Once your hosting is set up sign into your account.
a. Under the area of My Products (or something to that effect), click on your hosting accounts.
b. This will take you to another page that shows your domain name and if your hosting plan is ready, you can click on Open and it will take you to your hosting panel.
c. Your control panel. If you did use Godaddy for your hosting plan, then click on the link that is located in the upper right corner that says “Go Daddy Hosting Connection”. If you have another web hosting company, look for something that may say “Fantastico De Luxe”. Here is the place where you can install your wordpress to your domain.
d. Places to put the blog: There are a few different ways to add a wordpress blog. This will give you an example of the different ways:
On the domain: www.yourdomainname.com
As a sub-domain: www.yourdomainname.com/blog
As an addon domain: www.blog.yourdomainname.com
I have mine set up on the domain since this is the only thing that I will use it for. Some people say that an addon domain is better if you are going to have a website.
On the domain: Just click the install and it will ask you which domain, click on that and for the “Install in directory” leave this blank. The admin access data will be your user name and password, Then go through all the rest of the steps. My wordpress blog was set up within an hour or so and I received an e-mail for when it was ready.
As a sub-domain: If you want to have it like that, you need to put in the “Install in directory” the name you want example: blog, my blog etc… This will then create the directory for it. You do not need to create it.
As an Addon Domain: You need to first set up the addon domain before you can install wordpress. In your control panel, create an addon domain, Whatever you name this it will be where you put your blog. So if you call the addon domain blog then the above will be the URL for it (blog.yourdomainname.com). It may take a any where from 30 minutes to a few hours for the system to set this up.
Once you have the wordpress installed on your domain. You will get an email with the login information (or you may have to use the one you created when you installed it).
Part 3 – will explain how to easily move your blog contents from wordpress.com to your new blog at your web hosting service.
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