Installing WordPress

March 23, 2008 – 10:32 am

WordPress is one of the most popular solutions for blogging. This software is also used as CMS (Content Management System) since websites can be created with it. This section describes how to create catalogue of games/screensavers using WordPress.

Latest version of WordPress at the moment is 2.3.3 (official website - http://wordpress.org/, support forum http://wordpress.org/support/).

WordPress installation

To install WordPress to your server, you’ll need:

  • PHP version 4.2 or higher
  • MySQL version 4.0 or higher

You can download WordPress installation archive here.

Installing WordPress:

  1. Unpack zip-archive.
  2. Open ‘wp-config-sample.php’ file and fill in the settings to connect to your MySQL database. Save the file as ‘wp-config.php’.
  3. Upload the files to your server with FTP-client.
  4. Open ‘/wp-admin/install.php/ in the browser. If you get an error, please check the database connection settings in ‘wp-config.php’ and try again.
  5. Enter the name of your future website (for example, “Great Screensavers for Everyone”) and your email address. These settings can be changed later.
  6. Click ‘Install WordPress’ button. The scripts will install necessary tables in your database.
  7. Save username and password which you will receive for accessing admin panel of WordPress.
  8. Now you can go to ‘/wp-login.php’ and enter your username and password.

Installation is complete. You can change your password in WordPress admin pannel in the ‘Profile’ section.

The next article is dedicated to description of installing Outrix Feed plugin for WordPress which will help you to create catalogue with games/screensavers.