Installing WordPress in one click

You do not need to download WordPress manually. cPanel has a one-click installer.

Install

1. Open cPanel → WordPress Toolkit (or WordPress Manager).
2. Click Install.
3. Choose your domain. If you want WordPress at the root (e.g. yourdomain.com), leave the path empty. For a subfolder (yourdomain.com/blog), type blog.
4. Choose HTTPS (we'll install free SSL too — see the SSL article).
5. Set the admin username (avoid admin — it's the first thing bots try) and a strong password.
6. Click Install. Done in ~30 seconds.

Log in to wp-admin

Open https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin, enter the username and password you just set.

Recommended first steps

• Update permalinks: Settings → Permalinks → Post name → Save.
• Delete the sample "Hello world" post and the Hello Dolly plugin.
• Install a caching plugin (LiteSpeed Cache if our server runs LiteSpeed; W3 Total Cache otherwise).
• Install a security plugin (Wordfence or Solid Security).