Every month I share Hostgator discount coupons with you people and no doubt hostgator is one of the powerful Web-hosting for WordPress. In this tutorial I will be sharing, how you can easily Install wordpress on Hostgator Webhosting. We will be using Fantastico to install WordPress in Hostgator. For your info, Fantastico is a script which will let you install lots of software’s and blogging platforms with few clicks.
To get started, grab Hostgator Webhosting. Once you have hosting detail, login to your hosting control panel and navigate down to Fantastico under Software/Services category.
Open Fantastico:
Click on Fantastico and on the next screen select WordPress from left hand side.
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On the next screen click on New Installation. This will take you to the first page where you need to enter few details to get started with the installation of WordPress.
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Few important details which you need to add here are:
Admin access data:
Add username and password. Keep your username anything other then admin and use a strong password.
Admin email:
Admin Email is very important. Make sure you added the correct Email password.
Other details like Sitename, description you can change later on. Click on Install WordPress and on the next screen it will ask you for confirmation. Click on Confirm and your WordPress is all set to go live.
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Once you done clicking on Finish installation. Your WordPress is ready to go live.
Login to your admin panel of WordPress by typing:
http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin (Replace yourdomain.com with actual domain name) In this case it’s phyrra.net.
Isn’t it easy 1-2-3 step to install WordPress?
Do let me know if you have any trouble Installing wordpress or have any question regarding WordPress on hostgator?
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Thanks. I will need it for the next couple of days. Just bought a year hosting on Hostgator and going to install wordpress. I have read that wordpress and hostgator do well together, let me see. Thanks again for the step-by-step guide.
Great post! This is really helpful for a newbie blogger.
Simple, Clear, Concise, with Visual Aides. NICE!
Good stuff! Like the arrows in your tutorial!