5 Minute
Blog Setup
Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................... 4
Installing WordPress with cPanel & Fantastico......................................... 5
cPanel? Fantastico? What?.................................................................. 5
Installing it Manually........................................................................... 6
Using Fantastico.................................................................................. 7
Basic Setup........................................................................................... 10
Theme Installation............................................................................. 12
Plugin Installation.............................................................................. 13
Making Posts and Pages........................................................................ 15
Important Notes............................................................................... 16
Creating Pages.................................................................................. 16
Get More WordPress Help.................................................................... 17
Many people don’t want to work with WordPress, because they
are afraid it will be too complex and technical to install and work with.
That’s just not true! It’s actually a LOT easier than you think!
In fact, you can have WordPress installed, set up, and ready
to go in just 5 minutes or less. Even after installing plugins, themes, and everything,
you may even have a minute or two left!
In this report, you’re going to learn how to install
WordPress very quickly. You will also learn how to install themes, configure
important options, and much more.
Don’t feel like you have to be a tech whiz to do this.
Believe me, if you can browse the Internet and send email, you can learn how to
do this. It’s really not a big deal, and you have nothing to fear!
So let’s get started.
The fastest way to install WordPress is to use Fantastico
that is included with some installations of cPanel. Not all hosting companies
have this plugin for cPanel which makes life so much easier, so you should
check to see if it is available with your current hosting company.
If not, you might sign up for another hosting company just
to host your WordPress blogs. Many people use http://www.HostGator.com
for this. You can get your first month of their Baby Croc plan (less than $10
per month) for just a penny if you enter the coupon code “wordpress”.
cPanel? Fantastico? What?
When you sign up for hosting, your hosting company will give
you a URL to go to so you can manage your site. This is called a control panel,
and one particular brand of this is called cPanel. If you didn’t have a control
panel you would have to do it all from something that looks like this:
Personally, I’d rather have a web interface than to try to
figure out how to do it through a command line interface. While it is indeed
possible, it wouldn’t make for a very good 5 minute blog setup.
Fantastico is a plugin for cPanel that will help you
install, uninstall, and manage software that you could otherwise install on
your own or manually.
If you use Fantastico, it will take all of the headache out
of installing everything by yourself. It only asks you the information that you
need to supply immediately and then it will perform its magic leaving you with
a very configurable WordPress installation.
Installing it Manually
So you want to install it manually instead of letting the
server do it all for you, this is certainly your prerogative. Instead of
detailing the complete setup process for a manual installation in this report,
you will find it on WordPress.org:
The instructions on the page are thoroughly detailed, but be
careful: they are not for the average user. This is for someone who wants to
have full control over the entire process.
Using Fantastico
When you log into cPanel, you’ll notice you have two columns
of boxes. The left column is informational, and the right column (the column
that is larger in width) are sets of programs for you to access.
Currently, in the BabyCroc package, you’ll have these sets
on the right:
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Special Offers
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HostGator Links
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Preferences
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Mail
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools
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Files
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Logs
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Security
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Domains
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Databases
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Software/Services
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Advanced
The box that you will want on the right is the one-labeled
“Software/Services”. Inside this box near the end, you will find the Fantastico
De Luxe icon with a bunch of other icons:
Click this icon, which will bring you to the Fantastico page
on your server. Then from here, you’ll want to click “WordPress” in the menu on
the left, underneath the “Blogs” category.
In the main window, you will see “New Installation”. Click
that link.
Now you will see the first WordPress setup page. You will
see the details for your blog setup. Use the pull down menu at the top to
choose the domain you wish to install WordPress on.
Fill out everything as shown in the screenshot:
After you click “Install WordPress” it will ask for
confirmation and then install it. After the installation is completed, you will
have the option to send the installation details to one of your email
addresses.
