How to install WordPress | WordPress for beginners

Key Takeaways

after we've purchased the site groundplan we are redirected to the sod ground dashboard at my site ground comm here we will see various options having to do with our account as you can see as I'm scrolling down we're going to focus on the most important thing right now and that is to connect our domain to an actual installation so I'm going to go ahead and click on web sites and in the following screen you can see that there currently is not a web site in our account so the logical step is to add a web site so we want to click here at the bottom where it says create web site now the moment that I do this I am prompted with the next option and that is to choose the domain and that can be a new domain an existing domain or a temporary domain but since we have already purchased our domain we're going to click on existing domain and select that one you can see from the moment that I've clicked on existing domain we have the option to enter our name name here at the bottom so every day I'm traveling is the domain we said we're going to use so as we click on continue we're going to see that indeed the domain we wish to use is not registered at our site crown account so we have to make sure that in order to have access to this domain we will need to update its DNS settings after we have created the site we're going to pretend that this has already been done and we're going to click continue anyway now the next is where we can actually start creating a new website so start a new website is what we're going to select here and as I click select I am prompted with a bunch of applications to choose from obviously we're going to select the very first one the WordPress application so we select that one and we are immediately prompted with an extra input field to set up my wordpress login once i've entered both my email address and password the one i want to use for the administrator account for my wordpress site i will click continue and the last step of the adding a new website wizard presents me with the option to also install or activate a SiteGround site scanner on my account we're going to ignore that for now and just click finish now the next step is all happening behind the screens and psych round is actually creating a fully installed WordPress installation for us once site ground site installer has finished we can click on websites menu tab again and then we can see here that every day I'm traveling calm is indeed connected to our hosting account it displays the WordPress logo so that means we have a wordpress installation ready at every day I'm traveling calm so the next thing we're going to do is click on the button here at the right where it says WordPress kit once I click that I am presented with a bunch of tools that we can use our first job is to jump into the WordPress admin itself so that's what we're going to do we're going to enter our login credentials that we've created in an earlier step from the moment we have started the login process we are taking to a next wizard and that wizard is called the wordpress starter and it will guide us through a few steps to welcome us to our WordPress website so we're just going to click start now at the bottom and we can choose different types of themes we're not going to do that we're going to stay with the default in this case 2017 theme and the next step is us clicking on continue at the very bottom once I click continue I am presented with a few other options I can select the contact form I can select a sharp plug-in if I need it or a few other ones I'm going to ignore what the other options are here and basically just hit continue and only select the contact form as you can see and the next step is probably the most important one because here you have the option to optimize for SEO so we're going to select that one we're going to hit complete and the installation is now in progress meaning our WordPress installation is going to be prepared by the options we have selected in the past three steps it's installing the theme it's importing some sample data and congratulations our site is ready so we have successfully completed the installations of everything that we selected and the next step we're going to do is go to our dashboard now this isn't the default dashboard this is a specialized dashboard created by site ground so your actual dashboard will look different I'm just going to scroll down and see what's here and I'm going to check a one specific menu item here where it says SG optimizer which stands for site ground optimizer we're going to click on that and see what type of options we have here now the most important one for now is the environment optimization because we do want to make use of HTTPS that is a more secure way of serving your website to visitors this will force HCBS that is exactly what we want so we're going to hit confirm and now HTTP is available next step is go back to the dashboard and for that we need to log in once more and now we're done