Install, Move & Update articles

Install, Move & Update 444 How to install WordPress in a few clicks You don't have to download WordPress, create a database and upload files by hand. The installer in cPanel does all...
Install, Move & Update 461 How to remove WordPress from a domain, without leaving anything behind You want WordPress off a domain, because the installation broke, because you are starting over, or because the site...
Install, Move & Update 346 WordPress explained, and when it is the right choice WordPress is a program you install on your hosting to build and run a website without writing code. It is not...
Install, Move & Update 342 Creating a WordPress site from the control panel You do not have to download WordPress, create a database or upload anything. cPanel carries two tools that do all of...
Install, Move & Update 370 The WordPress tool in cPanel: what it does for you cPanel carries a tool built for WordPress, in the Domains section. It knows about the installations on your account...
Install, Move & Update 290 Updating WordPress itself The WordPress core is the part that is identical on every site in the world, which is exactly why flaws in it are...
Install, Move & Update 307 Moving a Blogger blog to WordPress It happens in three stages: get the content out of Blogger, put it into WordPress, and deal with the old addresses,...
Install, Move & Update 318 Two domains on the same WordPress site People who ask this nearly always want one of four different things. Pick the right row before touching anything,...
Install, Move & Update 337 Turning on WordPress MultiSite, and when it is not worth it MultiSite turns one WordPress installation into a network of sites. There is then one core, one themes folder, one...
Install, Move & Update 355 Changing the WordPress site address, and what breaks when it goes wrong WordPress stores the site address in two fields, and confusing them is behind half the sites that become unreachable...
Install, Move & Update 236 Moving WordPress to a new domain without losing anything Changing name is more than swapping an address. If the site already has visitors, links pointing at it and a...
Install, Move & Update 242 WP-CLI over SSH: updating and fixing WordPress from the command line The short answer: WP-CLI is WordPress on the command line. Instead of opening the dashboard and clicking, you type...
Install, Move & Update 248 A multilingual WordPress site: plugin options, URLs and what Google needs The short answer: WordPress on its own has a single language. For a site in several there are three ways: a plugin...
Install, Move & Update 343 Moving from WordPress.com to your own hosting: what you can take with you The short answer: WordPress.com is a service where the site lives on another company’s servers; the WordPress you...
Install, Move & Update 303 Replacing old addresses in a WordPress database without breaking it The short answer: when you change the site’s address (a new domain, or from http to https), WordPress keeps the old...
Install, Move & Update 284 Exporting and importing content between two WordPress sites The short answer: WordPress has its own tool to carry the content (pages, posts, comments, menus, images) from one...
Install, Move & Update 262 Changing the language of WordPress: the site, the dashboard and each user The short answer: WordPress has two languages chosen separately: the site’s (under Settings > General) and each...
Install, Move & Update 276 A test copy (staging) of your WordPress site: changing things safely The short answer: a test copy is a second site, identical to yours, that only you see. You try the new theme, the...
Install, Move & Update 352 Redirecting old pages in WordPress: a plugin or .htaccess The short answer: when a page changes address or disappears, whoever saved it (and Google) lands on a 404. The...
Install, Move & Update 28 Moving WordPress e-mail from a mailbox to SMTP Relay: what changes in your SMTP plugin The short answer: the SMTP plugin you already use will do. Four things change: the server (the Email Center one, not...