WordPress Installation
By: Md. Alamgir
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WordPress (WP, WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP[4] and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes. WordPress was originally created as a blog-publishing system but has evolved to support other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, membership sites, learning management systems (LMS) and online stores. WordPress is used by more than 60 million websites,[5] including 33.6% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2019,[6][7] WordPress is one of the most popular content management system solutions in use.[8] WordPress has also been used for other application domains such as pervasive display systems (PDS).[9]

Before installing WordPress, you need to check that your web hosting provider fulfills the necessary software and conditions. Also, you must have access method to the server and some tools.

Requirements on the server side

PHP 7.3 or greater

MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.1 or greater

For a list of detail requirements on your web host, refer the official requirement page.

Requirements on local

Login Account (user id and password) to the server via FTP or shell

Text Editor

FTP

Your web browser of choice

You will need to know how to use a text editor to edit the main configuration file. If you are a Windows user, Notepad will do. If you’re an OS X user you can use TextEdit. Later, you will likely want to edit your Template Files (see Templates for some references). You can do this through the WordPress Administration Screens, but using a good text editor is highly recommended. For more information on this, see Editing Files.

You will need to be able to use an FTP program to upload files and set file permissions (optional). You could choose Filezilla for this task.

Now you are all set to go on

Basic Instructions #Basic Instructions

Here’s the quick version of the instructions for those who are already comfortable with performing such installations. More detailed instructions follow.

Download and unzip the WordPress package if you haven’t already.

Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL (or MariaDB) user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.

(Optional) Find and rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, then edit the file (see Editing wp-config.php) and add your database information.

Note: If you are not comfortable with renaming files, step 3 is optional and you can skip it as the install program will create the wp-config.php file for you.

Upload the WordPress files to 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 (excluding the WordPress directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.

If you want to have your WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your website (e.g. http://example.com/blog/), create the blog directory on your server and upload the contents of the unzipped WordPress package to the directory via FTP.

Note: If your FTP client has an option to convert file names to lower case, make sure it’s disabled.

Run the WordPress installation script by accessing the URL in a web browser. This should be the URL where you uploaded the WordPress files.

If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/

If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://example.com/blog/

That’s it! WordPress should now be installed.