(Part 1 in a series of 4)
Throughout the previous several lessons, I’ve covered a handful of different ways of building a website. Now it’s time to talk about my favorite method!
Today we’re going to use WordPress…
(Watch this video…)
Main points:
WordPress = blogging platform and content management system (CMS).
A CMS is basically a system of organizing data for a website.
WordPress is not the only CMS, and it may not be the best one for some types of websites. But it’s my favorite CMS because…
1) It’s free.
2) It’s open source.
3) The plugins!
4) It’s easy to install and use.
If your web host uses Cpanel with the Fantastico add-on, you can use the “one click” WordPress installer. (If you want a web host with the one-click feature, please click here - and use coupon code: ERICSTIPS.COM)
If you want/need to install WordPress manually, it’s still pretty easy (see video for full step-by-step walkthrough)
WordPress site (where you can download the zip file): www.wordpress.org
WP Secret key generator (as referenced in video): https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/
Action steps:
1) Decide if you’re going to use WordPress for your website.
2) If yes, install it!
In the next lesson I’ll show you what to do with WordPress AFTER you install it.
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below 
Have a great day!
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Great lesson Eric as always, thank you. This was the one i have been waiting for. Good work.
glad to hear it!
Hello! Good lesson Eric, have a question: Do you have a affiliate link for Monthly Income Formula? it is in ClickBank?
Thanks
Michey
I do not currently have an affiliate program for it, but that’s a good idea. I’ll set one up and post it here.
OK I put it on PDC, and you can get your affiliate link here
Hi Eric,
Will you be covering at some point how we can offer buyers of our products an opportunity to advertise our items as an affiliate?
Yes I will, but it won’t be for awhile. It will probably be somewhere around lesson #85.
Hi!
I am interested in Gary’s question as well.
Now, thanks for affiliate link, do you have a graphic as well, cover, banner something
Thanks Eric
sorry I don’t have any graphics for it.
I went through and got my affiliate link and put it on my website but when you click on it nothing happens. did i do it wrong. i am still new at this and learning but my other links go to the proper site. can any help with this
thanks for your lessons. i dont think i would be this far if it wasnt for your teachings.
where is it? I do not see it on your site…
its towards the bottom of the page. i even tried to redo it and copy and paste it [edited]
this is the way it appears on my paydotcom account and my site
[link edited]
this is the affiliate code that they gave me when i signed up. i even tried to take it out and put it back in. I know you are busy so if anyone has any hints
thnaks
I’m not sure how you got that link, but this one will work: https://paydotcom.com/r/81982/YOURIDHERE/23335145/
So here is some code you could use on your site:
Replace YOURIDHERE with your PayDotCom username.
Note how Eric executes. He comes up with an idea, and implements it immediately. at 7:23 he decided - based on a customer request - to create an affiliate program for one if his products. Less than 1/2 hour later, it was live.
One of the best ways to learn how to be successful is not only to watch his great tutorials, but to watch how he does things.
Great work, man!
A little confusing at first but like anything study it and it will come to you,Thanx
Eric,
Another great lesson - I can tell we’re coming up on a long section on WordPress… I hope you’re going to cover the plugins you find most useful, as well as the themes that work best for monitizing content : )
Thanks for the lesson,
-Brett
http://www.profit-internet.com
Internet Marketing and Product Creation To Earn You Money
Yes I’ll be covering plugins and themes in the next lesson, and it’ll be a long lesson
Thanks Eric,
Wordpress does rock I built the blog listed here using a simply plug-in theme in about half an hour.
Paul
very nice!
Good tip. I also use wordpress for most pages on my website. Great thing about wordpress is they have lots of themes which you can edit and customize. I customized one of the free themes on wordpress to match the color and layout of my website.
Hi Eric,
This video came just in time. Only a few minutes before I was thinking about to install Wordpress on my new hosting account but was a bit unsure how to do it.
Thank you very much.
I knew it when you said “my favorite way to building a website”
Guess what, it’s my favorite way too. I prefer however the manual way over fantastico. With the manual way, you have more control over securing your installation. Also upgrading works better.
Regards.
Sherif
Hi Eric,
I love Wordpress. I’m getting the hang of it but do want to learn how to modify the themes a little. For instance how do people put adsense ads in their headers? Looking forward to the next lesson
Good idea, I’ll make a note to make sure I talk about adding ads in the next lesson.
They say ‘When the student is ready the teacher appears?’
I was straining my brain all day over this very topic and your email appeared!
You are such a dear for providing all of these straightforward, information packed lessons.
Good thing the Universe rewards you ten-fold, actually you deserve a kazillion-fold!
Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou!
Second that word press is so easy.
Love it
Hi Eric,
I’m just doing wordpress now. A new comer on this category. It’s interesting and very suitable for the newbie. Now I’m thinking of adding the content as the beginner on the internet. Hope some more news ahead. Thanks for everything.
Great lesson. Hey, what the difference between CSS templates and wordpress? They kind of look the same to me.
Stay bless.
