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Let's set up your W.P. of course exclusive 90 day free trial at site ground where you can easily install

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and play with wordpress site Ground is one of the highest rated hosting companies currently available

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and they have inexpensive shared levels all the way up through managed WordPress plans you can use to

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run multiple Web sites and resell hosting to clients.

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In this video you'll set up your free hosting account with site ground.

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You can use this free account for your coursework and for hosting your sites in the future if you choose.

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By the end of this video you'll have your first live internet hosting account and a place you can use

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to experiment with sites you build in this course.

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Start by visiting the student site at students dot W.P. deaf course dot com and scroll down to see the

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student resource page.

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You can hit this resource page button or the resources button at the top or the bottom of the site and

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on this Resources page you'll see that there is a long list of resources and links that lead you to

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different places that we will use in this course.

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If you scroll down near the top click the site Ground link and it will open up a new tab where there's

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a three months free hosting sign up page and you can just click sign up right there.

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Fill out the small amount of details on the form and what you're getting here is a start up hosting

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plan at site ground for three months for free over at site ground they offer a discount for any period

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of time you sign up for at once.

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But they don't offer free trials at site ground.

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So this is a special exclusive offer for students of the course and just go down and the last choice

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is please enter your domain.

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If you do own a domain name that you'd like to use with this hosting account during the course you can

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activate it with an existing domain you could purchase a domain name right here if you like but I don't

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recommend that.

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And it's easy enough to activate an account without the domain and you'll be given a free domain to

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work with for the course and the length of time that we have.

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The hosting account for.

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So just click the box that you've confirmed and click pay now which will be zero dollars.

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And let site ground set up your hosting account for you.

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I got the message your order was successfully submitted and you'll be receiving an email and you can

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log into the customer area right here to log in to your site.

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Now you might want to bookmark this.

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You are ELF from site ground it's you a for user area dot site Ground dot com and that's what I've done

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in my website bookmarks right here in Firefox and just close that toolbar for now and over in my email.

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You can see that I've received an email from site Ground Kinglet your and you are now a sacred client

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and they've assigned me a username and the password is the one that I chose during the sign up process.

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So make sure you remember that password that you used and use your username that they've assigned you

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Control-C to copy and I'll go back to the log in form and I'll go ahead and log in with my username

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and password or click remember so that I don't have to remember that password and retype it every time.

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And now I get to choose whether I want to start a Web site transfer an existing web site or thanks but

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I don't need help.

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It's important that you choose this third option because we are going to be installing WordPress using

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the site Ground tools and configuring WordPress sites for the course.

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So now that you've chosen the third option thanks but I don't need help.

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Click proceed.

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This is the site Ground user area and whenever I log in to site Ground I'll usually go right to the

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second tab called my accounts and let's take a look at what you've got.

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I have a primary domain here which is Greg one dot SAGD you dot site and we can use this domain throughout

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the course to build web sites and do all of our coursework.

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And there's some other information that you can look at as you go down here.

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These are your name servers if you do own a domain name and you'd like to point a domain at your site

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ground site and use it.

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But we don't have to do that during the course next let's click the red button go to see panel and see

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panel is short for control panel and what we do want to do is access see panel securely and leave that

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button checked.

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And then remember your selection and click proceed once the see panel is loaded.

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You can explore by scrolling down a little bit all the different utilities that we have as a part of

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our site Ground web site hosting.

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Let's finish up this video by installing Wordpress and activating it for our testing domain whatever

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that is up at the top here.

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So if you see near the top there's an auto installer section and you can just click the word press button.

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It will open a utility called sauf tactless which comes bundled with subpanel often in different hosting

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companies accounts and you can just go to the install tab and let's choose where to install WordPress

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inside of our domain right here.

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Now we'll leave HTP colon slash slash for now as opposed to setting it up under a secure HTP s which

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will go over laved later in the course and let's leave the domain as our root domain and we won't put

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a separate directory here in the directory place.

