If you don’t know about WordPress, then either you are new to Blogging or most probably telling a lie. WordPress is the most famous and also the most wonderful piece of Blogging software you will ever come across. The fact that there are millions of WordPress Blogs itself is proof enough. In this post lets get down and dirty and learn the basics about installing WordPress.
WordPress installation is pretty straight forward. It hardly takes five minutes to start and setup a Blog. However it might be difficult for Blogging Newbies. Here I have collected few basic tutorials to get you started with WordPress
- What is WordPress
- Choosing a Domain Host for WordPress
- Difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
- How to install WordPress 2.7 using Cpanel
- How to upgrade WordPress to latest 2.7 Version
- How to move your WordPress from URL Root to sub directory
- How to move your WordPress from Sub Directory to Root URL
- Migrating WordPress from one site to another
What is WordPress
WordPress is a Blogging Platform / Software. You can use WordPress to create your own Blog. It provides with the following
Pages and Posts
A WordPress Blog is made up of Pages and Posts. Post are periodically updated portion of the Blog. Otherwise they are similar like Blog Pages. A Normal WordPress Blog will have a front page where post are shown and a navigation bar to link to pages.
Themes
Themes are used to change the look and feel of a WordPress Blog. Installing a Theme is pretty straight forward. Unzip the Theme File in the WordPress Themes Directory and activate it from the Admin Panel.
Admin Panel
Admin Panel is the backend of the WordPress. From here you can set various settings, activate plugins, themes and most importantly post content.
Plugins
Plugins are needed to increase the functionality of the Blogging Software. It might be needed for simple thing like “Adding Meta Tags to Posts”, “Displaying a Tag Cloud” etc. There is a large number of Plugins in the WordPress.org site
Check out the following articles to know about WordPress in more detail
It might look a little difficult to grasp if you are Blogging for the first time, but believe me once you have your own WordPress Blog installed, you will find how easy and wonderful this Blogging Software is..!!
Choosing a Domain Host for WordPress
For installation of WordPress, all it is needed is a MYSQL Database version 4.0 or higher and PHP version 4.3 or higher. WordPress recommends a few sites which have custom packages to install WordPress with one click.
Best among them are BlueHost and DreamHost. I do not recommend GoDaddy as a lot of my friends had bad experience with them.
Difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
WordPress.com is a Web Service which lets users host their free blogs on there server. It is a customized WordPress Multi User Installation allowing thousands and thousands of WordPress Blogs hosted for free.
WordPress.org on the other hand is the place to Download WordPress Software (both single user and multi user versions), free themes, free plug-ins, User Community and Documentation. Here you can download the latest version and install it on your Website by following the tutorials mentioned below.
How to Install WordPress 2.7 using Cpanel
Installing WordPress using Cpanel
How to upgrade WordPress to latest 2.7 Version
How to install WordPress Multiuser Version
Installing WordPress Multiuser Version
Moving your WordPress from URL Root to Sub Directory
Moving your WordPress from URL root to Sub Directory
Redirect Root URL to your Sub Directory
Moving WordPress from your Sub Directory to Root URL
Moving your WordPress from Sub Directory to Root URL
Migrating WordPress from one Site to Another
Migrating WordPress from one Site to Another – Part 1
Migrating WordPress from one Site to Another – Part 2
*Thanks Kentuckyclassroom for those tutorials. Have a nice day..!!
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In the choosing domain host section, you said people should avoid godaddy. Godaddy is cheaper and free to register. Before choosing a web host, the buyer has to make a list of what she need in a web host.
I like godaddy because it is the web host most webmasters use to transfer domains among each other.
Sure Godaddy is a good host. I said “I do not recommend it” Reason been a few of my friends had bad experience with GoDaddy including account ban for no reason.
Although if you are solely into Flipping Websites and Domains then GoDaddy is a better alternative than others.
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Regards
Thinkjayant
Godaddy is realy a good hosting company.
This is great to know. Of course having Fantastico takes care of the majority of the install. Now…Moving a site, that’s another pile of work!
Wow what a great tutorial. You even included videos. Thanks!
thanks for the posts and video
this is a great tutorial.
Rob
nice collection of tutorial, hopefully next should be creating themes for wordpress. Looking forward to it.
very useful information and tutorials, thanks for that…
Thanks very much for this really useful. Much appreciated.
Good post. True to point. Keep up the good work. Dido