How to sign up for a FREE WordPress Blog
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1. Go to WordPress.com (not WordPress.org)
2. Click the sign up now button.
3. Your user name will also be the name of your blog when you start out. you can change the display name of your blog later, but the url (web address) will always be your user name so you need to decide what you want the blog to be called since that is permanent.
4. You will then be sent a confirmation email that you must click on and activate your new blogsite.
5. This is the email you will get. Click on the link and you will activate your new blog. You will be back in a new window at the WordPress.com site and see this window below.
Congratulations, you now are ready to start blogging!