A CSS template would just be a website template using CSS (cascading style sheets… sort of an advanced component of HTML). Wordpress is an entire CMS (content management system), which actually does include a CSS stylesheet by the way.
As always, Great post Eric! Can’t wait for your next lesson on this topic about wordpress.
Hi Eric,
Great lessons on my favorit sitebuilding tool.
A few years ago I build sites with notepad in a pure php and mysql the hardcore way….But when I found Wordpress I hardly do that anymore and only use that because of the clean code, seo benefits and free plugins and templates that make it such a valueable cms.
Even created several templates and plugns myself because I like it as a cms but the blogy look is not always what I want for my site.
cool… I see you’re selling WP templates too
hi Eric, great lessons and hints, but i would like to find out if there are low bandwith versions of your videos? liviing in a developing country, i miss out on most of your lessons because of the bandwith, with access to the videos i am confident i can gain much
I compress them as much as I can while keeping the quality… for example the above video is only 17MB. But I understand that could be difficult for some people. I realize it won’t help you at the moment, but when I am done with the 100 lessons I am planning on releasing them on DVD.
cool, you have one customer waiting!!
Hi Eric
Iv’e gone with Joomla. Ive also managed to hook up with a webmaster of a fansite who is giving me lessons.
Im starting to get the hang of this only taken a year LOL
Thank you for the entire effort and support. I am looking for a solution to protect my videos, in other words I want to embed them in a site and be watched but not downloaded, like you did with your lessons. How can I follow your example, please? Thank you!
If your videos are visible on the web, technically someone can download or at least capture them if they know what they’re doing. But you can prevent most of that simply by converting it to flash (SWF or FLV) and not offering it as a download. I use Camtasia Studio 6 to create my videos and convert them to flash.
Thank you!
RE Your first step: “1) Decide if you’re going to use WordPress for your website.”
What would you say is the determining factors in this decision? Advantages, etc.
It depends mostly on personal preference. In lesson #28, 29, 31 and 32 I’ve talked about other ways of building sites. Some people may prefer to build it with a web authoring software, or a site builder such as XSite Pro.
It may also depend on the type of site you’re building. If it’s a blog or article site, then Wordpress is probably an optimal choice. If it’s a sales letter, it may or may not be the best choice.
I personally like to make my sales pages from scratch with HTML and/or PHP. WordPress works fine for sales pages too, but you would probably need to tweak the theme files, because you probably don’t want all the navigation links on your sales page, and might not want a sidebar at all. Additionally, WP has some formatting idiosyncracies, and I prefer to have 100% control over the formatting of my sales letters.
The advantages of WP are many. It’s more dynamic than an HTML site. It’s easy to build and manage. It’s interactive, with commenting. The search engines tend to like it. It’s PHP driven, so you can use PHP plugins. You can change the look of your entire site, just by tweaking the theme or using a different one.
Hey Eric and others,
Eric Farewell just came out with a product in January that gives you wordpress designed sales letters. He joined up with Alejandro Reyes’ blog designer to create them.
Jason Marshall
Another great lesson, Eric. I also use WordPress, it’s great. With the numerous plugins I can make my blog looking how I want it.
They also have great tutorials and forum to help out when one is hitting a brick wall.
But Eric, hope you have not forgotten your promise some time ago to treat creation of e-book covers. When should we be expecting the lesson?
Thanks, you are the best!
Wordpress rocks as does xSitePro! If anyone wants FREE and EASY basic HTML instructions, get them at http://www.myminisites.net. It helps to have the HTML basics down either way.
Thanks! That’s exactly right, which is why I covered HTML first. There’s a method to my madness
Another really good one also is:
90 second website builder
It’s promoted as a html generator compared to a html editor. Comes with a lot of marketing features like xsitepro but costs a lot less.Just another option
[note from Eric: the aff link is mine, not Gary’s)
Eric, I absolutely love these tips - great info that is concise and easy to follow. Please do a tip sometime on how you make your videos. I am always wanting to show my other offices etc how to do something on the internet and I always wish I could make a video demo like the ones you make for us on your Eric’s Tips. I need to learn how to do this just like you do.
I will, thanks!
Thanks again Eric for another awesome lesson.
I think with wordpress I might finally get some stuff built.
Eric,
I am a member of: arbitrage conspiracy.
I want to use wordpress to create landing pages for affiliate offers.
Do you recommend which of the following:
- wordpress
- xsitepro
- dreamweaver
I have few adsense blogs in wordpress also. But I feel it takes lot of html, css tweaking to customize for affiliate offers.
What is your suggestion
Thanks.
It sort of depends on what you’re comfortable with. If you need a WYSIWYG program, go with Xsite. If you’re comfortable tweaking the Wordpress themes to fit your needs, go with Wordpress. The nice thing about WP is it’s easy to log in and change stuff on the fly. But if you’re going to follow the AC methods as closely as possible, you should consider their recommendations (ie. LPG). I don’t use it personally right now, but if I was focusing more on PPC I would definitely use a dynamic landing page generator.
Thanks for reply Eric,
I am planning to use LPG.
