to a site set to Public) is by using keywords, adding tags and posting regularly. You can check out the support posts on this:
  https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories-vs-tags/tagging-tips/
  https://wordpress.com/support/topics/
  https://wordpress.com/support/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

  If you want to start with a free blog, when you start to create your site, there are one or two options for free domain names, listed under the recommended domain name. When you are asked to select a plan, there is an option to have a free plan at the top of the page.
  You can also publish the site for free. When you go to make your site live, it will ask again if you want to buy a domain name or a plan, but there are options to keep the free domain name and plan.
  Upgrades offer different features which may help with making your site more interesting. If you want to learn more about upgrading your plan, you can head to My Site > Plans or read the support post at https://wordpress.com/support/plan-features/.
  If you want to try out features of the paid plans, that will require you to upgrade, but WordPress offers a full 30-day refund on all plans if you aren’t happy with it.

  If you’re having trouble getting started in general, there are other tutorials to have a look at:
  https://wordpress.com/support/video-tutorials/

  Or look at the support pages on setting up your site:
  https://wordpress.com/support/five-step-website-setup/ (also https://wordpress.com/support/five-step-blog-setup/)
  Also have a look at https://wordpress.com/learn/ if you need further advice.

  If you need help with using Blocks, there’s a support post on this:
  https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/#blocks
  Post any questions on the forum thread https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/feedback-thread-for-the-block-editor/.

  Alternatively, you can type in what you’re having trouble with into the search bar on the support page:
  https://wordpress.com/support/

  I hope this helps!

  Just a reminder that this forum is for WordPress.com hosted websites. If you use the open-source WordPress software, you’ll need to go to their forum to get help: https://wordpress.org/support/forums/
  If you want to know more about the differences between WordPress.com and the WordPress software you can read the support post:
  https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/