Upload Wordpress to your web server using FTP

Good day and welcome to my blog. Today I will be talking about how to upload Wordpress to your web server using FTP/file manager. Last post I talked about how to download wordpress, if you miss the post you can click HERE to read.

Today’s post will be quick and straight forward.

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Steps to follow:

Login to your web server cpanel area: you can log in to your web server c-panel area easily by typing www.domainname.com/cpanel from your browser and press enter on your keyboard. The page will redirect to a c-panel log in page were you will be ask to provide your username and password.

After typing a correct username and password, you will now be loged in to your cpanel area like in the picture below 

Locate file manager icon under the tab named files. Click on it and choose home directory from the dialogue box popup.click on go 

  After clicking on the go button, you will be taken to a new tab on your browser were you will have access to the content on your web server 

1. Click on public_html on the list at your left side as shown in the picture below.

2. Click on upload to upload your wordpress file 

You will be taken to another window were you will be able to choose the wordpress zip file. Once you choose the file, uploading should start automatically (this should not take more than 10secs-30secs depending on your internet speed). after uploading successfully go back to your file manager. (you can refresh)

The file uploaded into public_html is in .zip format and need to be unzip. Right click on the file and click Extract. choose the current directory to save the extracted file.

A new file in folder format will be added. Double click to open the folder, highlight all the file inside, cut and past into public_html directory.

You can delete the old folder and the zip file if you want. 

Congratulation, you have successfully uploaded your wordpress file into your web-server.

    

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How to easily download the latest version of wordpress

welcome to my blog. The last post, we talked about meaning of wordpress, the usefulness of wordpress, and also the steps to install a new wordpress.
if you miss the topic, you can CLICK HERE to read the post.

Today i am going to talk about how to download latest wordpress for free. this post is going to be a very short one because there is no big deal in downloading wordpress to your computer.
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Steps:
1. Visit www.wordpress.org (the official site of wordpress)

As at time of writing this post the latest version of wordpress is version 4.1.1.

2. Click the download wordpress button at your top right.

After clicking the link, wait for the nest page were you will have to select file type too download
3. There are two(2) file type available to download during the download or wordpress. You can either download with (.zip) file extension or .tar.gz file extension. for the sake of this tutorial, i will be working with .zip file extension

Click the Download Wordpress 4.1.1 button, a dialogue box will popup to ask either to open or save, click save and start download (NOTE: option might vary based on your operating system)

I know by now you will have downloaded your wordpress file with .zip extension, now you are ready to move to the next step. Join me in the next post Upload Wordpress to your web server using FTP 

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Best way to manually install free wordpress

Welcome to my blog, I will be talking about the tips on how you can manually install a wordpress blog/website. Before will start to install wordpress, lets know what is called wordpress and the advantages.

What is wordpress?

Wordpress is an open-source blogging tools, it is also a content management system (CMS). As the definition says, therefore wordpress can be used for blogging.  One of the feature I like about wordpress is that you can configure/design your theme to suit any purpose: you can use wordpress for an entertainment website/blog, portfolio website, fashion, news blog, even it can be used as an e-commerce website were goods can be placed for sale and people can make order and for any goods of their choice. I know you might be thinking of how cost of buying it most especially if you are new to wordpress. Mind you wordpress is free and can be downloaded from wordpress official website

Note: wordpress is free to use but you can’t use it without having a host server and a domain name  

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Steps to manually install/setup wordpress site/blog

1. You need to download the best wordpress latest version of WordPress from http://www.WordPress.org.

2. Upload to your web server using FTP

3. Create MySQL Database and user 

4. Configure Wordpress 

5. Complete the installation by inputting required information 

Additional step:

1. Install a theme of your choice 

2. Design or re-customize your new free wordpress theme to your taste and install plugin

3. Fill your new wordpress site/blog with content 

This post is the introduction to this topic, more detail post will be made on each steps. The next post will be be on how to download the latestversion of wordpress from wordpress.org Subscribe for our newsletter to receive the next post directly into your email. 

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