There are many guides on the web that detail just how to install Wordpress on your own custom domain and hosting service. Here are just a few:
- Wordpress.org – The official guide
- How To Make My Blog – Marko Saric provides very detailed instructions for installing Wordpress on GoDaddy.com
- Nice2All – details how to install a local copy of Wordpress to use as a sandbox for testing new themes, upgrades, and anything else you might not want on your live site.
While Wordpress makes it just about as easy as possible to manually install it, there are some hosting services that offer “One-Click” or automated installations. Fantastico is a popular installer script for many web hosts that use the cPanel interface. These automatic installers take care of setting up your database, uploading the files to your web space, and just about everything else.
If you’re shopping around for web hosting, and you know that Wordpress is going to be a big part of your online presence, you might want to consider going with a host that provides this One-Click service.
My own hosting service, Dreamhost, provides its own One-Click installer for Wordpress. I like it a little better than Fantastico, but that’s just personal preference.
If you already have your own web space, does your host provide One-Click installations? How much weight did it carry in your decision to go with that host?
