How to create a WordPress website

Create a database

• Log into webpopular.net hosting. Don’t have hosting, get website hosting now.
• Click on your name in the top right menu, then select “Visit My Account”.
• Scroll to the section “Web Hosting” and click “Web Hosting”. Then click “Manage” for your host.
• Click “CPanel Login”.
• Click “MySQL Databases” in the “Databases” Section
• Create a name for the database and click create database
• Scroll to “Add New User” and fill in username and password for new user (remember this info) and then click “Create User”. Click “Go Back”.
• Scroll to “Add User To Database” and select user and database then click “Add”.
• Select all privileges and click “Make Changes”.

Create an FTP Account

• Log into webpopular.net hosting. Don’t have hosting, get website hosting now.
• Click on your name in the top right menu, then select “Visit My Account”.
• Scroll to the section “Web Hosting” and click “Web Hosting”. Then click “Manage” for your host.
• Click “CPanel Login”.
• Click “FTP Accounts”
• Choose name, the domain, and password and click “Create Account”
• Scroll down to “FTP Accounts” and find the created account and click “Configure FTP”, you’ll need this to connect FileZilla to your account.

Connect FTP

• Open FileZilla. If you don’t have it, download the FileZilla client.
• File -> Site Manager..
• Click “New Site”
• Input host is ftp server in configure settings above.
• Logon type is normal
• Username is username you created for account (without @hostname)
• Password is password you created.
• Click “Connect”

Upload WordPress

• Download latest WordPress.
• Once complete, unzip file and open folder containing WordPress download.
• Change filename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php in root of directory.
• Open file in VS Code.
• Edit DB_NAME to be what you named your newly created database
• Edit DB_USER to be what you named your newly created user
• Edit DB_PASSWORD to be what you gave your password for your newly created user.
• Leave DB_HOST as ‘localhost’.
• Visit this WordPress Salt Key Generator
• Copy all contents
• Go back to code and replace default salt.
• Save File.
• Now go to directory, highlight all files in “wordpress” folder and then drag all contents to the right panel of FileZilla.
• Now wait..

Upload a Theme

Once you’ve uploaded the site, you can now test your site by visiting your web address. Now you can use one of the themes provided or upload your own theme.

• First, download and unzip your theme’s files.
• In FileZilla, navigate to wp-content/themes in the right panel.
• Drag your theme’s folder into the wp-content/themes directory.
• Once uploaded, your theme will be available in themes section of WordPress