In the first part of our WordPress beginners’ tutorial, I explained the steps to follow in order to register a domain name, choose a reliable web host, and install WordPress database on your domain. Next, I took you through the process of using Fantastico icon at the “Software and Services” section of your hosting package to install WordPress i.e. if you are using cPanel web hosting platform. You can see Fantastico in the image below. That is what you should click.

Today, I am going to walk you through the other steps required to complete the initial installation of WordPress on your domain name. Thereafter, I will start discussing the nitty-gritty of installing themes and customizing your WordPress with usable plug-ins in our subsequent WordPress beginners tutorials. Stay with me and enjoy!

You should be at the installation page if you followed the steps I have explained so far. Here is an image of where you should be right now.

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Click on WordPress. Next, click on “New Installation”. You will see 2 options asking if you want to “install on domain” or “install in directory”. If you are installing on the root of your domain name like OnlineBusinessBuff.com, for example, do nothing. That is the installation default. But if you are installing on a sub directory like OnlineBusinessBuff.com/blog, you have to fill out the word “blog” on the “install in directory” field. You can decide to use any other word outside “blog”. You can choose to use “niche” or whatever. That means your full blog path will always read like this: OnlineBusinessBuff.com/niche.

The next step is to fill out the “Admin username”. Use a name you wish to access your WordPress administration area. After that, you should now enter a “password” that only you will easily remember when you want to access your dashboard. But the password should not have resemblance with the blog name in order to reduce hacking and spam furor.

Now, fill out the “nickname” you want to attach to your blog. You can choose “Design Geek”, for example, if you are a website designer installing a WordPress blog for your website design services. I hope you get the gist and you are following this WordPress beginners’ tutorial in easy steps?

The next information to fill out is your “Admin email”. By default WordPress will automatically put in an email with your “admin username” at your own “domain name”. For instance, if my admin username was “access” and my domain name is “infogiant.com”, WordPress email will be shown as “access[at]infogiant.com” but replace [at] with @.

What you can do is to change the email address to the one you frequently use or you decide to assign to this blog. Anytime you forget your password, this email address is where a password reset will be sent to. You don’t want to be stocked up when that happens!

It is time to fill out the “Site name” and “Description”. The site name is the title of your blog. So I expect you to include your main keyword phrase in it. The description is the tagline below your site name. Actually it supports the main object of your website. You should put in a keyword phrase there too.

As soon as you have completed the above tasks, click the “install” button. Pronto, your blog is now installed. Click the “Finish Installation” button to round off what you have done so far. That is it! You are now a pro at installing WordPress blog on your domain at the flip of your fingers!

In our next part of this series of WordPress beginners tutorial, I will take you to the administration dashboard of your blog with the username and password we filled out earlier. From there we should be able install WordPress theme of our choice and some usable plug-ins that will enhance the functionality of our website. That is all for today’s WordPress tutorial guide.

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As you may already, WordPress is an open source CMS (content management system) database that is flexible for building blogs. With the availability of free and premium themes as well as plugins to enhance WordPress blogs’ usability, you will be able to build websites that are dynamic. So, this WordPress beginners tutorial article is aimed at teaching you how to build websites with WordPress so as to maximize your online blogging experience, have fun and ultimately make money online.

The first step for a newbie to take is to register a domain name and create a web hosting account. This is to enable you to host a WordPress blog on your domain name cum your website hosting server. If you are searching for a reliable web host with 99.9% up time and lots of superb technical customer support, you just have to use Hostgator by clicking here.

As soon as your domain name DNS (domain name server) resolves to your hosting server, it is time to start installing WordPress. Please note that not all web hosts support WordPress database software. Hostgator supports it because it is on cpanel hosting platform.

With that said, the next step is to log on to your web hosting cpanel using the domain name you have registered. The domain name path to type on your browser is http://www.onlinebusinessbuff.com/cpanel. Simply replace onlinebusinessbuff.com with your registered domain name and its extension. Enter your user name and password to be able to access the hosting features.

For the WordPress beginners tutorial, we are going to scroll down to “Software and Services” section on your server.

Click on the “Fantastico” icon. This is the feature that enables lots of software and databases to be installed with one click of the button. On the page, you will notice all the software that can be installed on your website using Fantastico. They are clickable links.

On my server, it is by the left hand side of the web page. I can spot “Wordpress” straight away. I will click on it in order to go to the WordPress installation page. While there, I will start filling out all the required information to complete the process of installing WordPress database on my domain name. It is really self explanatory; you should try it out! Therefore, you should not be scared when performing this installation exercise.

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