But once the campaign is shown to be profitable, shouldn’t we be using something like XsitePro to build bigger sites than one page Landing Page.
Can we insert keywords dynamically in xsitepro.
Thanks.
Ideally yes you would want to build a site behind a highly profitable campaign, but it just depends on your business strategy and whether that’s something you want to take the time to do. Generally you need to use PHP or other dynamic programming if you want to insert keywords dynamically, and last I checked XSite did not do that. Now, technically, you could design a site in Xsite, export it as an HTML site and then turn the pages into PHP pages.
I’m looking forward to the next lesson. I want to learn how to use Wordpress as a content management system without the blog platform.
The comments are very useful as well.
Just reading the comments, looks like the next lesson is a “key” one, since then I am learning membership sites building, from Eric’s MIF, thanks for affil, do you have graphics?, a cover is enough, or as you promise me long time ago, a package to create 3D covers, and I’ll do it myself. Also it will be useful if in MIF you will put a name, looks strange that you don’t have a name on it. I know how “we” are but a new person doesn’t.
Thanks
Michaela
sorry I don’t have any graphics for it. But I am still planning on showing you how to make e-covers. In fact, I may be able to talk about that in lesson 37 or 38.
thanks, for me this will be a great help,What I don’t know how to do is rotating the cover to look 3D.
thanks
By the way, I bought last E. Chia book, it is a good on.
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the great lessons!
Just one quick question here? Can Wordpress be used to host E-Commerce Websites? If Yes, would you be showing us how to do that?
Thanks once again! And yes, your India Pics were Great!
Summit.
E-commerce is not my specialty, but I do not think WP is the best option for a large-scale e-commerce store. But for a small business, it might work nicely. There are a handful of e-commerce plugins for WP, so it could be used. The plugins I found are WP-osCommerce, WP e-Commerce, and Shopp. (Shopp costs money but it looks pretty cool). I will not be covering e-commerce.
I did some research on this for a client and I have found 2 options that I may go with… WP ecommerce plugin or the Market Theme. I like the Market Theme just because I am so comfortable working with and modifying wordpress themes plus it has the grid view included. When it comes to a large ecommerce business Joomla is a pretty good option.
Jason
I am trying trying to install Wordpress using Fantastico on my cPanel of Hostgater onto my subdomain.
When I go through the steps you say on your video I get this:
The installation can not be completed:
- No valid administrator username provided.
- No password provided.
Click on the browser’s Back button to fix reported errors.
I do no understand why it is doing this if I am already logged into my cPanel.
The other concern I have and have not tried is installing it on my main domaine. If I use XsitePro on my website now, is installing Wordpress going to create any conflicts to try it out and see how it works. The last thing I want to do is mess up anything that I have already created on Xsitepro.
Anyones help would be appreciated.
Thanks Mark
As for the error… it sounds like one of 2 possibilities…
- your host’s fantiastico instalation has a problem
- or you somehow did not fill in all the info during the install
Regarding it conflicting with your existing Xsite site… it will not conflict, just make sure you install WP in its OWN directory… not in the root directory or it may overwirte your current index file.
I decided to install it manually and have run into problem. I think it is because of were I created my blog folder in my root directory of my website.
I did all the other steps you outlined in video.
When I created blog folder in a subdirectory of my public_html folder and dragged info from my hard drive into it, I then went to Run the WordPress installation script with the two options http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php and http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php I got error messages in both. The error message was 404. I did use my web address in the example space.
I think my problem lies in where I put blog folder. In my public_html folder of my root directory is where I created my blog file subdirectory. But in that public_html folder in my root directory I have a folder that is called infrastructurehealing, which is the name of my website. In that folder is a cgi-bin folder, a images folder, a public_html folder and a script folder. In the public_html folder of my infrastructure healing folder I think is all my stuff to create my site from XsitePro.
My thought is to create the blog folder in a subdirectory of the public_html folder of my infrastructure healing folder.
I would like your thoughts on if that is OK to try or not and if it is can I drag and drop the blog folder I initially created in the sub directory or should I delete it and start from scratch in infrastructure healing folder.
Sounds confusing to me but I need some help.
Thanks Mark
I think your folder structure got a little messed up somehow. I went to your site and it appears you have an public_html folder within your public_html folder. You need to delete that folder within the folder. Then put your blog subdirectory within the “real” public_html directory
When you are unfamiliar with how things are suppose to look and be, it feels scary to mess with things. I will do what you said and keep my fingers crossed.
Fear is always I will screw up function of website or computer. To many times I have had that problem when I have messed with something I have very little knowlege about.
Thanks Mark
As long as you’ve got a BACKUP of your Xsite site on your hard drive, you shouldn’t need to worry about messing up your website.
Also I still think the 1-click install should work. If it’s still not working, maybe you could get in touch with your host. (if you’re with hostgator, they do have live chat)
Did that and did not work.
Frustrated. Guess will start from scratch and read the word press stuff on their site.
Do not have a lot of time but would like to keep up with the lessons.
I am using Filezilla to try and do this.
Hi Eric,
I installed WordPress to my computer.
