Installing WordPress Automatically using cPanel (The Easy Way)

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Video Transcript

So far, we’ve covered WordPress installation using a couple of different manual methods, FTP and the file manager within our cPanel’s control panel.
This class is going to show you how to use what’s commonly called the one click install method and yeah, it does take a few more mouse clicks in just one, but using these quick install applications are the fastest ways to install WordPress on your domain.

Even though it is pretty easy to use. There are still a couple of things to be aware of whenever installing WordPress this way. So go ahead and log into your c panel control panel, which I’ve already done here and scroll down until you see the title of these various sections, the software or applications right here we are. Now if yours looks a little different than this, don’t worry about it. You just have a different version of c panel or your version of c panel has different application installers.

Mine only has Softaculous. Yours might have Softaculous and other ones or instead of Softaculous you might have Installatron or one of the other quick install applications. In either case. Go ahead and pick one, click on it and open it up and go ahead and click on WordPress. We got a lot of information up here that you can go through to learn more about the application. Right now we’re just going to stick with the installation process, so click on install and if you have this dropdown here where you can select from different versions of WordPress, my suggestion is that unless you have strong reasons, otherwise, pick the highest number, pick the most recent stable version and as far as the protocol, again, unless you have a strong enough reason not to select the https, and my suggestion is leave off the www. Just the https is what you want.
If you’ve got multiple domains on your hosting account, select the one you want to install WordPress on, and if you want WordPress to be installed on your root directory here and not on a sub directory, then delete what they have in there. Otherwise you’d have to type in your domain name slash WP to get to your WordPress installation. Now, there are reasons why you might want to do something like this. Maybe you want a separate WordPress installation on a membership subdirectory in which case you would type in the word membership here and for somebody to gain access to that WordPress installation, they have to type in your domain name slash membership and that would be a totally different separate WordPress installation than if you were to also have one just in your domain name. I’ll let that sink in a little bit for you, but that’s the makings of an entirely different set of videos.

Now, as it says here, if you are going to install WordPress on a sub directory, that sub directory should not exist. WordPress, we’ll create that for you. Just type in the name that you want here. Again, WordPress, we’ll create it automatically for you, but I’m going to leave that blank scrolling on down the site name and site description. You can add it here or change it here or not because there’s a spot inside of your admin area of your WordPress installation after it’s already installed. We can do this there as well, so this is not etched in stone. It can always be changed later from within your WordPress site. Now the admin account, this is important stuff. I would definitely suggest not to leave this in the default settings. Now there are security reasons why you might want to do that but that also is the makings of a different class altogether so I would go ahead and change this to a secure username and change this to a secure password and change this to a functioning email address because all the stuff related to this site is going to be sent to this email address.

Now your email address can be changed later on but I would go ahead if you can go ahead and pick a solid usable email address now and just leave it that way. I’m going to go out and open up my text document that we covered in a prior class.

Make this a little bit smaller and I’m going to use the same information. I’ve already deleted that WordPress installation from that prior class, but I’m going to use this as my email address and this as the Password and Clark Dashed K as my username language. Pretty self explanatory. And here you can actually have the installation process, install certain plugins and if you have knowledge about these different plugins then you can make your decision based on that or you can hover over the, I was stands for information I would imagine. And this little pop out gives you some details about that particular plugin.

So if you wanted, go ahead and check the box here. I’m gonna go ahead and have these installed. I don’t want WP central installed cause I actually have a different multiple WordPress management system set up. But if you wanted to, if you’ve got a lot of different WordPress sites installed and you want to manage them all under one house so to speak, check that box. But I’m going to leave that off. And then under advanced options you open that up. This is an important information. Now when it comes to upgrades or updates? Personally, and again this is just me personally, I leave this check so that nothing is automatically upgraded. I also leave this box unchecked so that I will get an email notification to that email address. I put in the box up top there that an update is available. Then I would log in to my side, see what updates are available and make adjustments at that point.

Usually I try to wait at least a few days before updating. Unless it’s a security update, then it’s an immediate update. I want those done immediately, but like with major upgrades or updates, I weighed a couple of days at least just to make sure that everything’s working on other people’s sites first because hey, if something’s going to break, I’d rather not be on my site, you know, and then after I get a good sense that the upgrade is working on other people’s sites, then I’ll come back in and update. But again, that’s me personally. You may choose to have everything done automatically. Totally up to you at least twice. I wanted to point out this is how you can make those adjustments. Backup location. I’m going to leave. That sets a default. If you’ve already got a backup system in, great than lead this set to don’t backup. If you do not have a backup system in place, then you want to make adjustments here.

So you do have backups. That’s the major thing. You need a backup, whether it’s using this or something else. That’s basically it. You can select a theme here now or you can select a theme later. Totally up to you. But at this point we’re ready to install and if there’s some kind of a problem, you’ll be notified that the installed did not take place because, and it’ll tell you otherwise, you’ll get a notice like this that everything went successfully. Then you’ll be either brought to the admin dashboard like we just were, or you will be prompted to log in. And that’s the end of this class on using one of the quick install applications to easily install press. Thanks for checking it out and you have a great day.