Moving this WordPress site over to SiteGround is probably the best decision I ever made when it comes to web hosting. So if you haven’t already, you should go and sign up with siteground too.
But how do I install WordPress on SiteGround? In this tutorial I will show you how easy it is to install WordPress on your SiteGround hosting account.
There is a number of possible ways on how to install WordPress to your SiteGround hosting account, but here I am going to guide you through two of the easiest WordPress installation methods.
The first method is fully automatic, and uses SiteGround’s WordPress Setup Wizard. The second method is semi-automatic, and uses the Softaculous installation setup.
How to install WordPress on SiteGround – using The Setup Wizard
Step 1: Login to your SiteGround Customer Area
Step 2: Click on the banner that says “Get your new site up and running!“
Step 3: Select to get WordPress pre-installed on this account, and click proceed.
Step 4: Then choose what your login details should be for your WordPress site
This is the username and password (P.S. always use strong passwords) which you use to login to the admin area of your WordPress site.
Step 5: Then choose a WordPress theme (optional) to be installed with your WordPress site
If do not choose a theme here, you will get the default basic WordPress theme. If you already have a WordPress theme you you want to use then don’t choose a template from here.
Step 6: Finally Click Submit and WordPress will be installed and configured for you
And you will be given the login details, and they will be emailed to you.
Now how easy was that! The next method involves a few more steps and allows you to customize your WordPress installation on SiteGround a bit more.
How to install WordPress on SiteGround – using Softaculous
This method is a bit more semi-automatic and it uses the Softaculous WordPress Installer (as this gives you a few more options to customize your WordPress installation).
So what’s Softaculous? Basically it’s a software script library that automates the installation of open-source applications like WordPress (but also Joomla, Magento etc.).
Step 1: Login to your SiteGround Customer Area and access your controlpanel (called cPanel)
Step 2: Next, look for the “WordPress Installer” icon. Click on it
Then you’ll be taken to a page that gives you a bit of an overview of WordPress.
Step 3: Click on the “Install” button
This will take you to a page with settings for your WordPress site.
Step 4: WordPress software setup settings
Here I will walk you through each setting, one by one:
- Choose protocol. Choose which of the provided protocols your WordPress website should be accessible from. For example I use https://www.websitehostingrating.com
- Choose domain. Select the domain name you want to install WordPress on from the drop box
- Install in directory. Leave this blank to install on the domain directly. If you are installing in a subfolder of your site you type in the folder name. For example, if you type in folder-name then WP will be installed: website.com/folder-name.
- Site name. The name of your WordPress site.
- Site description. The description or “tagline” for your WordPress site.
- Enable multisite (WPMU). Make sure this box is unchecked as you don’t want WPMU (Multiuser) enabled.
- Admin username. Enter a username for your WordPress Dashboard login.
- Admin password. Enter a password for your WordPress Dashboard login.
- Admin email. Enter an email address for your WordPress Dashboard login.
- Select language. Choose what language you would like your WordPress platform installed in. The list of supported languages is quite big and most probably you will find your native language there
- Limit login attempts (Loginizer). Enable this checkbox as you want the “Limit Login Attempts” plugin installed, as it boosts the security on your WordPress website
- Choose a theme to install. Select none unless you want to use a WordPress theme from the dropdown.
- Advanced options. Here you can rename the database name and table prefix, but you can leave the default values as-is.
- Install. Hit the install button and WordPress will begin installing, once done you will be shown the login details (and emailed too to the above email address you nominated)
Voila! WordPress should now be installed on SiteGround
In case you’ve followed the steps from this tutorial, you will now have a WordPress website installed and all setup on your SiteGround hosting account.
You can now login to WordPress and begin editing themes, uploading plugins and adding content to your brand new WordPress website.
If you haven’t already, go to siteground.com and sign up right now (my sign up guide is here).