2. Installing WordPress on Your Own Server
By the end of the chapter, you will know how to install WordPress on your webhost’s server and start becoming familiar with how WordPress works.
Now we get to the good stuff: installing WordPress on your own webhost using your own domain. If this is the part of the book you’ve been dreading because you think it’s beyond your comfort level of geekiness, don’t worry. Installing WordPress is simple. Sure, there are geeky things to do, but how often do you get to say to your friends, “Yeah, I set up a MySQL database, FTPed up my server, edited my config files, and installed a CMS....”? My friends would just reply, “You installed WP again, didn’t you?” but I hang out with a bunch of WordPress and web geeks. ...
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