domains, hosting and installing wordpress made easy

Domains, Hosting and Installing WordPress Made Easy

Bret Phillipshttp://bretphillips.com

Twitter - @bretwp

Web Devils – WordPress Development, SEO,Restaurant Internet Marketing

http://webdevils.bizbretwp@webdevils.biz

(404) 997-3385

Hijacking Music Collectivehttp://hijackingmusic.com

http://hijackingmusicfestival.com

Domains

Choose a name that is easy to write and remember.

If possible, do not use hyphens or underscores.

Which to choose .com, .org, .biz, .info, .me?

What if someone already has my domain name?

Consider Search Engine Optimization (Keywords in URL)

What is a 'privacy‘ domain?

Hosting

Web Servers, FTP, Email, Bandwidth, Database?

MySQL & PHP – version 5 for both

Windows versus Linux Hosting

How much does hosting cost?

Recommended Hosting Providers

www.bluehost.com

www.wpengine.com

www.clickhost.comwww.zippykid.com

Installing WordPress

Difference between WordPress.com & .org- .com is hosted by WordPress for Free, limited flexibility- .org is for self hosting, unlimited flexibility

One-click installs- Usually found with cPanel hosting and SimpleScripts- Automatic database creation and installation

Manual Installation - Can be done on any server running MYSQL/PHP- Requires intermediate hosting knowledge

One-click Install

One-click Install

One-click Install

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Manual Install

What you will need

PHP version 5.2.4 or greaterMySQL version 5.0 or greater

FTP Access (FileZilla recommended FTP application)

MYSQL database/user/passwordtext editor

web browserinternet connection

Manual Install

The Steps

1. Download most recent WordPress from WordPress.org2. Create a MYSQL database3. Edit the wp-config.php file with database information4. Upload files to the root of your domain directory5. Visit yourdomain.com/wp-admin/wp-install.php6. Follow the simple instructions and submit7. Log In!8. FTP upload themes to wp-content/themes/9. FTP upload plugins to wp-content/plugins/

Creating FTP User

Creating Database

Creating Database

Using FileZilla

Host / Username / Password go here

Local Side Server Side

Domains, Hosting and Installing WordPress Made Easy

Bret Phillipshttp://bretphillips.com

Twitter - @bretwp

Web Devils – WordPress Development, SEO,Restaurant Internet Marketing

http://webdevils.bizbretwp@webdevils.biz

(404) 997-3385

Hijacking Music Collectivehttp://hijackingmusic.com

http://hijackingmusicfestival.com