Third Time Lucky How I Conquered WordPress
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Third Time Lucky How I Conquered WordPress |
Three Times to Conquer – The Second Installment
Before we get into the details of how I conquered my first Wordpress installation, let me make you aware that I’ve previously been asked about an ‘alternative way to install Wordpress’ on this post (see here for more discussion). In case that didn’t work for you and/or your audience, then don’t worry! You are one step away from all the best tutorials to follow to achieve a world-class WordPress setup. It isn’t hard to understand and it is easy to achieve! Here on this blog, I will explore the steps to accomplish that but there is still no reason not to give it a try if that feels right for you! Just do what works for you in the end!
So here on this blog, I’ll be using this website as an example because they have made it as clean and simple as possible. For anyone else who prefers making things more detailed, or looking straight to the source code, check out their site and/or checkout their Git repository to find my repo. As always, if you find any issues with this article please feel free to comment or contact me via Twitter @thebluesr
I’d be happy to hear any questions you’d like answered or just to see some screenshots of the finished product to help make sure I haven’t missed anything! If you want to follow along step by step or just watch my demo video then check out my YouTube channel to discover how to install WordPress after installing another popular server. So go ahead and give it a whirl! It’s worth every penny!
The First Step: Where is it hosted?
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The First Step: Where is it hosted? |
Here is where I’ll show you how I initially got started with my own server. In order for us to build our websites, we need to host them somewhere so that when someone visits, even though we aren’t hosting all the files ourselves, they will be served from their web server and not directly from their computer. On top of that, it makes our site look much cleaner and more professional.
Here is what you need:
– Domain name + CNAME – A CNAME server hosted by Amazon Web Services – Google Cloud Platform Drive or Gmail, as long as you can access them: http://drive.google.com/ -.ssh.key to authenticate to your account
Now let’s get going and sign up for a domain name! Before making things worse, many servers won’t let you register multiple domains using the same server. So here it is! My domain at dallas.tech is available, which gives us an extra layer of protection against hackers and spammers. But wait! How do we use that? Well, let’s set a redirect from
If everything goes well, you should have a new website up and running. And if it doesn’t, then that’s fine too. Remember this is just our example and can change depending on the size of the project. To help guide you in that process, I’ll now link a few great tutorials on how to get started with building a basic WordPress website using Blogger.
First Step – Hosting CNAME
To start off, go to the cPanel. Open it and select Addons > Upload a New File. Select All Files (on the left) and click Create Now! At the bottom of the page, choose the folder that you wish to upload your cNAME to. After selecting All Files again, hit Save. When you are done with the uploading, copy and paste this information at the bottom of the file:
What is the purpose of cNAME? The main goal of cNAME is to store the full path of a particular template file inside a user directory. This means the browser will load the correct version of the template when it sees this specific file when it finds a URL and sends it as an HTTP GET request during login procedures, for instance. The URL could also be stored within HTML tags and it will automatically load the relevant template when asked to serve these items from your website. If for instance you need to display “Contact us” in that place, the only thing that needs to modify in cNAME is a single line of code located on a different branch called tag_url:
< html lang = " de'de'" > < head > < meta charset = " de'de' " > < meta name = " viewport " viewport = " width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.1, minimum-scale=1" > < body > % html : {% block style = " #{% blocktrans%}{% css%} } {% blocktrans%}"> < h1 > Contact Us! {% blockquote %} < p > Hello World! {{% blockquote %}}
Make sure you name that cNAME and save the file! For convenience, run Windows Powershell on a Mac to download that key file locally:
Windows Powershell Download Key File
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Windows Powershell Download Key File |
To control cNAME server, you’ll need to log in:
https://cnamename.xyz/server
In your window on the left hand side (left-hand side), click the arrow button to the right of cNAME server. From the menu on the left, select Get Started and then pick either a subdomain, hostname, or IP address. Enter a subdomain, an IP address or even a cNAME server IP address. (You’ll probably have a DNS entry and /etc/hosts)
After configuring the subdomain, you should get some errors when you try and load that file into cNAME! These are normal, but let’s fix them now. Go back into cNAME, add two folders named cname and cnamename. Lastly, update the content types in cnamname to read-write, and remove the file and subdirectory cnamename to read-write. Let’s finish that part now!
To do that, go through cnamename/server. Right-click on cnamename and select Read-Write Folder and Then Click OK. Next, select Add Folder in cnamename and choose Edit Folder. Scroll down and select Move File/Subdirectory from cnamename/server, drag and drop that file to cnamename/folder. Finally, click Save cnamename/server. After doing this, a popup dialogue will appear telling you what kind of file a subdirectory might be, you could click Manually edit for a small subset only and create a subdirectory in cnamename and call it namename.
This part is pretty straightforward, but for those without an admin console, here is a quick list to make sure you know exactly what you’re dealing with. Go to cnamename/server, click Show hidden folders on the left of cnamename, expand Subdirs. At the end of Subdirs click Finish, select All Folders/Subfolders of cnamename and hit Done. Wait! Doesn’t our cnamename folder look something like this? Yes! Don’t worry! We can just take care of this!
Now, go back to cnamename, open cnamename/server and scroll down to the cnamename directory. On the right-hand side, click Build Folder, select Add Folders, add cnamename/folder, Hit continue. Name the folder and tap on its icon at the top. Give cnamename a title and click Launch Folder. You should get a dialog asking you if you want to launch a default folder or a custom folder for cnamename. I went with the Default choice and clicked OK. Note: If you want to use sub-folders instead of regular folders, you need to change the suffix of the folder you created. In addition of setting up your content types in cnamename, you can also turn your cnamename folder into a zip archive, or whatever folder structure you like. Keep that in mind!
First Step – Setting Up Page Template
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First Step – Setting Up Page Template |
Let’s be clear: the entire point of creating your website is to make your content search engine friendly. To do that you need to set up your CMS with powerful tools to allow you to write better content. Fortunately enough, WordPress has support for setting up pages with prebuilt templates. If you’re new to writing and wondering, that’s okay. WordPress has hundreds of thousands of prewritten pages available to choose from. I’m adding my favorite one to use here on this blog to learn how to build a proper shopping cart checkout form for our
How to create wordpress website
Here you will get complete information about how to set up your website. Let's start with the first step:
Create WordPress blog (website)
If you want, you can buy an existing website and upload that into WordPress as a "blog". If not, then download WordPress software. Choose your preferred hosting plan for your blogging site, and you are going to create it there, too. Once this is done, open your localhost (the web server) and go to php.net/wp. You will probably need to modify that file for your blogging site. Make sure that there are no spaces or comments in that file. On the next page, copy your blog URL from the previous page and paste it on www.yoursite.net into the code. You can also use the cPanel if you don't have access to host it. Open a new terminal and type php in the address bar. There you will find all those files and files you need in cPanel. We can check what we've created here. Also if you have any problems please leave a comment, I'll try my best to help you.
After installing WordPress, select one of the themes that you prefer. These are usually called "WordPress themes" because they are created by developers of the famous CMS. For example, Jekyll is specially designed for websites, so you should choose this one. The rest is up to you.
Now that we have our blog ready, we can configure the content by adding some posts. The most suitable post format is text/HTML. However, if you are looking for another format, there are other options. In our example you should add only videos and images. So, put these two files in the same directory: wp-content/htaccess/media/public/videos.html and wp-content/htaccess/media/public/images.html
Now let's make a very simple article with just two posts. Go to the folder which is used in cPanel and create this file inside it only.
php
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1 $ wp-config-sample-post = 'your-post.html' ; 2 3 4 $ echo 'your article' ; 5 6 7 $ echo '
