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What do we need to start?
To creating our automated news website we need a domain, hosting, premium themes, and few plugins. Keep in mind we never use any nulled or cracked version themes or plugins, we will use only official theme and plugins, if you use any kind of nulled or cracked version plugins or theme your website can be hacked or destroy by third-party so be careful to use any cracked version.
Get Domain
In simple language domain is the location of your website for example “google.com” whatever, personally i am using Namecheap to buy domain coz i think Namecheap is offer cheap price compare to others domain name register and good customer support.
Enter you desire domain name as per your niche and click on search after that just fill the required payment info.
Get Hosting
To rank on Google search one of the most important factor is fast loading of the website, So that we will use Cloudways coz in my opinion one of the best managed hosting is Cloudways in the terms of speed, scalability, website loading, and uptime. Not only that it’s providing one of the best WordPress theme Astra Pro for free if you want to buy separately it will cost $59 USD. We will use that theme to build our news website, let’s buy the hosting from Cloudways.
Click on the “START FREE NOW” and enter your info, you will get 3 days free trial without any credit card.
Get WordPress Automatic Plugin
We need this plugin to run our website in autopilot mode, this powerful plugin can auto post from almost any website to our website. it has many more features. Today we will use it to just import news from others best news sources.
Click on the “Add to Cart” and enter your payment info.
Now we are ready to start making our desired automated news website, Let’s get started.
1. Connect Domain With Cloudways
In the first step let’s connect our domain with Cloudways, to do that let’s go to the Cloudways server and copy the IP
after that go back to the Namecheap dashboard and click on MANAGE > Advanced DNS > ADD NEW RECORD > A Record, then enter in Host “@” and enter your server IP which you copied, click on save changes.
In the next step go back to Cloudwasy and click on Severs > WWW > Your Application
In the next step click on Domain Management from the left sidebar and enter your domain name and save changes.
2. Install SSL Certificate
Select SSL Certificate from the left sidebar and enter your email and domain name and save changes. After installing visit your domain to make sure it’ has been installed.
3. Install Theme
In this step, we will install a popular WordPress Theme Astra Pro to make our professional automated news website.
Let’s enter your website admin area visit yourdomain.com/wp-admin
You can find login details In the left sidebar click on the Access details, you can find WordPress admin login details there.
After entering the WordPress admin area find Appearance > Theme > Add New Theme > Install Astra Theme
4. Get Astra Agency
Astra has more than 180+ premium starter templates, to build our automated news website, we gonna use a premium template. so we need an Astra agency license if you buy directly from the Astra website it will charge around $249 but i will show how you can get this for $5-$10
Goto Fiverr and place an order the seller will ask for your WordPress admin access just provide them, and they will install it with a valid license. After done change your WordPress admin password.