But Adobe Reader could not open ‘WordPress-2.7.1 zip’ because it is either not a suported file type or because the file has been damaged.
What actually went wrong with the installation?
I appreciate your comments on this.
Thanks,
Mike Wong
You need to unzip it with a zip program, not with Adobe. Normally you can just do a right-click and “extract all”. If you need a zip orogram you can get a free one at http://www.7-zip.org
Thanks for a great lesson - no problem installing from Cpanel once I figured out that it had to go on a domain (or subdomain in my case) with no existing index page on it! This should be fun to play with this week.
Hello Mr.,
Thanks for this lecture!
Graham.
Fantastico Clarification: Hi Eric, I think Mark got lost in filling out the fantastico form. In the video you moved on to a manual upload before finishing the fantastico feature.
After filling in the first step and deciding which directory to put the blog in, you move on to choosing an admin name and password etc.
Once all the boxes are filled in, you hit the button to create everything. Once created, I like to copy & paste the info into a notepad and move on to polish the blog.
Wordpress is right up there with templates in my love’em & Hate’em category. Tremendous potential, but when the headaches come, they are doozies! Colin
Hi Eric, These Lessons are amazing, Thank you for you great advice. I got a domain name from LifeDomains and sign up with Hostgator, but I still can’t decide what to do as far as information products are concerned. When choosing a domain name I went for a name that was easy to remember as apposed to relevance for the site. The name I went for was CUZMAN.COM.
Does It really matter if the name has no relevance to the site?
It really depends on what you’re selling and how you’re marketing it, but typically you DO want the domain to be relevant. In fact I prefer that the domain be descriptive of what the site is all about (in one, two, or three words). I covered some of this in Lesson #23. But it’s easy to change to a different domain at any time in the future, simply for the cost of a new domain name
In the mean time, that is a decent 6-letter domain, so I’m sure you can use it for something.
Thanks Eric, The Ideas are popping into my head as we speak.
Hi Eric,great stuff.I don’t have a site nor a webhost yet,how do I go about installing Wordpress?
you need to go back to lesson 23 and 24, at a minimum:
http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson23/
http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson24/
these lessons are intended to be followed sequentially
Hi Eric, I followed the link to source code goldmine from your email, and I know that there are alot of IMers out there who would sell you anything, but I feel as though you are different, do you honestly recommend this product as it would tie in nicely with a membership site I am also member of.
Kind regards
Peter Shuker
Yes I recommend it, along with the one caveat: do not buy if you don’t know what you’re doing. But IF you know what you’re doing with it, it’s a great resource. I actually took a product from one of the earlier SCGM sales and did over $100k of sales with it.
Hi,
i did install wordpress on my cpanel directly since it has fantastico. The issue is how to start putting contents there, i will to change the site i designed with Kompozer to wordpress, ’cause i think it’s going to look better with their themes. So how do i do this please?
This will be covered in the next lessons.
I have created a lovely graphic for Monthly Income Formula and I have posted on my blog. Look at:
http://michaelacernescu.com
I’ll post on some lenses as well.
Yesterday I have created a lens for Ewen Chia last book, look at
http://www.squidoo.com/Ewen-Chia-Internet-Marketing
Today I’ll tweet both.
Regards
Michaela
Cool, thanks for the promotion!
Eric,
I keep getting emails on Mike Filsaime: giving away free for trying his newletter= butterfly marketing software which helps in making sites.
You must have known this software.
Is it useful or just stick with wordpress or xsitepro.
Your opinion matters a lot me like for so many here.
Thanks.
I bought Butterfly Marketing years ago for $1000. I have used it on several sites, and it has paid itself over 100X. I actually mentioned it in lesson #32: http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson32/
Here is my link for the new Butterfly Marketing Giveaway:
http://toplevel.butterflymarketing.com/
I saw that you mentioned for membership sites.
But Filsaime claims that you can build any site. If it is true, can we use it instead of xsitepro or wordpress, just wondering.
Thanks.
It really depends on what kind of site you want to build. I would not say Butterfly Marketing is a replacement for Xsite or WP… because Xsite is great for designing sites, and WP is great for blogs. But BM is a very good platform for membership sites/info products.
[…] the previous lesson I talked about some of the benefits of WordPress, and I walked you through the process of installing it on your […]
You need 1. Monetization 2. Targeted Traffic for your blog.
Monetize your blog such as google adsense, banner ads, text link, affiliates,reviews and etc is vital for successful blogger.
Targeted Traffic is “lifeblood” for the bloggers. You can generate targeted traffic from paid and free traffic such as google adwords, forum, articles and etc.
To Your Success
Bryan Hee
Great Video, I just switched from Blogger to Wordpress on my Site. I had it taken down from the terms and condition. This is why you should have your blog on your own server. This is a prime example.
