Create your publication

Who can do this: Anyone. You need an email address you can open.

Everything about your Blogaly account (your sites, plans and billing) lives in your dashboard at dash.blogaly.com. Your writing happens in each site’s own admin. This guide takes you from no account to a live site.

Go to dash.blogaly.com/signup.
Enter your email address and a password of at least 10 characters, then select Create account.
Open the email we send you and follow the link to confirm your address. Then log in.

2. Choose a name and a plan

Once you’re logged in, you’ll see Your publications. Under New publication:

Type your site name. It becomes your address: northern-ledger gives you northern-ledger.blogaly.uk. Use 3 to 30 lowercase letters, numbers or dashes, starting and ending with a letter or number.
Pick a plan: Starter, Publisher or Business. See what each plan includes.
Select Create (14-day trial, no card).

The dashboard with no publications yet, a site name field, a plan menu set to Starter and a Create button. — The site name becomes your blogaly.uk address.

If the name is taken or reserved, you’ll be asked to try another. Your name only matters until you connect your own domain, which you can do at any time.

3. Set your site password

We build your site while you wait. It takes a few minutes. When it’s ready, we email you so you can choose the password for your site’s admin.

A page saying “Your publication is being created” at northern-ledger.blogaly.uk, with a note about the password email.

You’ll get two emails at the address you signed up with, usually within a few minutes of each other.

An email from Blogaly saying the new publication is live at northern-ledger.blogaly.uk, with the sign-in email address and how to choose a password. — The first email: “Your new Blogaly site is ready”.

An email titled Reset Password with a link to create a new password for The Northern Ledger. — The second email has the link to choose your password.

Open the second email and follow the link.
Choose a password of at least 10 characters, type it twice and select Save new password. This password is for your site’s admin, separate from your dashboard password.
You’re signed in. Your admin lives at your-name.blogaly.uk/admin. Bookmark it.

The Choose a new password screen with New password and Confirm new password fields and a Save new password button.

4. You’re live

Back in your dashboard, your site now shows as live. Select its name to visit it. From here you can also connect a custom domain or manage billing.

The dashboard listing northern-ledger on the Publisher plan as live, with links for Custom domain and Manage billing.

About your free trial

Every new site gets 14 days free, on any plan, without a card.
To keep your site after the trial, add a payment method under Manage billing before it ends.
If the trial ends without one, the site is paused, not deleted. Add a card and restart your subscription to bring it back. See why a site is paused.

What to do next

Last checked against the product on 7 November 2026.

Set up your site, step by stepThe settings to change in your first hour: your title, look, menu, time zone, social links, who can sign up, and your newsletter.A tour of your site’s adminWhere everything lives in your site’s admin: writing, members, newsletters, settings, and the quickest way to jump between them.Plans and what each includesStarter, Publisher and Business compared: price, members, staff, newsletters, paid tiers and themes, and what happens when you reach a limit.Your 14-day free trialEvery new site is free for 14 days, on any plan, without a card. How to keep it afterwards, and what happens if you don’t.

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