First Step - Sort your hosting The easiest blogging tool to set up on your site is WordPress. There are other devices that you can use, but this one is free and my preferred tool. So, before you even attempt to install it, you need to check your website hosting. You will need PHP enabled and access to a MySQL database. What if for some reason you cannot add PHP to your current website, for instance if you have an ASP website? Well, maybe your hosts can permit you to set up a subdomain of your website (e.g. blog.yourdomain.com) that you can use and give this the necessary PHP. Second Step - Install WordPress There are 2 methods of doing this: 1) Go to WordPress.org, download the most recent version of the blogging package to your computer, unzip the files then using an FTP tool, upload the files to a directory on your site - let's say either blog.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com/website. You will need to look at the config file before uploading it to your site. There is loads of information within this file itself, but you basically need to alter the database access to those given to you by your host. 2) If you are very lucky, go to your host's control panel and press a button to install WordPress! Third Step - Activate It Now, just go to your site URL and it will automatically activate the applications and finish the installation. You are automatically allocated a temporary password for the Admin user, use this to sign on to the weblog and then without delay, before you do anything else, go to the user maintenance screen and alter the password to one that you can remember. After this, there are particular standard security features and other quick alterations that you can make to set up WordPress to the best. You should also look through the list of available themes and find one that you would like to use for your website. These themes are the basic style of the site - the website design. Choosing a nice lookign theme will give it a good look and make it look presentable to traffic when they start to arrive. You can also have a look through the selection of pluggins that are on offer for WordPress. These are small add ins that you can install to your website to add additional features and functions, such as a statistics package or a selection of posts that are related to the one currently being read.
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Setting up a blog on your web site should only take a few minutes and the return can be hundreds of extra traffic. Here are the steps you need to know to set up a weblog on your own site.
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