BANS, cPanel and Wordpress Help!

[Zepia]

Ok so Far I just got an account on Hostgator (baby one) and I want to use a wordpress template for it, what it's the process to do this?

I logged in to my cPanel and man, it's very confusing for me, I don't know where to start!

Does anybody know how to do this? or where to find a tutorial where explains step by step how to do it?

Thanks!

Anybody?

 

[urbain]

well on the bottom part yu see fantastico just click on it and it will open new window,from that one click on wordpress then new installation,then leave the box blank if yu want it instal on root of yur server (like www.yourdomain.com),but if yu want it on subfolder (like www.yourdomain.com/blog) then enter *blog*(dont add the *) and continue.after install go to www.yurdomain.com or (/blog) to see yur blog.next just click login on right side and enter the user and pass yu enter while installing and login to wordpress admin,finish the setup of the blog from here.
good luck and good night

 

[Zepia]

well on the bottom part yu see fantastico just click on it and it will open new window,from that one click on wordpress then new installation,then leave the box blank if yu want it instal on root of yur server (like www.yourdomain.com),but if yu want it on subfolder (like www.yourdomain.com/blog) then enter *blog*(dont add the *) and continue.after install go to www.yurdomain.com or (/blog) to see yur blog.next just click login on right side and enter the user and pass yu enter while installing and login to wordpress admin,finish the setup of the blog from here.
good luck and good night

Thanks a lot!!

 

[Zona]

Once you have it installed you can begin to upload themes to your FTP site. Look for the wp-content folder and then the themes folder. Drop the theme files in there and you should be good to go.

 

[Zepia]

Once you have it installed you can begin to upload themes to your FTP site. Look for the wp-content folder and then the themes folder. Drop the theme files in there and you should be good to go.

Do the themes need to be zipped for them to work?

Once I go to that folder how do I upload the files directly into that folder?

It's Alive!!!


www.shopando.com

yay!

 

[James]

Do the themes need to be zipped for them to work?

Once I go to that folder how do I upload the files directly into that folder?

It's Alive!!!


www.shopando.com

yay!

They need to be unzipped. :]

 

[SeanPreston]

Try using SmartFTP, CuteFTP or Filezilla.

cheers
sean

 

[and5rey]

Check my WP install tutorial. You can install Wordpress easily in the CPanel using Fantastico.

 

[Zepia]

Thanks!

I got it to work last night!

www.shopando.com

don't pay attention to the theme, I just wanted to tr something quick!

 

[gjvblack]

Checked out your site, nice design, to add what they said above, if you use fantastico then everything is fine, if you installed manually, be careful on CHMOD and your site security. Any wordpress updates should be in fantastico, it will let you know when it is time for an update (in admin panel), goto fantastico and you will see something that says "the following has an update" then click update.

 

[Zepia]

Checked out your site, nice design, to add what they said above, if you use fantastico then everything is fine, if you installed manually, be careful on CHMOD and your site security. Any wordpress updates should be in fantastico, it will let you know when it is time for an update (in admin panel), goto fantastico and you will see something that says "the following has an update" then click update.

Thanks!

I been getting more familiar with cPanel now!