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Today we are continuing our last lesson that we talk about what is wordpress , now we are going to start our first step in installing wordpress on your website , remember that they are very easy steps , just give me your attention and you will be happy at the end .

Our installation steps will be occurred on 3 parts :

• Uploading wordpress files using ftp
• Creating MySQL database for wordpress and editing the config.php file
• Install wordpress to your website

So our tutorial today is about how to upload wordpress files to our website using FTP . you must have the Ipswitch WS_FTP program , if you do not have it yet , then download it from here , then install it on your computer , read also this guide to know how to use WS_FTP program .

We also Need the latest version of wordpress , Simply you can download it from here or here .
After downloading WS_FTP software and wordpress , now open WS_FTP from your desktop or your start menu .

Now put your website domain in the Address bar , then put your log-in information of your cpanel in the user ID and password bar , then click GO .

Now your website content will be opened at the right hand side , leave it for a while and go back to your wordpress zip file that you have just downloaded , extract it first using any extracting software like win rar .

A new folder named by wordpress will be produced after extracting , leave it and now let’s go back to the FTP software , in the left hand side of the software , all your computer content are listed , go and open the wordpress folder that we have just extracted and leave it opened .

Now you have two choices , to install wordpress into your home page to be opened from yourdomain.com , or to install it to a directory named by ” blog “  to be opened from : yourdomain.com/blog .

If you want to install wordpress to your home page , then you have to upload all the wordpress folder content to the home directory , so you have to open public_html folder first and then upload the wordpress folder content .

Now select all the wordpress files from your computer content in the left hand side of the program , then click on the green arrow in the direction of your website content .

If you want to install your wordpress to another directory like : yourdomain.com/blog , then open public_html first , then create a new folder with the name of your directory , I will create a one called myblog , so later after the installtion process I can access to my wordpress from : yourdomain.com/myblog

After that , open it to upload the wordpress files to it .

Now select all the wordpress files from your computer content in the left hand side of the program , then click on the green arrow in the direction of your website content .

After starting uploading , a small bar in the bottom of the program will appear with the uploading progress , wait for a while until the uploading finish , depending on the folder size and your Internet connection speed .

After uploading ,  you must see all the file uploaded in your home page or in the directory you have create for wordpress .

Now we uploaded the wordpress files , next tutorial will be about creating a MySQL database for wordpress and how to edit the config file to connect the MySQL database with our wordpress version successfully .