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Lesson 3 – Installing WordPress

  • by Mark Patchett
  • in Part 2 – Build & Launch · Start Your Own Startup

What we’re going to cover

    • 1. What WordPress is and why it’s awesome
    • 2. How to install WordPress with one click (well a few, but they’re easy)
    • 3. How to login into the WordPress backend

After this lesson you’ll have WordPress installed and the core of your site live.

1. What is WordPress?

WordPress is the worlds largest blogging/Website platform – with over 60 million WordPress sites live!

In a nutshell, WordPress is the backend of your website.

Instead of having to deal with “code” – you get a super simple interface.

You can write articles, change menu items, add users, update the look of your site and so much more.

Does WordPress come with everything you need out of the box?

Yes and no.

WordPress works fine “out of the box” – but the magic is in the abundance of available themes and plugins.

Themes are what control the look of your website. You’ll be finding yours next lesson.

Plugins are add ons (with a 1 click install) that pretty much allow you to do anything you want. Whether it’s taking payments, adding an email signup form, displaying the local weather or adding live chat – plugins do it all!

Getting that sort of functionality would cost $1,000s on regular websites.

With WordPress it’s either free or extremely affordable.

We’ll be going through all the essential plugins in Lesson 6.

Let’s get WordPress installed!

2. How to install WordPress with GoDaddy Hosting

As the title implies, we’ll be covering installing WordPress via the GoDaddy hosting admin.

If you haven’t got your hosting yet, go sign up with GoDaddy now or head back to Lesson 1 and scroll to “4. How to register your domain and setup hosting”.

If you already have hosting elsewhere, use this guide here to get WordPress installed.

  1. Login to your GoDaddy account
  2. Under “Web Hosting” select “Launch” next to your account
  3. Just ignore the “Censored” image. I’ve added it to conceal some private details.
    How to install WordPress with GoDaddy

  4. Select the main domain you want to use for your site and continue
  5. If you’re wondering, mightylittlebusiness.com was the first name I considered, which led to mightylittlestartups.com ; )
    How to install WordPress with GoDaddy

  6. Select “Install WordPress”
  7. How to install WordPress with GoDaddy

  8. Fill the details out as follows
    • Domain: ensure correct domain is selected
    • Directory: leave blank
    • Username: (It’s not case sensitive) add something memorable, as you’ll login with these details – just don’t use the word “admin” by itself as sites with just “admin” as the username are more vulnerable to hackers
    • Password: something including a capital and lowercase letter, number and special numeral e.g. ! or *
    • Email: an active email that you want to correspond with your WordPress account

    REMEMBER YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD! You’ll need these to login.
    How to install WordPress with GoDaddy hosting

  9. If you see that little graphic spinning, your site is installing. This will take around 10-20 minutes.
  10.  

    How to install WordPress with GoDaddy

    Here are some excellent videos to help you pass the time:

     

  11. Once your site is installed you’ll receive an email like the one below.
  12. Click your admin link and then scroll down to the next step on this page
  13. How to verify wordpress godaddy install

3. Verifying your WordPress install and logging in

The link you just clicked in your confirmation email will take you to your admin login page. This is the url you will always use to login.

It is simply www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin

Your login screen will look like the screenshot below.

Once you’re there, follow these steps:

  1. Enter your username/password. These are the details you nominated when installing WordPress
  2. How to login into wordpress

  3. If you arrive at the page below, your install has worked! Nicely done.
  4. You don’t need to bother with the welcome prompts. So close them all (as indicated by the orange arrows).
  5. Wordpress Welcome Options

  6. To wrap this lesson up, we’ll have a quick look at your current site. Hover over “My Site” up the top left and select “Visit Site”
    How to view wordpress site

  7. Your site will look just like below. Hold tight…it won’t look like this for long : )
  8. wordpress-site

Next lesson

You’re going to love the next lesson – we’ll be injecting some serious sizzle into the stock-standard WordPress site by exploring templates…

Click the button below to continue to the next lesson:

 

Lesson 4 – Choosing A Theme

 

Where to next?

  • how to choose a domain name Lesson 1 – Domain Name/Hosting 13 May, 2013
  • How to create a google analytics account Lesson 2 – How to Setup Google Analytics 14 May, 2013
  • how to find a theme for a wordpress website Lesson 4 – Choosing A Theme 16 May, 2013
  • logos Lesson 4.5 – Getting A Pro Logo Designed 15 Dec, 2013

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