Getting Started Historical
Getting Started Historical is a record of old material previously featured on Getting Started.
Historical
The following CMS Tutorials are many years out of date, though may still have some aspects that work.
IndieWeb CMS and Hosting
We have step-by-step tutorials that will get you all the way from an idea for a domain name to a full-fledged Indie Website with a few CMSs. Known or WordPress are the easiest. See the CMS page for more options.
- Want to write your own CMS or use another project? See the IndieWeb self-starters section.
CMS Tutorials
If you want to get started with Known or WordPress and a web hosting service, there are step-by-step Tutorials which will get you all the way from an idea for a domain name to a full-fledged Indie Website, currently on Amazon Web Services and Reclaim Hosting.
| Using Known | Using Wordpress | |
|---|---|---|
| On Amazon Web Services |  Tutorial: Set up an Indie Website using Known on Amazon Web Services |
 Tutorial: Set up an Indie Website using WordPress on Amazon Web Services |
| On Reclaim Hosting | Tutorial: Set up an Indie Website using Known on Reclaim Hosting |
Tutorial: Set up an Indie Website using WordPress on Reclaim Hosting (to be written) |
| In general | Tutorial: Get Started with Known |
Tutorial: Get Started on WordPress |
- Do you have tutorials for Known or WordPress for other hosting services? Please feel free to add them or join the IndieWeb chat channels and bring them up!
See also:
- Tutorial: Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account
- Tutorial: Find and purchase a great domain name for your site
- Tutorial: Set up DNS so your new domain name points to your website
Previous Services
Based on the experience of even fairly technical newcomers, it is too difficult and expensive and fragile to setup WordPress.com to work properly with IndieWeb features (even as simple as posting an RSVP to an event), so this is no longer recommended.
WordPress.com
WordPress.com is the hosted WordPress service. It too can be setup with some IndieWeb features, but also takes more work, and for some features may require a higher level of paid service.