[…] the previous two lessons, we’ve been talking about WordPress. Lesson #33 covers getting started with WordPress. Lesson #34 covers several of my recommended WordPress settings. And now we’re going cover […]
Hi Eric: I think the video on WordPress is excellent. I downloaded the Wordpress files, changed the name of the wp-config-sample file to wp-config.php, and filled out MySQL on my server as instructed. However, when I upload the Wordpress files to my server I get a 404 error message. I mentioned that in a support email to my server (Hostgator) and they said the problem was that I had to make up a script for the wp-config.php. I thought the script was already made up in the Wordpress downloaded file which I changed to wp-config.php. Is it true that I am required to make up the wp-config.php? Thanks. Richard
in addition to renaming the wp-config file, you have to edit it, with your MySQL variables, and the secret keys, as I showed in the video. Also if you have Hostgator you could use the Fantastico 1-click installer.
[…] the previous three lessons, I’ve been covering WordPress. We started off with by installing WordPress. Then we talked about the best way to configure WordPress. And then in the previous lesson we […]
Thanks for the great video. Just one thing I didn’t get: When you gave the url to make the blog as a sub. Ex: Your blog is erictips.com/blog. I didn’t understand how to do that, so my url (suchaslife.com) is linked directly to Wordpress. I preferred /blog, like yours. BTW, I was able to click WP from the Fantastico site.
I am finally caught up to Lesson #33. I have a very basic quesion. I don’t know how to open the unzipped file into notepad.
I assume you’re talking about the WP-config file. You would right-click on it, and select “Open with…” then select Notepad. You could also try right clicking and select “Edit” and your computer might open it in Notepad by default.
Eric, If I right click on the unzipped file, I do not have the option of opening with or editing with. If I right click on the zipped file I do have the option of opening with notepad but then I get gobbelygook. So I’m stuck again.
Help Eric!
I just ordered Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing 2.0 using your link and now I am unable to log into the member’s area to claim my bonuses. Say’s my login is invalid, yet I have an e-mail from Mike to congratulate me on my purchase so I know my e-mail address is correct. I wrote my password down as well after creating it and does not work either nor can I get a temporary one as I get a message to say that my e-mail does not exist in their database.
Any advice or help would be much appreciated!
Thanks Eric!
Thanks. I’m think either you accidentally typed your email wrong when you ordered, or else maybe it’s a database issue. Either way, they’ll definitely take care of it. Just submit a helpdesk ticket to them, but be patient as they just gave away 14,000 copies
Eric, I figured out the previous problem but now (of course) have a new one. When I put the URL “beyondgloom.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php in google I went to a Host Gator page that said “Error 404 Page not found.” I tried using the other URL w/o the blog on it and was told I already installed WP. What should I do? Thanks!
I think you should start over with a fresh install. Delete the wordpress files using FTP .
Delete the databases from within the MySQL manager in cpanel. Then go try the 1-click installer in Fantastico again.
Keep in mind if you use the 1-click installer, you won’t need to go to the installation URL.
Thank you for responding. I deleted the MySQL manager in cpanel, but I don’t know how to delete the wordpress files using http://FTP. I’m nervous about messing with all the information on the right side of the page in Filezilla. Is that what I’m supposed to delete…all that info?
Yes it would be on the right side by default…
you would delete everything INSIDE your public_html directory.
Ok. I emptied everything inside my public_html directory. Boy was that scary! Then I attempted to download wordpress. It would not let me download because another file existed on the root. So I downloaded to a root file called blog. But I did not get the download transfered to my beyondgloom folder on the desktop. I forget how to do that. So now I don’t know where the wp file is. Does this make any sense?
Have you tried the 1-click installation, rather than downloading and uploading?
Also you do currently have a successful wordpress installation at:
http://beyondgloom.com/blog/
Eric;
Great lesson, (as usual) is there a book you could recommend that explains WordPress inside out, like your videos.
I have a blog but when I initially set it up I never knew how to set up the database. Now I have no database associated with the blog and I have updated the blog with a couple of new posts.
Is it to late to set up the database per your example by editing the existing config file and uploading the modified file back to the site.
Regards:
If the blog is functional, it must have a database.
I’m sure there are books, but really you can learn everything you would want to know about wordpress right on their site:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Eric;
I have been reading some of your past replys and in one you refer to XsitePro as a great tool to create Web Sites and WordPress to create Blogs. I do use WordPress and I do have a sort-of blog up and running.
I have tried several raw editors as well as WYSIWYG tools in an attempt to create anything, and I also considered XsitePro as it looked like a great product. However I am with HostGator and from what I read about XsitePro it was tied to its own hosting plan and if you used the product you hosted with them.
I have not tried HostGators Site Builder. Do you have any experience or comments about the product.
I am new to all of this and I have taken several courses to learn HTML/XHTML and CSS and I do understand somewhat of whats going on in the code but I still have serious challenges.
I know no product is going to automatically create a Web Site but a lot of help would certainly not hurt.
Regards:
XSitePro works fine with Hostgator. I think maybe you were thinking of SBI, which is tied to hosting.
also I did a demo of hostgator’s site builder in lesson 31
Eric… what if you use hostgator with a main domain and have add-on domains through the Baby Croc package. Do you install Wordpress once or are there multiple instances, one for each domain? Thanks
you would have multiple instances. However, if you want each domain to have its own installation of Wordpress, then I would advise getting a hostgator reseller account so that each domain can have its own Cpanel. It will be easier and better for the long term.
