Get started immediately with your WordPress Website

You recently ordered your new WordPress Website from us and would like to start building your new website and creating your email addresses. This article will help you get started quickly and become successful online.

1. Getting started with your website

Your hands are probably itching to start building your WordPress Website. The steps below will get you started quickly.

1.1 The DNS of your domain name

If you ordered the WordPress Website together with your domain name, then you do not need to change anything else in your DNS and you can skip this step.

However, if your domain name is registered elsewhere, make sure your domain name points to the correct server. The correct ip address is listed in the email Getting Started with Your WordPress Website.

We have written several tutorials on changing the DNS at other popular providers in the Netherlands. Need help? Get in touch.

1.2 Building your website with WordPress

Let’s start at the beginning, logging into your WordPress Website:

1. Go to My Hosting.NL
2. Click Login on the Plesk Control Panel
3. Click on Sign in to WordPress

Now follow the steps in the installation wizard to launch your website!

By the way, it is important to take a moment to think about securing your WordPress website. Here are some handy tips on that.

1.3 Safety

WordPress is wildly popular and one of the most widely used CMS systems. Unfortunately, because of this popularity of WordPress, there are also many malicious people who try to access your WordPress website to perform malpractices. So security is very important for your new website. We have written an interesting article on how you, as a beginner, can protect your WordPress website. For this, read our articles How do I protect my WordPress website and Five plugins to fix your WordPress security carefully.

Below are a few more guides that ensure a secure website:

1. Securing your website with SSL
2. Automatically redirect visitors to the secure website
3. WordPress automatic updating

Well for now enough to do and read. If you still have any questions, we are happy to help.
You can reach us via chat, email or by phone at +31 727513406.

2. Getting started with your email

WordPress hosting from Hosting.NL includes email hosting by default. First, you can start by creating a professional email address. This way you can receive and send emails from your new domain name. Then you can display this new email address directly on your new business cards.

1. Create your first email account
2. Is your domain name registered with us? Then proceed to step 3
   Is your domain name registered elsewhere? Then some changes to your domain name are required in order to receive, send e-mail and start using our webmail. Read in this article what changes they are. Once the changes have been made you can proceed to the next step.
3. Click here to learn how to add your new email address to your favorite email program