subject: How To Blog - 5 Easy Ways For Configuring Wordpress! [print this page] It appears everybody these days wants to start a blog, and the way in which a lot of people start is by making use of a free of charge blogging system for example 'Blogger' or other free of charge blogging providers such as 'typepad'. Nevertheless, sooner or later you will want to have much more management over your blog by getting your personal domain name and blog, it will ensure that your blog never gets shut down. One of the best ways to do this is by installing a WordPress blog on your domain name and this article will show you the five easy steps to establishing WordPress on your personal website.
For those who have never done this before it may seem pretty complex but in actual fact it is very easy to perform. It can also be confusing by the fact that there are two differing types of WordPress blogs. WordPress.com is a free blog service much like Google's blogger, whilst WordPress.org is what we are using to install our blog on our own domain name. This gives us a lot more control than we have while using the free providers.
Step one: In order to host your own personal blog the very first things you'll need are a domain name and a website hosting service. The actual domain name would be the web address of your new blog, and if this is going to be a personal blog then it is a good idea to use your own name in the site. It's also a good idea to keep your domain name as well as your hosting account with separate companies. This just keeps you a bit more in control although it is no problem for those who have them both with the same company.
Step two: By now you'll have your domain name pointing to your hosting account and the very first thing you need to do is go into Cpanel. This is the main dashboard for controlling your hosting account, now scroll down until you see and icon called Fantastico and click on that.
Step three: This will show you all the different scripts that you can set up from this location. From here fined WordPress and click on it now.
Step four: This will bring you to a very simple install page have a glance at it and if all seems correct click the set up now button. You will then get asked which directory you will want to install your blog in, for most of us we will install the blog in the root directory, this means that we don't have to enter anything here. On the other hand if you want to install that blog in any other directory then simply type in the name of the directory here and your blog will be set up.
Step five: So that is it, your blog is set up on your personal hosting account and all you've got to do now is sign in and choose which theme you need to use for your blog, and what plugins you should install, but this is the topic of a later article.
