Installing Wordpress

Ms Naughty · 2005-04-15, 09:17 AM

To quote from Boogie's tutorial in the other thread:

Quote:

Most trained monkeys can use wordpress.

OK Good. But this particular trained monkey downloaded Wordpress and, being a complete code nancy, I had no idea what to do next.

My blog is Ms Naughty's Blog and it makes use of a very simple PHP code that I got from WebOverdrive last year. It's actually a miracle that I managed to get it to work.

Now the archives are starting to get large and creaky and I really need to move up in the world.

Unfortunately the readme instructions for Wordpress are along the lines of
1. Open Wordpress zip
2. Install it.

Can anyone here give me an idiot's step by step guide to making Wordpress work?

Thankee.

EclectiXXX · 2005-04-15, 09:22 AM

Wordpress has a pretty thorough set of documentation online. They call it the codex. It's at: Wordpress Codex

Tart · 2005-04-15, 10:08 AM

Inside the zip file for version 1.5 is a readme page... follow step by step. You do need to have a database setup for it so you can put the connection info in the wp-config file. Don't know if you set your own up or have your host do it, but that's the most important thing.. the rest goes pretty easy. Now if you want to import your past posts, that might be a bit trickier.. I used greymatter prior to wordpress and had some hoop jumping to do to transfer everything.
Search their support forum too.. with luck someone else has asked before.
Be happy to give you moral support on icq but that's about the extent of my talent I'm afraid

JenC · 2005-04-15, 10:45 AM

As someone who's installed Word Press about 5 different times on 5 different blogs, you can do it!

Here's my "Word Press for Dummys" guide.

1. Make sure your host sets you up a mySQL database in advance. Tell them you need to know the database name, the username and the password for the database.

2. Open the wp-config-sample.php file in a text editor and at the very top they are gonna ask you for the username, password and database name of your mysql database. Just plug those in and then "save as" wp-config.php. (remove the word 'sample')

3. Upload everything from wordpress that you downloaded.

4. Open this in your browser:
http://www.yourdomain/wp-admin/install.php
(obviously replace 'yourdomain' with your actual domain name)

5. It will walk you through the steps to install it. It just asks for an email address and blog name and some other easy stuff. It will issue you a random password to login at first that can be changed later. Remember this password until you login for the first time.

That's it! It should only take you 5 minutes!

Ms Naughty · 2005-04-15, 07:25 PM

Thanks JenC and everyone. I'll give it a go and report back.

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2005-04-15, 10:45 AM	#4
JenC Stupid risks make life worth living Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Eastern Seaboard Posts: 387	As someone who's installed Word Press about 5 different times on 5 different blogs, you can do it! Here's my "Word Press for Dummys" guide. 1. Make sure your host sets you up a mySQL database in advance. Tell them you need to know the database name, the username and the password for the database. 2. Open the wp-config-sample.php file in a text editor and at the very top they are gonna ask you for the username, password and database name of your mysql database. Just plug those in and then "save as" wp-config.php. (remove the word 'sample') 3. Upload everything from wordpress that you downloaded. 4. Open this in your browser: http://www.yourdomain/wp-admin/install.php (obviously replace 'yourdomain' with your actual domain name) 5. It will walk you through the steps to install it. It just asks for an email address and blog name and some other easy stuff. It will issue you a random password to login at first that can be changed later. Remember this password until you login for the first time. That's it! It should only take you 5 minutes! __________________ THIS IS MY SIG - CLICK IT.

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