Install WordPress with Softaculous

With Softaculous in cPanel you install WordPress on your domain in a few clicks. Softaculous creates the database, installs WordPress and sets up your admin login for you.

Watch the video (2 min 23 s, with narration) – or follow the steps below.

Step by step

1. Open cPanel (see Log in to cPanel from the client area). In the section Softaculous Apps Installer, click WordPress.

   

2. Softaculous opens the WordPress page. Click Install Now.

   

3. Under Software Setup, choose where WordPress goes:

   1. Choose Protocol – https:// once your SSL certificate is in place.
   2. Choose Domain – the domain or subdomain for the site.
   3. In Directory – leave it empty to put WordPress on the main address of the domain. Type a folder name, for example blog, to install it in a sub-folder. The folder must not exist yet.

   Your installation URL below the fields shows the address your site will have. The newest WordPress version is already selected on the right.

   

4. Fill in Site Settings and Admin Account:

   1. Site Name – usually your business name. You can change it later in WordPress.
   2. Site Description – a short line about your site.
   3. Admin Username – the name you sign in to WordPress with. Don't use “admin”: it is the first name attackers try.
   4. Admin Password – Softaculous fills in a strong random password. Click Show to see it and save it in your password manager, or type your own strong password (see Strong passwords).
   5. Admin Email – WordPress sends password resets and notices to this address.
   

5. Further down, under Select Plugins, some plugins are already ticked. Click a plugin to tick or untick it – you can also add or remove plugins later in WordPress. Under Extended Settings you can choose the language of WordPress. Advanced Options can stay as they are.

6. At the bottom of the page:

   1. Click Install.
   2. Optional: under Email installation details to, enter an e-mail address to receive a summary of the installation.
   

   A progress bar shows the installation. Wait until it reaches 100 % and don't leave the page before.

7. When WordPress is ready, you see Congratulations, the software was installed successfully with the address of your site and the Administrative URL – the address of your WordPress dashboard, which ends in /wp-admin/. Your new site is now also listed under WordPress Management:

   

Something not working?

• Softaculous says the folder already exists: choose another name under In Directory, or remove the old folder in File Manager first – but only if you are sure you don't need its files.
• The browser shows a security warning on the new site: the SSL certificate for the domain isn't in place yet. See SSL warnings in the browser – causes and fixes.
• You don't know the admin password: you can still open the dashboard from Softaculous, see Log in to your WordPress dashboard, and set a new password with Reset your WordPress admin password.

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