Post on 31-Aug-2014
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Installing Wordpress on your remote web server
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
• 4 main steps are:
1. Download the Wordpress install package, unzip and upload to your web server using an FTP client
2. Create a new MySql database
3. Edit the wp-config.php file
4. Create an administrator account and start using wordpress!
1. Install the Wordpress package
• http://wordpress.org/download/
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Upload to web server
2. Create the Database
• When you set up your web hosting, you should have been given a url and login details to a web hosting control panel, such as cPanel. This interface will allow you to create and manage MySql databases (if you’re lucky, they might even have a 1-step automated Wordpress install feature).
• http://www.cpanel.net/media/tutorials/addmysql.htm
PHPMyAdmin
• A common web interface for administering databases
• If your hosting doesn’t have a database setup ‘wizard’ you can set up the database with this
• PHPMyAdmin is what you will need to use if you are using the CIF hosting
• https://phpmyadmin.ci.qut.edu.au/
3. Edit the wp-config.php file
• The wordpress directory you uploaded to your web server will contain a file called wp-config-sample.php.
• You need to edit this file and then re-upload it to your server with the name wp-config.php (lose the -sample part).
4. Create an administrator account for your wordpress site
Wordpress interfaces
• Wordpress interfaces can be divided into the admin interfaces and the public interfaces. We might also refer to these as the backend and frontend interfaces respectively.
Admin/Backend Interface
Admin/Backend Interface
• This is where you do all your Content Management
• editing posts, moderating comments, installing plugins and themes, managing user accounts etc.
• requires a login which you setup during installation.
• accessible at www.yourwordpresssite.com/wp-admin
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens#Dashboard
Public/Frontend Interface
Public/Frontend Interface
• This is what visitors to the site will see when they go to your url.
• You will want to check what the site looks like after making changes to the appearance or the content.