In my last post I talked about how to start a self hosted WordPress blog. One of the things involved in that was , how to install WordPress on your Shared Hosting so that you can start posting on it. Today we will talk about that.I am assuming here that you have already bought a domain name and Shared hosting for your blog.
CREATE A DATABASE
The first requirement for installing WordPress on your shared hosting server is to create a user name and a database to be used by wordpress.If you are on CPANEL (control panel of your webshosting) , Navigate to Databases >> My SQL databases. Click to continue…
When i first thought of starting my own blog i had two options of the platform on which the blog will run. First one was Blogger which is owned by google and other was the WordPress. At that particular time i wasnt aware much of the know how about Blogs and its management.
I started both with WordPress.com and Blogger for my first blog Avinashteh. I started with few posts both on wordpress and blogger. But then later on i found i cant have full control over my blog on WordPress.com as its doesnt allow all features that a self owned (hosted on a paid server e.g. on shared hosting ) and hence i shifted to Blogger fully.
One of the reasons i shifted to blogger was that i was almost blank on how to use wordpress fully. Initially it was like, i wasnt even aware of whats difference between a wordpress.com & wordpress.org along with whats a paid hosting. I tried to find out how the diff options like plugins and themes worked but couldnt get full satisfaction on wordpress.
Then after few months on blogger which allowed me more control on my blog, i started to feel crippled by the options available on it compared to wordpress. Till then i had collected a good enough knowledge of wordpress and hence thought of shifting to wordpress platform.
I moved whole of my blogger blog to wordpress platform on a paid host. The story is more but i will stop this story here.
Now i will talk about how to install WordPress locally on your system so that you can test your blog before making it available online without any errors.
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