How to Set Up a Wordpress Blog Through GoDaddy

How to Set Up a WordPress Blog through GoDaddy

Welcome to the Wizardgold video in which I’m going to show you how to set-up by hosted WordPress blog. For me, WordPress is the best blogging software around. If you use the code 146 and have a check out at Godaddy, you will get 10% discount from your order.

The first thing to do is to go to the hosting control center and then click on your domains so you can manage your domains. Click on add domain. Add the domain that we want to add. There’s Car20q here which you have already bought from Godaddy. So now we have to fill in our domain name and we have to put it in the folder that we want to put it in to within our hosting. Click on okay and the domain where we set up in our folder called Car20q. So they got the domain name. It has been successfully corrected and the next thing to do is to go to the Godaddy hosting connection because that’s where we need to go to build, to get Godaddy to install WordPress for us.

First, click on blogs and then choose WordPress. The latest version of WordPress is 2.8.4. We click on install now and off it goes. It doesn’t take long for this to be set up so we select the hosting here. We have to select where we’re going to put this and where we want to put it is on to Car20q.com which is the domain we’ve already just set up on the hosting. Click the search button and then we release set up the database.

I’ve given the database a name of CAR20Q_DB and I’m going to use one password to create a password for the database. In the database password, you have to have one number, one low case letter and one upper case letter. Now one password is a brilliant application and nothing every Mac owner should use it. So just click on the button fill. The password is put in there for us and now we click on next.

We need to install the WordPress into a folder within the domain and we’re going to the new folder so we get rid of where it says WordPress and click the next button. Now we need to put in Admin name and my name is Wizardgold, of course. You need to put in a password for Admin too. Just put any e-mail address that you want to use with your WordPress blog and put in the title of the blog and this case is Car20 Questions. You can change many of these settings within the WordPress once you’ve got it all set up. Click on finish. So now the installation request has been sent to Godaddy and they will set it up for us. In my experience, it can take two and a half an hour and a couple of hours just chill for a little while.

So the next thing to do is to have a look at the installed applications and you see WordPress is one of them. So you can see the database, the database name, you have to be connection. All things you need to know to build do any more work if you need too. So you can say that is very, very easy to set up by a hosted WordPress with Godaddy.com.

So please use the code Pod 146 if you like to get a 10% discount when you’re going to set up your own domain name and hosting through Godaddy.com. I've been using for about four years now and I’m totally happy with this. In the next video, I’m going to show you how to take this basic setup of WordPress and to make it into something a little bit more interesting.


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