Do you want to create a professional blog with WordPress? WordPress is a great blogging platform where you can customize your blog as you want without any restrictions. In this post I am going how to install WordPress 3.1 step-by-step. This time, there is something more, I will create a HD Video which will guide you through all the process.

Get a Web host and Domain

The first step is to get a good Web-host and a domain. Web host is like a hard disk where your files are saved online and can be be used by users when they visit your site whereas a domain is the URL with which we open a site i.e “www.example.com”. While you can get a web host and a domain separately, I recommend that you get such a hosting account which provides a free domain as they also set up everything for you.

Create a MySQL Database

Open up your web-host’s CPanel and search for MySQL Database or something similar to that and click on it. Create a new database, create  a new user and add it to your database. While adding user to a database, grant all the permissions to the user.

Download WordPress and edit wp-cofig-sample.php

Go to WordPress.org and download WordPress. Extract the zip file, find wp-config-sample.php, open it in notepad or any code editor and edit it according to the image below. After editing, save the file naming it wp-config.php.

Installing WordPress

Upload all the files in WordPress folder to your web-host using online file manager or any ftp client like FileZilla etc. If you have any problem in uploading files, view the video give below to see how to upload files to web-host using online file manager. After uploading is done, go to http://www.example.com/wp-admin/ (Replace example.com with your domain). You will see a form like in the image below, simply fill in the form and you are ready for blogging.

Now your blog is ready. Delete the default post, page, comment, customize the settings according to your needs, install necessary plugins and you are ready to rock!