How to Install WordPress 3.0

In this guide I’m going to show you how to install Word­Press by your­self, there are many guides on the Inter­net on how to do this, how­ever many of them assume you already have a cer­tain level of knowl­edge of FTP, MySQL and PHP. On the Word­Press instal­la­tion guide they say it only takes 5 mins, and this is true if you have every­thing in place already,in my expe­ri­ence it can end up tak­ing more like 4 hours if you don’t know what your doing, in truth it will prob­a­bly take you more like 10–20 min­utes for the aver­age user. I’m going to try and take you through the  instal­la­tion process step-by-step and hope­fully make this as pain­less as possible.

If at any point you get stuck in this process please leave a com­ment and let me know. I will do what I can to help.

What you will need

• a domain name
• a web host­ing account, with PHP ver­sion 5 and MySQL.
• FTP access

1. Down­load the lat­est ver­sion of Word­Press from WordPress.org (cur­rent ver­sion at time of writ­ing 3.1.3).  this will down­load the Word­Press zip file package.
2. Unzip the file into a folder on your desk­top (you can delete this after­wards once we have installed, also if you don’t have a zip pro­gram I rec­om­mend 7-zip)
3. Open your favourite FTP pro­gram, I rec­om­mend Filezilla or Win­SCP, they are both free to use.
4. Con­nect to your web server with your FTP details pro­vided by your web host. This will include the host, the user­name and a pass­word. Usu­ally the port does not need to be changed.
5. Upload the files to the root of the web­site, the folder is usu­ally called htdocs.
6. Con­tained within your root folder you should now have  3 fold­ers, WP-admin, WP-content, WP-includes, and 25 other files.
7. Visit your domain, note that you are asked to cre­ate a con­fig­u­ra­tion file
8. Open up your host­ing con­trol panel and go to the MySQL data­base Wiz­ard ( some host­ing providers are dif­fer­ent so you could ask them to cre­ate a data­base for you if you’re not sure how to)
9. Cre­ate a new data­base with a user­name and pass­word, if you have a wiz­ard with your con­trol panel should take you through the steps to do this. Keep a note of your data­base name, host­name, user­name, and password.
10. Go back to the Word­Press con­fig­u­ra­tion page and enter in your data­base information.
11. If all is well click next and you should be asked to setup your admin­is­tra­tor user­name and password.
12. Con­grat­u­la­tions you have installed WordPress!

Here’s a lit­tle video tuto­r­ial I found from Elliott­Medi­a­Group which may help some of you with a sim­i­lar setup.