How to Install WordPress - All You Need to Know!
Nowadays, the five-minute install is actually one of the slowest ways of installing WordPress, and there are two alternative methods that will take you even less time!
As always, however, while the actual process of installing will only take a couple of minutes, you need to spend a bit of time beforehand making sure you have everything else in place and are proceeding with the option that makes the most sense for your website.
This guide will cover everything you need to know about installing WordPress -- whether you’re installing for the first time or just want a recap of the best options. Let’s get right to it.
Before You Install WordPress, You Need to Look at Hosting
The main prerequisite for installing WordPress successfully is making sure your hosting is sorted, as this provides the storage and power for your website. Having the right hosting is very important for your site's health and success, and it’s much easier to sort this out before you install WordPress.
Furthermore, different types of hosts have different ways of installing WordPress, and some of these are significantly easier than others. Let’s look at these different types of host in more detail.
Managed hosting is the best way of hosting a professional WordPress website. Managed hosts use servers optimized to run on WordPress. This has a number of benefits, including very fast load times (the faster your site loads, the better), and guarantees your site will be online during traffic spikes (most likely to come from social media).
Managed hosts also throw in useful extras, such as WordPress security protection, automated backups and updates, and expert WordPress support. All of this does, however, come at a price: Managed hosting costs between $30 and $100 for most small-to-medium sites, and significantly more for large sites.
Shared hosting is inferior to managed hosting, but significantly cheaper. The name is derived from a single server being 'shared' between dozens, hundreds or even thousands of websites. As you may expect, this means resources are often stretched, and a single resource-intensive site on the same server can cause all other sites to load slowly (or not at all). A site hosted on shared hosting will also struggle with large spikes of traffic.
Furthermore, shared hosting is designed to be versatile, and, thus, is rarely well optimized to run WordPress -- meaning your site will load more slowly than on managed hosting (visitors won’t like this). You may get backups and some security features, but these won’t be of the same quality as those found with managed hosting. Shared hosting is popular despite these drawbacks because it’s cheap: Plans start at $5 a month and rise to only $15 a month.
The takeaway from this is simple: If you can afford a managed host, you should use one. Managed hosting is easy to use, reliable and comes with extra features that'll keep your site safe. We recommend WP Engine, which starts at $29 a month, and will be using this as our managed hosting example for how to install WordPress later in this guide.
If managed hosting is too expensive, then the best shared host to use is SiteGround. We’ll be using SiteGround as our example for a 'one click' WordPress install.
This is your overview of WordPress hosting, and should be sufficient information to make a decision. If you need more detail, however, we have a full article on how to choose between managed and shared hosting, and a full guide on how to choose the best WordPress hosts.
How Should You Install WordPress?
There are three ways of installing WordPress:
- Having it done automatically for you.
- Using a 'one-click' installer.
- Manually installing WordPress.
The first two options are the easiest, and you should default to one of those if possible.
Managed hosts will install WordPress automatically for you, and most shared hosts will offer some sort of easy 'one-click' installer. Both of these typically come with advantages such as automatic updates and backups, and, as discussed, managed hosting also gives you other benefits. There are no real disadvantages to using either of these installation methods.
If neither automatic or 'one-click' installs are available, you’ll need to install WordPress manually. You should also do this if it’s imperative you have complete control over the installation process. For most people, however, this isn’t going to be the case, and the other two installation methods are superior options.
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