How to Start a Self Hosted WordPress Blog, The Guide

Do you need a Self Hosted WordPress blog ? Read this and Learn how to do that !!

When I started writing about “how to move to a self hosted wordpress blog”, I found that, more than 80% of people on wordpress.com blogs or free blogspot blogs want to have their own domain name, and move to a self hosted blog, ( yes, using wordpress, most of them said ).

Since I work in the webhosting industry, I thought, I would share what I know about hosting and self hosted wordpress.

If you are planning to start  a self hosted wordpress blog, or move your existing blog to a self hosted blog, you MUST read all these posts.

Note: When you start reading this collection of posts, its obvious that you have lot of questions. Make use of the comments form, and you will get the answer, the best that I can give you.

1. Why do you need a self hosted wordpress blog.

2. Is it tough ?

3. The first step, Finding a Domain Name.

4. Finding The Right Webhost. Part I

5. Finding The Right Webhost. Part II

6. How to Move Your Posts from WordPress.com blog to Selfhosted wordpress.

7. How to find and install themes and how to edit them

8. How to find and install Plugins, list of the most popular plugins

Want More ? Drop me a comment here !!

22 thoughts on “How to Start a Self Hosted WordPress Blog, The Guide”

  1. Nikhil Narayanan

    Great post!
    Anyways, I moved from Blogger to Self Hosted WP sometime back.
    Some old time blogspot bloggers like me would have used Haloscan.
    You may add tips to export Haloscan comments to xml and then import to WP.
    People have already written on the same.
    I had to install a plugin to extract blogger ids before importing haloscan comments to WP. I still feel that step was unnecessary. Yet to try the same again and figure if that step was needed.

    Nice compilation.
    -Nikhil

  2. Rekha

    well i have nt ever felt like moving to a self hosted one …when i felt like experimenting with designs ..one mr.donkey bought me a CSS upgrade !! :P

  5. dinu Post author

    @ Nikhil Narayanan

    for me, blogger to wordpress move was pretty easy .. well, I will consider your suggestion too :) thanks

    @ Rekha

    hi hi … monkeys love monkey .. don’t they ?

    @ Smallstar

    hi, I am good .. long time, no see ?

    @ Chirax

    LOL .. now I can take a break …

  8. ray

    Hi ,

    I was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be very good.. u write well.. Why don’t you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog ‘blog of small things’ took my particular attention as some of them are interesting topics of mine too;

    BTW I help out some ex-IIMA guys who with another batch mate run http://www.rambhai.com where you can post links to your most loved blog-posts. Rambhai was the chaiwala at IIMA and it is a site where users can themselves share links to blog posts etc and other can find and vote on them. The best make it to the homepage!

    This way you can reach out to rambhai readers some of whom could become your ardent fans.. who knows.. :)

    Cheers,

  9. Poochakutty

    Hi Guys,

    Dinu is having viral fever… So taking rest in his home. Will Be offline for next 7 Days….. Will Be back on monday………..

  11. Perx

    Hey there Dinsan,
    This is perx from the scrutinizing team of avant garde bloggies awards. Two of your posts, namely:
    “Backup Your WordPress.com Blogs in Three Steps
    Self-Hosted WordPress Blogs: Domain Name”
    are nominated for the best how-to post category, but as per rules only one post by any author can be nominated in a category. So decide if you want to reject one of these or shift them to another category and contact me at jaspreet.hd@gmail.com
    Thanx

  12. Joel

    Ah! @Nik this is all you needed! You once had asked me how to move to a self-hosted blog…remember?! Just follow up these steps. (And extremely sorry that I couldn’t help you at that time :( )

    And @Dinu, a great work there :) Thanks!

  15. dinu Post author

    @ Nikhil

    thanks man :)

    @ Chirax

    of course, I am here !!

    @ NIkhil

    thanks.. and I am back !!

    @ Perx

    sorry for the late reply … sent you an email.

    @ Joel

    :) anytime !!

    @ pnithya

    thanks … :)

    @ xylene

    yes I am … thanks :)

  18. Philip

    Good that you collated everything under one post. Will bookmark it for future reference when i move to a self hosted blog. Meanwhile, am neck deep in work. Its year end, but no respite. Sigh.

    1. dinu Post author

      goood :) and yea, I am too busy with something else …. :) really really busy … so, I won’t post anything new very soon

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