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We could just leave everything else as the default except what I'm going to do is choose a username

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that's easy for me to remember along with a password that I can remember as well.

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So I'll just choose that user password that I can remember and I use a valid email address so that I

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can test the email sending capability from my wordpress account and that'll be my admin email address

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We can just choose whatever we need down here.

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Let's just leave all of the defaults and we can go down and click install should only take a couple

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of seconds and we'll have a WordPress site ready for us to start playing with great.

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That just took about five or 10 seconds and it says congratulations the software was installed successfully

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and it gives me a U R L which is my regular site Ground educational site you Arel that I'm using along

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with an administrative Yowell which is basically the URL of your hosting and domain at your hosting

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account slash W.P. Dasch admin.

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We don't have to save or remember that we're going to be using this u r l a lot in different places

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in this course.

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If you go right over here and roll over this little widget control panel button right here that'll bring

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you back to the seat panel.

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We don't really need to go back there again because we're going to be managing WordPress through its

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admin you are l.

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But let's go ahead and open up a new tab in your browser.

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And let's go to the you are l where are your wordpress site is set up.

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If you're in the C panel that's at the very top here and I'm just going to hit Control C and it's also

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down here under main domain.

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I don't want to open up my new tab and just paste that you URL right into the address bar.

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And I've got a new WordPress site set up.

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This is a default page.

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That site ground creates for you with a little bit of links to some resources.

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And if we want to get to the admin page we can go to this log in button right here in the sidebar and

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I'm going to right click that and click Open link in new tab.

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That way I'll have the log in an admin area open at the same time as I have the actual site open in

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two different tabs.

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Remember I used a certain username right there and typed my password that I made sure and remembered

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and I'll click log in and I can ask Firefox to remember that password for me so it's easy for me to

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log in next time.

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Here's my wordpress dashboard.

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And boy doesn't that feel great.

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There's nothing like getting a nice fresh WordPress installation installed and ready to go on your news

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server.

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Remember it's my you Arel here that I'm using with my site Ground free account.

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Mine is Greg D one dot s g for site Ground edu dot site slash WP admin and that you are l without the

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WP admin is where my web site lives.

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We can use this site Ground account to create multiple WordPress environments for all of our course

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work here at W.P. of course.

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Lastly lets configure the Wordpress dashboard and our WordPress installation just a little bit from

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the default installation.

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That site ground gives us first off there is a welcome to WordPress area right here that you can dismiss

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up here on the right hand side if you like and we've got a default plugin from automatic.

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The company behind WordPress called jetpack.

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For now I'm just going to go into plugins installed plugins and take a look at our plugins lists that

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come with this site ground installation.

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I'm just going to deactivate jetpack for now and we'll leave the other to default WordPress plugins

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deactivated as well.

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The other thing I'll do is go into settings and under General I can now rename my site title My tag

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line and I'm also going to choose my own time zone as well as the what I want the week to start on and

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my default language.

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So go ahead and do that and I'll pause the video and be right back.

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I changed my site title to site ground testing site made a tagline experimentation for WP dev course

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and then I just wanted to show you as you go down here to time zone if you open it up you can get a

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lot of UTC numbered time zones and if you know your own you can do that.

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But there's also a number of different cities here.

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But if you just start typing a letter you can go to a city that's near you.

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It's easier to find them that way.

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Then I'll click Save changes usually get a green line when your settings are saved.

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You can close those notifications by going to the right hand side.

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Like I just did and then the second and third thing I always do is I'll go down to the media settings

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and I like to uncheck the organize my uploads into month and year based folders just so I keep all of

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my images and files that I upload into the media library into one folder I can access in one place if

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So I save those changes and then finally I always go into Permalink.

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And I'll choose post name.

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The best permalink structure for MCO for the search engine optimization and it's the simplest gives

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you a slash and then the name of the page or post that you're creating.

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Then I'll just go down and click save changes once again.

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And now I have a fresh WordPress installation that's ready to go and I can start building sites in the

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next video.

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