You might be asking, what the heck is WordPress and why should I install it on my hosting account?
WordPress is a free content management system that has been used for bloggers and developers for many years. It allows you to create websites with ease and no knowledge of HTML. It’s highly customizable and a very powerful tool for creating professional looking websites.
Tools such as Themes allow you to select free themes widely available on the Internet to help you make your site look professional, without spending a dime on designers. It’s also great for cool plugins that make your life easier, for example “All in one SEO”, which does all the required work to ensure that you get maximum visibility to the search engines for your site.
Manually installing WordPress can be a hard task for some, especially if you’re new! But that’s why I recommended GreenGeeks!
GreenGeeks offers a tool called Softaculous, which offers a built-in, one-click automatic WordPress installer. Fill in a few things and click install, pretty easy huh? I’ll walk you through it now
Installing WordPress with Softaculous
Log into your account at GreenGeeks, usually at https://www.greengeeks.com/login/. Once logged in, make sure you’re in your hosting account’s cPanel.
This is where you’ll be able to manage all aspects of your account, I suggest looking around to get yourself familiar with the tools that are available to you for your hosting account.
Scroll down to find the Software/Services category and click on Softaculous as seen below:
You’ll then end up at a page which shows you the “Top Scripts”, you’re going to want to hover over WordPress and click on Install.
You will be asked to fill in information regarding the install, such as your e-mail address, wordpress username/password, and other basic configuration things.
Note: There will be a field called Install in Directory, leave this blank. Otherwise it will create a sub-folder and that’s not what you want.
Once you’ve filled out all the information, click on Install. That’s it. You’re done.
You’ve now got a fully functioning WordPress-powered website, complete with the default theme which can be changed easily later on.
Let’s move on to configuring your website!
Thx for the information, and the web page certainly looks outstanding. Exactly what wordpress theme are you employing?
I am using the default theme that is installed with WordPress.
Im digging wp more and more each day. It could be the online community itself that truly offer everything you will require from a web site or the foundation that makes site management really simple. I just migrated from b2 and ive never doubted the move
It’s difficult to find knowledgeable people in this particular subject, however, you sound like you know what you’re talking about!
Thanks
Hi! Quick question that’s totally off topic. Do you know how
to make your site mobile friendly? My site looks weird when
browsing from my iphone 4. I’m trying to find a theme or plugin that might be able to fix this problem.
If you have any suggestions, please share. Thank you!
You need to make sure that you’re using a responsive theme.