In this tutorial I will show you how to buy and install WordPress on green geeks step by step.
where i will show you which hosting plan you should choose and the actual buying
process involved i will then show you how to install wordpress on green geeks the right way
and choosing the correct settings towards the end of this video i will give you a very special offer
if you decide to pick up green geeks through my link below i will give you my six figure blogger
course for free as a way of saying thank you for supporting my channel now let's get started
step one click on the link in the description or type this into your browser it'll take you to my
special green geeks discount page where you will get the best discount green geeks is currently
offering full transparency this is an affiliate link i will receive a small commission while you
get a special discount and my six figure blogger course for free so it can be a win-win situation
for the both of us and i really appreciate you supporting my channel now we click on get started
now now green geeks has three shared hosting plans for you to choose from the first is the light plan
this one will only allow you to have one website so it's going to be
suitable for you if you're a local business or you're someone who only needs one website
but if you want any more than that you're going to need to go for the pro plan or the premium plan
now both of them offer unlimited websites but the main difference here is the performance and the
ip address so the pro plan only gives you a two times performance increase from the light plan
but the premium plan is even faster at four times and the other main difference is you get
a free dedicated ip address so unless you really need it for a specific project then i definitely
recommend you just take the pro plan as this will be more than enough for your multiple websites
and not having a dedicated ip address will not affect your seo and will still allow you to
rank your websites fine i don't use a dedicated ip address for my beginner website and they are still
ranking fine so i'm going to click on get started on the pro plan now when it comes to domain names
i recommend you don't buy any of your domain names from any hosting providers other youtubers don't
tell you this and it really annoys me so i'm going to explain it to you now for example here
a dot-com domain name from green geeks is going to cost you 13.95 per year but you're going to
have to pay an extra 9.95 for the domain privacy domain privacy is very important and i believe
this is a requirement as it protects you from marketers contacting you constantly every day
trying to sell their services to you so overall it's gonna cost about twenty four dollars per
year for a dot com domain from green geeks but if you go to a dedicated domain name provider
like namecheap which i use myself it's only going to cost you 8.88 per year and they provide you
the domain privacy for free so you think about it nine dollars as opposed to 24 that's about
three times cheaper and that's every year so if you want to save money in the long term then i
recommend you go for namecheap but if you just want the easiest way and you have the budget then
you can choose green geeks and if it's green geeks then you just type in the new domain you want here
but if it's my recommended method from namecheap then you buy it from namecheap and i have a video
to guide you through that step by step here and then you come down here and type in your domain
name that you've chosen now click on next and now you can see your coupon savings has been
applied and you've got the discount from my link now you fill out your private information here
now the next thing is to choose how long you want to buy your hosting plan for and obviously three
years is going to be the cheapest so i recommend you always buy the longest plan possible as when
it comes time to renewing they're going to charge you a lot more so pick the three year plan and
play around with it and if you're happy with it keep it but if you're not then you have a 30 day
money back guarantee where they will refund you the full cost but just be aware that if you do buy
your domain name from green geeks that part cannot be refunded now with the server location you
can choose where you want to host your website and they have three locations so what i recommend you
do is to choose a server location which is closest to most of your visitors so if it is a global site
and i recommend you choose united states but if it's anywhere in europe or even in asia it may
be better to choose europe as it's closer to you but i'll select united states for this tutorial
and now fill in your payment information and click on create account and that's it your order is
successful now you need to follow the instructions and go and check your email for the login details
so here's my login credentials and the login page click on that now enter in your login details
verify everything you may need to verify by sending the code so i've sent the code
and i'm going to check my email and put the code in and here is my code now click on verify code
so now my account is being verified and i'm logged in we are now logged into greengeeks dashboard
and before we do anything further the next step is to connect your domain name from namecheap to
greengeeks but if you bought your domain name from greengeeks then just skip this step and go right
to the next one but if you got it from namecheap like me then go to hosting click on manage
and see here domain name servers these are the three name servers we need to copy over to our
namecheap hosting account for our select the domain name so this is a domain that i want to
connect to greengeeks on my namecheap account so you come down to the nameserver section
and you select this and change it to custom dns
then for the name server one two and three this is where you would paste in those values from green
geeks and now that they have copied in you just click on the check mark here and save it that's it
says your dns server has been updated and may take 48 hours this is really the case normally an hour
max but 5 to 10 minutes and it should be ready so when it's ready we can go to our next step
we are now ready to install our wordpress website and to do this click on hosting and click on
cpanel and now just a quick side note if you want to install your second third or fourth websites
then you just click on this add-on domains button and add your domain first before you can install
your wordpress website but anyway this is my first website and the domain name has already
been added on checkout so we scroll down to the wordpress manager by softaculous click on that
and now we just click on install make sure you pick the right domain name type in your site name
and the site description now we scroll down to the admin account and for the username make sure
to use anything but admin because when people try to hack your website they're going to guest admin
first and for your password i recommend you put in something safe i normally just let self-calculus
generate me a new password and for the admin email put an email in that you want to use
now we scroll down and you can untick wp forms as you may not need it but lightspeed cache is
a really handy plugin to have as it'll speed up your website a lot so we can
keep that there for now and we can scroll down to the bottom and click on install
and that's it your wordpress website has been installed successfully but we can't open these
pages yet because our ssl certificate is not being installed and our website is not yet secured we
still have another step to go but i just wanted to quickly ask if you're getting value out of my
channel if so just hit that like button for me and subscribe to my channel so you don't miss
out on any quality content that i release every single week so the next step is to install our ssl
certificate so from the dashboard we want to go to security click on add ssl certificate select your
service pick your domain name click continue and we want to select the free let's encrypt
ssl that is enough and now click on confirm and create now we want to install a ssl certificate
and that's it our ssl certificate has now been installed so to check that it all worked
we want to go back into our softaculous app and log in and check so we click on
subtaculous here click on installations and we want to click on admin here and here it is
this is our wordpress dashboard page so this means that it's been installed correctly and
the site lock here is active which means that our ssl certificate is working and also to check the
front end of the website we scroll over here and click on visit site and this also shows our bare
bones website is working and our site is locked now the next step is to create our email address
so to do this we go back to our dashboard click on cpanel and we scroll down to the email
account section click on that and click on create choose your username and password and now we want
to click on create and it's that simple you can see my email has been successfully created also
just a quick note on my bonus offered you if you decide to pick up green geeks through my link then
just send me your receipt to bonus dot com dollar dot com and i'll send you access to my bonus
course right away it's that simple now that you have successfully installed wordpress onto your
bare bones greengeeks account it's time to go out and actually fully build out your website and this
next video will help you do just that so check it out and i'll see you in that next tutorial