How To Install Wordpress – Installing Themes, Plugins and Widgets in Wordpress – Many Wordpress Tutorials

Wordpress is the most popular script for blogs. Its opensource and written in Mysql and Php. Highly Recommended by HostLuck.com

This Blog post include:

1. System Requirements of Wordpress
2. How to install wordpress using Fantastico De Luxe?
3. How to install wordpress manually?
4. How to install wordpress themes?
5. How to install wordpress plugins?
6. How to install wordpress widgets?
7. How to create blog posts, blog categoris and Tags in wordpress?
8. Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – Recommended Plugins
9. How to import Blog posts from other blog platform to your wordpress blog?
10. How to backup wordpress blog?
11. How to upgrade your wordpress blog – upgrade wordpress installation?

System Requirements for Wordpress

PHP version 4.3 or greater
MySQL version 4.0 or greater

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Wordpress Version: 2.7.x – Tutorial can be used for other versions.

How To Install Wordpress using Fantastico-De-Luxe?

Step 1: Login to your cPanel account http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel

Step 2: Click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon in your cpanel account.

Step 3: Under the “Blog” section, Click on “WordPress”.

Step 4: On the right panel, select “New Installation”

Step 5: Fill in your directory details. If you want to install it on your root directory (www.yoursite.com) leave it blank else insert the directory (eg: /joomla). Fill out other information and click “Install Joomla”.

Step 6: Joomla would be successfully installed.

How To Install Wordpress Manually?

with screenshots

Step 1: Download Wordpress  Stable version from wordpress.org.

Step 2: Extract all content and upload it to (public_html or www folder). If you’re installing Wordpress on a subdirectory, upload the script on a sub-directory (e.g. /wordpress)

Step 3:  Start the installation by going to url: http://www.yoursite.com/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wordpress (your sub-directory)

Step 4:  Click ‘Create a Configuration File’.

Step 5: You’ll see a page as below. Make sure you have all database information. Click ‘Let’s Go’.

Step 6: Fill in all database information.

Step 7: Fill in your Blog Title and  admin Email. Check on the options to be displayed in search engines etc

Step 8: You’ll get and admin password as shown below in screenshots.

Step 9: Click ‘Login’ and access your administrator area and modify your admin password.

Step 10: Wordpress is successfully installed. WordPress Script 100% compatible with all Hosting packages of HostLuck.com [Wordpress Demo on HostLuck.com]

How To Install Themes in Wordpress?

Step 1. Download the theme you want.

Step 2. Extract all content and upload it in yoursite/wp-content/themes/ folder.

Step 3. Login to your wordpress admin panel at /wp-admin

Step 4. Click on Appearance > Themes

Step 5. Click on the theme option you want.

Step 6. A preview of Theme would be seen, Click ‘Activate Theme’

Step 7. Your theme is installed. You can go to your blog home page and check it.

How To Install Plugins in Wordpress?

Step 1.  Login to your wordpress admin panel at /wp-admin

Step 2. Click Plugins > Add New

Step 3. Search the plugin you want.

OR (The above method is short and quick)

Step 1. Download the plugin you want.

Step 2. Extract all content and upload it in yoursite/wp-content/plugins/ folder.

Step 3. Login to your wordpress admin panel at /wp-admin

Step 4. Activate the plugin

Step 5. If the plugin has a widget to be activated, Follow how to install widget below. If your theme don’t support widgets, you’ll have to input the code given with plugin in your template  folder as per your requirement. Usually themes are widget enabled.

How To Install widget in Wordpress?

Step 1. Login to administration panel /wp-admin

Step 2. Click Appearance > Widgets

Step 3. Click on the option where you want to add the widget on right side of screen.

Step 4. Select the widget you want on left side of screen and click ‘add’

Step 5. Click on the options tab in the widget and fill in options as per your choice.

Step 6. Click ‘Save Changes’

How to Write Blog posts, Make categories, add Tags in Wordpress?

Step 1. Login to your administration panel (/wp-admin)

Step 2. Click on ‘New Posts’

Step 3. Write the title and body of your post.

Step 4. Category in wordpress: Category are used to sort your posts in a structured formatt.

