Welcome to Easy Org Sites’ WordPress as CMS installation section. Ahead we will explain how to setup your own Content Management System website using the powerful WordPress platform.
We will assume that you already know a few things such as FTP, Chmod, MySQL database creation, PHP, and HTML. While the administration and maintenance of your CMS site will be quite easy we cannot unfortunately make this claim for the installation. We cannot also give detailed WordPress as CMS instructions for newbies in web design. Such intructions would be voluminous. If you need help with any aspect of the installation please refer to the WordPress Support Forum for answers.
If you are relatively new to WordPress and PHP the process of setting up your own CMS website will probably take a full day. If you are a WordPress “pro” then plan on 3 to 5 hours depending upon the features and hacking you may want to implement.
Let’s get started with the WordPress as CMS installation process step-by-step.
You may want to view our videos on the install process by clicking on the links just below. These video tutorials are not complete yet however.
Video #1 - How to install WordPress as a CMS (Part 1)
Text instructions:
- Go to the WordPress home page and download the latest version of WordPress to your computer. (currently it is 2.7) Unzip the files.
- Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it. Ensure that you record all codes concerning the creation of your WordPress as CMS for future reference!
- Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.
- Open wp-config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details.
- Place the WordPress files in the desired location on your web server:
- If you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g. http://example.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (but excluding the directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.
- If you want to have your WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. http://example.com/blog/), rename the directory wordpress to the name you’d like the subdirectory to have and move or upload it to your web server. For example if you want the WordPress installation in a subdirectory called “blog”, you should rename the directory called “wordpress” to “blog” and upload it to the root directory of your web server.
- Run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in your favorite web browser.
- If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php
- If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php
- That’s it! WordPress should now be installed.