[…] the previous four lessons, we went through the process of installing, configuring, and customizing a Wordpress […]
Eric, I have a new issue on Lesson #33. (Sorry!) It’s up above, but there was no room for you to reply so I’m leaving you a new message…
I don’t see it… which one
You replied to it. I do have a successful blog at http://beyondgloom.com. But I am trying to go back through Lesson 33 and follow directions. I can’t find where my WordPress download went to. I want to put it into my beyondgloom file. And I want to follow directions from there on. Do I still need to?
I guess it’s up to you if you want to start over and re-install wordpress. If not, just use the one you’ve got successfully installed. Otherwise, just start over from the beginning of this lesson.
I hate to harp on this, but…I don’t understand why I have a blog installed when I went back and erased MySQL info and took the info out of the HTML file in http://FTP. I just want to make sure I’m not missing anything I need to continue on…
Well apparently you didn’t delete the MySQL table and user that is being utlized by the blog, otherwise the blog would not show up.
And you must not have deleted the /blog directory out of your public_html directory.
Hi Eric, thanks for all your wonderful help and insights. I am already using wordpress and the site is not within my own website. Is there a lesson that explains how to bring an existing wp into a site?
I really don’t want to start all over…
thanks
jerry
It’s pretty easy to move it to your own domain.
See lesson #24 to get hosting:
http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson24/
Then use these instructions:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/01/03/how-to-move-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/
Thanks, I read the article… does that mean that my .com blogsite would then have to read .org? or will it be auto forwarded?
Jerry
your wordpress.com blog would no longer be used. I don’t think there is a way to forward a wordpress.com blog to your new domain. So you would probably just want to put some links on your old wordpress.com blog pointing visitors to your new blog. All the content from your wordpress.com blog would be carried over to your new location when you transfer it. But the content will still exist on your wordpress.com blog. So it would be up to you if you then wanted to delete the content from the old one.
I have been going through the process of installing wordpress as my method of website, everything has worked up until the part where you explain using example.com, for some reason my server does not locate this part, the response I get is there is a broken link. I have tried it repeatedly and still have the same problem. Is there a resolution for this part?
I take it you are not using a cpanel host with 1-click installation?
Are you talking about the installation link? If that’s the case it seems like one of the following…
-didn’t put the files in the right place
-didn’t type the address correctly
-mysql database/user not setup
-config file not done right
-server doesn’t support it
yes there’s a resolution… unless your server doesn’t support it.
Eric
The hosting that I am using at the moment is Jumplaunch who have the cpanel facilities, could this be my problem?, I dont think it is any of the others as i have followed your guide to the T (but i will recheck). having said all that I am really going to change my hosting to getgator as your guide for that seems so simple.
If it’s a cpanel host, then it should support Wordpress, no problem. If you switch hosting, that’s great as I know you’ll be able to use the 1-click install. If not, you should ask your host for help… if they’re a good host they should be able to help you get WP installed.
Hi Eric! First of all, thanks for everything. However, I got some problems. Lessons 31 and onwards aren’t making any sound. Some of them play but without sound, some of them don’t play at all. The lessons previous to lesson 31 were perfect. Please help. Thanks.
Hmmm… are the old lessons still working for you? Have you tried updating your version of flash? Have you tried in a different type of browser (like firefox)? Thanks
Eric, I’m 55 yrs old and I love learning, it keeps me young and in touch. My younger family members smile when I can relate on the now and keep up and teach them a new thing. Thanks for keeping me young and eager to learn. Especially in touch. I’m entering a new a creative Occupation at “55″. Join me at “allofmyhistory.com and become a “Historian”
Anybody have recommendations for free lancers who can build my blogs and set up my shopping cart? I know about elance etc. Want to know of specific people/companies people can recommend.
thanks
Kevin Pritchett
I talk about freelancers in lesson #39, but I don’t have any specific people to recommend at this time.
This is great lesson. I might have missed it but what if I want to have blog as part of web page and want to use WP for both. Do I have to install WP in both, root and sub-directory?
Thank You
You can use just one installation of WP, probably in the root directory. You can then use “pages” for the main pages of your site, and “posts” for your blog.
Hi Eric
Another great tutorial.
In your tutorial, you show several of your “blog” pages. Are they are from one Wordpress Installation or did you create one wordpress installation for each of your “blogs”? Dose that not take up too much space?
Its a seperate WP installation for each blog.
No it does not take up very much space. WP is just some PHP files, and data in a MySQL database. The only thing that would take up a lot of space is if you’re uploading a lot of pictures or videos to your blogs.
Once again Eric an excellent presentation. I will be going public with my web site in a few days.
I have been following you to the letter.
Thanks again
Hi Eric,
I watched this lesson 2 times and I don’t quite get where do I log onto the wordpress admin panel? Is there a specific url for it or I go to the cPanel to log on to the wordpress admin panel?
