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- 1. How to Install Wordpress TheTechie Way
- 2. Go to Googleand search for Wordpress.org
- 3.
- 4.
- 5. On the nextpage, click again “Download Wordpress”
- 6. There goes yourdownloaded file
- 7. Open another tabthen go to your web hosting site
- 8. In my case,I’m using InterServer
- 9. Prior to thistutorial, I’ve already purchased my domain and web hosting from Interserver NOTE:
- 10.
- 11. Enter your Logindetails
- 12. Enter your emailaddress
- 13.
- 14.
- 15. This is thedashboard
- 16.
- 17. You will betaken to this page
- 18.
- 19. You’ll be takento this page
- 20. Scroll down tosee this menu
- 21. Click “Login toCpanel”
- 22. You’ll see thisin the CPanel
- 23. Under Databases, click “MySQLDatabases”
- 25. NOTE: Get a penand paper and take note of the information that you will input in this page.
- 26. You will beneeding it later
- 27. Create a Databaseand enter it in this box
- 28.
- 29. When it’s done,click “Go Back”
- 30. You’ll be takenback to this page
- 31. Scroll down andlook for “Add New User”
- 32. Type in thesame info that you entered earlier
- 33.
- 34.
- 35. Then click “CreateUser”
- 36. When done, clickagain “Go Back”
- 37. Back again tothis page
- 38. Scroll down againand look for “Add User To Database”
- 39.
- 40. You’ll be takento this page
- 41. Tick this boxto choose “All Privileges”
- 42. Scroll down andclick “Make Changes”
- 43. When done, click“Go Back”
- 44. Back again tothis page
- 45.
- 46. You’re now backto cPanel page
- 47. Under Files, click “FileManager”
- 48. It will opena new tab and you’ll be taken here
- 49.
- 50.
- 51. This is wherewe are going to upload
- 52. the Wordpress filethat we downloaded earlier
- 53.
- 54. Another tab willopen this page
- 55.
- 56. Select the Wordpresszip file that you downloaded
- 57.
- 58. Wait for itto finish uploading
- 59.
- 60. Click this togo back
- 61. There goes theWordpress that we uploaded
- 62. Right click onit then click “Extract”
- 63.
- 64.
- 65. Here’s the extractedWordpress
- 66. Double click thefile
- 67. And you willsee this
- 68.
- 69.
- 70.
- 71.
- 72. It should onlylook like this
- 73. Then click “MoveFiles”
- 74. The directory nowis empty
- 75. Because we’ve transferredthe files here
- 76.
- 77. And you’ll seethis
- 78. Look for thewordpress folder
- 79.
- 80.
- 81. Look for thewordpress zip file
- 82. And delete itas well
- 83. Next is tolook for this file
- 84. Right-click on itthen click “Edit”
- 85.
- 86.
- 87. A new tabwill open this page
- 88. This time, wehave to go back to our cPanel
- 89. On your cPanel,click MySQL
- 90. Scroll down andlook for your Database name
- 91.
- 92. Then go backto this page
- 93. Look for thispart
- 94. Replace this fieldwith your database name
- 95. Next is thispart
- 96. Copy and pastethe same database name
- 97. Next is totype in your password
- 98. Type it insidethe (‘) apostrophe
- 99. Then click “SaveChanges”
- 100.
- 101. Go back tothis page
- 102. Right click onthis file
- 103.
- 104.
- 105. Remove the word“-sample”
- 106. It should onlylook like this
- 107.
- 108.
- 109. You can nowtry going to your website
- 110. Open another taband enter your website address
- 111. You should finallysee this page
- 112. Select English asyour language
- 113.
- 114. A few stepsleft to your Wordpress site
- 115. NOTE: Bring out yournotes that you used when you created your database earlier. We’ll now use it here
- 116. Type in thetitle of your site here
- 117. Type in yourusername
- 118.
- 119. Enter your emailaddress
- 120.
- 121. So search engineswon’t find your site yet
- 122. Since you arestill building it
- 123.
- 124.
- 125.
- 126. All you haveto do is to log in to your Wordpress site
- 127. You can nowstart blogging on your freshly made website!
- 128.