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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Setting up your website - Working with CMS - Part 3

Uploading Wordpress for your website

Start with Part 1. For the Host, either type in your domain IP or just your domain name. For Username & Password, use the ones that you use to access the hosting or control panel (CPanel) After you add your details, click on "Quickconnect" Once you do that, you will see files populating in Part 3, which means we are now remotely connected to the server via FTP. You will see a list of directories in Part 3 of the Filezilla, we will only concern ourselves with a directory named "Public_html", any content within this directory will be seen live on your website.

Locate your Wordpress setup folder from Part 2 and click on that folder. You will see a list of all the folders within the wordpress setup folder in Part 2. Select all the files & folders from the Wordpress folder (including wp-admin folder) and "drag & drop" them inside the Public_html folder. The file transfer will now start. Which means, wordpress is now being uploaded.

While the transfer is in progress, lets create a database in the CPanel. A database is where Wordpress stores content of your website, including posts, pages, comments, etc

Creating a database for your website

A database is where Wordpress will store data of your website, including images, videos, text files, etc. Start by logging in to your CPanel and look for Databases. Click on MySQL database. Under create new database, Give your database a name.





You want to give this database a friendly name so its recognisable & in future if you have more than one database, its easier to locate your website database.

Now you have the database. Next you need a "User" To create a new user, simply click on New user, assign a username and password. When you are done, come back to the Mydatabase home page.




The next step is assigning "User" to this database. Assigning user (in this case Wordpress) means you are giving privileges (to Wordpress) to modify & manage this database.



To create a new user, you need a give that user a name & choose the database you just created from the drop-down list and click "Add"

The last step in setting up your CMS is to add privileges to your assigned user. To do this, right after assigning the user to a database, you would be driven to the privileges page.


Click on All privileges and then "Make changes" once you see the success message, go back to your database view. Make note of your username, password & database name as this information will be used to connect your database to Wordpress.

Go back to Filezilla to see if the Wordpress upload is completed. If its done, delete the readme.html & licence files.

We will start installing Wordpress by typing in your domain name on the browser. You should see a page which looks something like the below picture.


Proceed after choosing your preferred language. Next you will see a notice which will specify the information you will need before proceeding. It would look something like this...


Follow the proceeding steps to complete a form which will ask for all the above information. Look back to your cPanel dashboard to fill that information without error.


Once you have added all the information correctly, click on submit. A success message will be displayed. Click on "Run the install".



Next you will be prompted to add credentials to your website on Wordpress. Fill in these details


The username and password you provide here will be used as the Admin login for your website. So ensure you have it written down somewhere. When done, click on install Wordpress.

Wordpress is now installed successfully for your website. Click on Login to start using your website with Wordpress.



This completes our 3 part series of Working with CMS for your website. If you wish to re-read the series to get a better picture of how its done, follow the below links.

  1. Working with CMS - Part 1
  2. Working with CMS - Part 2

I hope you enjoyed reading this series. Do leave your messages and doubts in the comments section on this blog. Alternatively you can also leave a message through the Contact form on this website.

Our next blog will be on Setting website visitor tracking with Google Analytics. Thanks for taking the time to read through this blog. Keep coming back for more digital dope.

Happy learning.

Mitul Shingadia

















Sunday, October 1, 2017

Setting up your website - Working with CMS - Part 2

Hello Readers,

Welcome to the second part of Setting up your website - Working with CMS. In my previous post i wrote about how to work with Fully managed Wordpress hosting. If you have missed it, you can check it out here. This post will talk about how you can get a CMS working for you if you do not have a managed wordpress hosting plan. This post will also be relevant to you if you are planning to manage the CMS all by yourself without any external help. So, lets get started.

To get started with installing your CMS, you will need 3 things.

  1. Wordpress installation file
  2. Zipping software
  3. FTP client (File Transfer Protocol)
Step 1 - Go to www.wordpress.org and click on the Download button to download the wordpress setup file.

The download should start immediately. It will be downloaded in a .zip format. Hence you need a zipping software like a Winrar which can help you extract these files. 

Step 2 - Get a zipping software on your system

If you do not have a zipping software, simply download Winzip or Winrar from the internet. My recommendation is, visit www.rarlab.com and click on downloads from the menu on the left hand side. A list of available zipping software should load. If you are using a 32 bit Operating system, pick the x86 version of the file, if you are using a 64 bit Operating system, pick the x64 version of the file. If you do not know the version of your OS, simply download the x86 version. Below is a screenshot for your reference.




Just click on the desired version of the Winrar file and let the download begin. Install the Winrar setup and run the setup. After this you should be able to open any zipped files on your system.

Step 3 - Setting up the FTP (File transfer Protocol) client

Next, you need an FTP which is used to transfer files from one host to another. Which means we will be transferring files from our computer to the web server. My recommendation for FTP software is filezilla. There are many out there, but Filezilla is free and is compatible with all OS. To download Filezilla, go to www.filezilla-project.org  and click on the download button. You will be redirected to sourceforge.com and the setup file will start downloading immediately.



Go ahead  and install Filezilla on your system.

Now that we have all that we need to install & run our CMS, we can get started with the installation. Its a good idea to check beforehand if the Hosting & the Domain are working in sync (propagated) To check that you can use online tools like whatsmydns.net Pick NS from the drop down and see if everything is green ticked on the right hand side result.


If you see a red cross, check with your domain service provider and resolve the issue.

Another way to check propagation is simply type your domain on the browser and if you see a page that looks like the below one, you are good to go.


Open up the Filezilla FTP client that you just downloaded. The interface will look something like this...


Filezilla essentially has 3 parts.

  1. Part 1 - Credentials tool bar
  2. Part 2 - Local file browser
  3. Part 3 - Remote file browser
Now that you have all you need to get started with setting up your CMS, i will guide you through a step by step process to setup Wordpress for your site, setting up a database for your website, setting users for your website and finally Going live with your website. All this and more in part 3 of the this blog series.

Stay tuned and leave your comments, views and doubts on this blog in the comments section. 

Keep coming back for more.

Happy learning.

Mitul Shingadia