Saturday, December 31, 2011

The best way to Install a WordPress Site and WordPress Theme

By Jeromy Zanderberg


For every one of those who are still slightly new to WordPress, there are plenty of really good WordPress themes out on the internet that will really turn a boring unproductive website into something that surely will make you proud. The best WordPress plugins and themes out on the market, now come packed with features and tools not found in your common everyday WordPress setup. Themes like OptimizePress are good examples of this kind of approach.

Yet to guarantee you've got the right WordPress configuration to support a theme like this, it is important to ensure the right WordPress install.

There are 2 ways to install WordPress. The 1st is through the tools offered by the host provider and the second way is thru a manual installation. Once the installation is complete, it is very easy to follow the same approach to installing a theme.

To install the WordPress website platform find the WordPress installation code found within the host's cPanel software called Fantastico. Step through the easy questionnaire make preparations for installation. Once the questions are answered, one click of your mouse instantly unpacks the code, creates a database, installs the code and links the database with the WordPress installation.

The harder way to try this is through a full manual installation. It needs downloading the WordPress files, unzipping them, FTPing them over to the host and creating a database for the new installation.

This installation process does lend itself to configuration mishaps and could be a bit lengthy if you do not know what you are doing. I recommend exercising the automated route if you have not done this before.

Once the installation has taken place, then it is simply a matter of going into the WordPress control panel and uploading the zipped file from your local drive into WordPress. WordPress will empty the files for you immediately and prepare the theme to be used.

Within just a few minutes the installation will complete. All that it takes is the user activating the WordPress theme with one click to start using it.

There will be occasions when the automated process does not work. During these times, all you need to do is unzip the files yourself with some kind of unzip software, FTP the theme folder into your wp-content/themes folder. When the FTP transfer has completed and the theme folder is there




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