In this tutorial, I will show you how to buy and install WordPress on HostGator
step by step. I will show you which hosting plan you should choose and the full buying process i
will also show you how to install wordpress on hostgator the right way and choosing the
correct settings at the end of this video i will give you a very special offer if you decide to
pick up hostgator through my link below i will give you my six figure blogger course for free
as a bonus and just a way of saying thank you for supporting my channel now let's get started
click on the link in the description or type this into your browser it will take you to my special
hostgator discount page where you will get the best discount hostgator is currently offering
and if you put in the promo code.com dollar at the checkout page you'll get an extra discount too
even though in this video i'm going to show you how to buy and install their shared hosting plan
i just wanted to let you know that hostgator also has a dedicated hosting and vps hosting so when
you're ready for an upgrade for your business you know that hostgator can provide for you now click
on get started and you can see here hostgator has three different plans the hatchling plan
is the cheapest plan and only allows you to have one website so if you want more websites you'll
definitely need the baby plan or the business plan so what you get from the business plan over the
baby plan is that you get a dedicated ip address so for this and you don't need it for a shared
hosting account and they don't offer any other value for their business plan so if i was you and
i only need one website i would definitely pick the hatchling plan if i need multiple websites
then i would go for the baby plan the business plan is not worth the extra money in my opinion
so now i'm going to click on buy now on the hatchling plan for this tutorial now
we come to the domain section you can type in a domain that you want
and choose.com i always recommend you go with the dot com domain as it is the most trusted domain
type by anyone coming to your website so here's a problem that i have with buying domain names from
hosting providers like hostgator other youtubers don't tell you this and it really annoys me so i'm
just going to be honest and upfront with you and go through it right now i really don't recommend
you buy your domain name from any hosting provider it's better to choose a dedicated domain name
provided for this right now even though hostgator offers you the first year free for their domain
name they will still charge you 14.95 for their domain privacy which is a must-have
for me as i don't want marketers messaging me and emailing me all day offering their services
and every year after that hostgator is going to charge you 17.99 for the domain name renewal
and also the 14.95 for their domain privacy renewal so the total is going to be around 33
every single year which is ridiculous to me what i recommend you do instead is buy all your domain
names from namecheap.com i use them for all my domains and you can get your domain name for
under nine dollars it's actually 8.88 to be exact and you get domain privacy included here for free
and when it comes time to renewal it will only cost you 12.98 this is almost three times cheaper
than hostgator or any other hosting provider so it's a no-brainer and this is what i recommend
you do and if you need help getting your domain name from namecheap then you can check out this
video here where i guide you through the process step by step if you want convenience and you're
sure with hostgator for the long term then go ahead and purchase it with them but if you want
the cheapest option then do what i recommend with namecheap anyway for me i have a domain
name already so i'm going to click i already have my own domain and i'm going to put that in
and now we can scroll down to the next section which is the hosting plan hostgator comes with
six different payment plans but you can clearly see it's not worth doing anything under 12 months
as the monthly cost is just too high and doesn't make sense obviously the longer the deal the
cheaper it's going to get for you so generally i would always suggest you buy the 36 month plan
as you get the cheapest price and you should have no reason to leave a hosting provider
once you are happy and want to proceed with them but if you're not then you at least know hostgator
has a 45-day money-back guarantee so you can get a full refund if you're not happy with them but i
also want to let you know one thing if you decide to take up their offer of the free domain name but
you decide to refund they will still charge you for the domain name as this cannot be refunded
so just be careful on that one so i'll select the 36 month and now you enter in your payment details
and come down to additional services and here they pre-select the site lock and site backup
for you both of these are not required as you can install free plugins and configure them to do the
exact same thing as what hostgator is offering at two dollars a month each so i'm going to untick
that and i recommend you do the same and then we can come down to the bottom part and here in
the coupon box if you type in dot com dollar and click on validate it is going to give you an extra
discount for your plan with hostgator so that's a good little bonus to have and you can see it comes
out to 98.83 for 36 months of hosting and that is really cheap and a really good deal to get
started on so once you're happy with that you come down and you agree with their terms of service
and then you click on checkout now once your purchase is confirmed you will receive these two
emails here the first one is just confirming your order with the receipt and the second
email has all your information here you can log into your dashboard by clicking here or
you can even log into your control panel from here and your email and password is
provided and also now your name server is given here as well and this is what you'll need to
connect to your namecheap account which i'm going to show you how to do now so we copy these
go to our namecheap account and now we select the domain that we want to create the website on
click on manage and now under the name servers we're going to click on it and click on custom
dns now in the name server one we want to put this in and in the name server 2 we want to copy this
and put it in here and once we're done you want to click save here
and once that's done you can see here it says it may take up to 48 hours for this to take effect
but normally this takes less than an hour so just come back in a little while and check it
and now if i type in my website into a browser you will see this is the screen that shows up
this means that my site has now been ported over to hostgator and it took less than an
hour for this now the next step is to actually install our wordpress website
so we go back to our dashboard on hostgator then click on manage package then we scroll
down to the bottom here and click on one click in stores this will be the quickest and easiest
way to install your wordpress website so now we click on wordpress we choose our namecheap
domain that we previously connected it to click on next and now we fill out this information
and once you've done that click on the terms of service agreement
and then click on install and now we can see here our installation is complete now they have
an upsell for you i suggest you don't pick any of these as it's not required and now you will need
to go and check your email as hostgator would have sent you a confirmation email and password
so there is my username and password so i'm going to copy and paste them into here
and i suggest you immediately change your password once you are logged in now click login ok now you
can see we are logged into our wordpress account and if you click on visit site and open it up
and now if i open my site now you can see that it has been updated with a new interface
after installing wordpress successfully and you can log back in whenever you want
the next step is to make sure that our website is secure
you can see here our website is currently not secured so we need to install an ssl certificate
and make sure it's secured and safe so what you do next is go back to your dashboard go
to your settings and click on general and you see these two boxes you need to add an s after the p
go down to the bottom click on save changes and now your website shows the lock which means your
connection is secured and your website is safe however if this is still not working
then the last thing you would do is go back to your hostgator dashboard and click on ssl
management and you would simply just turn this on but it's on right now so it should be working
just a quick note on my bonus offer you if you decide to pick up hostgator through my link just
send me your full receipt to bonus dot com dollar dot com and i'll give you access to my course
right away it's that simple now that you have successfully installed wordpress to your hostgator
hosting account you are actually ready to go out and fully build out your wordpress website
and this video will help you do just that so check it out and i'll see you in that next video