Creating A Wordpress Blog With Fantastico
Blogging With Wordpress
WordPress is a free personal publishing platform. It is an easy to use, fast and flexible blog script. It comes with a great set of features, designed to make your experience as a publisher as pleasant as possible.
But Firstly, If you want to install a wordpress blog script you will need to have a webhost, in this tutorial I suppose that you already had a webhost, you know about the basic stuffs about it and you just want to know how to install the wordpress blog script on your website or webhost, besides, there are a lot of good webhost out there and you just need to find a good web hosting company that offer a quality service.
Note: Be sure that the webhosting company you are using offers a free Fantastico Cpanel plugin
What is Fantastico?
Fantastico De Lux is the leading auto installer for cPanel servers. With more than 10,000 installations, it provides more than one million end users the ability to quickly install dozens of the leading open source content management systems into their web space and that includes Wordpress installation.
Installing Wordpress
Step 1.) Log into your website’s cPanel account, then click on the Fantastico icon.
Step 2.) You will now be brought to the Fantastico user interface, scroll down until you see the Blogs section and just after it, you will see WordPress in the list. Click on WordPress
Step 3.) On the right side, you will be given with some information about the version of WordPress that will be able to install. Make sure that it’s up to date. and If all is OK, click on New Installation.
Step 4.) You should arrive at the first of three steps in the one-click installation process. Here, you’ll be able to determine which folder you’d like to have WordPress installed to, as well as some other blog information- Installation Location. If you want your blog to be your website’s homepage, ensure that you leave the space blank, otherwise type in the name of the folder you want WordPress installed to (make sure it doesn’t already exist).
- Admin access data. Choose the username and password you’d like to use in order to access the WordPress admin panel after installation is completed.
- Base configuration. Type a nickname you’d like to use throughout the blog. By default, the nickname is used whenever you leave comments or write an entry on the blog, so choose something you don’t mind the world seeing. The admin e-mail address is where notices, passwords, and other information about the administration of the blog is sent. Your blog’s name and description should be self-explanatory.
- E-mail account configuration. You only need to worry about this if you plan to blog via e-mail. If you’ve set up a special e-mail account that you’ll use for blogging via e-mail, then enter the settings where applicable. (Bear in mind, you will need to enter an e-mail account password in order to proceed with the installation, simply use a false one if you don’t plan to blog via e-mail.)
- When your blog information is complete, click on the Install WordPress button at the bottom.
Step 5.) Verify that the information you provided is correct and click on Finish installation. Fantastico will create a brand new database for you and create the necessary WordPress files. Step 6.) When the process is complete, you will receive a confirmation notice with the details of the installation. If you’d like a copy of the report for your records, you’ll have the option to send an e-mail to an account of your choosing.
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