First 15 steps to setup your wp blog

**pmolds** · 01-30-2010, 10:48 AM

Step 1: FTP to my account and upload WordPress.

Step 2: Login to CPanel and create the mySQL database.

Step 3: Upload my plugins

Step 4: Upload my themes

Step 5: Edit the WordPress config file with my database info.

Step 6: Install WordPress

Step 7: Login to WordPress

Step 8: Activate my plugins

Step 9: Choose my theme

Step 10: Delete the first post

Step 11: FTP and change permissions on .htaccess file

Step 12: Set the WordPress permalink structure

Step 13: Change default category name

Step 14: Update ping list

Step 15: Update other various settings

Overall, this took about 10 - 20 minutes.

How do you think?

**chrishirst** · 01-30-2010, 10:51 AM

Quote:

How do you think?

Personally I use my brain!

**dWhite** · 01-30-2010, 10:56 AM

http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

**chrishirst** · 01-30-2010, 12:37 PM

the rope just ran out!!

**Robertpatrick** · 02-04-2010, 05:19 AM

Its not necessary to follow all these steps to set up a blog, you can get it in only very little and easy to understand steps. I think Chris has the correct answer for this.