Thanks for your help again,
Shirley
Your wordpress admin panel is seperate from your Cpanel. After installing Wordpress, its admin panel will be at:
yourdomain.com/wp-admin
or
yourdomain.com/blogdirectory/wp-admin
Eric, Thank you for tutorial. I have set up my word press.
Great Video!
Hi Eric,
I’ve been putting off making this change for quite some time but the handwriting is on the wall. I am presently using frontpage. Is there a certain folder in my “remote website” where I can store wordpress. I need to transfer the whole site to wordpress (not just for a blog).
If you’re switching from Frontpage to Wordpress, then you will not be using Frontpage anymore. You can’t use FP to edit a WP site.
Since you’re transferring the entire site to WP, the easiest place to put the WP installation is in the home directory (public_html) of your site.
This blog could not have come at a better time for me. I downloaded wordpress last week and have been searching for an easy to follow instruction video on how to upload it, and this has been perfect, as have all previous ‘Erics’ Tips’..
Good One thanks very much..
Jan
Eric:
Great lesson! However, I am missing something and it is leaving me feeling like a one armed woman swimming in a circle. I really need to know what I did wrong.
I registered my domain name with lifedomains. I then signed up with hostgater and redirected my domain name to them.
After taking care of that, I went through Fantastico and downloaded wpress 2.8. I then created a wpress database. At this point something went wrong. I managed to create two databases and was unable to name either of them prosperity_wpress that option never popped up. In your lesson (ideacash_wpress) seems to just come up. Instead, of naming my data base it defaulted and is named after my hostgater username.
I also downloaded WP 2.8 file into my folder on my desktop and changed file name on sample file to config (only) and opened it in notepad. But, I am now stuck. Also not sure why we have to work on desktop and upload to database, but I guess I will figure that out later.
I am not sure what I am suppose to put in as my dbase name as I am not quite sure I want it to be my HG user name. Nor am I sure that I want my HG user name placed in the as the wpuser. Where do I go to edit the name to prosperity_wpress or can I? Ditto for the user.
Now when I type in my URL, instead of the host gater start up site, I have a website (blog) that is using the standard wpress template. Thats cool! For a few minutes.
I logged onto my hostgator/cpanel. My Sql shows that I have two databases created one is XXXXX_wpress. The other is XXXXX_wrp1. I have two users XXXXX_wpuser and the other is XXXXX-wrp1. I am not sure what I missed but I am now confused. Why was I unable to name my database prosperityinsite_wpress?
Should one or both of the data bases be deleted? If one which one? And, how do I edit the others name? If I need to start over how do I name the data base what I want?
Thanks in advance for your help. Sorry for the length, I am new to all of this so I figured if I detailed the steps I had taken it would be easier to figure out where I “doubled clicked” Pressing Forward! Pam
When you use Fantastico you do not need to manually create a database or user. Fantastico does it all for you. So that’s probably how you ended up with an extra one. You could delete the extra one (the one that you created yourself) but it won’t hurt anything to keep it there. It looks like you have a successful installation of it in your home directory currently. If that’s where you want it to be, then you’re good to go.
Hi Eric,
I must acclaim you to be the best web teacher, besides an intelligent on line marketer. I have been following many other gurus over the internet, but the result was zero. But going through your tips, it’s great and I am picking up fast. Thanks and thanks a lot.
By the way, can I venture to find out if you can permit me to display your videos on my site?
Regards and may God Almighty give you a long life to serve the society, as you are doing now.
Thanks! At this time no you may not display them on your site because I have other business plans for them. But thanks for the offer.
Eric,
I have to thank you for your technical info. I have been following your lessons and also looking at some other “marketing experts” at the same time(One of them recommended by you, or at least through a link from this website), but none of them has been as helpful in the silly “nuts and bolts” stuff we newbies have to know to just get online, much less get traffic.
I really can’t say enough in praise of what you are offering for free vs. what others want to charge big dollars for and don’t offer nearly as much useful information.
I am actually on lesson #39, but had to come back to a couple of your past lessons to figure out how to change my theme and a few other things.
I really appreciate what you are doing and you have a follower for life. I value your advise and, assuming you are doing this to “gain influence and authority”, I’d say you are succeeding very well.
Hi Eric,
I will not create my product now but I will start my blog and try to get money from it after that I will create my product.
The thing is I heard from someone that when starting with a blog and I am putting in mind that in the future I will make my product and I will put it in a site with the same URL it is better that when installing my blog I put it like this: (www.myniche.com/blog), even if I do not have my site (www.myniche.com) yet, so in the future I do not have to change pages that already ranked on search engines.
Will I do not quite understand this, so please give me your advice should it be better to start my blog as (www.mynihe.com) or (www.myniche.com/blog)
Thank you
Hello Alaa,
It really depends on if you want your blog to supplement your site and business, or if it is to be the main part of it. In the case of EricsTips.com, the blog is the main reason people visit, so Eric chose to install it to the home page. Eric’s Tips is ranking very well.
thanks for the wordpress info. I have a wordpress site via my isp and I learned a few ne tricks.
well i did it again.i got wordpress and a blog but don’t know how how or why i don’t think i’m ready yet.if i can sell on my blog things from clickbank as an assoicate i’ll proably be ok.for me this seems to be getting harder not easier.i got the bots and i’m starting with them we’ll see what happens i’m looking forward to someday understanding these lessons well enough to make money from them as alway still i look forward to your lessons thanks for that.
