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 How to Install WordPress on Infinityfree

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Now let’s see how to install WordPress of the hosting account. For that, we will use “Softaculous Apps Installer” as it will help us to install and setup WordPress in minutes.

So under “SOFTWARE” section, click on“Softaculous Apps Installer” and it will redirect you to another page. Here it will give you the option to install different services like PrestaShop, Joomla, and phpBB, etc But as we just want “WordPress” so we will click on the “install” button that is on WordPress. Now it will ask for basic information for setting up WordPress like which version of WordPress would we like to install. We will go with the latest version. For protocol we will just use HTTP:// as InfinityFreedoes not provide SSL certificate in its “InfinityFree” plan. As we have just created one domain so we will select it from here.

Leave this directory blank so that WordPress website files install in the main directory. Now here it is asking for the site name, which will be your WordPress website’s title. In our case, it will be “WPHowKnow”. And here it is asking for the site description. We will leave it as it is. Both “Site Name” and “Site Description” can be changed later from WordPress admin dashboard. We don’t want the “Multisite” feature so we will leave it unchecked. And here it is asking for Admin Username and Admin Password that will be used to login to your WordPress dashboard. So, remember these credentials as you will need these to log in to your WordPress admin panel. For security, keep the strength of the password strong. So that it is not easy to guess your password. Here write in Admin Email address that you want to set. Choose the default language for your WordPress website here. And in this section, it is giving us options to install some plugins. This plugin “Limit Login Attempts” is a security plugin and it is recommended because it will help you to limit the number of login attempts on your website. And if you don’t like the WordPress new default “Gutenberg Editor” you can install the “Classic Editor” plugin to deactivate the “Gutenberg Editor” and use the old “Classic Editor”. As for now, we want both plugins so we will check the boxes in front of them.

 Now if you click on “Advanced Options” tab. Here it will give you the option to set your database name and tables prefix. Let’s say we want our database name to< your site name> and we want every table’s prefix to be work. And here it is giving us options to auto-upgrade our WordPress, its plugins, and themes. But for now, we don’t want to upgrade these things automatically so we will leave these options unchecked. Also, leave the “Backup Location” as default. After setting Advanced Options it is asking us to select a theme that we would like to install on our WordPress website. But this option is not mandatory as WordPress already comes with some of its own themes. So, we will not select any theme from here. Now we are good to go for the installation of WordPress. So, click on the “install” button. Now it will take a while to install WordPress. Now WordPress has been installed on our website.

To check let’s go to the website. Here is the URL of our website so we will click on it. And here you can see that WordPress has been installed successfully and the website is up and running, and the theme it is using by default is the “Twenty Twenty” theme. Now to login to the WordPress admin area, write“wp-admin” in front of the website name in the URL and hit enter. This is the WordPress website’s admin login page. Write in the username and password that you had set while installing WordPress. And click on “Login” button. After successful login, now we are in the WordPress dashboard area. Here you can explore all about your WordPress website. For example, to see which themes are installed on the website and which one is currently activated on your website go to the “Themes” section under “Appearance” Here, you can see all the themes that are installed on your website and which theme is currently activated and if you want to delete the unused themes you can do that easily. To do that select the theme that you want to uninstall and click on the “Delete” button in the right bottom corner.

It will ask for the confirmation. So click on “OK” here. Now the theme and all of its files have been deleted successfully form the website. You can also install new themes by clicking on the “Add new” button here. The same is the case with plugins. In the “Plugins” section you can see all the plugins that are installed on your website and you can easily activate, deactivate or delete any plugin of your choice from within the WordPress dashboard and you can install new plugins by clicking the “Add new” button here. Now let’s see actually where all of your WordPress files are installed. For that once again go to cPanel and find the “Files” section and under it click on “Online File Manager” and from here open “htdocs” folder and this is the folder where all of your WordPress files are installed and here all the files and folders will be same for any WordPress website except for the “wp-content” folder as this is the folder that will have all of your themes, plugins and media files. So, let’s open it.

This folder “themes” will contain all of your themes and their files and all the plugins and their files will be presenting “plugins” folder. And all the images and other files that you will upload from your WordPress will be present in the “uploads” folder. This was a short introduction to the files and folders of the WordPress and the actual content of your websites like posts, pages, and settings of themes and plugins will be saved in different tables in the database. So, now let’s see which database is connected with your WordPress website. Once again go to cPanel and find “DATABASES” section and under “DATABASES” section click on “phpMyAdmin”. This is the database that is connected with your WordPress website. Click on “Connect now!” button and here you can see different tables that are associated with your website and store different information based on their functionality. Like this table “wphk_posts” stores data related to your posts and pages and this table “wphk_users” contains the information about the users of your WordPress website. we have learned “How to install WordPress website on InfinityFree web hosting for free and how to access its files and database”.