A Visual Guide to Installing WordPress for the Complete Novice
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I’ve created the Visual Guide to Installing WordPress for the Complete Novice because the tutorials and guides I’ve seen just haven’t shown as much detail as I think a person new to installing WordPress would like to see. Please note that this is the method I use. There are different situations, hosts, operating systems, and personal preferences for different people, so this guide can’t possibly cover it all, but I hope it helps.
Also, this guide assumes that you are using Windows XP and are uploading your files with an FTP (file transfer protocol) program to your hosting provider. This is what I use, so that is what the photos will reflect.
Step One: Creating a Database for WordPress
Create a database for WordPress in your hosting account
Now, this may not be the best way to start a tutorial on how to install WordPress, but this first step is totally up to you, because you’re the one who’s most familiar with your hosts administration features. The good news is that most hosts make this pretty easy and most certainly have the required instructions readily available if you’re not quite sure how to set up a database. The important part are the settings you’ll need after the database is created. You’ll need the Host Name, Database Name, Username, and Password. Soon, we’ll be telling WordPress this information so the installation script can create the tables that Wordpress needs inside the database you’ve created. Here’s a screen shot from within my hosting administration area that shows me the settings I’ll need.
Wow! Thanks for such a detailed post, I will give it a shot!
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Readable and educative post for novice and always something to pick of for everyone.
I have my blog at a web hotel and a friend of mine installed WP there. I use WP 2.2.1 and are thinking about updating, but not sure if I dare
Btw: your on my blogrool now and I faved you at Technorati too.
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Thank you for commenting, I’m glad you found this helpful. As far as upgrading your WP install…you really should update to the latest. Maybe that should be the next tutorial written here?
If you need help or advice on this, feel free to contact me. Thanks also for the add to the blogroll, I’ve added you to mine as well here: http://wordpressmodder.org/resources
Great piece, especially for me who is relatively new to wordpress.
Sweet tutorial, just what I have been looking for.
I’m really glad it helped! Stay tuned for more tutorials and theme releases.
Great tutorial! I recommend wordpress to all of my seo clients. Its nice to have a resource like this to give to them so they can see how easy the process is.
Oh thank you! This is so awesome. I want to install another one and since I didn’t do my first one, I am clueless. This is a great outline. I will bookmark this for you!
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Thanks, I’m glad I could help:) I will be contacting you via your blog…
I was wondering, do you know how to make wordpress show the code for the paragraphs in the HTML section of the posts?
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I’m using this plugin to display code in my posts:
http://thislab.com/2007/12/16/release-wordpress-plugin-syntaxhighlighter-plus/
There are many out there that will accomplish this, but I’ve found this one to work best for me.
Hope that helps!
Thanks. It was very useful.
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Thank you for this great tutorial. We all here at the graphic designer room of Action Printing, Inc. enjoyed this very much.
yeah good tutorial it might come in handy if i am going to move from blogger to wordpress
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This is indeed a great tutorial. So many new bloggers are still lost. What a cool way to help them.
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Thanks, I try to do what I can to help because we were all noobs at some point;)
You (or the other readers here) may also be interested to know that I’ve built a project that makes it even easier for new bloggers to get up and running. It’s called IndieLab and you can learn more here http://indielab.org
Thanks for the comment!
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. Now I can install it on my friend’s hosting.
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Wordpress is far more than a blog. With all kinds of plugins and themes, it is a CMS now. It’s nice to know that millions of people are contributing and trying to make Wordpress a better platform. I strongly recommend Wordpress to everyone.
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