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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installation 404, /wp-admin/install.php (Bluehost)Shanio,
I’ve been using BlueHost for years.
You can install WordPress automatically in 60 seconds from your cPanel.
I wrote an article that shows you how to Install WordPress in 60 seconds for BlueHost.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: help ….guys….2.8.2 allows you to install themes from the back end.
Go to “Appearance > Add New Themes”.
Search for a theme you like.
Click install.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Modifying PermalinksIt sounds like you intend to name your posts something other than the filename.html.
If you want the link to be something different than the name of the post, you have the option to edit the permalink at the top of each post on the post edit page.
Above the WYSIWYG editor, look for the permalink with the edit button next to it.
So if the name of your post is “How to house train your puppy”, your permalink will look like:
“http://www.yourdomain.com/category/how-to-house-train-your-puppy”You can edit this for each post to be whatever the original site page link was. Like:
“http://www.yourdomain.com/category/puppytraining.html”Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installing and using wordpress.org within wordpress.comFrom what you are saying, the website the boy set up isn’t hosted with a web host -but exists at an address like sitename.wordpress.com correct?
If so, the boy signed up for an account at wordpress.com and took ownership of a subdomain on the wordpress.com domain where you get a free blog. The boy didn’t install anything. He just signed up and tweaked a free blog that WordPress.com generated.
The WordPress famous 5 minute install doesn’t apply to a free blog on wordpress.com.
It applies to installing it on a web server with a hosted domain supplied by an internet hosting company -or your own web server if you know how to set one up.
I’ve written an article about How to Start using WordPress. It goes over all the pre-requisites to installing WordPress. Written in english, not code talk.
If the non profit still want’s to use the sitename.wordpress.com site, the boy will indeed need to give up his admin password.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installed WordPress on my server but…nothingI think Samboll is right. It’s been 8 hours, I don’t see it in LA yet. If your site address doesn’t propogate in the next 16 hours, I’d check with your domain registrar.
Where did you register/purchase your domain name?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: permission denied … misc.php on line 638All I can suggest is to make sure your Windows box is set up with the WordPress minimum requirements. Look here.
Then make sure your SQL user account has full permissions.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Blank Screen on InstallDouble check your secret keys.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Explorer can’t find install.phpHe was asking if you are using a Windows Server running Internet Information Services (IIS).
I looked. You are.
Installing WordPress on IIS can be difficult if you don’t have your server set up with the minimum requirements. Look here for some possible solutions.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Setup QuestionsWhen you set up your SQL user accounts for your sites, give them full permissions.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Advertising Manager] Can’t get ads to display from OpenXThat’s PHP. A regular Text widget won’t be able to handle it. You will need to go to “Plugins > Add New” and search for “PHP Widget” to find a plugin to install that will make a PHP widget available at “Appearance > Widgets”.
Then put the PHP widget in your sidebar(s) and paste the code in and save. View Site.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Problems with installationLook very carefully over your config.php file and make sure you set all the settings correctly before running the install script. Your database name and database user names need to be exactly as you see them in MYSQL.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: really new at this, REALLY confused.The wordpress page is index.php.
You need to install wordpress in a folder under your domain root. Something like Yourdomain.com/news would be perfect.Then you can send people to the news page through a link in your HTML Home page.
But seriously, WordPress is a powerful CMS and more than qualified to be your homepage and news page.
In the back end of WordPress, you can create as many pages for your website as you need. Then, in the general settings, you can set one of your pages as the home page and set another one as your blog/news page.
If you are adept enough to make web pages with HTML and CSS, it wouldn’t take long for you to install a theme that resembles your site and tweak it to your liking.
The look of WordPress pages are a combination of several files you can open and edit in the Appearance > Edit section of the admin console.
Here are the files that make up one of my current site themes:
404 Template (404.php)
Archives (archive.php)
Comments (comments.php)
Footer (footer.php)
Header (header.php)
Main Index Template (index.php)
Page Template (page.php)
Search Form (searchform.php)
Search Results (search.php)
Single Post (single.php)
Theme Functions (functions.php)
archives.php (archives.php)
legacy.comments.php (legacy.comments.php)
links.php (links.php)
sidebar1.php (sidebar1.php)Stylesheet (style.css)
style.ie6.css (style.ie6.css)
style.ie7.css (style.ie7.css)The Main Index Template (index.php) fires when a visitor reaches your WordPress site. It calls several other php files above to build your page.
Header.php constructs your header with your banner etc.
Sidebar.php builds your sidebar.
Page.php handles building the meat and potatoes -your main content area.
Footer.php constructs the footer.All of this is done while obeying the relavant style.css file and the settings stored in your site’s SQL database.
Open index.php to see what it’s doing.
WordPress PHP files write the html for the page the user want’s to see on the fly.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Running 2.3.1 trying to upgradeTry going to yourdomainname.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Running 2.3.1 trying to upgradehmmm.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installation hangs on step 2I feel your pain.
The famous 5 minute install seems to work best with paid hosting where your server is usually configured correctly for WordPress.
If you are hosting this yourself on a windows server, you may want to check some of the issues listed here in the codex.
Installation Issues on Microsoft Internet Information Server