Installing WordPress
This will take you through the simple steps to install WordPress. I’m assuming that you picked a webhost that has a one click install of WordPress using Fantastico (Fantastico is the platform most web hosts seem to use to install their pre-selected applications like WordPress).
Go to your web page (there will be a page put there by your web host) and login using your webhost username and password. My webhost didn’t send me my email and password when I signed up so I had to use the email username and password to get them.
When you log in you will be presented with your control panel. One of the icons will be the WordPress logo- it is under Popular Choices in mine. Click on this and the first WordPress installation page will be displayed.
Click on New Installation, This will bring up the setup page
The install on domain will have only one option if you have only one domain under that login.
I installed WordPress in a /wordpress (or /wp or whatever suits you) location- just enter the folder name, not the slash or the domain or anything else. This means that all your WordPress files are contained in a folder which should make finding your files a bit easier later on- you wouldn’t expect to be spending a lot of time managing this. This will make your address yourdomain.com/wordpress, but we will fix that in a minute.
Set a username and password for the user that will log in to the WordPress admin area (this is different to the webhosting control panes). Make sure there are no typos- you only enter your password once.
Your admin nickname is what you will will be displayed as. I have this set to Ian so the posts are not posted by admin (I changed to this afterward, so check this is the case when you are setting up WordPress).
The admin email address is what your notifications are sent to. I use a hotmail address so I am not dependant on the webhost if trouble arises (and I don’t have an email domain set up yet).
The sitename is what you are calling your blog, and the description will appear under the name on a lot of the themes. I haven’t used one because I couldn’t think of anything I liked. I’ll add one later. Maybe.
Click on Install WordPress when you have checked all your details.
The next step is the details of the database that WordPress will be created with. I just noted the details but haven’t changed or used them. Make sure you know them should you need them though.
Click on Finish Installation. A confirmation page will appear with the option to email the details of the installation. Enter your email address and click send email.
You now have WordPress installed.