Let's set up your W.P. of course exclusive 90 day free trial at site ground where you can easily install
and play with wordpress site Ground is one of the highest rated hosting companies currently available
and they have inexpensive shared levels all the way up through managed WordPress plans you can use to
run multiple Web sites and resell hosting to clients.
In this video you'll set up your free hosting account with site ground.
You can use this free account for your coursework and for hosting your sites in the future if you choose.
By the end of this video you'll have your first live internet hosting account and a place you can use
to experiment with sites you build in this course.
Start by visiting the student site at students dot W.P. deaf course dot com and scroll down to see the
student resource page.
You can hit this resource page button or the resources button at the top or the bottom of the site and
on this Resources page you'll see that there is a long list of resources and links that lead you to
different places that we will use in this course.
If you scroll down near the top click the site Ground link and it will open up a new tab where there's
a three months free hosting sign up page and you can just click sign up right there.
Fill out the small amount of details on the form and what you're getting here is a start up hosting
plan at site ground for three months for free over at site ground they offer a discount for any period
of time you sign up for at once.
But they don't offer free trials at site ground.
So this is a special exclusive offer for students of the course and just go down and the last choice
is please enter your domain.
If you do own a domain name that you'd like to use with this hosting account during the course you can
activate it with an existing domain you could purchase a domain name right here if you like but I don't
recommend that.
And it's easy enough to activate an account without the domain and you'll be given a free domain to
work with for the course and the length of time that we have.
The hosting account for.
So just click the box that you've confirmed and click pay now which will be zero dollars.
And let site ground set up your hosting account for you.
I got the message your order was successfully submitted and you'll be receiving an email and you can
log into the customer area right here to log in to your site.
Now you might want to bookmark this.
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
in my website bookmarks right here in Firefox and just close that toolbar for now and over in my email.
You can see that I've received an email from site Ground Kinglet your and you are now a sacred client
and they've assigned me a username and the password is the one that I chose during the sign up process.
So make sure you remember that password that you used and use your username that they've assigned you
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
and password or click remember so that I don't have to remember that password and retype it every time.
And now I get to choose whether I want to start a Web site transfer an existing web site or thanks but
I don't need help.
It's important that you choose this third option because we are going to be installing WordPress using
the site Ground tools and configuring WordPress sites for the course.
So now that you've chosen the third option thanks but I don't need help.
Click proceed.
This is the site Ground user area and whenever I log in to site Ground I'll usually go right to the
second tab called my accounts and let's take a look at what you've got.
I have a primary domain here which is Greg one dot SAGD you dot site and we can use this domain throughout
the course to build web sites and do all of our coursework.
And there's some other information that you can look at as you go down here.
These are your name servers if you do own a domain name and you'd like to point a domain at your site
ground site and use it.
But we don't have to do that during the course next let's click the red button go to see panel and see
panel is short for control panel and what we do want to do is access see panel securely and leave that
button checked.
And then remember your selection and click proceed once the see panel is loaded.
You can explore by scrolling down a little bit all the different utilities that we have as a part of
our site Ground web site hosting.
Let's finish up this video by installing Wordpress and activating it for our testing domain whatever
that is up at the top here.
So if you see near the top there's an auto installer section and you can just click the word press button.
It will open a utility called sauf tactless which comes bundled with subpanel often in different hosting
companies accounts and you can just go to the install tab and let's choose where to install WordPress
inside of our domain right here.
Now we'll leave HTP colon slash slash for now as opposed to setting it up under a secure HTP s which
will go over laved later in the course and let's leave the domain as our root domain and we won't put
a separate directory here in the directory place.
We could just leave everything else as the default except what I'm going to do is choose a username
that's easy for me to remember along with a password that I can remember as well.
So I'll just choose that user password that I can remember and I use a valid email address so that I
can test the email sending capability from my wordpress account and that'll be my admin email address
there.
We can just choose whatever we need down here.
Let's just leave all of the defaults and we can go down and click install should only take a couple
of seconds and we'll have a WordPress site ready for us to start playing with great.
That just took about five or 10 seconds and it says congratulations the software was installed successfully
and it gives me a U R L which is my regular site Ground educational site you Arel that I'm using along
with an administrative Yowell which is basically the URL of your hosting and domain at your hosting
account slash W.P. Dasch admin.
We don't have to save or remember that we're going to be using this u r l a lot in different places
in this course.
If you go right over here and roll over this little widget control panel button right here that'll bring
you back to the seat panel.
We don't really need to go back there again because we're going to be managing WordPress through its
admin you are l.
But let's go ahead and open up a new tab in your browser.
And let's go to the you are l where are your wordpress site is set up.
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
down here under main domain.
I don't want to open up my new tab and just paste that you URL right into the address bar.
And I've got a new WordPress site set up.
This is a default page.
That site ground creates for you with a little bit of links to some resources.
And if we want to get to the admin page we can go to this log in button right here in the sidebar and
I'm going to right click that and click Open link in new tab.
That way I'll have the log in an admin area open at the same time as I have the actual site open in
two different tabs.
Remember I used a certain username right there and typed my password that I made sure and remembered
and I'll click log in and I can ask Firefox to remember that password for me so it's easy for me to
log in next time.
Here's my wordpress dashboard.
And boy doesn't that feel great.
There's nothing like getting a nice fresh WordPress installation installed and ready to go on your news
server.
Remember it's my you Arel here that I'm using with my site Ground free account.
Mine is Greg D one dot s g for site Ground edu dot site slash WP admin and that you are l without the
WP admin is where my web site lives.
We can use this site Ground account to create multiple WordPress environments for all of our course
work here at W.P. of course.
Lastly lets configure the Wordpress dashboard and our WordPress installation just a little bit from
the default installation.
That site ground gives us first off there is a welcome to WordPress area right here that you can dismiss
up here on the right hand side if you like and we've got a default plugin from automatic.
The company behind WordPress called jetpack.
For now I'm just going to go into plugins installed plugins and take a look at our plugins lists that
come with this site ground installation.
I'm just going to deactivate jetpack for now and we'll leave the other to default WordPress plugins
deactivated as well.
The other thing I'll do is go into settings and under General I can now rename my site title My tag
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
my default language.
So go ahead and do that and I'll pause the video and be right back.
I changed my site title to site ground testing site made a tagline experimentation for WP dev course
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
lot of UTC numbered time zones and if you know your own you can do that.
But there's also a number of different cities here.
But if you just start typing a letter you can go to a city that's near you.
It's easier to find them that way.
Then I'll click Save changes usually get a green line when your settings are saved.
You can close those notifications by going to the right hand side.
Like I just did and then the second and third thing I always do is I'll go down to the media settings
and I like to uncheck the organize my uploads into month and year based folders just so I keep all of
my images and files that I upload into the media library into one folder I can access in one place if
I want to.
So I save those changes and then finally I always go into Permalink.
And I'll choose post name.
The best permalink structure for MCO for the search engine optimization and it's the simplest gives
you a slash and then the name of the page or post that you're creating.
Then I'll just go down and click save changes once again.
And now I have a fresh WordPress installation that's ready to go and I can start building sites in the
next video.
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