Thanks to WordPress, this is surprisingly easy to do. \ud83e\udd29 And in this post, I’m going to show you the exact steps that you need to take to get your own author website up and running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udcda Table of contents<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to create a WordPress author website, you’ll need two foundational elements before you can get to the fun stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most WordPress hosts will automatically install WordPress for you, so it’s pretty easy to get started! And once you have WordPress installed, you can start making your author website a little more…yours<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n A WordPress theme is the foundation of your author website because it dictates how your site looks and functions at a basic level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find free WordPress themes<\/a>, but some of the best author\/book themes cost around $50. These bookstore themes provide galleries, ecommerce tools, page templates, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So how can you find such themes? <\/strong> \ud83c\udfa8 Well, to save you some time, two of our favorites are Book Author from Templatic<\/a> and Flatbook<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n Alternatively, you could also install our free Neve theme<\/a> and choose from one of the many starter sites<\/a> we offer our users. These starter sites are essentially pre-built website templates that you can edit to make them yours. They’re a huge timesaver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of the time of this writing, we don’t have a starter site that’s explicitly dedicated toward authors, however, there are a few that could still work if you adjusted them. For example, the Blogger one looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step 0. Get your foundation right<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Step 1. Find a WordPress theme made for building a WordPress author website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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