Install WordPress and start blogging – My video guide

The manual WordPress install

• First step to is to get a domain name and hosting.
• Bluehost offers free domain as long as you buy hosting.

• Login to your hosting account
• Click on Hosting and chose My Hosting Account
• Find your hosting plan and click on Setup Account
• Select the checkbox and click Next
• Chose username and password and click Next
• Chose Select a domain from this account, find the domain and click Submit

• You will get an email titled “Hosting Account Setup”
• Find your “FTP Account Information” in the email

Hosting/FTP User Name: your username
Web Site URL: your domain URL
FTP Site URL: your FTP URL
Your Web Site Visitor Statistics: Your stats URL

• Click on Hosting and chose My Hosting Account
• Find your domain name and click on Manage Account
• Click on Databases, chose MySQL and click Create Database
• Write description, chose username and password
• Click OK and wait until your MySQL is setup

MySQL Database Information Status:
Setup Host Name: your host name
Database Name: database name you have chosen
Database Version: 4.1
Description: description you have chosen
User Name: username you have chosen

• To install WordPress, go to WordPress.org and download the latest version
• WordPress 3.3 comes in a .zip file so unzip it
• In WordPress folder rename wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere‘);
/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere‘);
/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere‘);
/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost‘);

• Your MySQL Database Name should replace putyourdbnamehere
• Your MySQL User Name should replace usernamehere
• Your MySQL password should replace yourpasswordhere
• Your MySQL Host Name should replace localhost

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);

• Open FTP client and log in to your hosting using the FTP account logins
• Place all the files from your WordPress folder onto your server
• Go to http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

• Fill in your Blog Title and Your E-mail
• Click on Install WordPress
• Next screen says Success! and has your Username and Password.
• Click on Log In to log in to WordPress dashboard.