WordPress is the most favorite platform for developing websites as it powers nearly 59% of all the websites using a CMS platform. This is typically due to its simple interface and providing the ease to use plugins for extended operability and support. Moreover, you can also use thousands of free and premium WordPress themes to make your website look stunning in all aspects.
The platform also supports well-designed themes which can be readily utilized for the website design. It provides easy drag and drop options for placing the widgets on the website. Further, you can also add customization codes and enhance the features according to your understanding and requirement.
In this post, we will be telling you about how to install WordPress manually along with a quick Softaculous installation tutorial for installing WordPress on any Web-Hosting platform. The whole setup is being divided into six steps:
Installing the WordPress CMS on your hosted server can be done in various ways. Although, it is always advised to install it manually as it is more secure rather than going for a one-click installation. Follow the below steps to setup WordPress manually on your hosting server.
1 Download the WordPress Package
To install the WordPress CMS you will need to download the WordPress package from the below link.
Download WordPress from the official website – Click Here
2 Upload the Package to your Hosting Account
This can be down in three ways:
- Uploading via FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- Uploading via File Manager
- Uploading SSH (Secure Socket Shell)
3 Create the MySQL Database and User
For this, you will need the cPanel access of your hosting account. WordPress typically stores all the information in a database. A database can be thought as a storage house for all the content a visitor views on your website. It stores the text files, WordPress Themes, plugins etc.
For storing the data you will need to create a database which can be done using the below procedure.
- Log in to your cPanel.
- There is usually a MySQL Database Wizard under the Database section. Click on it. Kindly note down the below details in a separate text file as it will be used in further steps.
- Create a Database and enter the database name. Click Next Step.
- Create Database Users and enter the username and password. Click Create User.
- Add the user to the Database. After this, you will be lead to the privileges option. Select the options according to your need. If you are creating an admin account then select all privileges. Although, if making a user account for an employee, you can restrict him by providing fewer privileges.
- Note down the details mentioned above including the database name, username and password in a separate text file and save it in a secure folder.
4 Fill the details in WordPress
In order to connect your database with WordPress, you need to fill up the details from Step 3 in WordPress too. Let us see how:
- As soon as you start WordPress on your browser, it will ask for the necessary details for connecting up the database. Enter the database name which you had created earlier.
- Enter the database username.
- Enter the database password. You should use a lengthy and difficult password for the database. For this, you can use Passwords Generator which combines characters, numbers and special character to form a strong password.
- Choose the Database Host. You can get this info from your web host.
- We would suggest you keep the table prefix different than the default “wp”. Using a different prefix will make your database more secure and will make it hard for any unauthorized person to guess it.
Submit the details in the end. This would connect the database with your WordPress account.
5 Run the WordPress Installation
You have successfully completed the primary steps and now you need to press the final button. After this step, you can set up one of the best WordPress blog themes and make your site live on the web.
The last job is to execute the installation script from the installation page. You can find the script using either of the below URLs:
http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php
http://yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php
Replace yourdomain.com in the above link by your actual domain link. After this you will be followed by the page saying “Welcome to the famous five minute WordPress installation process!” and you are done.
6 Install WordPress using Softaculous
You can also install WordPress from your cPanel using Softaculous. This provides a much easier way to install the CMS on your hosting server but doing it manually is always better.
Watch this full WordPress tutorial to install WordPress using Softaculous. You can follow the same steps to install the CMS using Fantastico.
After successfully installing WordPress on your host server, you can instantly start setting up the website.
Conclusion
WordPress provides a great interface for setting up a website in just a few minutes. This fact can be seen as it is the most preferred platform for setting up dynamic E-Commerce Websites. The above manual setup hardly takes 5-10 minutes. After the successful WordPress installation, you can download premium WordPress themes from MyThemeShop. After you setup your favorite theme, you can start putting up content and posts on your blog. Do remember to set up an About Me/About Us page for your website. Submit and verify your website on different search engine platforms like Google, Bing, Yandex and Yahoo.
Why to edit manually wp-config.php When wordpress includes a GUI where you can install and setup any parameter?
Your sharing is one of recommendation guidance for al beginer who want to learn more about wordpress insatallation.
wordpress is the easiest interface which provide a beginner website developer to work easily. the interface is easy to grasp, as i have been working on one of the websites. the easy interface with wordpress allowed me to make the website work easily. do take a look to the website ii have been working on.
Hi Jaskiran,
It is very true. WordPress provides the easiest interface for setting up a website with no technical skills.
Keep visiting!
YOu can find this simple from https://code.tutsplus.com/articles/download-and-install-wordpress-via-the-shell-over-ssh–wp-24403
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Thank you for your comment and sharing that article. Appreciate it.
That is one of the best writing samples about WordPress installation. I would like to congratulate you for a great contribution.
Also, if you want to get more information about WordPress, you visit this https://www.wpvideotutorial.com
Hello Mohit,
Thank you for your comment and glad you liked it.
You have explained things step by step and very professionally. Hope your guidance will work well for beginners who are going to launch a blog.
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Thanks for sharing this. I was looking for this. Till now, I was aware only of installing WordPress with script installers in hosting.
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Do you have any suggestions for webhosting to upload my own WordPress site?
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You can try our recommended hosting by following this link:
https://mythemeshop.com/get/hosting
Hope that helps. Thank you.
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I am new in WordPress, I was just trying to install the WordPress from Cpanel, I was not sure how to install but I just reached here and found its too easy to install WordPress
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Hi i am new to all website making and wordpress. My question is this all about self hosting? where ive read you have complete control of your website?
Hello Deano,
Yes, this article is about installing the self-hosted version of WordPress on any hosting. The self-hosted version provides full control over your website. For the other version of WordPress – the WordPress.com one – you do not need to install anything and can start using it like you use Gmail or Tumblr.
Hope that helps.
Let us know if you need any more assistance, we are here to help.
Do you have any blogger platform themes, paid or free both are accepted but it must look alike same to this one.
Hello Kingroot,
No, we don’t have Blogger.com themes.
Hello Esther,
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Our textual tutorial is a bit outdated. Please follow the video as that is fresher.
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Nice Article Thank you for this update this is really helpful thanks again
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Thanks brother, really very helpful post!
thank you so much.
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Nice tutorial.
Very helpful information about WordPress hosting. Got helpful information about WordPress hosting.
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Quite good blog. I have my bus booking website but for blog I prefer wordpress only. so i do sub domain like blog.mydomain and go with basic free themes on wordpress. thank You
Hello Vijay,
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Glad these sub domains work for you. You can even try WordPress for your whole site; there are many niche oriented WordPress themes available in the market.
Let us know if you need any assistance, we would love to help.
Thank you for the help! I just started my blog on Up Mixed few days ago and because I have never used WP before it will take me some time to get used to it. Your post is great for newbie like me.
Thanks : Sam
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nice job dude.keep it up
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Thank you so much for your guidance! It is very helpful.
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Really helpful, can i use wordpress to manage my existing website? i.e using Database name and Database host info from my website host. Thanks
Hello Abraham,
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Yes, you can do that with WordPress. You just have to edit the wp-config.php file and add the fields in there.