After you have installed your blog, you need to configure
it. You will want to go to:
And this will get you to the WordPress admin page for your
blog, otherwise known as the Dashboard. This is also set up with multiple columns;
the left-most column on this page is the main menu:
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Dashboard
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Posts
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Media
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Links
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Pages
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Comments
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Appearance
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Plugins
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Users
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Tools
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Settings
You’ll want to click “Settings” and make sure all of the
information is correct.
Permalinks
Permalinks are the way the URLs are configured for your
blog. It is important to change this, as the default permalinks setting is not
very search engine friendly. This means you could have trouble ranking well in
the search engines if you leave the default setting.
To change your permalinks setting, click “Permalinks” under
the “Settings” section. It should be set to “Default” on a new installation,
which would make your permalinks look like this:
Locate the “Custom Structure” area. Click the circle beside
“Custom Structure” to enable custom permalinks, and enter the following in the
box to the right:
%category%/%postname%
It should look like this:
This will make your URLs more search engine friendly,
looking like this:
Theme Installation
Click “Appearance” in your WordPress’s Dashboard and the
first option you’ll be given is to manage your themes:
Click the “Install Themes” tab found at the top of the page
and you can then search for themes that you want to install. For example, if
you searched for “black”, you would find all of the themes that had “black” as
a keyword.
The themes will be presented in a gallery format, each with
two links under a screenshot and the theme name: Install and Preview.
If you click “Install”, a popup will appear and have the
“Install Now” button on the bottom right of the popup. After clicking “Install
Now”, it will give you three choices; you can choose to preview the theme,
activate it, or return to the theme installer:
Plugin Installation
Plugins install just like themes; instead of clicking
appearance, you would click “Plugins” also found on the main menu of your
dashboard. After clicking “Plugins”, it will expand and the link to add new
plugins will be there.
The right side of the page will have a list of plugins
already installed where you can activate or deactivate them. Just because you
install a plugin, it doesn’t mean it’s already activated.
You are also not limited to the “plugins” that you see
listed.
One of the reasons WordPress is so incredibly popular is
because of the extremely advanced professional “plugins” made available all
over the web by crack developers looking to make a name for themselves, as
solution solvers or selling specialized plugins for a living.
One plugin that we have discovered, and we highly recommend,
for you to check-out, is the Awesome Slider.
This is a plugin for grabbing the email addresses from visitors to your
WordPress Blogs like an electromagnet and it’s totally free!
Another, incredibly powerful plugin we recommend for online
entrepreneurs will completely manage sales and memberships by automatically,
collecting payments, delivering products and services, and more, all on autopilot.
It’s called WP Sales Buddy
and combined with WordPress it is by far the simplest and fastest way to set-up
an e-commerce system on the web and start making residual income online, that we
have found.
Making a post in WordPress is really easy and you can get
started right away.
When you click on the “Posts” link from the main menu, you
can select “Add New” and you’ll see the view above. If you’ve used many text
editors before on websites then you pretty much know what you’re looking at on
this page.
When you’re done putting in a title and the text for your
post, you can select “Publish” and your post will be immediately viewable by
all who are visiting your site.
Important Notes
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You can also add categories “on the fly” by
clicking the link “Add New Category”.
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You can assign as many categories as you want to
the post.
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Instead of publishing immediately, you can
schedule your post by clicking the “Edit” link after “Publish Immediately”.
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You can set the visibility of your posts to who
you want to see it, i.e., public, password protected, and private.
Creating Pages
A page is basically a “super post”; it’s a post that takes
an entire page and is linked to the front page of your blog. This is accessed
by clicking “Pages” and then “Add New”.
If you want more help with WordPress, including everything
you need to know to become a true WordPress master, check out
You will find tutorials that will show you step-by-step how
to:
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Install WordPress
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Configure important settings
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Use the WordPress Dashboard
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Create posts and pages
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Optimize your blog for search engines
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Use widgets of all types
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Use plugins properly
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Add gravatars to comments
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Control spam
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Add contact forms
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Add images, video, and other media to posts
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And much, much more!
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