How to install a wordpress blog

"How to install a wordpress blog on your own server!"

How to Install a Wordpress Blog (Step-by-Step)

What is the so special about Wordpress Blogs? Installing a wordpress blog is simple and easy with minimal programming knowledge. Wordpress provides you with a wide variety of themes, plug-ins, and the ability to use images, and various Blog designs and layouts. I could go on all day about the basic features and Benefits of Wordpress, but I have to admit that most of us use Wordpress for one simple reason. We use Wordpress to make money blogging.

Wordpress can change the way you blog forever.

You've no doubt heard that Wordpress will allow you to set up your blogs with very little or no effort.

It's easy to down load the pages and open an FTP connection to your website. You then upload the documents and set up the database connection. Within minutes, you are working with a Wordpress blog setup on your website. It's just that easy.

Here is a straight forward explanation of how to install a Wordpress blog on your own server.

This is the Wordpress website. It is located at: http://www.wordpress.org
1. You can click the above to get to the website.
2. You will go to the “Download” Link.
3. Click “Download”
Please read the instructions.
4. You will choose a download format, ZIP is probably best and easiest. The program for extracting this file is called WinZip. You can download it for free at www.winzip.com.
5. In this frame you will choose to save the zip file. You do not want to click “Open”. It may extract into a partition on your PC that you can’t recover the files from easily.
6.You will want to save the .zip file in a location to extract it from later. You will want to remember this file location. Please write it down.
7. Once you click the WinZip file, it expands into a full file list.
8. In this case, I will extract to a local folder on my PC. The full extract process will run in less than 1 minute. Next, click “Extract”.
9. The Wordpress folder will appear in your extract folder with all associated subfolders.
10. The Wordpress folder and its contents are listed above. These are contents you will extract and copy into your website.
11. Next you will copy and paste these contents into your on-line FTP directory. If this is done from within Windows, this is a “drag-and-drop” or “copy and paste.”
12. Paste up all the files and folders below the “Wordpress folder” in your extract.
13. In my website control panel, I established my database connectivity and set up a username and password. You should copy down this information, and if you need your web provider to set this up for you, you should get the following information:
a) Server Name
b) Database Name
c) Username
d) Password
14. After that, you will go to the main website and finish your set up.
15. In this frame, you probably will not have a configuration file, so you will put the database information into a page specifically designed to launch your website.
Click the “create a wp-config.php file” link.
16. This page comes up. You will make sure you have all the required information we mentioned earlier and fill it in on the next page. Click “Let’s go” link at the bottom of the page.
17. You should get a confirmation that everything is a go, and that the database was found. Lastly, you click the “run the install” link and you are at the last step before the actual on-line install.
18. Your install has begun and the system briefs you how you should have read the documentation. Please take some time to review this in case something doesn’t go as planned.
19. Fill in the information you want blog correspondence sent to. This should be a primary “catch-all” account. I filled this field with my generic website account information.
20. Now you will log in as admin and finish the installation. This is where you will define the look and feel of your website.
21. You will go to your administrative page and login with the administrative password.
22. You now have access to modify your theme or look and feel and change your web log in anyway you see fit. Our specific instructions stop here, as users will want to customize different aspects of their blogs.
 

 
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