It’s a bit ironic that I would need to explain just how to setup WordPress for someone that wants to produce tech-related content, but I’ve promised to guide you from the bottom up so let’s begin. WordPress is really a blogging platform that just is our favorite. Some people will argue that WordPress is really a Content Management System (CMS), but I’ll refrain from entering that argument and just say that it is a good tool that allows me to publish content on the web quickly and efficiently. Once you’ve registered your domain and chosen your online host your next step is setting up WordPress. Hopefully you’ve taken my advice and signed up with Bluehost, however for the goal of this tutorial, I will assume you took a different route.
If your hosting company does not give you a WordPress automatic installation you will have to start with verifying you’ve FTP access. Personally I use a free software application called Filezilla to control my FTP accounts, but feel free to make use of CuteFTP, SmartFTP, Fetch or any FTP software you’re comfortable using. Since you’ve FTP software installed and you’ve verified that you can connect with your online server utilising the login credentials written by your online host it is time for you to download WordPress here. The default download of WordPress would have been a zip file that you will have to extract just before transferring to your webspace via FTP. While connected using your FTP software you will have to decide where you wish to install WordPress, but automatically it must be within the http docs or public_html folder reviewsgems tech Blog. If you intend on developing a traditional website and simply wish to incorporate your Tech Blog as taking care of of the website then you will have to develop a new folder in the http docs or public_html folder. It is now time for you to transfer the files you extracted from the WordPress.zip download.
At this time things may get only a little tricky for the novice, but I have faith in you so pay close attention and we’ll get you through the following step. Within the control panel on your online host would have been a link to MySQL Databases. WordPress is built on a SQL database - every post, title, comment, category and tag is stored in to a record in this database and that text is dynamically called upon via php code to render the blog (don’t worry if that didn’t make much sense, sometimes I get carried away). So now you are within the MySQL section of your control panel on your online host - now it’s time to produce a database. You will have to remember the name of the database, the username and the password. These records will be necessary in the next thing of the process.
It’s time for you to jump back to your FTP client and edit the wp-config-sample.php file. The first step will be renaming the file by right-clicking /rename, followed closely by right clicking and choosing edit. This should open a text editor (notepad is our favorite) and allow you to change the fields. If you are confused about the fields, WordPress.org has come up with this handy guide here. The past step in setting up WordPress for the tech blog is just going to the install page which is something like - make sure you replace “yourblogname” with the domain name you registered. If you decided to put in WordPress in another location like I stated earlier it would be - the “folder” would be the directory name you transferred the files to.
For additional information on installing WordPress I would recommend heading on over for their handy 5 minute guide. If you realized that whole process is a little more involved than you expected I would recommend you reconsider my suggestion on using Bluehost. One-click WordPress installs and upgrades really are a blessing.