How to Install WordPress for your website

How to Install Wordpress for your website

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Wordpress platform is the number one choice platform for website design. If you have chosen a hosting plan and registered domain name, it is time to install WordPress in your server. If you have not chosen a hosting plan and a domain name get it done now at 1 & 1 hosting platform.

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Wordpress has two options for installation:

1. 1-click installation


2. manual installation.

 

1. 1-click-installation

One click install is easy, always recommended. Most web hosting platform will have a 1-click for WordPress in their cPanel.

These are the steps you need to follow with the “1-click-installation” process. This will be the same or very similar on all of the other major web hosting companies websites.

These are the steps you need to follow with the “1-click-installation” process. This will be the same or very similar on all of the other major web hosting companies websites.

1. Log in to your own hosting account / control panel.


2. Go to your control panel within your hosting account.


3. Click on “1 Click Installs”


4. Find the “WordPress” icon and click.


5. Choose the domain where you want to install your website.


6. Click the “Install Now” button and that’s basically it! You’ll get details of how to access your new WordPress website.

Recommended: How to Build a Website or Blog

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   Manual installation

   
   

In order to manually get a custom install of the components they want and don’t want some web designers like to install WordPress manually. For others their web host does not have the “1-click-installation” functionality. If this is your case you must have to a quick read through of this Manual WordPress Set-Up Guide. This is the optimal. In fact, if your web host doesn’t have “1-click-installation” functionality, then you should really change your web host now! No kidding around.

Follow these quick and easy steps to install WordPress manually onto your server.

Step 1:

Firstly download WordPress http://wordpress.org/download and save it to your local drive on your computer.

Step 2:

Create a new folder on your desktop or somewhere on your computer and unzip WordPress in that folder.

Step 3:

Now find the file named wp-config-sample.php and change the name of it to: wp-config.php. You can do this by right clicking the file and selecting the option “rename”.

Step 4:

Open the wp-config.php (with Notepad or Dreamweaver) and fill in the following lines:

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database_name_here’); – Database name (if you don’t know it, ask this from your hosting support)

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username_here’); – Your hosting username

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password_here’); – Your hosting password

Once you’ve filled in all the areas noted in the above example, save the file.

Step 5

Now log into your hosting ftp (download FileZilla for that). The FTP address is usually ftp.yourdomain.com, username and password are the same that you used to register to your host.

Step 6

If there is any file named “index” – delete it. After that upload all the files from your WordPress folder to your FTP server. You can use “drag n drop” function in FileZilla.

Step 7

Once you have completed the previous six steps, go the URL: yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

This is the page you should see: Making Your New Website Look Awesome! Choosing a Theme you like and start to design your website.

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