On the right hand side Click ‘ +Add new Category’ Write the category name you want for the post.

Step 5. Tags in Wordpress: Tags are words which describe your posts. Browsing with tags is fun and even search engines like it.

On the right hand side fill the tags which describe the posts. Multiple tags are seperated with a ‘,’

Step 6. Click on ‘Publish’ To publish the posts. If you don’t want to publish and just save it. Click on ‘Save Draft’.

Top 10 Wordpress Plugins

Recommended Wordpress Plugins

no specific order

1. All in Seo Pack Wordpress Plugin: The best plugin to make your blog search Engine friendly. It helps you to do search Engine optimisation on your blog. Search Engine optimisation help you to get better traffic from search engines like google.  Install the plugin using the Install Plugin in Wordpress guide above.

2. Wassup Wordpress Plugin: To get real time traffic statistics on your wordpress blog itself.

OR

Statcounter Wordpress Plugin: If you don’t mind using a third party site for tracking real time visitors, its a good plugin. If you don’t want real time statistics, use google analytics Wordpress plugin.

3. Feedburner Wordpress Plugin: This plugin helps you manage and track your feeds. It helps you track number of people reading your feeds along with various other details.

4. Akismet Wordpress Plugin: Saves your precious time by capturing Comment Spam

5. Contact Form Wordpress Plugin- To install a contact form on your blog

6. Related Posts Wordpress Plugin: This plugin automatically add related posts below your posts. If no related posts are available, it adds random posts or no posts as per your choice. Benefits include more page views and better Onsite link building for seo.

7. Share This Wordpress Plugin or Sociable Wordpress plugin: Share This plugin adds the ’share this’ button to help users boomark your blogpost on social bookmarking site. Sociable is similar. Check ‘Share This’ plugin in the end of the post.

8. Xml-Sitemap Wordpress Plugin: This wordpress plugin automatically creates sitemap for your posts in Xml formatt. This formatt is accepted by all searchengines. No worries to create your sitemap manualy

9. Wp-cache Wordpress Plugin: If you have a very high traffic site, wp-cache wordpress plugin helps to cache your blog posts. This minimise sql query runs and saves your server resource. Very useful during diggrush

10. WP Opt-In Wordpress Plugin: This plugin helps you create your own email list of subscribers. Useful to send the updates of your blog regularly. There is a big population of internet users which don’t use feeds.

How To Import Posts from other blog platform?

Step 1. Login to your administration panel (/wp-admin)

Step 2. Click on Tools > Import

Step 3. Slect the blogging platform

Step 4. Fill in the details to authorize and follow ahead.

How To Backup Your Wordpress Blog?

[a] To create a Wordpress database backup:

Step 1. Login to your cpanel account

Step 2. Click on ‘Mysql Database’. Then click on ‘PhpMyAdmin’

Step 3. Select your Wordpress database

Step 4. Click ‘Export’

Step 5. Select ‘all tables’

Step 6. Check data and structure property.

Step 7. Check ‘Save As’ Option

Step 8. Click ‘Go’ and save the file on your computer.

[b] To create a backup of Wordpress Files

Step 1. Take a timely backup of all the files in your wordpress website root.

Step 2. Save them as per dates or maintain a log, So any edits made by you on the files, can be restored later.

How to Upgrade your Wordpress blog -

Upgrade Wordpress Installation

Step 1. The most important step, BACKUP all your wordpress files and your wordpress database. Use the tutorial above to perform this step.

Step 2. Deactivate all wordpress plugin, some will not be compatible with the latest version of wordpress script.

Step 3. Download all wordpress latest stable release files.

Step 4. Extract all files and upload it on your wordpress installation/directory. Do not replace or delete wp-config.php, wp-content, wp-images, wp-includes/language folders because if you made any   custom changes, they would be gone. Also don’t delete .htaccess file. Your custom url rewrite if any, would be deleted.

Step 5. Then go to /wp-admin/upgrade.php to upgrade your wordpress script. Follow the steps accordingly.

Step 6. Reactivate the Pluginsand make changes in plugins and theme files as required.

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