On this page you will find all the links and information you need to build a personal blog with the 2025 YouTube tutorial.
Steps
- Understanding the structure
- Making a plan for your style with WebsiteStylekit
- Installing WordPress with hosting via Hostinger.
- Decide a package
- Install WordPress
- WordPress setup
- Clean up dashboard, posts, plugins
- Hello Theme
- Classic Editor (optional)
- Installing Elementor Free and Elementor Pro
- Dummy content download
- Post page
- Create Single Post template
- Copy layout from CopySection
- Conditions
- Styling (corners, colors, typography with line height)
- Responsive (desktop: 1140, the rest: 90%)
- Related posts (Image height&corners, Query: related>terms>categories)
- Menu
- Turn on the new Menu widget in Elementor settings
- Create Header template
- Setup: Site Logo & Icon
- Link menu items to categories
- Footer
- Create Footer template
- Copy from CopySection
- Instagram plugin Spotlight
- Archive page
- Create Archive template
- Use other loop template from CopySection
- Query settings
- Pagination
- Sidebar
- Design it in the Single Post template
- Favorite posts Loop Grid template
- Categories visual
- Save it as a template
- Load it in on other pages with the Template widget
- Home Page
- Create home page
- Set it up as Home via WordPress>Reading settings
- Add Featured & Favorites as categories to posts
- Add Latest Post
- Add Sidebar
- Add Loop Carousel 2x
- Publishing
- Turning on Coming Soon if you are not ready yet
- Turning on Caching if you are ready to go live
- Check discoverability settings
- Domain check
- Site Title
- Understanding Draft, Review, Published
- Bonus 1: Installing an Analytics & SEO
- Install Independent Analytics
- Install SureRank
- Bonus 2: Setting up email marketing
- Create a free account on Omnisend
- Install the Omnisend WordPress plugin
- Paste API key from Omnisend in WP & check connection
- Setup Global Styling settings
- Create a form, check the steps, embed the form
- Paste embed code in HTML widget in Sidebar & style
- Optional improvement: Connect your domain to Omnisend