All right, so in this video, I'm going to install WordPress manually, maybe my control panel did
not have an option to install any kind of WordPress or maybe I did.
So I don't know.
There's a lot of reasons you may want to do this manually.
I typically do it manually just because I like to do it for whatever twisted reason.
So to do that, it's very simple to do just you can do this on any hosting environment.
We're going to go to WordPress dot org now.
Remember, it's not dotcom and SG.
There's a little difference there.
The dot com is the blogging platform.
The dot org is the kind of the resource center.
If you want to learn more about WordPress, they have a lot of good information here.
All they have to do is go.
It's always in the same spot, appearance's, get WordPress.
So we'll go out and click on that and we'll download the most current version right here.
So I'll say download and I'll say it.
It's my desktop.
And again, depending on when you install this, you will probably see version 5.0 or five point something
and know they are getting ready to come up with that here pretty soon.
I think already testing it out for the most part.
But you notice much of a difference.
There will be some differences, but nothing's really going to affect what you do.
All right.
So within a couple of seconds there, you can see that this has downloaded to my desktop.
And I'm going to come back to my control panel up here.
So there's maybe two things that we want to do.
For one, we need to upload these files.
We need to decompress them.
The other thing is we need to create a database.
Oh, big, scary database.
Don't worry about it.
Or going walk you through.
That's very, very simple to do.
All we need to do is create an empty one.
And there is a wizard that will help us kind of walk us through the steps of what we need to do and
we will get that all set up and running that will connect the two.
And we'll have an up and running website here in less than five minutes.
All right.
So we're going to go to file manager here at the top.
And again, we want to make sure that we are in the root directory of the kind of the hosting the kind
of weird domain name is pointing to.
This is kind of outside of the roots.
All this stuff right here.
This makes up things that do different things for your websites, does different checks, emails, things
like that, just tracks login information.
We want to make sure they're in this public excuse me, public HTML.
Sometimes you'll see a folder that just w they really basically take you to the same spot.
You can see actually there's one right here, but there's a little link right there, meaning that it's
an alias we're just taking to here public FTP.
That's where people can upload files to if they were, you know, maybe like a print shop or something
where they were transferring files, good place.
Just kind of keeps it separate from your hosting.
But we don't really worry about that.
We're only worried about this public HTML DoubleClick that you can see this is completely empty right
now.
And what they need to do is go to the upload button.
There's a whole bunch of options here across the top.
Most agree it out because they have nothing selected.
I'm just to go to upload now, depending on your host.
Again, you may have this kind of HTML5 version where you can just drag and drop a file onto here.
You may have to go search for the file again.
Depends on the host that you're on.
Someone take this file and drag it right over to here and you see the progress by I should only take
a couple of seconds to do.
It's really pretty quick now.
As long as the bar is blue, that means it's not complete.
You'll see that the bar is actually blue and said one hundred percent there.
Sometimes it actually sticks around for a couple seconds, so you may want to make sure they just wait
till it turns green and then you'll know you're all done.
I can close this window out and come back to my hosting.
All right.
So here's my public HTML file folder and there's nothing in it.
All right.
So what you need to do is you need to refresh it.
This is not constantly updating itself, so we just need to upload it or excuse me, reload it right
here.
So I click reload.
I will see that my files are right up there and but they're still zipped.
So where's all those files that I need?
So across the top up here, I see some different options as well.
We're going to extract or extract all the files are in this compressed folder that make up our WordPress
site extract.
And I'll say, where do you want to extract them to public e-mails where we want to go.
So just leave that as it is and will say extract files.
All right, so they close it out.
All right, Sue, the fans are still not where I wanted them to be.
Now, WordPress does this.
The way they zipped it just kind of creates this folder right here.
So I have to take one extra step.
I have to go into this WordPress folder.
I'll double click that.
Now, there is all my files put there in a folder, so I need to pull that back into my main directory.
So I'll say select all and then I'll click on Move.
I want to move these back a folder.
So remember, we were in that public HTML.
That's where we want to be.
These are in this folder called WordPress.
I have to do is just simply delete that word and said, OK, you'll see all the files all of a sudden
disappear.
And if I come back to public HTML, all my files are now in here.
Now, one important thing to do is you don't want any folders with nothing in it.
So come back up to this empty WordPress file and I'll say delete if I delete this unstoppable version
of WordPress as well.
Just no need to have that.
I'll say skip the trash and done.
All right.
So now I have a perfectly installed version of WordPress of the files.
The second half of this is installing the database.
Let's come on back to the don't need any more.
Come back to the control panel and we'll say, OK, now we need to create a database.
So we come up to this MySQL database wizard.
There's usually a couple different escapable or my admin, all these things under databases.
In this case, we want the wizard that's going to help walk us through creating a database.
Now we have to give it a name.
How you definitely want to write now, because you're gonna need this for the next step.
So it's going say, create a database name.
I just give it like three or four random letters and I'll copy both the first part of it.
And the second part that I just typed in right here.
All right.
You can see I just copied it.
So looks just like that right to here.
You will need this here in a second.
So make sure you have it ready.
It's the next step.
Now, I, like most people say not to have the same username and database name.
I keep them the same just for simplicity.
So I put that in there and I usually like to generate a password.
So I copy that information and put it right below here.
So these are the two things that I'm going to need to finish installing my WordPress website.
As those two, I'll say close.
I have a kind of a password saver, so sometimes the stuff defaults back.
So when they go and just paste that back in and I say password and password again, asking for it again
just to confirm it and I'll say create user.
So I just create the database for me.
Now one last question is what privileges do I give this database?
In this case, I say all privileges.
That's going to keep it nice and simple.
And I'll say next step.
All set.
It's I'll return home.
All right.
So very last step we need to do is go to our domain name.
And in the next step, Amachi, how to connect your domain name and then test this out.