WordPress Installation – How to Install WordPress
How to Install WordPress
If you want to create a WordPress blog under your domain, you’ll have to install wordpress.
We assume that you have decided to publish your blog in a niche of your interest, you have chosen and registered your Domain Name and finally you have decided which hosting service to use for your blog installation.
This article describes the essential steps to install WordPress.
The installation of WordPress is much easier if your hosting service provides the cpanel graphical interface with the Fantastico script library.
According to Wikipedia Fantastico is a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website. Currently there are more than 50 applications that have Fantastico scripts associated with them and WordPress is one of them.
Install WordPress with Fantastico
You can install WordPress with Fantastico as follows:
- Click the Fantastico icon in Cpanel. You will see a list of applications that can be installed with Fantastico and you should select WordPress (under the Blogs section)
- Fantastico will present a screen with some information about WordPress such as the version, disk space required, current installations and more. If you want to install, you should select the New Installation option.
- Fantastico will present the Wodpress New Installation screen and prompt you to enter some data required for the new installation such as the name of the domain, the administrator username, administrator password and more. Once you have entered the required data, you should press the Install WordPress button. Notice the WordPress allows you to enter also a folder name after the name of the domain or sub-domain where you want to install your blog. If you enter a folder name the blog will be installed in that folder under the domain name (e,g. HealthyNews.com/Arthritis)
- Fantastico will display another screen with some information about the MySQL database that will be created automatically and the access URL that will be used for your blog. If you don’t see any problems, just confirm the installation by clicking the Finish Installation button.
- When the process is complete, you will receive a confirmation notce with the details of the installation. If you’d like a copy of the report for your records, you’ll have the option to send an e-mail to an account of your choosing.
If you want to watch a video with an example WordPress Installation, just click the +1 button above.
Post-Installation WordPress Administrative Activities
After installing WordPress, you will have a default WordPress blog under your domain or folder of your domain.
If you want to tailor it according to your preferences and requirements of your chosen niche, you should now login with your administration username and password (established during the installation) and make all required changes to the default settings,
You can request the administration login screen with a url with the following format;
==> http://your-domain-name/wp-admin
Once you have entered correctly the administration username and password, you will be presented with some WordPress Administration screens that will allow you to modify all default settings,
We will examine better the administration options in a future post, but we mention here some important areas as follows:
- Choose a theme that will provide the appearance that you wish to your blog. WordPress has many free themes that you can choose instead of the default one. Other themes have been developed by external companies and normally are offered for a fee.
- Add some plugins to to extend the functionality of your WordPress blog. According to Wikipedia One very popular and groundbreaking feature of WordPress is its rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install; WordPress has a database of thousands of plugins with purposes ranging from SEO to adding widgets.
- Review the Settings under the Settings menu (General, Writing, Reading, Privacy, Permalinks etc) and change them according to your needs and preferences.
If you would like to have a blog with the theme and plugins of my blog that you are currently reading you can have the theme, plugins and a lot of useful tuition from the Extreme Niche Empires training blog of Sean Donahoe (known also as the Manic Marketer), who is one of the people from whom I have learned the most. If you are interested to become a serious blogger and to get some profits from blogging, the course is one of the best resources that you might find. He will show you much more than how to install WordPress.
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