WordPress is known as the most popular website builder in the world. It powers over 59% of all websites on the internet. Mostly This is due to its simple interface and providing the ease to use plugins. The main reason for that is because WordPress is easy to install which makes it easy for anyone to create a website.
cPanel is a popular software used by many web hosting companies. It provides website owners with a simple web-based interface to manage their hosting account.
Hosting companies may select which auto-installer they want to use. Generally, Softaculous, QuickInstall, and Fantastico are the most popular options.
It is unnecessary to manually install WordPress as it can be quickly installed via Softaculous, QuickInstall, and Fantastico
All best WordPress web hosting companies allow you to install WordPress with just few clicks. In most circumstances, installing WordPress is a simple process that takes less than five minutes to complete. however, if you want a more technical option, this blog will cover the steps needed to install WordPress manually.
Download WordPress
Download the most recent official version of the WordPress from the WordPress website. Download the zip file, and save it to your desktop computer.
Upload WordPress to Hosting Account
There are three methods for uploading WordPress to your hosting account. When you unzipped the file in Step 1, you were left with a folder named WordPress, and the contents need to be uploaded to your hosting account’s file manager. You can accomplish this one of three ways:
- Upload via FTP
- Upload via File Manager
- Upload via SSH
In This blog we are explaining installing WordPress via file manager. I find this option easy and simple.
Create MySQL Database and User
WordPress stores its information in a database. Therefore, a database will need to be created.
- Log in to cPanel.
- Look for the Databases section, then click the MySQL Database Wizard icon
First Create A Database, enter the database name, and click Next Step.
Secondly Create Database Users, enter the database user name and password, and click Create User.
Third Add User to the Database, click the All-Privileges checkbox and click Next Step.
Forth Complete the task, make a note of the database name, username, and password, as you will need them at the time of WordPress installation.
Upload WordPress via File Manager
- Look for the File section, then click the file manager icon
- Look for the public_html directory. The public_html directory is your web root, the directory in which you want to store all your websites.
- Upload zip file of the WordPress that you have in your desktop in public_html or you can extract in your desktop WordPress zip file and upload all the content in public_html .After the upload, all WP files and subfolders should reside in public_html. But if you want to extract zip file in public_html then right click on zip file and click extract you can select to create WordPress folder or you can extract all the content in root folder. If you create new folder then move all of your content in root folder.
Installation of WordPress
In order to install and connect your database with WordPress, you need to fill up the details 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. Mostly web hosts use local host as database 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.
This is the final step, enter details such as following: –
Site Title is the name of your site or domain name. This can be changed at a later time.
Username This is the admin username for the site. We highly recommend using something other than ‘admin’ since using it can pose a security risk
Password WordPress auto suggest you strong password but you can write you own. The strength indicator will let you know how secure your password is
Email Address Login information will be sent to this email address, so make sure it is an email address you have access to
Search Engine Visibility– If you want your website to show up in search engine results, leave this unchecked. If you do not want your site indexed, then you can check this box.
Do not enter the same username and password you used for your database user. All of this information can be changed later in the WordPress Admin. Once you are finished, click Install WordPress. When the installation procedure is completed, WP will redirect you to the login screen. Where you can login with your credentials. log in to the WordPress Admin Dashboard to begin building your site!