The Best Way To Install Wordpress — using SimpleScripts

If you are looking for a WordPress installation guide, you found it. And if you’re on the fence about hosting and self-installation, this guide illustrates the simplicity of the process.

Why To Do It

Hosting your own blog costs money. It also requires technical skill. So, why host a blog yourself rather than using say, blogger.com?

In short, hosting is the best choice if you want to:

• Completely control of the look and feel of your site.
• Maximize the monetization of your content.

For a more detailed analysis, an excellent article is on Don Campbell’s site.

How To Do It

The first time I installed WordPress, I followed the manual installation instructions on their site. The pain of the corresponding upgrades meant manually installing WordPress wasn’t the best choice. You’ll understand what I mean if you check out these instructions for upgrading a manual installation.

Luckily there is an alternative: SimpleScripts. In addition to automating the initial install, SimpleScripts will upgrade WordPress with a few clicks of the mouse.

To install Wordpress with SimpleScripts, first access the SimpleScripts menu from your web host’s cPanel.

Then click on the WordPress link.

From there click on “Install.”

That’s it. You’re done.

To check out your installation in the future, you can again access the SimpleScripts dashboard from the cPanel. When a WordPress upgrade is available, SimpleScripts will display a red link. Click on it to keep your WordPress up-to-date.

Simple, right? Now you are part of the WordPress community.

The next step is to upload some quality content to your new blog. I look forward to reading it.