Installing Wordpress Using Fantastico
Different web hosting companies use different applications for installing content management systems. This walk through is for a hosting company using Fantastico. Fantastico is typically found on cpanel hosting companies such as Host Gator.
Once you’ve found the Fantastico button you want to click on it. You will then be brought to another screen.
You now want to click on the WordPress text under the section “blogs.”
Now you simply want to click on “New Installation.” You will then be taken to another screen where you get to choose where to install your WordPress directory as well as your username and password. Follow the on screen instructions and your WordPress blog will be up and running.
DO NOT use admin as your username. There are a lot of hacking programs out there that scan for WordPress blogs using that for a username and will exploit your blog, inserting a lot of garbage onto your site, making Google mad. Don’t worry though we’ll be going over security in a later post.
And you thought starting a website was going to be hard huh?



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