Hi everyone,

Ok so it has got to that time, I have purchased a domain name and paid for a hosting service at ‘crazy domains’ with the ‘.com.au’.

I have file zilla installed and have access to my server.

I have created a ‘MYSQL’ database on my server which I took the database name, username, password, and host name from.

I have downloaded the latest version of wordpress, updated the ‘wp-config.php’ file in text editor with the details above.

I transferred the Wordpress folder onto my server in the root directory of the ‘public_html’ folder.

I refreshed my webpage and crash…it doesn’t work.

I know I am missing some steps here, forgive me am trying and learning along the way.

What am I missing?

Argh.

I have been looking up the help files and youtube clips and it is all so confusing…

HELP!

AB

@Kristi Hi Kristi, I finally got it to work. Phew.

I am amazed how popular Wordpress is and how so little ‘easy to use’ instructions there are. But I did find one good video tutorial thank goodness.

Found it much easier to ignore Wordpresses instructions to edit the wp-config in text editor and just drag and drop the contents of the entire folder into the ‘ROOT’ directory of my website on the hosting server. Dragged and dropped the folder itself to the root directory which of course didn’t work.

Small things but big things.

Then I simply refresh my webpage and it prompts me to create and install Wordpress, nice and easy.

Also noticed that there are about a million ways to do this depending on hosting companies, FTP software etc, but without getting too much into it, you need to make sure you copy down EXACTLY the database details you have created under the MYSQL tab, otherwise perilous doom is pending.

Yay for my new Wordpress thinggy, will now move on to see how far I can get updating the look and feel of the webpage, the theme, plug ins, Google analytics, etc.

I’m basically a programmer in t-minus 2 days. Joke.

No way.

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AB

@ Kristi Hines

Yes now I wondering – now that I have gone through all that just for the initial install – how many hours of my life do I have to waste sitting here looking through endless piles of crappy, non-functional- uniform – restrictive – Wordpress themes before I decide to give up on this silly idea of Wordpress all-together.

Unless, of course, I want to use the same boring template as everyone else or spend about a guzillion years learning programing, trouble-shooting, and editing code to ‘tweak’ these usless designs to the point they actually look nice and go where I want them to go..

Boy oh boy. What a waste of time.

Why was I going with Wordpress again?

Blergh.

@arty Wordpress is just awesome! There are countless features and advantages from readers, developers, designers and yeah SEO’s  point of view.Best thing about wp is it is very easy to install and maintain and another great one is that it indexes the post and pages very quickly in google. I like and commend wp blog for quick SEO benefits to my friends and clients. 

@Abigail Gordon thank you for the follow up, yeah tis a little frustrating. But I did it already – the hard way – and so am now over that hurdle and onto the next.

@Moin Shaikh Thanks for your opinion, good to hear that you are rockin.

Unfortunately, there seesm to be way too many people – like you – though on the internet just running around sayong ‘wow look how awesome this is’ and never actually backing it up. We are on here to share and learn not just tell everyone how good we are at something I suspect. A typical trait of Wordpress users dare I say. Grr.

i am a little concerned how much success Wordpress has had at making our diverse web landscape dominated by any one particular world view. I know they are awesome and it is open source etc etc blah blah but unfortunately, what happens way too often is people taking the bare-bones structure of a Wordpress site and replicating it over and over again about a billion times. Just run a Google search. With all of them claiming that they’re simple crappy Wordpress site is amazing because they have mastered what was put in front of them and never challenged anything.

But what do i know. Shish.

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AB

@polly bingham

Hi Polly!

Here is the link I was using if it helps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5GZumIXWU0

I also know how to do it now so you can ask me anything and I will try and answer ok. I have written all the steps down in my little notebook.

Let me know how you go.

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AB