Installing a WordPress Blog with Fantastico (pdf included)
- By Anne Moss Rogers
- Published 06/23/2008
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This is a tutorial on how to install a WordPress blog on your url using
a tool that comes with many hosting accounts, called Fantastico or Auto
Install. You can follow these directions or download the pdf with photos.
CLICK HERE FOR THE pdf directions with screen shots on how to install WordPress with Fantastico
Requirements for following these directions:
• A host with a cPanel and Fantastico or auto install.
• A host account with at least one mysql database
Open an account with BlueHost or another affiliated WordPress blog host.
http://wordpress.org/hosting/
This will make future updates a breeze. One button update. You gotta love that.
However, you can do this with your present host if you have Fantastico or auto install. So if you have an account with cPanel and fantastico, you can download one from there. Updates just won’t be as easy as one button click.
When you register your hosting package, you don’t have to get the largest package. You can get the smallest one at first.
As you open your account, you choose your domain name and you’ll find out what is available. If you have already bought one, you need to call the registrar or login and change the dns to point to the new ip address. If you have questions about this, tech support will help you with this step. If you have a website and want to add a blog, simply do mywebsite.com/blog/. /blog/ is a folder that you can create by typing in blog when you download wordpress.
I like a host package with the domain name and package together since they expire at the same time. Make sure you put the domain on automatic renew. There are companies waiting for expiration to buy up your name the second it expires. Then you have to pay $500 or so to get it back.
Once your account and domain name is purchased, it will take about 24-48 hours for them to set it up.
When it is set up, log into your host account at your host or bluehost or whomever you chose and you’ll see a cpanel with icons. Look for Fantastico which is a little smiley face under Software/Services.
Look for Blogs on the Fantastico page and you’ll see WordPress.
Click on the icon and look on the left hand side for WordPress and click on that link.
Then click install. It will ask you if you want to put your blog in a folder. Leave it blank if you do not. Add a name if you do. If you leave it blank it will place the index file at mywebsite.com. If you specify a file, it will place your blog at mywebsite.com/filename/
Fill in the details such as admin login name, email and password. Click install and you should have a blog.
Log into your WordPress admin panel. You can go to the url and look for “login” under META. Or go to http://myblog/wp-login.php. If you put the blog in a folder, it would be http://myblog/folder/wp-login.php.
Login to Wordpress and you are at your dashboard.
Dashboard > Change
your site’s look or theme. You’ll see two themes: the default and the classic.
WordPress has tons of themes on the internet, both free and paid. It is easy to upload a theme.
Be careful because some sites are bogus and will add Trojans in your download or simple rip off themes from others.
Here are two reputable ones. There are others.
• http://themes.wordpress.net/
• http://www.webshapes.org/template/category/Wordpress
To install a theme you generally just need to upload the theme folder into your wp-content/themes directory. Once a theme is uploaded, you should see it on that themes directory page in the WordPress admin area. Once uploaded, you just go back and click on that theme.
You can install this one of two ways. You can ftp it from your local system or login the host panel and upload it from there.
1. FTP from your local computer:
• So when you find a theme you want, click “save as” and put it in a folder.
• Unzip the theme into that folder and ftp that folder (named as the theme)
• Then you upload that to wp-content/themes/mythemename
2. By logging into host account.
• On the cPanel icons look for File Manager
• Click the + sign on left > click public-html + sign on left > click wp-content + sign on left >
• Click on the word “themes” on the left hand side. And at least the two themes that come with WP will be listed: classic and default.
• Click on the upload icon at the top (the theme will make it’s own file)
• Browse to your .zip file and once you find it, it will automatically begin to upload
• Click on the “back to ….” link at the bottom once it says upload is 100% complete.
• Click the box next to the mythemename .zip file.
• At the top of the page, look for “Extract” (it will create its own folder)
• Click the close button. You can delete the zip file. Check the box, hit delete at the top.
Then you’ll go to a page where you can upload the contents of the file you unzipped.
Click browse to find the file on your computer. Then click upload. It will go in this folder.
/home/myblog/public_html/wp-content/themes/
Then you go back to the WordPress panel and login.
Dashboard > Change your site’s look or theme.
On the themes.php page, you should see your new theme in thumbnail version. Just click on it to choose it.
To customize is a whole ‘nother tutorial. But basically, you find the .css style sheet in that theme’s folder. You can access the stylesheet in the WP admin panel, but you need to set permissions in the host panel so you can change it there. Back up your stylesheet. That means make a copy of the original.
