Earn your client's confidence part 3 - Installing Wordpress

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Earn Your Client's Confidence

Part 3 - Installing Wordpress


Now that you have signed up for a web

hosting


and connected your domain


it’s time to install Wordpress!


Login to your Hostmonster account


scroll down and click the Wordpress icon


it will direct you to Mojo Marketplace


Just click the green ‘Install’ button


Select which domain you’d like to install to


Fill in your site name, username and

password


And your installation will be underway


Once complete,


view your site’s credentials


And you’ll see the admin link to your site


If you click on the site URL


it will direct you to a coming soon page


because you still have to build your site!


You can do that by clicking on your admin

URL


Remember the username and

password


you set before the installation?


Enter it in your admin page


Hit ‘Login’ and you’ll get inside


your website’s dashboard


If you access your website


from within your dashboard


you’ll see that it’s still an empty site


Now if you already own a free wordpress

(like I did)


you have to export and import your files


to fill your new site with content


Here’s how you can import and export:


Go to your old Wordpress blog’s

dashboard


Scroll down and click ‘Tools’ from the left

sidebar


Click ‘Export’


Click ‘Start Export’


Choose the files you want to export


then click ‘Download Export File’


Now go to your new Wordpress blog’s

dashboard


Look for ‘Tools’ again


This time, choose ‘Import’


Install the ‘Wordpress importer’


Click ‘Install Now’


Click ‘Activate Plugin’ so you can start using

the importer


Wait! You’re not done importing yet.


Once the plugin has been activated


this page will appear


You have to click ‘Choose File’


A pop-up will open and you have to


choose the file you exported earlier.


Finish the import by clicking the ‘Upload

File’ button


Assign your site’s authors


(in my case I chose existing user)


Then click ‘Submit’


To double check if the import was

successful,


you can go to posts > all posts


and you’ll find your recent posts


You can also visit your site from the dash


and you can see your recent posts there


But! as mentioned in this message:


Your site is showing a ‘Coming Soon’ page


It looks like this:


It mean, you can see the content of your

site


but if you give your site URL


to a client or friend, they’ll see


the coming soon page


To get your site up and running,


check out Part 4 of this series: designing your

website


Note: When you install Wordpress to Hostmonster, it's not a pre-requisite to own a free wordpress blog. Once you connect your domain to hostmonster

it will automatically create a new Wordpress site for you.


Don't follow what I did! I thought my existing domain should be connected to my free Wordpress site because I was getting an error message

when trying to access the admin login page.


I paid Wordpress $13 to connect my domain to my free blog. Only to find out that I was getting an error because my domain’s nameservers wasn’t properly

pointing to Hostmonster's nameservers.

(Learn how to point your domain’s nameservers from my Earn Your Client’s Confidence Part 2 tutorial!)


Good thing I was able to cancel the Wordpress domain connection and got a refund!


“If you want to get a job, create a portfolio and start

your own projects. You need to prove that you’re more than

a piece of paper.”Dale J Stephens


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