How to Install WordPress

Installing WordPress is actually not difficult.

But why so many people are confused?

in this guide I provide steps that you can follow to create a website with WordPress.

Renting hosting and domain

Before you can install WordPress, you must have first place: hosting and domain.

Understanding simple as this:

Hosting or web hosting is the place to put your website. All files associated with websites placed on hosting.

While the domain is the address.

To be able to access your website, then people will type in your domain name in their browser.

Recommended hosting

There are many hosting providers and domain.

So you are not confused, some recommendation hosting services that are suitable for beginners:

BlueHost

HostGator

SiteGround

Before we go any further, be careful.! on the internet there are many people of unknown origin that offer cheap hosting services.

You should not buy from unknown people.

Hosting its influence to the quality and speed of access to your website. If you buy hosting that is not right, your website will be a lot of distractions.

Tips specify the domain name

I personally had a bad habit in choosing a domain.

but it's a few tips specify the domain name:

Related or it could describe the subject / content of the website.

Not too long, three words or less.

Not similar to the name of a popular website.

Using the .com extension.

Does not contain a dash (-).

Contain no numbers, except if your brand contains numbers.

Easy to remember, it is not difficult to spoken / written.

This is just a tip, do not have to be followed.

In fact, many successful websites that do not follow these tips above domain names.

Installing WordPress

1. Download WordPress
go to the official website of WordPress, then download the latest version. You will get the files in .zip

2. Upload and extract to hosting
Open your CPanel through: http://domainname.com/cpanel

Login with data provided by the hosting.

Open the application called File Manager:

Go to the folder named public_html:

(See File Manager on your hosting may be slightly different)

Upload the WordPress files in .zip format you downloaded earlier to this page. Once the upload is complete, click the extract button from the menu:

Click Reload from the menu, then there will be a folder named wordpress:

Sign into this folder, and then click Select All from the menu.

Click the 'Move' or 'Move files' in the menu, and delete the words "/wordpress" at the end

3. Create a user and database
WordPress so that all functions can run smoothly, then you must create a database.

Back to CPanel.

Open the application >> MySQL Databases:

Create a new database and a new user:

(Use a mix of numbers and letters to make it more secure)

After that connect the two in the "Add User to Database":

Add user to database

Tick all privileges

Almost complete.

3. Complete the installation

Go to the address of your website through the browser.

From here you will be delivered to your WordPress installation final stage. and complete the data

If after submit it turns out the message "Error establishing a database connection", there is something wrong in the database name, username, and password.

After that fill in the information:

Done!

WordPress is ready for use.

After this, please go to the WordPress Dashboard with access http://namadomain.com/wp-admin/

hard for me to explain. because different hosting different view. if you do not understand. you can install using Softaculous.

or Here > Installing_WordPress