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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

• What is WordPress – Wikipedia
• WordPress and Blogging Overview – WordPress.org

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

Upgrade to 2.7 Part 1

Upgrade to 2.7 Part 2

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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