Getting started

As you are Novice and with limited technical expertise I would recommend that you use linux server account as wordpress works with php and is known to have problems on window server specially with permalinks.

Your request seems a little bit vague so going off of your statement you’re a complete novice with limited technical expertise, I am inclined to assume you’re not familiar with FTP? I mean no insult, just not sure what “limited” means in your case, or how limited ??

1. google FTP client software, Filezilla is a good free one, download and install, launch; select file/site manager and add in your hosting info (should’ve come in your registration confirmation email for hosting/domain). Basically your domain path, user id and password

2. make sure your webhost supports mySQL and php; if so, usually the control panel provides an option to set up the database or a database wizard that’ll whip one up for you. Name it and the password. And make sure the domain is active and the nameservers are set correctly.

3. Unzip wp3.3 and pull the contents to your “work” folder for whatever the site is. Find wp_config-sample.php and change it to wp_config.php
3A – open it using notepad++ or whatever editor and add in your information for:

database user name, database password (from the database wizard); then scroll down to the SALT authentication section and copy the url, paste it in a browser window, load: copy all that code that comes up and then replace the code shown in the config file with the copied code. Enable multisite if applicable. Save.

4. Open FTP client and log into site. Go to root (main site folder) or a directory if you want it in a separate directory.
root = yourdomain.com
sub directory = yourdomain.com/blogfolder/

5. Open the wordpress folder and highlight everything in it on the left hand side of your FTP client. Click the upload button. Give it a few minutes and everything should be moved to the folder chosen.

All uploaded.

type in your domain url or path to the wp installation, should have the main activation screen. Fill out your info, save, log in…enjoy

If you meant something else, apologies…but that’s how it reads – how to upload wordpress…

Thanks to Gov and Stacey for your responses. I have progressed somewhat since your responses. My issue now is that I cannot log in to the admin area to install/upload a theme. How do I access the admin log-in window? I have a WordPress username and password. Thanks.

Enter https://your domainname/wp-admin in address bar

Also, unless you use something like theme my login, you will want to add the “meta” widget to one of your sidebars so you can log in easier, otherwise you’ll have to make a direct link somewhere to the login page. The WP name and pw for this forum isn’t the one you need, it’s the one you set up when you installed it – just for the record. That one won’t work here unless you made them the same.

Thanks folks for your suggestions and assistance – good news is I’m making great progress! My issue now is that I cannot access my site if I type the URL into my browser. I get the following error message “Cannot find block ‘__global__” Any idea what I’ve done wrong? Thanks.