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With our smart AI tools, you can onboard in minutes and get a custom, ready-to-go site.
Answer questions for a tailored, AI-made site.
Generate webpages with your colors and fonts.
Easily add customizable content to your site.
Access helpful AI support that constantly learns.
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Bluehost is in the top tier of hosting performance, with 75% faster response times, quicker loads, and better experiences.
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*Bluehost handled the Load Storm test without issue in 2023. The Static test saw Bluehost score a snappy 18ms average and 25ms p95. Bluehost also had perfect uptime.
WordPress gives you total freedom, with fully customizable themes, AI tools, and easy-to-install plugins that let you control your site’s appearance and functionality.
Bluehost supports millions of websites worldwide. Let our experts help you effectively build, grow, and manage your WordPress website.
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Upon payment of the domain fee, you'll be free to transfer it or simply point it elsewhere. Please note, however, that newly registered domains cannot be transferred to another registrar during the first 60 days of the registration period. If you elect to renew your domain name, you will retain ownership of the domain name until the end of its registration period.
If your hosting plan comes with a free domain through Bluehost and you cancel within the first year, please note there is a non-refundable domain fee based on the regular cost of the domain, which can be found in your control panel, plus any applicable fees, for the domain name. The fee not only covers our own costs, but it ensures that, even if you're dissatisfied with your experience at Bluehost, you won't lose your domain name.
Bluehost has everything you need to build a successful online presence. Get super-fast hosting, online store capabilities, WordPress expertise, and more.
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Set up your website easily and start selling by following these simple steps:
Sign up for a Shared Hosting Plan: Choose a plan that meets your requirement.
Complete Onboarding: Answer a few simple questions to quickly kickstart your website.
Pick a theme: Choose the right color, font, and layout for your web pages and see your website come to life.
Add exciting features: Choose helpful plugins for speed, security, and lead generation right from the start.
Publish your website: Make your website live and start selling.
Get visitors: Use Yoast SEO or our SEO Consultation services to improve your search rankings.
24/7 Availability: Our team of experts is available 24/7 to help you with issues you may have while building your website.
Phone & Chat Support: Bluehost offers both phone & chat support. Connect with us as you like.
Website Design Services Available: Need help building your website from scratch? Learn more about Bluehost Website Design Services.
Partnership with WordPress: Bluehost and WordPress have worked closely since 2005 to create a hosting platform ideal for running WordPress websites.
WordCamp Sponsorships: Bluehost strives to support the WordPress community to grow the open-source ecosystem. We sponsor and help community groups, regional and local WordCamps, and contribute actively to the WordPress Project.
WordPress Education: We also facilitate learning and education through multiple webinars, masterclasses, & our own event: WP CreatorCon.
FAQs
WordPress is an open source content management system (CMS) that powers over 30% of the internet. WordPress makes it easy to create, edit and manage websites for beginners and advanced users alike. Built by a community of global developers, WordPress is continuously being improved and refined to provide the best functionality and performance for its users. This open source approach has made WordPress the website creation and management platform of choice for new and skilled users all over the world. Whether you are looking to build your eCommerce website or start a blog, WordPress has all of the tools and resources to take your website from an idea to an achievable dream online.
WordPress is a content management system unlike any other because it gives users the tools and resources to create a website that’s uniquely their own. As one of the most popular platforms used to create websites, it provides an abundance of themes you can select to design your website, WordPress plugins that can enhance your overall functionality and endless customization features. How a user customizes their website is vital to establishing their brand or business online and WordPress provides easy and accessible ways to help you differentiate your website from everyone else.
Shared WordPress Hosting was designed for our customers who need the resources, products, tools and support to create and manage their WordPress website. Bluehost offers affordable WordPress hosting backed by experts to guide you through the intricacies of WordPress. Whether it’s selecting a theme to design your website, updates to the platform, or ensuring you have the latest and most secure version of WordPress for your website, this hosting plan is great for any user looking to create a dynamic WordPress website.
Since 2005 Bluehost has been recommended by WordPress because of our customer service and expertise. When you sign up for a web hosting account with Bluehost, we automatically install WordPress with your new account. We continually offer reliable and affordable WordPress hosting while providing our customers with products, tools and support to help them successfully manage their website. You don't need to worry about finding the correct version of WordPress, Bluehost always installs the latest version so you have the most recent features available for your website.
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Bluehost is happy to provide customers with 24/7 support and assistance to help through each step of the website building process. If you are in need of additional support with the design or functionality of your website, our team of experts is here to answer all your WordPress questions. If you want a more hands-on approach to creating your website, Bluehost offers additional professional services like Pro Design Live and our Full Service Website Design to help you out.
Pro Design Live is a great add-on service for anyone looking for direct access to our team of WordPress experts who are skilled in design, marketing and WordPress security practices. Our Full Service Website Design provides you with a team of website builders who will create a powerful WordPress website exactly to your specifications.
When it comes to hosting your WordPress site, there are a few options you should consider. The WordPress hosting plans you see on this page are the same that you will find on our shared hosting page. At Bluehost WordPress Hosting and shared hosting are one and the same. Unlike traditional shared hosting, we install and update WordPress for you and provide a suite of plugins and tools designed specifically for optimizing WordPress websites.
Unfortunately, you can't build a WordPress website without hosting. Hosting is what allows your website to be accessible on the internet. However, with Bluehost, setting up hosting for your WordPress site is super easy and affordable.
Definitely! WordPress is a powerful platform for building an eCommerce store. With the right plugins and themes, you can create a fully functional online store that's secure, user-friendly, and optimized for sales. Check out our WooCommerce hosting plans today.
Yes, you can transfer your existing WordPress website to Bluehost. Our team of experts can help you with the migration process to ensure that your website is up and running smoothly on our platform. Moving from your current WordPress hosting provider to Bluehost is quick and easy.
Automatic WordPress installation is a feature that comes with Bluehost's WordPress hosting plans. It means that your WordPress installation is automatically set up for you, without you having to go through the process of manually installing WordPress. This saves you time and hassle, and ensures that your WordPress site is set up correctly from the get-go.
Managed WordPress Hosting is a solution that handles some basic administrative tasks for you so you can focus on what you do best, which is building a website you are proud of. Managed WordPress comes with automatic updates to your WordPress install as well as automatic updates to the server environment. With Managed WordPress Hosting we handle the tasks that keep your website running efficiently like PHP configurations, core plugin security updates, SSL propagation, and other technical or infrastructure-related maintenance.
