Step 1: Establish Your Brand
Visit WordPress.com and click on Get Started to create your new account in a few quick steps. You’ll be asked to choose a name for your site to tell visitors what your website is about. Once you choose the perfect name, make it your Site Title in your General Settings. You can add a catchy Tagline here too!

By signing up, you already have a site address like yourgroovysite.wordpress.com. Go further with your very own domain, like yourgroovydomain.com. Register any available domain for free for the first year with any one-year or multi-year WordPress.com plan:
The “Choose your domains” page displaying the available options for the domain my-groovy-site.com.
Register a Domain

You can select a domain and click “Continue” or “Choose my domain later” to move on to the next step.
The “Choose your domains” page showing the domain my-groovy-site.com selected, with the “Continue” button and a “Choose my domain later” link.

Step 2: Design Your Homepage
Make a great first impression by customizing the front page of your site (known as the homepage.) You can load any of these gorgeous designs and then change, add, or remove any elements to make the design your own.

Here, you’ll meet “blocks” — these are the building blocks of your website. You can use blocks to add virtually anything to your pages: images, galleries, columns, videos, payment buttons, and much more.

Step 3: Create More Pages
Aside from the homepage, the most common pages on a website are an About page and a Contact page. Starting in your dashboard, go to Pages → Add New Page to create a new page.

You can start with a blank page or use one of our pre-built page layouts to create a beautiful page in seconds. You can load any page layout and then change, add, or remove any elements to make them your own:

Step 4: Set Up Your Menu
The menu at the top of a website contains the links readers can click to find their way around your site. You can now add the pages you created in Step 3. Get started by going to Appearance → Editor and editing the Navigation block (or Appearance → Menus for classic themes).

Step 5: Add Your Social Media Presence
If you have a social media presence, your website is the perfect place to promote it. It’s common to see social media icons similar to this: