How to Install Wordpress To Your Information Website

As with the other hubs in this series, this will be a step by step guide on how to install Wordpress on to your Information Website. I have spent the last week researching and finding out how to do this. It has been a challenge to say the least, but I have got there in the end. In this hub I will try to guide you in the best possible way to install Wordpress so you can use it as a platform for your information website. If for any reason you may find these instructions confusing or not as clear as they should be, please feel free to leave a comment or send me a message through my profile page and I will do the best I can to assist you. Well thats enough of me rambling lets get straight to it.

• Go to http://yourdomain.com/cpanel (obviously you’ll use whatever domain you chose, not “yourdomain.com”). If a login prompt comes up, your site is ready to work with. If no login prompt appears, you may have to wait for your nameservers to update (remember it could take up to 24 hours).
• Use the username and password from your Freehostia welcome email to log into your website.
• Scroll down and click on ‘Elefante Free Scripts.’ As highlighted on the first image on the right.
  
• Choose Wordpress, which is under the Blog heading, then choose ‘ Install Wordpress 3.0.1.’ as highlighted in the image below.
  
• Leave ‘Install in a directory’ blank.
• Choose a username and password for Wordpress.
• Choose your admin nickname and an email address (Note: use one of your personal email addresses for now. The email@yourdomain.com addresses are not automatically set up for you.)
• Leave the ‘Site Name’ and ‘Site Description’ as they are.
• Click ‘Install Wordpress’ and then ‘Finish Installation.’
• Visit your site to see your new Wordpress installation (you may have to refresh the page a time or two while it installs).

Well now that Wordpress is installed onto your site all that is left is to configure it. The steps for this is as follows:

• go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin (this is where you log into your Wordpress dashboard).
• use the username and password you set up as part of your Wordpress installation to log into your Wordpress dashboard.
• Click Settings, then click General.
• Change Blog Title to whatever you’d like.
• Tagline optional.( I put the subject matter of my Website here)
  
• Leave the rest of General Settings as they are and click Save.
• Click on Privacy and choose I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines…etc and click Save.
• Click on Permalinks.
• Choose Day and Name and then choose Custom. Edit the permalink text to show /%postname%/ and click Save Changes.

Two more things left and that is to install the SEO pack Plugin and the Easy Adsense Plugin and we are set to go start making money with our brand new information website.

Installing the All in One SEO Pack Plugin

• Click on Plugins and Add New
• Type "All in One SEO Pack" into the search bar and click Search Plugins.
• Next to the plugin name in the search results, click Install and then Install Now.
• Click Activate Plugin.
• Go to the plugin admin page.
• Put in a Home Title of your choice.
• Home Description is completely optional.
• Leave Home Keywords blank.
• Uncheck Canonical URLs.
• Uncheck Use Tags for Meta Keywords.
• Uncheck Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page.
• Uncheck Use Noindex for Categories.
• Uncheck Use Noindex for Archives.
• Click Update Options.

Installing the Adsense Now Plugin

• Click on Plugins and Add New.
• Type "Adsense Now" into the search bar and click search plugins.

• Next to the plugin name in the search results, click Install and then Install Now.
• Click Activate Plugin.
• Go to the Adsense Now admin page.
• Now you need to visit your Google Adsense account and click on Adsense setup.
• Click on Adsense for Content and create an Ad Campaign for your site.
• Copy the code from the Ad Campaign and paste it into the Adsense Now admin page in the box provided.
• Now configure where you would like your ads to be displayed on your site.
• Click on save changes.

Now we are ready to start adding content to our newly built website, see the link below for Website promotion and this will give you a few ideas on how we can start doing this. I hope you have learned something new and useful and like I said in the beginning, if you have any problems or questions please feel free to leave a comment or to contact me through my profile page and I will do my best to assist you the best I can.