set up your wordpress website with free web hosting
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How to Set Up Your Wordpress.org Website
Using Free Web Hosting
By Natasha Riveraawesometasha.com
Sign up for the free webhosting plan on this link:
http://awesometasha.com/freewebhost
Choose the free web hosting
Fill out the details neededIf you do not have a domain name yet, choose – I will choose your free subdomain
Enter the domain name you want
Create your account
It will then create your account and take you to this page
Click on go to cpanel
This is the cpanel
Scroll down and under database, click on my sql
Put in your database, username and password for my sql
Click on create database
Your my sql database should appear here
Click on go back to go back to the cpanel
Now you need to download the wordpress files
Go to wordpress.org
Here is the wordpress.org website
Click on download wordpressRight now, version 4.4.1 is the newest update
Choose where you want to save your download
Look for your wordpress zip file and unzip it
Just right click on the file and choose extract or unzip
Here is our extracted wordpress file now
Now you will need filezilla to upload your wordpress files to your free web hosting
Go to: https://filezilla-project.org/
This is the filezilla website
Click on download filezilla client
After the download is done,Install filezilla on your pc
Here is filezilla on my taskbar
Here is what filezilla looks like when you open it
Go back to your cpanelAnd under files, choose ftp details
The details here are what you will put on filezilla
Go back to filezilla
Put in your ftp details here on filezillaLeave the port blank
Click on quick connect
It should say connected if you put in all the information correctly
Here is what filezilla would look likeThe files on the left are your filesThe files on the right are on your hosting
Double click the public_html folder on your hosting filesThat should open the folder
This is what it will look like when you have opened the public_html folder
Delete the sample php file
It’s now deleted here
To upload your wordpress files, you just need to drag the wordpress folder inside the public_html folder
This is what it will look like after dragging the file
Wait for the queued files to go to zeroThat means it’s finished uploading
The files are many so you might have to wait a little bit for the upload to finish
Yay! It’s done!
It should look like this
Now click on wordpress
You’ll see thisClick on wordpress againDon’t worry you’re almost done
You’ll see this. yay!Choose your language
It’ll take you hereClick on let’s go!Exciting right?
You’ll now see this page
Go back to your cpanelAnd click on my sql again
These are the details you need to put on wordpress
Put in the detailsAnd click on submit
It will take you to this pageClick on run the install to install wordpress
Put in the info for your blogAnd click on install wordpress
Success! Yay!Click on log in
Log in to wordpress now!
Here is your wordpress.org dashboardHave fun customizing your new wordpress site
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.- Aaliyah
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