So you want to start your own blog and have no idea where to begin? If you answered yes to this question, you are in the right place 
I’m offering my services to install your blog for you, including a sandbox installation, a selection of themes and the most important plugins your blog needs. There are already a ton of websites that offer this service and most of them will charge between $100 – $200 just for the standard installation. When you ask them for themes and plugins and to have them all configured and integrated into your blog the price goes up. I’m offering my service for FREE, yup, FREE. Interested? Then keep reading.
How do I get this service for Free?
All you need to do is sign up for a hosting account through Hostgator, GoDaddy or Midphase and send me an e-mail with your login details (jaywhale@jaywhale.com).
Don’t worry I won’t keep your information and once I’ve finished installing your blog I’ll send you instructions on how to change all your passwords so not even I will have access to it anymore.
If you choose to use Hostgator as your hosting company, you can use the below voucher to get a 25% discount off their already low prices.
Voucher – JayWhaleDotCom
What exactly will I do to your blog?
1 / WordPress Installation
- WordPress Installation in your root folder (http://yourdomain) – This will be the live version of your site that your visitors will see
- WordPress Sandbox installation (http://yourdomain/sandbox) – This is your play area, so you can fiddle with settings and change your themes without affecting your live blog.
2/ WordPress Configuration Changes
- Change WordPress from non-www to www format
- Change all permalinks to http://yourdomain/postname
- Creation of Robot.txt file
- Creation of .htaccess
- Creation of sitemap.xml
3/ The following plugins will be installed
- Akismet
- Jetpack
- Twitter Widget
- Gravatar Hovercards
- WordPress.com Stats
- Latex
- After the Deadline
- Sharedaddy
- Shortcode Embeds
- WP.me Shortlinks
- WP-DB-Backup
- All In One SEO
- Subscribe to Comments
- Thank Me Later
- Top Commentators Widget
- Digg Digg
- SexyBookmarks
- Ultimate Google Analytics
- Google Sitemap Generator
- W3 Total Cache
- Feedburner Smith
- YAARP (Yet another related posts plugin)
That’s a total of 21 plugins!!! More than any other WordPress installation service!
4/ The following Themes will be installed
- Delicate
- Platform
- Arras
- Graphene
- Minimatica
- zBench
- Yoko
- Easel
- MYgRID2
- Adventure Journal
- iFeature
- Atahualpa
- Suffusion
- Sliding Door
- LightWord
These 15 Themes have been chosen as they made the top 15 themes list on WordPress.org
After all of this has been done and tested, I’ll send you an e-mail with all the details, your username’s, password’s and URL’s to be able to log into your new blog. I’ll also send you information on some of the recommended personal touches you can give your blog so it’s just the way you like it.
If you are new to blogging, you would spend over a month digging through the hundreds and thousands of plugins available on WordPress.org to find the ones you want. Even after digging through all the plugins you would still need to spend the time configuring, testing and fine tuning each one and then removing a bunch of them that didn’t do what you thought they would, not to mention the fact that some of the plugins you try might break your blog and you would have to start again… this happened to me with my first blog.
My Free WordPress Installation service takes all of that pain away and you will be up and running in no time.
Ready to get your new blog installed for you? Great!, lets start here