The banner is usually in the folder:
wp-content/themes/mythemename/images/banner.jpg
A right click and properties should tell you where so you can replace it. Stick to about the same size, at least the width. So you could just FTP a banner you made by the same name to the same folder and it will replace what’s there.
CLICK HERE FOR THE pdf directions with screen shots on how to install WordPress with Fantastico
Requirements for following these directions:
• A host with a cPanel and Fantastico or auto install.
• A host account with at least one mysql database
Open an account with BlueHost or another affiliated WordPress blog host.
http://wordpress.org/hosting/
This will make future updates a breeze. One button update. You gotta love that.
However, you can do this with your present host if you have Fantastico or auto install. So if you have an account with cPanel and fantastico, you can download one from there. Updates just won’t be as easy as one button click.
When you register your hosting package, you don’t have to get the largest package. You can get the smallest one at first.
As you open your account, you choose your domain name and you’ll find out what is available. If you have already bought one, you need to call the registrar or login and change the dns to point to the new ip address. If you have questions about this, tech support will help you with this step. If you have a website and want to add a blog, simply do mywebsite.com/blog/. /blog/ is a folder that you can create by typing in blog when you download wordpress.
I like a host package with the domain name and package together since they expire at the same time. Make sure you put the domain on automatic renew. There are companies waiting for expiration to buy up your name the second it expires. Then you have to pay $500 or so to get it back.
Once your account and domain name is purchased, it will take about 24-48 hours for them to set it up.
When it is set up, log into your host account at your host or bluehost or whomever you chose and you’ll see a cpanel with icons. Look for Fantastico which is a little smiley face under Software/Services.
Look for Blogs on the Fantastico page and you’ll see WordPress.
Click on the icon and look on the left hand side for WordPress and click on that link.
Then click install. It will ask you if you want to put your blog in a folder. Leave it blank if you do not. Add a name if you do. If you leave it blank it will place the index file at mywebsite.com. If you specify a file, it will place your blog at mywebsite.com/filename/
Fill in the details such as admin login name, email and password. Click install and you should have a blog.
Log into your WordPress admin panel. You can go to the url and look for “login” under META. Or go to http://myblog/wp-login.php. If you put the blog in a folder, it would be http://myblog/folder/wp-login.php.
Login to Wordpress and you are at your dashboard.
Dashboard > Change
WordPress has tons of themes on the internet, both free and paid. It is easy to upload a theme.
Be careful because some sites are bogus and will add Trojans in your download or simple rip off themes from others.
Here are two reputable ones. There are others.
• http://themes.wordpress.net/
• http://www.webshapes.org/template/category/Wordpress
To install a theme you generally just need to upload the theme folder into your wp-content/themes directory. Once a theme is uploaded, you should see it on that themes directory page in the WordPress admin area. Once uploaded, you just go back and click on that theme.
You can install this one of two ways. You can ftp it from your local system or login the host panel and upload it from there.
1. FTP from your local computer:
• So when you find a theme you want, click “save as” and put it in a folder.
• Unzip the theme into that folder and ftp that folder (named as the theme)
• Then you upload that to wp-content/themes/mythemename
2. By logging into host account.
• On the cPanel icons look for File Manager
• Click the + sign on left > click public-html + sign on left > click wp-content + sign on left >
• Click on the word “themes” on the left hand side. And at least the two themes that come with WP will be listed: classic and default.
• Click on the upload icon at the top (the theme will make it’s own file)
• Browse to your .zip file and once you find it, it will automatically begin to upload
• Click on the “back to ….” link at the bottom once it says upload is 100% complete.
• Click the box next to the mythemename .zip file.
• At the top of the page, look for “Extract” (it will create its own folder)
• Click the close button. You can delete the zip file. Check the box, hit delete at the top.
Then you’ll go to a page where you can upload the contents of the file you unzipped.
Click browse to find the file on your computer. Then click upload. It will go in this folder.
/home/myblog/public_html/wp-content/themes/
Then you go back to the WordPress panel and login.
Dashboard > Change your site’s look or theme.
On the themes.php page, you should see your new theme in thumbnail version. Just click on it to choose it.
To customize is a whole ‘nother tutorial. But basically, you find the .css style sheet in that theme’s folder. You can access the stylesheet in the WP admin panel, but you need to set permissions in the host panel so you can change it there. Back up your stylesheet. That means make a copy of the original.
The banner is usually in the folder:
wp-content/themes/mythemename/images/banner.jpg
A right click and properties should tell you where so you can replace it. Stick to about the same size, at least the width. So you could just FTP a banner you made by the same name to the same folder and it will replace what’s there.
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