How to install WordPress on your hosting account

If you are here now there’s a very good chance that you are wondering how to install WordPress on your new hosting account. Well, you’re in luck. Gine are the days of complicated install procedures, having to use Putty and line command. Now you can do it with just a few clicks of a button.

With the prevalence of WordPress around the world installing the most popular CMS in the world is an easy task. In this how to we’ll show you just how easy it is to install WordPress on your hosting account. It must be acknowledged that some hosts may use different tools to install WordPress and it will be impossible to include all of them.

1. WordPress hosts

WordPress hosts are becoming more and more common today as the uptake of WordPress increases around the world. These hosts make the entire process of WordPress a simple and hands off task, from installing a new site to managing the cache for speed. However, these type of hosts come with restrictions and are often far more expensive.

When signing up for an account with a WordPress host WordPress will be automatically installed for you. This is the case with our own WordPress hosting. this greatly reduces the difficulty of installing WordPress on a site as it’s all automated for you.

2. Control Panel hosting

Control panel hosting is the one most hosts use. It will be either CPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin. These control panels will include one of two apps. Softaculous nd Installatron. Both function in a similar fashion. We use Softaculous on our DirectAdmin control panel. allowing you to quickly and effortlessly install WordPress with a handful of clicks

The following guide is for the more popular Softaculous app, but Installatron is almost identical

1. Log into the control panel

2. Scroll down until you get to the Softaculous Apps Installer section

3. Click WordPress

4. Click the blue install button

5. Fill in the following details

• Choose Installation URL: Select what to install it under. http, https, http://www or https://www Then select the site from the dropdown. If you want to install WordPress in s directory other than the home directory enter a name in the directory field, otherwise leave empty. We recommend leaving the directory field empty
• Give it a name and description. You can change these later on in the customizer of the WordPress admin area
• Leave enable multisite (WPMU) unchecked for now as this is an advanced feature of WordPress
• Enter a username and password. We recommend not using admin as the username as it’s an easy exploit.
• Enter your email address
• Select your language
• Select the additional default plugins and themes you want installed during initial deployment
• Don’t enter the advanced section
• Click install

This process can take anywhere from 30 seconds up to a few minutes to complete. Once done it will load to a success page with a link to the new site and one to the admin area of the site.

3. Manually installing WordPress (not recommended)

1. Begin by visiting wordpress.org and clicking on the download WordPress link

2. Upload the zip file to the root of your hosting account, usually public_html and extract it. You should be left with some folders and files. Make sure they maintain their same structure and are in the public_html directory

3. Create a new database taking notice of the database name, username and password. In CPAnel you need to create a new user followed by a new database then connect the user to the database. Plesk is similar to Cpanel. DirectAdmin is a little simpler. Simply create a new database and enter all the details during its creation.

4. Go back to your file manager and head to where you extracted wordpress and search for a file called wp-config-sample.php

5. Open the wp-config-sample.php file in an editor and do the following.

6. Locate the line that reads “define(‘DB_NAME‘, ‘database_name_here‘);” and add your database name.

7. Locate the line that reads “define(‘DB_USER‘, ‘username_here‘);” and add your database username.

8. Locate the line that reads “define(‘DB_PASSWORD‘, ‘password_here‘);” and add your database password.

9. Navigate to the section that reads “*Authentication Unique Keys and Salts” in the same file. Visit the WordPress Unique Phrase and Salt Key generator here.

10. Copy the Unique Phrase and Salt Keys generated by the WordPress API and replace the default ones located in the wp-config-sample.php file. Once you are finished with that, hit “Save” and exit the Code Editor

11. Rename “wp-config-sample.php” to “wp-config.php”

12. Exit the file manager.

13. Open tge website url followed by wp-admin/install.php. eg. https://example.com/wp-admin/install.php

14. On the next screen select the language of choice for your WordPress install and click “Continue”.

15. You’ll then land on the following screen where you will enter the details required for the website such as the site name, username, password and email address.

16. Once all of the details have been entered hit Install WordPress. You’ll then need to login to your new WordPress website using your login information.

That is how to install WordPress on your hosting account