Time to learn how to install Wordpress. As I thought about writing this post yesterday I was thinking it was going to be a long one. I think of the word “install” and I immediately think “complicated”. It’s funny though, because I went through the steps and it literally took me 2 minutes, if that, to write it all down. It really is simple.

Now, I’m going to go through the steps of installing Wordpress through Cpanel. You can install Wordpress manually, but Cpanel really makes it easy.

I actually tried that initially, installing it manually, because I wasn’t sure what I was doing. I didn’t know that you could quickly do it through cPanel. I ended up totally confused, but that’s just me. Using Filezilla is a learning curve I still need to get through. Once I learned I could use cPanel I was up and running in no time at all.

Since you are reading this post I’m assuming you have already got your domain name, set up a hosting account and transferred your DNS to your host. If you haven’t you can learn how in these posts:

How To Register Your First Domain Name

How To Set Up Your Hosting With HostGator

How to Transfer Your DNS To Your Webhost

To begin, log into your cPanel by going to your new domain plus “cPanel”

It should look like this (but with your domain name)

http://www.heidipassey.com/cpanel

Then log in with your user name and password that you set up with your host.

This is what cPanel will look like after you log in.

There are all kinds of things you can with cPanel. There is also a section with special offers that you will want to check out, such as getting $25 free in Google Adwords.

Scroll down to Fantastico. It is the smiley face Icon. Click on Fantastico.

There will be a menu of options on the left hand side. Click on Wordpress.

I didn’t make a screen shot of the next screen. Just click on New Installation.

Now you will select your domain from the list where it says Install on Domain. If this is your first blog, your new domain name should be the only one there.

Go ahead and leave the directory blank.

Choose your administrator user name and password. This is what you will use to log in and post on your blog.

Choose a nickname.

Enter you blogs name and description. The description will show up under you blog name in the header.

Now click Install Wordpress.

That’s it. That didn’t take long at all did it? Now if you go to your website address you should see a very basic looking blog.

I’ll cover ways to spice up the look of your blog in upcoming posts. Feel free to log into your blog now and get familiar with your dashboard. To log in, just go to:

http://www.heidipassey.com/wp-admin (your domain name, of course)

Don’t feel like you have to get your blog looking exactly right before you start adding content. That is a mistake I made. I spent too much time trying to get my blog to look the way I wanted it to before I started blogging. As Alex teaches, “don’t get it perfect, just get it going”. You can always make changes to the look of your blog later.

Again, if you have any questions please leave a comment.

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