{"id":312,"date":"2017-02-19T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T08:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=312"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:42:27","slug":"how-to-install-wordpress-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-install-wordpress-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install WordPress in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is an open source website creation tool written in PHP. It\u2019s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today.<\/p>\n<p>ChemiCloud\u2019s infrastructure\u00a0supports WordPress out of the box.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-to-install-wordpress-in-cpanel\">How to install WordPress in cPanel<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-login-cpanel-whm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Login into your cPanel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> Scroll down to the <strong>Softaculours Apps Installer<\/strong>\u00a0section and click on the <strong>WordPress<\/strong> logo. This will open a screen with several options, \u00a0click on the <strong>Install Now<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1301\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Softaculours-Apps-Installer-WordPress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1301\" src=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Softaculours-Apps-Installer-WordPress-1024x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cPanel &gt; Softaculours Apps Installer &gt; WordPress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong>\u00a0Now it\u2019s time to choose a protocol for your WordPress site.<\/p>\n<p>If you already <a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/how-to-install-lets-encrypt-ssl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">installed a Free Let&#8217;s Encrypt SSL<\/a>, then you would use HTTPS. If your site doesn&#8217;t use an SSL, then HTTP protocol will be just fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> Next, you will need to fill out the details of your WordPress installation:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Software Setup<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Choose the domain: <\/strong>Select the domain name\u00a0you wish to install WordPress for<\/li>\n<li><strong>Directory<\/strong> field: you can specify the root folder for a WordPress installation. By default, this field is empty, and it allows installing WordPress on your domain.com directly. If you wish to install it to a subfolder, like yourdomain.com\/blog, simply type &#8220;blog&#8221; in this field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Site Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Site Name:\u00a0<\/strong>Type in the title of your website which will appear in any search engine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Site Description:\u00a0<\/strong>Type in the description of your website, will also appear in any search engine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enable Multisite (WPMU):\u00a0<\/strong>This feature will Enable WordPress Multisite option for your WordPress blog.\u00a0WordPress includes the ability to create a\u00a0network\u00a0of\u00a0sites\u00a0by using the\u00a0multisite\u00a0feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Admin Account<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this area, you will need to enter the login details that you&#8217;d like to use for your WordPress admin panel. Please make sure to use a strong password and a personal email address to which you have access.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advanced Options<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We advise you to leave the advanced options that are configured by default for the database.<\/p>\n<p>From this area, you will be able to enable auto updates for your WordPress version, theme and plugins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)<\/strong>\u00a0When ready, scroll down and hit the\u00a0<strong>Install\u00a0<\/strong>button.<\/p>\n<p>In a few moments, you will see the message that WordPress has been successfully installed.<\/p>\n<p>You can now go ahead and log into your WordPress Dashboard to start working on your website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s it! Now you know how to install WordPress in cPanel, using Softaculous.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is an open source website creation tool written in PHP. It\u2019s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today. ChemiCloud\u2019s infrastructure\u00a0supports WordPress out of the box. How to install WordPress in cPanel 1)\u00a0Login into your cPanel. 2) Scroll down to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[40],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-312","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/312\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}