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WordCamp Minnepolis 2015: From Zero To WordPress Publish
The document provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a WordPress site from scratch, including choosing a domain name and hosting, installing WordPress, and completing the initial site configuration. It discusses domain extensions, hosting options, installing WordPress files, creating a database, going through the installation wizard, and logging into the WordPress dashboard for the first time. The overall process and various options are explained concisely to help a new user publish their first WordPress site.
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- 1. FROM ZERO TO WORDPRESSPUBLISH Build a site easy and securely Michele Butcher @michele_butcher michele@13core.com http://cantspeakgeek.com http://wpsecuritylock.com http://mlb.pw/wcmpls
- 2. MICHELE BUTCHER • WordPress Specialistat WP Security Lock • Instructor at John A Logan College •WordPress Evangelist for InMotion Hosting • Lead Organizer of Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup • Crazy woman behind Can’t Speak Geek •Hostess of Safe WP Weekly Security Webinar • Photographer • Mother to the next gen WordPress user
- 3. GET READY FORTHE RIDE TO WORDPRESS
- 4. THE MOST IMPORTANTSTEP IS THE FIRST STEP What will your website be about? Once you have this figured out the rest is a cake walk
- 5. NOW LETS PICKA DOMAIN NAME You have lots of choices here!
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- 7. PLUS THE PLACESTO BUY A DOMAIN ARE ENDLESS Go Daddy Namecheap SiteGround HostGator 1 and 1 web.com Media Temple Network Solutions register.com domain.com And many more
- 8. ONCE YOU HAVEYOUR NAME PICKED OUT AND WHAT YOU WANT TO DO FOR YOUR SITE, IT IS NOW TIME TO TALK HOSTING
- 9. HOSTING IS LIKEA HARD DRIVE FOR YOU WEBSITE. IT IS WHERE ALL THE FILES LIVE. IT IS TYPICALLY CALLED A SERVER. THERE RE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOSTING AND MANY DIFFERENT HOSTING COMPANIES.
- 10. TYPES OF HOSTING Shared-(Typically the cheapest) You and many others on the same server Cloud Hosting or VPS- Virtual Machines Dedicated Hosting- You are on your own server and you do not have to share When going with any server, make sure it is a managed server unless you know how to set up a server!
- 11. HOSTING COMPANIES (THERE AREMANY AND SOME ARE HERE!) InMotion SiteGround GoDaddy WP Engine HostGator Site5 Media Temple Liquid Web 1 and 1 Blue Host RackSpace FlyWheel DreamHost Linode WiredTree Pantheon Green Geeks NameCheap
- 12. YOUR HOSTING COMPANYWILL GIVE YOU AN IP ADDRESS AND NAMESERVERS FOR YOUR DOMAIN. YOU WILL ENTER THE IP OR THE NAMESERVERS WHERE YOU PURCHASED YOUR DOMAIN. Example taken from namecheap.com
- 13. SO NOW YOUHAVE PURCHASED YOUR DOMAIN AND YOUR SITE HOSTING, PLUS YOU HAVE THE DOMAIN POINTED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION… TIME TO BUILD YOU A WEBSITE!!!!
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- 15. FIRST YOU WILLNEED TO MAKE A DATABASE FOR YOUR WEBSITE. YOU WILL GOT TO THE “MYSQL DATABASE
- 16. ONCE THERE FOLLOWTHE DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THE DATABASE. REMEMBER TO WRITE DOWN OR COPY/PASTE YOUR DATABASE NAME, DATABASE USER NAME, AND THE PASSWORDS. YOU WILL NEED THESE LATER! GIVE THE USER FULL ADMIN ROLES. IF NOT THE SITE WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY.
- 17. ONCE THE WORDPRESSFILES ARE DOWNLOADED TO YOUR COMPUTER, YOU NOW NEED TO GO INTO YOUR FILE
- 18. ONCE IN THEFILE MANAGER, UPLOAD YOUR WORDPRESS ZIP FILE TO YOUR SERVER. Your upload screen will look like this. Do not navigate off this screen until the gray box in the bottom right states the upload is complete.
- 19. ONCE UPLOADED YOUWILL EXTRACT THE ZIP FILE. THEN CLICK THE RELOAD BUTTON. If your file manager now looks like this, you may delete the zip file.
- 20. THIS STEP ISTHE TRICKIEST STEP OF THEM ALL. WE MUST MOVE ALL THE FILES FROM THE WORDPRESS FOLDER INTO THE .PUBLIC_HTML FOLDER 1. Highlight all of the folders within the WordPress folder 2. Click the move file button 3. Delete out the “wordpress” 4. Click “move files” 5. Click the “Up One Level” button 6. Delete the “wordpress” folder since it is now empty 7. Click the reload button
- 21. THE 5 MINUTE INSTALL 1.Go to you site 2. Pick you language 3. Click “Let’s go” The first time you go to your new website, this is what you should see.
- 22. REMEMBER WHEN ISAID TO KEEP YOUR DATABASE INFORMATION CLOSE? 1. Leave localhost unless instructed by your hosting company to change. 2. Change your Table Prefix to anything but wp_ but make sure there is a “_” at the end.
- 23. NEXT STEP SPARKYIS TO RUN THAT INSTALL!
- 24. THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Site name,login, password, and email. Remember to save your login information and use a strong password. Uncheck the “allow search engines to index this site until you have your site built.
- 25. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU NOW HAVEA WEBSITE!
- 26. TO LOG INTO YOUR DASHBOARD YOU WILL USE THE LOGIN HTTP://YOURDOMAIN.COM/WP-LOGIN.PHP
- 27. NOW TO LOOKAROUND THE DASHBOARD
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- 29. THANK YOU! Slides canbe found at: http://mlb.pw/wcmpls michele@michelebutcher.com @michele_butcher http://cantspeakgeek.com http://wpsecuritylock.com