If you don’t have any preferred CMS or don’t know any HTML coding, i’d highly suggest you start with WordPress. You might have heard of this as a blogging platform , but WordPress has evolved far from just a blog now. It’s a multi function CMS system with a wide variety of themes & plugins to support multiple functions , such as forums,e-commerce site , blogshop & many more. You can find tonnes of support and a huge variety of free themes and plugins for this platform , that’s why WordPress is the biggest open source blogging CMS in the world right now.
Installing Wordpress or WP is fairly simple. I’m talking about WordPress.org (self hosted wordpress) here NOT WordPress.com which is similar to blogspot.com. Go back to your cPanel menu and look for a script installation tool such as ‘Softaculous’ or ‘Installatron’ or Fantastico Deluxe. If you can find any of these script installers then just simply use them and they will install wordpress automatically for you.
If you don’t find any of these or want to do it the manual way, simply follow my steps below. The first step is to download the wordpress installation files from the site itself – WordPress.org
Uploading the WordPress files in your cPanel account. Go to ‘File Manager’ in the cPanel menu as shown below
Clicking on this will bring you to a screen like this:
Select ‘Document Root for:’ and look for your EXACT domain name in the drop down box. Then tick ‘Show hidden files’ as well and hit Go!
Next you will come to the file manager menu as illustrated below :
You will need to click on Upload located at the top left of the menu (Step 1.) and then proceed to upload your WordPress.zip file which you downloaded earlier from the wordpress site. After the file has completed uploading , simply click on ‘Reload’ in the middle of the menu (Step 2.) and you shall see your .zip file in the menu. Now , this menu displays the files which are on your website in real time. Next , click on the .zip file in the menu and click ‘Extract’ (Step 3.). After the extractor is done hit refresh again and you will see a folder named ‘wordpress’ . Double click on the folder and you will see the sub folder with all the wordpress files like below :
Click on ‘Select All’ and then move all the files to the root folder by clicking ‘Move File’ (step 2.) . Move all the files to the root folder (/public_html/) instead of the current folder (/public_html/wordpress) . Now the file part is completed. The second half of the installation would be to setup a Mysql database for wordpress’s access. Databases are needed for almost all web scripts & CMSs today.
Go back to your cPanel main menu and look for ‘Mysql Databases’
The first step is to create a database. Your database name would normally be like this accountname_xxxx whereby xxxx is your database’s name which you need to type in. Enter a name for your db and hit create database. After that scroll down to the part to create a new user for your database . You will see something like this
Simply enter your username and password to create your new user. After that , add your user to the new database you just created before this. Now you’re done! (Remember your database name, user’s name and your password)
The next step is to simply go to your website in your browser. You will see a welcome screen like this
Simply setup the database with wordpress by entering the details you have before and then follow the wizard to fill out your site’s title, description and to create your admin user.
Congratulations , your new WordPress site has been setup now!
To manage your site , add new posts etc simply remember the admin URL for wordpress is yourwebsite.com/wp-admin or yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php.
This post ends here. To learn more about wordpress like , changing of themes/making a new post or creating a page please follow my other posts in the All About WordPress category.
Thanks for reading again, feel free to email me if you need any help.
Installing Wordpress or WP is fairly simple. I’m talking about WordPress.org (self hosted wordpress) here NOT WordPress.com which is similar to blogspot.com. Go back to your cPanel menu and look for a script installation tool such as ‘Softaculous’ or ‘Installatron’ or Fantastico Deluxe. If you can find any of these script installers then just simply use them and they will install wordpress automatically for you.
If you don’t find any of these or want to do it the manual way, simply follow my steps below. The first step is to download the wordpress installation files from the site itself – WordPress.org
Uploading the WordPress files in your cPanel account. Go to ‘File Manager’ in the cPanel menu as shown below
Clicking on this will bring you to a screen like this:
Select ‘Document Root for:’ and look for your EXACT domain name in the drop down box. Then tick ‘Show hidden files’ as well and hit Go!
Next you will come to the file manager menu as illustrated below :
You will need to click on Upload located at the top left of the menu (Step 1.) and then proceed to upload your WordPress.zip file which you downloaded earlier from the wordpress site. After the file has completed uploading , simply click on ‘Reload’ in the middle of the menu (Step 2.) and you shall see your .zip file in the menu. Now , this menu displays the files which are on your website in real time. Next , click on the .zip file in the menu and click ‘Extract’ (Step 3.). After the extractor is done hit refresh again and you will see a folder named ‘wordpress’ . Double click on the folder and you will see the sub folder with all the wordpress files like below :
Click on ‘Select All’ and then move all the files to the root folder by clicking ‘Move File’ (step 2.) . Move all the files to the root folder (/public_html/) instead of the current folder (/public_html/wordpress) . Now the file part is completed. The second half of the installation would be to setup a Mysql database for wordpress’s access. Databases are needed for almost all web scripts & CMSs today.
Go back to your cPanel main menu and look for ‘Mysql Databases’
The first step is to create a database. Your database name would normally be like this accountname_xxxx whereby xxxx is your database’s name which you need to type in. Enter a name for your db and hit create database. After that scroll down to the part to create a new user for your database . You will see something like this
Simply enter your username and password to create your new user. After that , add your user to the new database you just created before this. Now you’re done! (Remember your database name, user’s name and your password)
The next step is to simply go to your website in your browser. You will see a welcome screen like this
Simply setup the database with wordpress by entering the details you have before and then follow the wizard to fill out your site’s title, description and to create your admin user.
Congratulations , your new WordPress site has been setup now!
To manage your site , add new posts etc simply remember the admin URL for wordpress is yourwebsite.com/wp-admin or yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php.
This post ends here. To learn more about wordpress like , changing of themes/making a new post or creating a page please follow my other posts in the All About WordPress category.
Thanks for reading again, feel free to email me if you need any help.
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