A Visual Guide to Installing WordPress for the Complete Novice
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Step Five: Run the Wordpress Installation Script
Enter the path to the installation script into your browser’s url address field
Once the files are uploaded to your host’s server, it’s time to run the WordPress installation script. By running this, WordPress will create all the tables it needs into your database. Remember those database settings we inserted earlier?
To accomplish this, you need to enter the path to the install file into your browser’s address bar. This address will vary, depending on whether you moved these files to the root directory or into a subdirectory like I did.
If you moved the files to your root directory, you would enter the url like this: http://yourdomainname.com/wp-admin/install.php
If you put your files into a subdirectory, you would enter something similar to this: http://yourdomainname.com/yoursubdirectory/wp-admin/install.php
Enter your initial blog settings
You will then be presented with the first installation screen. It’s pretty self-explanatory, just enter your Blog title and the email address you’d like associated with your blog. You also have the option to “Allow my blog to appear in search engines…”. You want to make sure that’s checked, unless of course you don’t want anyone to find you blog;)
Congratulations, you’ve just installed WordPress!
Congrats! One thing to remember when seeing this page is to write down the password that WordPress creates for you. Don’t worry, you can easily change this password later to something easier for you to remember, but for now, make sure you record it. Now click the “wp-login.php” link.
Log in to your WordPress blog administration area
Now you can log in and start setting up your blog!
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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@ RennyBA,
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.
@ Bubblia,
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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@Tampa Blog,
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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@ Jason,
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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@ Monica,
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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Hi, very nice tutorial. I was wondering, do you have a tutorial on how to restore wordpress data bases as well? It’s great that WP is so automated now when you create a new blog, but what happens when you’re changing hosts and you want to restore your blog?
Thanks!
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@Print and Stitch,
Sorry, I don’t have a tutorial on restoring databases, but you might want to try some of these links…
http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup
http://technosailor.com/2007/04/06/wordpress-faq-how-do-i-move-my-blog-to-a-new-host/
this was really helpful
thanks
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Thank you for another great posting. I going to get off my but and upgrade to 2.6.
Thanks for the tutorial! Wordpress 2.7 is coming out soon, hopefully they make it a bit easier to install!
Very nice tutorial, thank you. It was very helpfull especially for a newby like me. In my opinion creating and setting up the database information is the most difficult part.
I wish i had come cross this guide a while back. Nevertheless it helped clear things out.
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Definitely the best step by step instructions on installing Wordpress. Very clear instructions. Thanks for this!
You’re welcome Victor. I’m really glad I could be of assistance:)
Thanks for this tutorial! You make it look very simple and easy!
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Great article, especially for me who is relatively new to wordpress.
I like the wordpress instalation: “expected more steps ? sorry”
I have more than 5 wordpress blogs but believe it or not, I have never installed it. I use hosting with Fantastico Deluxe script installed. It allows me to install any blog engine and many other scripts including Joomla and Mambo in unsder a minute. =)
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