Lol, I thought I can easily develop a web application in a month but it’s taking a long time to design. I want to run a blog but I’m not proficient in programming languages. I do not have sufficient time and money to go for web development but I would like run my blog on the web. is there any solution for an above scenario? Yeah, we do have a solution for the above issues, It’s Wordpress. I’ll show you how to install WordPress on Bluehost to avoid all kind of issues about web design.

One of the most lovable, desirable name for webmasters is WordPress, WordPress is the best content management system in the world. You can choose WordPress for your personal blogs and websites with free of cost. All hosting providers are tied with WordPress so you can easily use WordPress with your hosting register.

You do not want to aware of any programming languages, simply by drag and drop options you can handle WordPress for your websites. WordPress gives thousands of themes, templates for your website but you need to select the template which you need for your business.

Before going to install WordPress on Bluehost blogs, first, you need to buy hosting from Bluehost company.

Here is the guide how to buy hosting from Bluehost company: Click Here

After buying hosting from Bluehost company, you can setup your blog by installing WordPress on your Bluehost account. Kindly follow all instructions simultaneously to install WordPress on Bluehost account.

Basically, in two ways you can install WordPress on Bluehost, one is through cPanel account, the second one is a manual method, Both ways are efficient and reliable to install WordPress on Bluehost account.

Steps to Install WordPress on Bluehost?

Carefully follow the instructions to install WordPress on Bluehost account,

Step-1) The first log-in to your cPanel account to install WordPress on Bluehost account, Else click here to login your cPanel account directly.

Once login to your cPanel account, you will be authorized to install any application through the cPanel account, now check for “Softaculous Apps Installer”(refer the image).

Here you need to click on “WordPress” icon, once you click on the icon you will be redirected to a “Softaculous App installer page” to install WordPress on Bluehost.

Step-2) Here you need to click on “Install” button to move on the further installation process.

Step-3) Once you click on install you will be asked to enter a “domain name” to install it.

Choose the domain name with protocol ex: (http://blogkeep.com), ignore the directory option.

Step-4) In this step you will be asked to enter admin credentials which will help you to log on your WordPress site once it installed.

Enter a username, password, and admin email and make note of it.

Step-5) In this step, read “terms & conditions” and check the boxes, after that select the “Install Now” button to install WordPress on Bluehost hosting account through cPanel.

Once you click on Install button, you will be waited for few minutes to install WordPress on Bluehost account, then you will be displayed success message on the screen that “WordPress is successfully installed”.

A process is done, Now you can access your WordPress dashboard by typing http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ in URL address bar.

Whatever credentials you have chosen in Step-4 will be used to login your WordPress site.

 Manual WordPress Install on Bluehost

You can install WordPress on Bluehost either using “Softaculous App installer” or manually, but it’s recommended to install using “Softaculous App installer for ease of use”.

If you want to install manually you can do it by following below steps

1)  First, download the latest WordPress version on your local machine.

2) Next, upload your WordPress in “File manager” of your domain using FTP application such as FileZilla(you need to upload the site to File Manager in cPanel account refer the screen).

3) Next, create a database for your WordPress site (refer the screenshot)

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4) Next, connect the database to WordPress (refer the screenshot).

in a wp-config.php file, you need to replace database username, password details (step-3 credentials you need to provide here) “hostname” should be localhost only.

Once you enter the details next, save the file and open your website URL on the address bar, next you will be asked to choose the WordPress language, choose English as your WordPress language.

Then WordPress will indicate missing “wp-config.php” file on your setup, just create the file online by selecting “Create a Configuration File” option.

Next, you will be asked to enter database user account details for a WordPress site, enter all the required details then Click on “Install WordPress” option to install WordPress manually on your hosting account.

Yup, you are done with manual installation of WordPress on your hosting account.

I hope you were familiar with both ways yo install WordPress on Bluehost account.

Any Queries? Let’s get started via the comment box, I love to fix it.

Happy Blogging!

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