How to Start a Blog in the Philippines When You Have Zero Technical Skills

You have things to say. It could be travel, food, personal finance, parenting, faith, or your honest take on life as a Filipino.

You know what you want to write about. You’re ready to start.

The only thing standing between you and a live blog is the part everyone calls “setting up hosting”, and it sounds terrifying if you’ve never done it before.

It isn’t. This guide walks you through how to start a Blog in the Philippines from zero to a live WordPress blog, in plain language, with no assumed technical knowledge.

By the end of this, you’ll have a domain name, a hosting account, and WordPress installed, and you’ll understand exactly what each of those things actually is.

What You Actually Need to Start a Blog

Before anything else, let’s clear up the confusion. A lot of new bloggers think “getting a website” is one thing. It’s actually three separate things that work together:

A domain name

This is your address on the internet, the part that comes after www. Something like yourblog.com or yourname.ph. You register this, usually for one year at a time, and it’s yours as long as you keep renewing it.

Web hosting

This is where your blog actually lives. A server that stores your files and makes them available whenever someone types your domain into their browser. Without hosting, your domain name points to nothing.

A blogging platform

This is the software that lets you write and publish posts without needing to code anything. WordPress is the most popular by far. It powers more than 40% of all websites globally, and it’s free to install.

You pay for the domain and the hosting. WordPress itself is free. The total cost for a Filipino blogger just starting: as low as ₱90 per month for hosting, plus around ₱500 to ₱600 per year for a .com domain. That’s it.

Step 1: Pick Your Domain Name

Your domain name is your blog’s first impression. A few things to keep in mind:

• Keep it short and easy to spell. If you have to spell it out letter by letter when telling someone, it’s probably too complicated.
• Use your name, your niche, or a combination. janeseatseats.com, budgetbymarkph.com, wanderingfilipino.ph, all clear and memorable.
• Avoid hyphens and numbers. They’re harder to remember and look less professional.
• .com is still the most recognised. .ph is great if your blog is specifically for a Philippine audience.

Don’t overthink this. A lot of bloggers spend a week agonising over their domain name when they should be writing their first post.

Pick something you’re happy with, check that it’s available, and move on.

You can check domain availability and register your domain directly through Truehost Philippines directly.

 A .com domain costs around ₱500 per year. A .ph domain is more, around ₱3,400 per year, but carries a strong local identity if that matters to your niche.

Step 2: Get Hosting

This is the step that confuses most people. Let’s make it simple.

For a new blog, shared hosting is all you need.

Shared hosting means your blog lives on a server alongside other websites, think of it like renting a desk in a coworking space instead of leasing an entire office. 

It’s affordable, perfectly capable for a new blog, and easy to manage.

Truehost  offers cPanel web hosting starting at ₱90 per month when billed triennially. That is ₱210 per month if you prefer to pay monthly.

That’s their Starter plan. It includes a 30GB of SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited email accounts, and a free script installer that puts WordPress on your site in about two minutes.

Plan	Monthly Price	Storage	What’s Included
cPanel Starter	₱90/mo (triennial)	30GB SSD	Unlimited bandwidth, unlimited emails, free script installer (WordPress), cPanel

The Starter plan supports one website. For most bloggers starting, one website is exactly what you need.

If you later decide to start a second blog or a separate project site, you can upgrade your plan or add another account.

Step 3: Install WordPress (This Takes About 2 Minutes)

Once you have hosting, you get access to cPanel. The control panel for your hosting account. It looks busy the first time you see it, with dozens of icons.

You don’t need to touch most of them. The one you want is called Softaculous Apps Installer.

Here’s the exact process:

• Log in to your Truehost cPanel using the details sent to your email after signing up.
• Find Softaculous Apps Installer and click on it.
• Click WordPress from the list of apps.
• Click Install Now.
• Fill in your blog name, admin username, and password.
• Click Install. Done.

That’s it. WordPress is now installed on your domain. You can log in to your WordPress dashboard at yourdomain.com/wp-admin and start setting things up.

If you get stuck at any point, Truehost has 24/7 live chat support. 

Tell them you just installed WordPress and need help getting started, they’ve walked dozens of first-time bloggers through this exact process.

Step 4: Pick a Theme and Make It Look Like You

When you first log in to WordPress, your blog uses a default theme that looks generic. 

Themes control how your blog looks, the layout, fonts, colours, and overall feel. Changing your theme takes about five minutes and costs nothing if you use a free one.

For a Filipino blogger just starting, these free themes are clean, fast, and well-supported:

• Astra: Very lightweight, loads fast, huge library of starter templates. Most popular free WordPress theme.
• Kadence: Clean design, easy to customize without any coding, great for personal blogs.
• GeneratePress: Minimal and fast. Good if you want your writing to be the focus, not the design.

To install a theme: go to Appearance then Themes in your WordPress dashboard, click Add New, search for any of the above, and click Install, then Activate. Your blog now has a proper look.

Step 5: Write Your First Post

Go to Posts then Add New in your WordPress dashboard. You’ll see a clean editor.  Type your title at the top, write your content in the main area, and click Publish when you’re ready. That’s blogging.

You don’t need to understand categories, tags, SEO plugins, or any of the other features on your first day. They exist when you’re ready for them. For now, write your first post and publish it. Everything else can wait.

The Most Common Questions New Filipino Bloggers Ask

Do I need to know how to code?

No. WordPress is built for non-technical users. Everything from writing posts to changing your layout is done through menus and buttons. You will never need to write a line of code to run a successful blog.

Can I use a free blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress.com instead?

You can, but there are real trade-offs. Free platforms like Blogger or WordPress.com put restrictions on how you can customize your blog, what plugins you can use, and how you can monetise it. 

They also own your content. If they shut down or change their terms, you have limited recourse. A self-hosted blog on your own domain, backed by your own hosting account, gives you full ownership and no restrictions.

At ₱90 per month, the cost difference is smaller than most people expect.

What if my blog gets popular and my hosting can’t handle the traffic?

A shared hosting plan handles thousands of visitors per day comfortably for a new blog. If you grow to a point where you need more, and that’s a good problem to have, upgrading your

At Truehost plan takes about five minutes and doesn’t require migrating your site. You stay on the same platform, just with more resources.

What about monetisation? Can I run ads or sell products from my blog?

Yes, with no restrictions. Self-hosted WordPress lets you run Google AdSense, affiliate links, sponsored posts, digital downloads, online courses, or a full e-commerce store, all from the same installation. Free blogging platforms often restrict or take a cut of monetisation. With your own hosting, 100% of what you earn is yours.

Is Truehost a Philippine company?

Truehost is the Philippine arm of Truehost Cloud, serving Filipino customers with peso pricing, local payment options, and support that’s available around the clock. Your billing is in pesos, so you’re not exposed to USD exchange rate fluctuations the way you would be with purely international hosts.

What if something breaks and I don’t know how to fix it?

That’s what support is for. Truehost offers 24/7 live chat. For common WordPress issues, a plugin conflict, a theme problem, a login issue. Their support team handles these regularly and can walk you through a fix in real time. You are not on your own.

You’re Closer Than You Think

Most people who want to start a blog in the Philippines never do, not because they lack things to say, but because the technical setup feels overwhelming before they start.

The reality is that setting up hosting and installing WordPress takes less than 30 minutes the first time you do it, and most of that time is filling in forms.

Your content is the hard part, and that part, you already know how to do.

Ready to start?
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