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If you’re going to have a wordpress blog the first thing you need to do is install wordpress. Now if you want the benefits of a wordpress blog without having to buy/host a domain you can do that too, the only downside is that your blog will have a url like wordpress.com/whatever, or something similar to that. If that’s the case then just go to wordpress.com, fill out the simple forms and boom you’re done, so stop reading now.
If you want a wordpress blog on a hosted site its a little more complicated, although they boast that it only takes 5 minutes to install. This is true, if A) you know what you’re doing, or B) your host has a easy 1 click wordpress install. I was lucky enough to fall under the second category. My host is Lunarpages, basically I had to do is open up Fanstastico in my control panel, fill in a couple of fields and i was all set to go.
If you’re not lucky enough to have a host with such an option you’ll have to do the following. Download the wordpress files from wordpress.org
Upload them to your host, you will want to use a FTP program like filezilla because there are too many files to do it manually.
You’ll then need to create a database.
You also need to change the values in the file wp-config-sample and then rename it to wp-config.

I know that if you’re not totally savy in this kind of thing you’re probably saying whoa hold on, how the hell do i actually do step x? I didnt include all the nitty gritty details because i’m far from an expert. Theres lots of other sites that will be able to step you through these technical details so i suggest that you google ‘installing wordpress’ or something like that if you are lost. Contacting wordpress or your host is also an option for getting help.

Posted on August 30th, 2008 under The Old InterBlagMoney • Tags: installing wordpress, wordpress. • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback