Wordpress Self-Hosted quick guide

Wordpress self-hosted  quick guide by benz

1. Download the latest copy of WP (here) and EXTRACT!

2. CREATE your DataBase. Hostings have different user interface or the control panel. In setting up your Database take note of your database name, database user name and password and the mysql host name.

3. Open the WP folder you just downloaded. Find the ‘wp-config-sample.php‘ inside wordpress folder and re-name it to ‘wp-config.php‘.

4. Open the file ‘wp-config.php’ to a text editor (except word) and provide the following info.

DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE. Just leave them as it is!

5. Authenticate unique keys for security reasons. SCROLL down a little bit on the page (same file). And you can see this piece of code.

You can see commented (/* */) instructions on what to modify. You need to generate a unique key by going to this site ‘https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/‘. COPY THE CODE GENERATED and OVERWRITE it to the code shown above (the text with blue and red color) .

SAVE the files!

6. UPLOAD the wp files to your own directory(folder)  into your SERVER by ftp.

7. Once upload complete, install WP by going to yourblogURL/wp-admin/install.php. (ex. http://blog.theknuts.com/wp-admin/install.php). If no error, you can see WP welcome page. Provide your BLOG TITLE , E-MAIL add and the checkbox ‘Allow my blog to appear…‘ (it is check by default). And click “Install Wordpress“.

8. Installation SUCCESSFUL! Wordpress will provide you a default username and password which can be change later on in your admin settings.

WELCOME TO WORDPRESS!!!

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