Oh, this is Rob coming here today we're going to do something amazing. We're going to install WordPress manually on a host. It's very easy. It's free, you only need to pay for the host and the domain name. So let's get going. Here we are on cPanel.

And I want you to look for my SQL or my SQL databases. Because there are three or four things you need to do in order to install WordPress manually. And it's very easy. You have to create a my SQL or MySQL database, a username and password and add the user to the database. That's all you need to do. And WordPress will do the rest.

So here we are on the cPanel and we're looking for databases. And here we have database tools. And remember we're looking for My SQL was the my SQL wizard here, and my SQL databases, I'm going to click on my SQL databases. and here we can clearly see how we can create a new database, you simply put a name in there, and click CREATE DATABASE. But remember, you've got to keep a record of all of this. So let's put in a name.

And again, this information is extremely sensitive. So really be careful with it. Now have a look there, there is a prefix to this database, you need to copy that as well, because the name of this new database will be this prefix followed by the name we've given it. So I've copied that and I'm going to click CREATE DATABASE. Okay, that's all done and there's the name of the database there. So we'll go back.

Now we need to create a user with a password. And here, I'm going to paste in a password that has upper and lowercase and numbers in it. And it's very strong, which is good. So now I'm ready to create that user. And I have copied down the password and the username with the graphics, create a user. So we've created that user, we go back.

One more thing to do add user to database. There's the user. There's the database, add all privileges, make changes. And now we've done it. That's all we need to do on the my SQL databases section of the cPanel. But now we need to download WordPress files and upload them to the server.

So we go to wordpress.org. And here you will find lots of useful information. themes repository or repo, the plugins, repository or repo support. Absolutely amazing support forums, as long as you are detailed with your explanation for the issue you're having, then it's fantastic that we're just going to download the software now. And it's eight Meg. So we're going to download the most recent version of WordPress.

Okay, so WordPress has finished downloading. This is the file we get it's WordPress hyphen, four dot five dot zip. And that will be if you're watching this video later on it may be WordPress 4.5, point five dot zip or something like that. But don't worry, it's all the same. We open that zip and that's double click on a Mac, you might have to right click and open or extract on a PC. And in WordPress here, you'll see the files we've seen them before.

In another video, they are WP content WP includes WP admin folders and a lot of PHP files starting with WP hyphen, also index dot php file. Now all of this needs to go up on to the folder where your host is. And to do that, we need to go back onto cPanel. And on cPanel, we need to look for File Manager. And there it is under files. Now what you can do is go into FTP manager and set up an FTP account which then you may access via an FTP client such as file Zilla.

Now, if you're uploading a lot of files a lot of times then that's quite a good idea. To do that it's a little bit quicker, and it means you don't have to go into cPanel all the time to upload and download files to your website. However, we're probably only going to be Doing this the one time and after this point WordPress will handle or file uploads and downloads for us. So I'm going to do it via File Manager. And here is the file manager that you will see for your website. It will probably be quite similar, although you won't see exactly the same folders.

But usually, the files of your website can be found in public underscore HTML. Sometimes it's called HTML Docs or something like that. If you go in there, you will then see the files of your website and if you have WordPress installed, you'll see those file folders, those three folders that we talked about and other those other files as well. Now, that's because we already have WordPress installed on this particular server. But the add on domain we have we want to add WordPress to is This folder. So if we go into there double click, you'll see the default files that go to make up this holding page that Bluehost is put there.

So what we need to do is put WordPress there. So let's go upload and choose file. Now unfortunately, we can only choose one file at a time if we do it like that. So we're going to choose the WordPress zip which is only one file and upload that. Okay, now it says the WordPress tip has completed just over eight megabytes there. So we'll go back and there is the WordPress dip.

It's not much good to us because we need it to be unzipped or extracted. So with that selected, I'll click here extract and we'll extract files into that folder. And there's all the files it needs to extract. So only need to wait a minute or so and we'll click reload. And there you can see there's a new folder called WordPress in the directory. And that's no good to assign that because we need the files on the root of the directory that we're using for the domain.

So we need to go inside WordPress, select all the files there and put them back one level into that folder. So we'll click on the plus next to public HTML. And we'll drag all of that having selected all into the folder where we put the files for our domain. So we'll click back on that folder there. And now we have all the WordPress files and we're ready to install WordPress. We're just going to delete that empty folder there.

Keep things tidy. We can either click on a folder and click Delete here or you can actually right click and delete there. We also have that zip file that we don't need either. And when I'm about it, I might as well delete all those Bluehost files that were there as well. So now we've done all that, all we need to do is go to Sam Alvarez comm our domain where we have created the my SQL database, the user and uploaded the WordPress files and click Refresh. And it's automatically gone to the WordPress setup configuration tool.

So we're on the right lines. We'll choose English as our language and continue and it's reminding us there that we need the database name, username, password host and the table prefix. I'll talk about the table prefix. Later, but it's not important. Let's just click Let's go. Okay, so remember we copied our name, username and password when we were setting up the my SQL databases in the cPanel.

Okay, now you can change your table prefixes here. And that adds a little bit of extra security if you do that. Now, the database host usually is localhost. We don't know if it is this time. If not, then you should be able to get this info from your host. So let's try looking good.

So let's run the install. Great. This is working. So site title, as I explained earlier, we can change this later. username and password. This is really important.

You need to write these down copy these and the username needs to be hard to remember name and your email Really important that you add an email that you check very often there. And I'll be changing that for the clients email at a later date. So let's install WordPress. So there we go WordPress is installed, let's log into the back end and we'll enter the username and password that we just copied there. So here we are again in the back end. And if we go to the front end, the homepage of the site, there is the WordPress simple install with a simple theme that we saw last time.

So very important. It's not difficult to do it this way. And I would advise you to install WordPress this way manually overdoing a one click install, but if you do a one click install, no need to worry, but this lecture would have helped you a little bit in understanding the back end of WordPress. We're ready to get going now and start creating publishing editing websites with WordPress. My name is Rob coven. I'll see you in the next video.