Title: Installation Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Installation * [Hassrah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassrah/) * (@hassrah) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/) * I’m so lost! Heard about how great wordpress is but LOST. I downloaded it, it went into my download file and that’s it. What should I do now? You young people are so versed in this. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/) * (@catacaustic) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586183) * The biggest thing that you’ll need to get used ot with WordPress is that it’s not installed in the same way that a normal program is on your PC. WordPress is a collection of files that need to be placed on a web server to work. There’s full instructions here: * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress) * Basically, you need to purchase a web hosting account, and get a domain name to really make it work correctly. There are a few free hosting accounts that it will work with, but they are pretty problematic, and when you can get a decent hosting account for a coupel of $ a month, it’s well worth it to pay that bit for the support that you get from them. * One of the easy ways to install is to use one of the automated installers that are available in most decent hosting accounts: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Automated_Installation](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Automated_Installation) and if you want to get adventerous, you can [install it on your own PC](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Installing_WordPress_on_your_own_Computer). * Thread Starter [Hassrah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassrah/) * (@hassrah) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586192) * Ok, I have a website with Yahoo. I use their sitebuilder. Can that site/data be transferred to WordPress? * [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/) * (@catacaustic) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586194) * I haven’t seen anything, but again I haven’t neded to do that before, so I can’t answer for certain. I would actually thik that there’s not going to be too much out there for this. Yahoo! doesn’t like giving away stuff like that, so the resources to do it in any sort of automatic way are going ot be very limited. * But, if anyone else out there can point you in the right direction I’d love to be proven wrong! * Thread Starter [Hassrah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassrah/) * (@hassrah) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586201) * I should be able to buy another domain name and link it to that site, right? Does that make sense? * [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/) * (@catacaustic) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586202) * It might if you want to do that, but you don’t need to. You should be able to point your existing domain name to any hosting service that you want to. Any new hosting company will help you with the details that you need for that. * Thread Starter [Hassrah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassrah/) * (@hassrah) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586203) * Thank you so much for the help. Time to sleep and let it sink in. * Thread Starter [Hassrah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassrah/) * (@hassrah) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586222) * Where did my blog disappear too? * [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/) * (@catacaustic) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586225) * Um, no idea. I don’t even know your blogs URL, so it’s pretty hard to say anything. * One thing to remember is that WordPress.ORG (the software that’s distributed here) does not have any connection or ability to look at your hosting account or your domain name, so anything that’s an issue with either of those is something that you need to talk to your respective suppliers about. * We can try to help you to debug what the problem is, but you might have to talk to someone else to get a resolution. * Thread Starter [Hassrah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassrah/) * (@hassrah) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586229) * FaRa’s Cake Shoppe * [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/) * (@catacaustic) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586231) * Sorry, but that’s a name, not the sites URL. I can’t find that anywhere, so I can’t see anything about the site. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586337) * **[@sohail0946](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sohail0946/)**: Please post your own topic. It is considered rude to interrupt another user’s topic unless you are offering assistance. * [Hamza Ghani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamzaghani/) * (@hamzaghani) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586370) * **[@hassrah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassrah/):** You can definitely use your hosting with some other web host company. If yahoo offers the ability to install WordPress, try calling their support, and they will do this for you right away. However, if they do not offer this facility, you can link your domain name with any other web hosting company. * [Kristina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristina-goranovic/) * (@kristina-goranovic) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586379) * Hello, If you wont to instal wordpress on host youcan use free host on [http://www.000webhost.com](http://www.000webhost.com). If you wont I can help you to do this. * Best regards! Kristina * [summersinnewport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/summersinnewport/) * (@summersinnewport) * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586382) * Hello * I have a blog at summersinnewport.com. when i went to transfer it to my new wordpress. org site, the images and everything transferred but it is all unattached. How do it attach it? * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586385) * [@summersinnewport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/summersinnewport/), I’m sorry you need to create your own thread to discuss that. _[http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform)_ Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) The topic ‘Installation’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 15 replies * 7 participants * Last reply from: [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-125/#post-4586385) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics