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How to Install WordPress

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This video will show you how to install WordPress on your own domain or web server.

Now, this can seem a little bit complicated for a lot of people but there is a much easier way to do this, depending on which web hosting provider you've chosen. They can do an automated installation for you, which only take a few minutes to complete. If you want to do it automatically then simply click here and checkout this website and scroll down to Automated Installation.

If you want to do things manually then here are the five steps to install WordPress…

  1. First, we’ll download the latest version of WordPress from WordPress.org.
  2. Then we’ll upload those files to our web server, using FTP
  3. Third, we’ll create a MySQL database and user for WordPress
  4. Then we’ll configure WordPress to connect to our newly-created database
  5. and last, complete the installation and setup our new website!