The Complete First Website Manual by Elliot Matthews - HTML preview

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Installing WordPress on your website

 

This is the last step before your website is up and running.

 

Navigate to My Account (top right) img16.png Click on My Products img16.png Web Hosting img16.png Manage

 

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Under ‘New cPanel’ select Set Up, follow the steps, choose a data center (Europe). Create a cPanel login. When prompted to install WordPress select Yes.

 

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Create a WordPress username and password. This is what you will enter at

 

 

www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/

 

Click Finish and that’s it! Your website is now live. You will be taken to a summary page that will show you your websites usage.

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The memory usage is the only aspect you will have to worry about if you are planning on uploading over 512mb of files. But for simple websites, this should be more than sufficient.

 

Welcome to WordPress!

 

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Navigate to www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ - this is where you will log into the WordPress dashboard to manage everything on your website. It’s a very simple system to use, which is why it’s so popular. We suggest having a play around, navigate the menus and get a feel for the system.

 

Posts – create new posts that are posted to your website

 

Media – any files you upload to your website during posts or pages will be stored here

 

Links – add links to your website in categories

 

Pages – manage and add different webpages to your website

 

Comments – when people post comments on your posts (if you allow it) you can view and moderate them here

 

Appearance – manage the appearance of your website, install themes, widgets

 

Plugins – install and update plugins, these give your website further functionality

 

Users – add and manage other users to the website, set privileges for editors or administrators.

 

Tools – when you install certain plugins, they can be managed from here, also let’s you import and export content from other systems

 

Settings – add information about your website, change preferences for subscribers and change default WordPress settings