Installing a Blog

Step 1: Login to your cPanel and click the icon Fantastico (That Smiley Face).

Step 2. Click on WordPress under Blogs

Step 3. Click New Installation to start the auto installer.

Step 4. Fill in as below,
“Install on domain” – Select your domain
“Install in directory” – Leave it blank
“Administrator-username” – Administrator login (Your username)
“Password” – Administrator password (Your password)
“Admin nickname” – Your nickname or your fullname
“Admin e-mail” – Your email address
“Site name” – Your blog name (Can change later)
“Description” – Blog description (Can change later)

Step 5: Click Install WordPress once you fill in all the required information.

Step 6: Everything will be automated and this is why we choose cPanel and Fantastico.
Click Finish Installation to complete.

* TO DO NOW: Install your blog.

Select a Theme

You can now go to your website now, http://www.yourdomain.com or whatever your website is.
You can see your blog is ready with a simple blue theme + a Hello World demo post.

In order to access the admin panel, you need to go to this url http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
Type in your username and password then click Log In.

How’s the control panel? Friendly enough?
In order to change the Theme for our blog, go to Appearance – Themes.
The default selected Theme is WordPress Default.

1 of the best performance wordpress theme is iTheme.
You can get it for Free at WordPress iTheme.
Download it and install it.
Or you can find some very nice Free theme over here at BlogohBlog. (I like the Statement Theme)

To install a theme, simply upload the entire theme folder (for eg. folder itheme-1-1) to this path – http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes
For upload, you can use CuteFTP or any other free FTP tools.

After you successfully uploaded the folder to the path, go back to your wordpress Admin Control Panel, go to Appearance – Themes.
You shall see a new theme available. Select it and activate it.

Voila, visit your blog and it’s must nicer now with the new theme.
There are lots of free theme and premium theme available, find them and they are yours.

* TO DO NOW: Change a beautiful theme for your blog.

Configure Your Blog
You should take some time to play around with the admin control panel and what it can do.
Right now I’m going through with you some important settings.

Setting 1: General
Blog Title – Give your blog a title related to your keyword. If your keyword is prince tennis, then your title should consists of this keyword.
Tagline – Description
Membership – Check to allow anyone to register with your blog