Feb 08 2011

How to Install a WordPress Blog

Ryans1.com How to Install a WordPress Blog Hi my name is Ryan and welcome to my video on how to create a wordpress blog. On this video, I presume you already have a domain and Web hosting. So the next step is to get a couple of more things. The first is to download the files for your blog from the wordpress website. By going to wordpress.org And hit download. It will take you to a page where you can download WordPress 2.7, which is the latest wordpress platform. Download this to your computer, and you can unzip that into a folder. That will put all of the files you need for your blog onto your computer. Now, the next thing you need to do is get this on to the Internet. So you need an FTP program to upload those files, I used filezilla. You can get for free by typing the FileZilla into Google. It’s the first result that comes up in Google, and you want to download the FileZilla client. On that page it will be the first one under Windows FileZilla-3.1.6-win-32-setup. Once you have FileZilla and all your word press files. You will want to log into your hosting account and create a database to hold your new blog. Log into your account and create a new database. It may look different depending on what Web hosting company you use. It will ask you to create a database description database user name and enter a password for the database. Once you have created a database go back to the word press files on your computer and look for wp-config-sample, now renamed that file to remove

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9 Responses to “How to Install a WordPress Blog”

  1. CP503 Says:

    very useful video

  2. eddydTV Says:

    It works perfect! Thanks for sharing!

  3. germanicus24 Says:

    Hi Ryan, I inherited a WordPress-based site and the previous editor of it vanished so I am quite lost, since I had no previous WordPress experience. I downloaded WordPress, but have no clue how to link it to the website without overwriting it (do I need to know where the site is hosted). Also the header from this website has a drop down menu to which I need to add some new sections, but I have no clue also on where to start changing this. Do you know where should I start from? Many thanks!

  4. Ryans1P Says:

    What you need is access to the wordpress control panel.

    go to yourwebsite(.)com/wp-admin

    -then enter your username and password. You can then change, add and edit everything on the wordpress site.

    Ryan.

  5. germanicus24 Says:

    Thank you very much Ryan!

    Kind regards from Chile,
    Germán

  6. biddude Says:

    Thank you Excellent explaination!

  7. thebuilderddd Says:

    What program do you use for the PHP file?

  8. VolcanicDrum Says:

    Thank you, one of the best videos on the subject!

  9. abbasipantar Says:

    can anyone tell me….how to Extract an archive into a directory on your hosting server where you can host and run PHP code???
    plllzzzz help me……

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