Do you want to manually install WordPress on your website using FTP?
Well keep watching, in this video I'll walk you through how you can install
WordPress on your website using FTP credentials, so if you're ready let's get
started. We need to download WordPress to our
local computer so let's head over to wordpress.org and you'll see the
download WordPress button here so we'll click download we'll download the latest
WordPress to a folder that we know let's save that. Once that's saved we need to go
ahead and open this up and we need to extract the files. This is the folder I
want to extract it in and we'll click extract.
Once they've all been extracted you'll now have a WordPress folder here
and here's all of the files in the WordPress folder. We need to upload all of these
files to our website via FTP. There are several FTP clients that you can use. For
this video I'll be using FileZilla so you want to head over to filezilla-project.org
and download the one appropriate for your machine.
Once you install FileZilla this is what it will look like. The next thing we want
to do is go ahead and add the credentials to access our website so
let's head over to File>Site Manager. From here we can add a new site. Under
hosts you want to add your website name, your FTP credentials should have come to
you from your hosting provider via an email or you can also email your hosting
provider and ask them for the credentials if you don't know them
already. Under protocol we'll choose FTP the encryption we want to use explicit
FTP over TLS if available. That means that it is encrypting the data that is
coming from our computer to our website so we want to keep that. For a login type
we want to use normal, next go ahead and add the credentials for your user for
the FTP. Finally we can rename this and that helps if you have multiple sites.
Now I'm going to click connect once it connects you'll see a successful
dialogue up here you'll also see all of your folders coming over over here. We
want to install it in the root directory I'm gonna click on root you can also
install it and say a blog folder if you wanted to for simplicity and for SEO
purposes we recommend putting it into the root directory. On the left I need to
copy all of these files and folders to do that I'm going to click on the first
one, scroll down to the bottom and I'll hold down shift click to copy all of the
files and folders we can right click and hit upload. This will automatically
upload all the files and folders to my root directory. Alright once everything
is uploaded we need to go to our cPanel and we need to create
a database so from my cPanel and scroll down and I'm looking for MySQL
database here your cPanel may look a little bit different but this is the
general look that you're looking for you need to create database name so we'll
create the database, now we need to go back now that we've created a database
we need to also create a username so let's scroll down and add user, create a
strong password for this. Over here you can click password generator and that'll
generate a password for you. Make sure that you copy that or otherwise have
that somewhere safe so you'll have it if you ever need it now let's create the
user, once the user is created let's go back and now we need to add the user to
the database. Again scrolling back down we get to the add user to database so
let's find the user let's find the database and let's click add. Once we
click add it'll tell us what privileges do we want. We need to allow all
privileges and make changes. Great, the user has complete control over this new
database so we're good to go there. Now that we've created the database and
we've uploaded WordPress we need to go to our web address to finish the
installation. So I'm going to click out of full screen so you can see my address
bar, type in your web address and when you type in your web dress you'll see
this. From here you can choose whatever language you want your WordPress site to
be in we'll pick English(US) and now you need to have this bit of information so
let's click let's go. Make sure you fill in all the information like you see here
database host is usually localhost so keep it like that and then click Submit.
Alright from here you get a welcome screen or you can fill out the site title, the
username that you will use to login to your WordPress website, make sure you
fill out a password, and then make sure you fill out your email address to
receive admin emails for your website. Now if you're not ready for search
engines to look for your site then you can click discourage search engines from
indexing your site. We're not going to do that we'll just click install WordPress
and now you get a success screen where you can now login
So let's click login you can add your username and password here and if you
want you can click remember me so you don't have to do this every time. We'll
click login congratulations you've successfully installed WordPress using
FTP on your website. Did you learn something from today's video? If so
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