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Installing a wordpress theme is also an easy one as 1,2,3…

Download your favourite theme and unzip it to your hard disk.

Upload the the wordpress theme folder to the wp-content/themes/ directory from your wordpress root folder.

Login into the wordpress administration area and navigate to the “Design” section

You will see the new template name with a screenshot if available. Click on it and it will pop up a window for you with the live preview of the template.

Then Click on activate. Thats all your new theme has been installed. You can modify your theme by going to the theme editor section in the design tab.

You can also check out the great guide here:

Have Fun!

Wordpress is a very popular, easy to install and easy to use blogging system. Here are the step by step installation instructions for the beginners.

Before starting your wordpress installation, be sure to check that your web hosting has Apache server, PHP, and MySql. And also check if Apache mod_rewrite is supported.

Create a database from your hosting control panel and create a username and password for it.

Download the latest wordpress release from the wordpress site and unzip it to your hard drive.

Open the wp-config-sample.php from the wordpress folder and make the following changes.

define('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere'); // The name of the database

Change the red coloured area of the line above to the actual name of your database that you were given when you set up the database.

define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere'); // Your MySQL username

Change the red coloured area above to the username you were given when you set up the database.

define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere'); // ...and password

Change the red coloured area of the line above to the password you were given when you set up the database.

define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // chance you won't need to change.

If you were given information for the database host, you will likely need to change the red coloured area of the line above to the data you were given when you set up the database. If you were not given this information it is very likely you can leave this set to localhost.

There are also 3 areas like the AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY where you need to change the values to a long random unique key.

And save the file, close it and rename the file to ‘wp-config.php’

Now, Upload all the files and folders that are inside the wordpress folder to your installation directory.

Lets assume you have uploaded to your root site of www.yoursite.com. Open www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php It will open up the installation process and you need to enter your website name and your email id at this point of time.

After successfull installation wordpress will generate a random password for the admin user and will show you up at the end. Now note down the username and password and you are ready to go to the site.