Installing WordPress in Under 5 Minutes
WordPress, a free and popular blogging tool with a wide variety of templates, plugins, and widgets serves as a convenient wall to launch your first blog. Luckily, WordPress has made it extremely accessible for everyone to use. There are two ways to install WordPress: automatic installation and manual installation.
Automatic Installation
Many web hosting providers give you access to the Fantastico application. HostGator, HostMonster, and Bluehost are three hosting providers that have this. Dozens more also have it. A quick Google search of your provider will show you whether you have it or not.
If you do have it, simply click on the Fantastico application, choose WordPress on the left menu, and click “New Installation”. Next, you will have to add some information for your website. You would need to configure your admin access data, username, password, and email address. Once you are done, click “Install WordPress” and viola! You know have WordPress installed!
Another useful application for automatic installation is Softaculous Apps installer
If you have softaculous installed in your cPanel, you can start by clicking the WordPress icon, click install and complete the form toget your WordPress installed.
Manual Installation:
Now not every single web hosting provider has the Fantasico application or Softaculous. In cases like these, the installation process is a little bit more technical and longer. Nonetheless, it is still extremely easy and straightforward to do.
1. Go to http://wordpress.org/download/ to download the latest version of WordPress.
2. Use WinRAR or any other software to unzip the archive you just downloaded.
3. Go to the control panel of your web hosting provider and look at the “Databases” section. You will see an application called “MySQL Database Wizard”. Click on it.
4. You will be prompted to create a name, username, and password for the database. Take note of this as you will need it later.
5. Grant all the privileges to you for the database.
6. Go back to the unzipped folder of WordPress. Look for a file named “wp-config-sample.php”
7. Right click it and open it with a text editor (NotePad, etc.)
8. Control+F and look for this:
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database_name_here’);
/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username_here’);
/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password_here’);
/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
9. Replace database_name_here, username_here, and password_here with the database name, username, and password you created before.
10. Save the file as “wp-config.php” and close it.
11. Download any FTP application. For the purposes of this guide, we will use FileZilla. You can download it here: http://filezilla-project.org/
12. After installing, you will be prompted to enter your host name, username, and password. Your host name should be “ftp.yourdomainname.com”. Your username and password are your login details used to connect to your hosting control panel.
13. After making sure you are in the “public_html” directory on the remote site, select the WordPress folder and simply drag it over from the local site to the remote site.
14. Go to your site or to www.yourdomain.com/subdirectory/. Run the installation script. Here, you will enter the name of your website, your login information, and your email address.
Congratulations, you just installed WordPress! That wasn’t so bad right?
Source : techtalkafrica[dot]com
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