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Wordpress - A Beginners Guide Part 2 - “Wordpress Installation And Setup”
Posted on June 20, 2008
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So you have now signed up with a hosting company and you’re wondering how to get started with Wordpress. Before we get into the nitty gritty, let me first re-iterate that if you plan to develop multiple Wordpress Blogs then it’s important to choose a host that has multiple ‘Add-on’ domains available. Do NOT confuse ‘Add-on’ domain with ‘Subdomain’ - totally different beast.
The former appears as a totally individual entity and no visitor is aware that it is somehow ‘linked’ to another account hosting multiple domains. The latter however, literally appears as a sub-domain. For example, assume www.primarydomain.com is the primary hosted domain account that all others are linked from - an add-on domain for this would appear as a totally autonomous entity such as www.addondomain.com whereas the same domain as a subdomain would appear in a browser address bar as www.addondomain.primarydomain.com - so you can see how important the distinction is. This is one other reason why i chose Bluehost, as they allow unlimited Add-on domains. This suited me well as i planned to develop and host quite a few sites.
I’m going to skip the part about setting up the Add-on domain as it’s very easy and not the focus of this post. So let’s now move on to installing Wordpress itself. Login to your cpanel via your web browser and then you need to find the icon for Fantastico or Fantastico Deluxe - both suites should contain Wordpress in any case, so it doesn’t really matter which you
have. The icon will look something like this smiley face.
Click on the icon and you will see a list of the applications available in the left frame. Under ‘Blogs’ you will see Wordpress - click the link and you will get an overview of Wordpress on the right hand frame. Click the link for ‘New Installation’ and you will come to the next screen where you can select where to install it. Make sure you have already setup your Add-on domain and pointed the DNS nameservers to your host from the registry where your name is held (e.g. Godaddy).
You will have a drop down list available to select the domain or add-on domain to install it to. Select your domain name and leave the field ‘Install in directory’ blank to install it to the root. This is the most desirable scenario imho as you most likely want the url to be www.mydomain.com/pagex.html rather than www.mydomain.com/wordpress/pagex.html. Fill out the rest of the details for admin username and password and email address etc and then hit the “Install Wordpress” button to start the installation process. It is generally very fast, so you wont have to be patient for very long.
That’s seriously how easy it is to do a Wordpress Installation using Fantastico. All you have to do next is select a base Wordpress theme for your site (there are millions of fantastic Wordpress themes out there of which ill suggest a few in the next chapter) and decide which plugins and or widgets you would like to use. In the next part of this beginner series i will go through selecting and installing a base theme and plugins with my recommendations. Once that is completed we will get into some detail about Wordpress theme customizations, which is really what this site is all about.
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