Own site is always nice. You can, of course, order its creation and design by specialists, and it will turn out very beautifully and meaningfully. But what if you want to go through all the difficulties of creativity yourself in order to get exactly the kind of resource that it seems to be in your output.
What you need to have to create your site
For full functionality you will need three important components:
- platform for the site;
- Domain name;
- web hosting.
It’s worth mentioning right away that the second and third points can be both paid and free, depending on the needs.
As for the platform, or in other words CMS, their choice is gorgeous. But perhaps the main advantage is that almost all the "engines" are free. And as an example, it is worth considering how to install WordPress, as it is today one of the most popular.
Preparing to install CMS
So, first of all, you need to download the current version of WordPress, since the original distribution kit can be easily found on the Internet (including on the official website). The downloaded archive must be unpacked on your computer.
Next, before installing WordPress on hosting, you should consider in detail what hosting and domain are.
Hosting In fact, this is a virtual service that provides the ability to host files (including the whole site) on a permanent server. The IP address of the server is permanent, so you should not worry about the site disappearing unexpectedly. This service is in most cases paid, with the ability to subscribe for several months or several years. In this regard, if you do not know how to install WordPress-reg.ru, the best solution, since this company is distinguished by the high quality of the services provided and the reliability of access to the created resource.
Domain This is the so-called site name, or rather, its address. The domain name is already attached to the hosting at the initial stages. Practice shows that companies that provide a range of hosting services on the Web immediately offer a domain purchase. And often this choice is financially advantageous. Domain binding to hosting is carried out through special DNS servers, which are optimized for well-coordinated and uninterrupted operation.
Install WordPress on hosting
Well, the domain and hosting are selected and tied - it's time to move on to installing the engine. The first step is to know where to install WordPress, and a special file manager helps with this. It is located on an FTP server (issued immediately after hosting is acquired by the site owner). The best examples available to most computer users are Total Commander and FileZilla. It is necessary in this manager to open the server root folder (usually this is www or Public_HTML).
The next step is to create and connect the site database. It is executed using the publicly available MySQL tool, which is the most popular in the site building environment. Its advantages are its excellent interaction with the PHP programming language (this language has been successfully used to create and process web pages).
When setting up the database, you only need to enter the name of the database, create a user account and enter the Administrator data (login and password).
And the last step, ending, so to speak, the chord of how to install WordPress, is its direct installation. To do this, enter the address http://www.Mysite.ru/wp-admin/install.php in the browser, where Mysite is the name of the site that was already invented.
Done - the site has been created, and you can begin to configure it.
Install WordPress on a computer
Actually, you can create your site on the selected engine not only through hosting. Below we will talk about how to install WordPress on a computer to create a local site.
To achieve this goal, you will need:
- a computer;
- local server
- CMS
The platform can be downloaded on the official resource on the Internet, the computer must be above average (from 4 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard disk, 4-core processor), but special programs can be used as a local server.
Local hosting Denwer
This program is one of the leaders in the field of local site building, as it is unpretentious in operation and intuitive to manage. To configure it, you will need to go through several steps:
- Download and install Denwer
- creation and configuration of the base;
- Install CMS on a PC and configure it.
So, you should start by downloading the hosting and installing it on your PC. To do this, go to the official website of the program and enter your e-mail, after which available links to download content will come. After downloading, you need to run the installation shortcut, and in just a few minutes the software will be installed.
The next stage is launching the hosting and transferring the engine to it. To do this, go to the home folder, which is located in the root directory of the installed hosting, and create a folder in it with the name of the site being created (for example, Mysite). Inside it, you need to create another folder called www, where the WordPress distribution will be unpacked.
Next, you need to create a database, as well as a user who will act as an administrator. This is a fairly simple procedure, but without it you won’t be able to fully learn how to properly install WordPress.
Configure wp-config file
To continue the installation, you should configure the wp-config file, which is responsible for the basic settings of the site and its performance. You need to find it in the folder with the engine files and run it through a text editor (notepad or Notepad ++).
Here the data on the database name (DB_NAME), username and password (DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD) is corrected.
Important! It is advisable to fill out the config file with latin letters, in order to avoid recognition and compatibility problems.
After entering all the necessary data, the wp-config file should be saved and closed. For the changes to take effect, Denwer restarts and the browser opens.
The site name is entered in the address bar of the browser, and if all the settings are correct, an installation window will open, in which it will be clear how to install WordPress.
After you do all this, save the wp-config file. We restart Denver and the browser, after which we enter the address of our site in the address bar. As a result, the WordPress installation window should open.
WordPress primary settings
The CMS installation window should open if the correct settings were made in the previous paragraph. To start the process, you must enter the Administrator login and password, add an email address and click the "Install" or "Install" button.
You must pass authorization before installing WordPress on a local computer. After the installation is complete, you can proceed to the initial settings of the platform itself, after restarting Denwer.
For information! In order for the Russian language to be displayed normally, you need to check what encoding the database has. For Russian letters and characters, the default is UTF-8.
Now it’s worth checking to see if you can access the WordPress admin dashboard. To do this, enter the following line in the address bar of the browser: http://www.Mysite.ru (name of the created site) / wp-admin.
Now you can customize the site for yourself - create headers, homepage, widgets, menus, and much more.
Customize the look of your site on WordPress
After the technical part is completed and the site is ready for use, you can begin to visualize it. There are a lot of templates, but to figure out how to install a WordPress theme, you need to follow these steps in sequence:
- find a suitable (thematic) template;
- install it in the site folder;
- Customize the theme’s work directly on the site
There are a lot of topics on the Internet both on the official WordPress website and on third-party resources. And almost all of them are free. This is great, but it’s quite problematic to choose the template appropriate to the site’s theme, and everyone’s requests are different. Therefore, you can go the more complicated way, and after downloading the template, rewrite its source code for yourself and your wishes using PHP. But this is true if you have skills in working with programming languages. If not, then you can order a ready-made template, since there are a lot of specialists of this profile on the Web.
Ways to Install WordPress Themes
It’s not a lot of work to figure out how to install a WordPress theme. If the site is located on a shared hosting, then just go to the “Design” - “Themes” menu through the control panel (admin panel) and look at existing templates there. If they are not needed, then they can be deleted, and to add a new one you should use the search or catalog existing on the Internet. Then just add to your site.
If the theme is downloaded separately to the PC, it can be downloaded directly to the CMS directory. To do this, open (via the file manager of the hosting) the wp-content / themes folder, and manually copy the files of the theme you like there. This is the first way. Well, you can also in the control panel (where there are themes) click the active button "Download file" and in the same way download the template. Then proceed to its settings and optimization for your resource.
There is another important point here when the site is installed on the local PC. For this case, only the option with manual download of templates is relevant, since the site does not have direct access to the Network.
Thus, creating your own website, blog, or just a local page using WordPress CMS is not at all difficult. Moreover, the management of this platform is so simple that even a novice site builder can deal with it.
And of course, the Internet will help to obtain the missing knowledge and the required program codes.