How to Create a Free WordPress Website (Full Tutorial)

About this video

Kevin walks through creating a completely free website on WordPress.com with no coding, building an example site for the fictional Kevin Cookie Company Sweet Lab. He notes the trade-offs of the free plan: a small ad at the top of the site, only one gigabyte of storage, and somewhat limited customization, with affordable paid upgrades available later. At WordPress.com the free plan is not shown on the main plans page — you have to click the fine-print ‘start with a free plan’ option. After creating an account you pick a name; paid top-level domains cost money every year, so he chooses the free KevinCookieCompanySweetLab.wordpress.com subdomain, noting you can buy a domain later. In the dashboard he sets the site title and explains the site icon (favicon), then distinguishes posts (time-sensitive, chronological content like blog updates) from pages (static content like About or Contact). He creates a post in the block editor, showing the slash command, the plus icon, and Browse All to insert blocks, plus reusable patterns that act like templates. He inserts an image block using the AI image generator, then adjusts its settings — alt text, aspect ratio, and a radius for rounded edges — and adds a text block. He reviews post settings, sets publishing options, and publishes. He then opens the site design editor to show colors, fonts, spacing, navigation, templates, and patterns, and adds a site logo block to the header by uploading a logo file to the media library. Finally he launches the site, visits the live result showing the title, logo, and post with the free-plan ad on top, and points out left-nav extras such as stats, media, pages, comments, mailboxes (paid plans only), and even a shopping cart experience.

Key takeaways

• WordPress.com’s free plan is hidden behind a ‘start with a free plan’ option on the plans page; the trade-offs are an ad on your site, 1 GB of storage, and limited customization.
• Choose the free wordpress.com subdomain to pay nothing — you can buy and switch to a custom domain later.
• Posts are for time-sensitive, chronological content; pages are for static content like About or Contact pages.
• Content is built from blocks inserted via the slash key, the plus icon, or Browse All; patterns provide pre-built template sections, and block settings (including image radius, alt text, and aspect ratio) live in the right-hand settings pane.
• After naming the site, publishing a first post, and optionally editing the design (e.g., adding a site logo block to the header), use the dashboard’s launch step to make the site live for anyone to visit.

Episode details: published March 4, 2025 · 12:43 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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