If you have a hosting account with another provider, check whether they have the cPanel (stands for ‘control panel’) interface. If so, this set of instructions will likely apply to your host, too.
If you are with a different host and they don’t have cPanel, ask their Technical Support for instructions on how to install WordPress.
Install WordPress Manually
Use the following steps to complete the process:
Step 1: Download WordPress
Visit https://wordpress.org/download/ and click on the download.
Step 2: Move towards the Installation
Once the download is complete, move the "wordpress-*.*.*.zip" file to your local server directory. As I am using the XAMPP server, so I move this file to file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/ directory.
Step 3: Unzip the file
Unzip the file and move it front.
Step 4: Open your XAMPP Control Panel
Open your control panel and start the Apache Server and MySQL server.
Step 5: Launch WordPress
Open any Web Browser and visit the path(http://localhost/wordpress) where WordPress is stored.
Once you click continue you see a warning!
Step 6: Let's go!
Before clicking on "Let's go!" make sure you have created a database if you have not yet done follow my instructions:
Visit PhpMyAdmin: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and click on new to create a new database.
- Input Database Name
Step 7: Complete the installation steps
Once the database is created go back to the WordPress installation page and click on "Let's go".
Step 8: Fill the form
Fill in the Database name, username, Password, Database host, Table Prefix, and click on submit:
- Note: Default username = "root", Password = " "
Step 9: Fill your information
If you have submitted your previous form then you can see a welcome message and another form that needs website information. Once all is done click on Install WordPress to Complete the process.
Step 10: Success!
Once installation is complete you can find a successful message:
