PREREQUISITES

Order a hosting package and domain name
Get yourself a good Internet hosting package for your website and a domain name.  You will require Linux web space and a MYSQL Database to host your Wordpress installation.

 

Download, decompress and Install an FTP application
You will require an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) application to transfer your files to your web server. We would recommend Filezilla, a free opensource FTP application that supports Windows, MAC OSX and Linux. Download it from here http://filezilla-project.org

Download and decompress Wordpress
The wordpress installation needs to be downloaded an uncompressed ready for the installation. Download the Wordpress installation files at http://wordpress.org/download

LETS GET STARTED

1. Decompress your Wordpress .zip download, and note the location of the Wordpress Folder.
2. Open up your Filezilla FTP applicationat the top of the window enter your hostname, username and password provided to you by your Internet Hosting provider and click the Quickconnect button.
   If you have chosen Titan Internet as your host there is a section in the PDF document titled FTP.

   If your Quickconnect was successful you should see various messages in green appear, red if it was not successful.

3. Next we need to upload the Wordpress installation files to the web server. You may need to check your documentation from your Internet Service provider as to where your files need to be placed.  With Titan Internet the files should be placed in the /htdocs/ directory.
   Some providers name the directory as your hostname, www and htdocs. It varies from host-to-host.
   Half way down your Filezilla screen you will see two window panes side-by-side, Local and Remote. On the local left side navigate to your Wordpress Download directory and on the right select your htdocs directory.
   

   We need to upload all the files and folders from within the wordpress directory in your local files. To do this select all the files (CRTL-A in Windows or CMD-A in OSX), right mouse click and select upload. At this point you can take a break and get a cup of tea, it may take a while depending on the speed of your internet connection.

   When your upload is complete it should look alot like this, with the same files and folders on both sides. You can close Filezilla now.
   
4. Open your Internet Web Browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome etc) and in the address bar enter the domain name for your web site:
   

   You should be prompted with a Configuration message, go ahead and click the button ‘Create Configuration File’ and the ‘Lets Go!’ button that follows it.

   
5. Next we need to enter our Database information, again this is provided to you by your Internet host.  WithTitan Internet your database name is usually the same as the username and the servername remains as localhost. You can change the table prefix if you want to but there is no reason to do that. Click Submit when you are done.
   
6. If all the information you have entered is correct you should see a prompt to ‘Run the install’, so go ahead, Run the Install! 
7. Enter a Blog Title and your e-mail address on the next screen and click ‘Install’:
8. Note down the admin password Wordpress allocated to you, it is CaSe SeNsItIvE and you will need it on the next screen to login.
9. Go ahead and login
10. The first task you will be presented with is changing your password, so go ahead and do it straight away!
    

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Further reading from Gecko Geeks on Wordpress can be found in our Learning Zone http://gecko-geeks.co.uk/category/learn/wordpress-learn/