- Once Hostmonster has confirmed that you’re a real person, you’re ready to install your blog. This process will take you just a few minutes. First, go to Hostmonster.com and log in from the upper right of the screen with your email address and the password that was sent to you via automatic email.
- When you log in, you will be at the admin control panel, called cpanel. From here you can control everything about your website. For example, you could create your own custom email addresses from here.However for the purposes of installing your blog, we’re concerned with something down toward the bottom. In the Software/Services section you will find Simple Scripts. Click on that.
- You will be redirected to the Simple Scripts page, which gives you a huge list of free scripts that you can install with the click of a button. On the left near the top under Blogs you will find Wordpress. Click on that.
- This is the Wordpress info screen. Just click the green Intstall button on the lower left.
- On the installation preferences screen you can just leave everything on the default settings. Check the legal info boxes and click complete — and you’re done!
- Now your blog is installed and you will be automatically emailed the login information for the Wordpress admin section. You can access it by going to www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin. You’ll be asked for your username and password, which were automatically sent to you via email.Once you’re logged in you can literally start blogging right away. Take a moment to look over the settings (found on the bottom of the left panel). Everything about the Wordpress interface is very intuitive and you should have no problems publishing blogs. Your site is already live — as soon as you write your first post it will be online for the world to read!
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4 Responses
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Okay, I just set up my blog and this was amazingly easy. Thanks for pointing me in this direction!
I thought I was going to have to get my computer friend to have to set this up for me, but I was able to do everything myself with this. Thanks again!
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
If this is really as easy as you show, I’m amazed. I tried to set up the SQL databases once following the Wordpress directions and I still couldn’t figure it out.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:12 am
This is awesome. Why doesn’t every host provider have this?
September 17th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Okay, this is just awesome!
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