Hi Eric, LOVED this lesson…I think I will use Wordpress because I have two sites that I can install right away to play with…and learn how to use Wordpress well…
I can’t wait for the next lesson!
Hi Eric, I just start learning to use wordpress. You lessons are great. But I just can’t watch the video smoothly, it kept on loading halfway. Is there any free software that can be use to download your video so that I can finish your lesson at one go.Thanks.
Hello Nicola,
The videos are currently only available online.
However, here is a link that should help you to be able to view the videos properly:
http://www.ericstips.com/trouble-viewing-flash-videos/
Hi Eric,
I NEED help!
Today I followed the steps to install WP on the root of my hostgator site.
I followed everystep carefully but I did not creat a subdirectory Blog I just uploaded everything (included the changed config.php file) in the root. Since it didn’t worked I tried to use fantastico and the one click install.
Surprise! my “Public” directory where my old “draft” site was, (and where I first uploaded WP using mozilla), is DISAPPEARED.
What can I Do?
Create a new Directory by myself?
How can I contact the Gator help-desk if I live in Italy? Do they have a support through e-mail?
I really Thank you in advance Eric for your time.
Kind Regard,
Riccardo
this is just to see if my avatar works
You can reach Hostgator’s helpdesk here. They also have live chat available.
If you did indeed somehow delete your public_html directory, you can make a new one. Just be sure to put it in the root of the domain, and name it public_html
Thank you so much, Eric!
Eric you are just the best,internet biz would be alot more fun if we have just 10 of your kind sharing tips and guides for free,thanks mate
Hi Eric,
Please help - I am trying to install wordpress manually (it didn’t work when I initially did the automatic install) and I am getting a 403 error when I type in yourdomain.com/blogdirectory/wp-admin/install.php
I have tried to follow your lesson exactly with the exception that I have used a different domain registrar (godaddy) and a different web host (Just Host). Everything else is the same. Many Thanks
Gita
Hi Eric -just to let you know that I contacted my host provided and they have fixed the issue
Many Thanks for the great lessons
Gita
Ok, cool. I was gonna recommend talking to your host
Hi Eric,
Once again, a great lesson
I’ve seen a number of videos from various sources and have to say that your’s are the easiest to understand because you cover everything on the particular topic your covering.
A very big thank you and look forward to the next lesson.
you have a great day
Bob
Hi Eric
I installed WP in a blog sub directory ifloserswrotebooks.com/blog but if I put in ifloserswrotebooks.com as a search it shows the folders (blog etc) as a list. Is there a way to direct ifloserswrotebooks.com to my blog site or do I just move it to the public html route directory? Is that easy enough?
Yes it’s easy to direct it to your blog, but it’s not much more difficult to move the location of your WP blog to the home directory, so that’s what I’d probably do.
Cheers Eric
I should have asked in the last question.
What’s the best way to move the blog?
You can find instructions here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
Hi Eric. I am really enjoying and learning a lot from your lessons. I am a newbie and have built a site using a CPanel template. I am not happy with the format. The content is simply displayed down the center with no use of the margins and the fonts are not true WYSIWYG. Can Wordpress or a site builder be applied to an already existing template site, or do I need to start over?
If you’re switching to Wordpress, you’re best off starting over. For most site builders/editors, you can use the existing template and modify it. In many WYSIWYG editors, you can just copy and paste your existing web page into it and work from there.
You might be happier with Wordpress in the long run though.
Eric, I sell home and auto insurance and have web sites out on the web, but I would like to update them. Do any of the mentioned sites allow for a contact page that can be emailed to me so I can contact them to get the required infomation for doing a quote. Does Site Profit Bot allow for a contact page to be set up? All of your Tips have been around selling things or merchanise on your site, I can’t sell insurance on the web, I have to talk with the prospect first and then generate a quote.
Sure, you can setup a contact form on any site, including those built with SPB. In fact, in my bonus video for SPB I show how to insert and opt-in form into the site.
Eric,
This is really great information that you’re passing on to us. I’ve overpaid for a couple of other online courses that can’t even compare in explaining a fraction of the technical details you provide us. As a “newbie”, I am really behind on the learning curve, but thank you for providing me with the opportunity to catch up. Best wishes and I again sincerely want to thank you.
Thanks Eric, Wordpress also have pluggin for adsense which really helps a lot!
Hi Eric,
I finally moved on to a next steop. I have just installed WP using the one click fantastico from my hostgator reseller account. Now my domain has the default WP theme. The thing I don’t understand is that the domain I’m working on has changed from http://www.domain.com to http://domain.com after I installed WP, why is that? How can I make the URL back to http://www.domain.com?
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Shirley
It’s actually very easy
Go into your WP Admin panel, into the main settings. And make sure the www is in the address for the location of the wordpress installation and blog.
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