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The WordPress blog installation is very easy, and many web hosts are supported with blog installation tools like Fantastico to install WordPress automatically.

Here’s how to install WordPress using Fantastico:

Step 1: Log-in to your cPanel:

After you have successfully logged-in, you will be able to see you cPanel dashboard. Look for the Software/Services box, and then click Fantastico. (see image below)

After you have clicked the Fantastico De Luxe icon, you will be able to see the Fantastico dashboard. (see image below).

Then, look for WordPress on the left-hand of the page.

• 1. Click the WordPress link. And then,
• 2. Click New Installation

You will be able to see the installation page. (see image below)

Complete the following information:

1. Installation Domain – you will be ask where to install the WordPress. If you have created more than one sub-domain, just drop-down and click the sub-domain. In this exercises, I have created a sub-domain name “samplewordpressblog”.
2. User name – My user name is “user1″
3. Password – My password is “sample101″
4. Email Address – where updates will be sent. My e-mail address is “mitchmatch0327@gmail.com”
5. Install WordPress – click this button to install WordPress.

(Note: Other information can be changed anytime.)

After you have clicked the Install WordPress button, you will be able to see a confirmation. (see image below)

To complete the installation, click the Finish installation button. Congratulation! you’re done! and don’t forget to save a copy of your installation. (see image below).

Check your Inbox, you will be able to receive a copy of your installation. Now, let’s check if the WordPress blog installation is successful!

• Click the link, http://samplewordpressblog.mitchellespina.com/wp-admin/
• Enter user name (user1)
• Enter password (sample101)
• Click Log-in. (see image below)

Excellent! We are now able to log-in, and here’s the WordPress Sample Blog. (see image below).

WordPress blog installation is really easy, right? If you have any questions or need help in installing your WordPress blog, please let me know. If you like this article, please tell your friends and if you don’t tell me.

Next Topics, I will be talking about:

• How to install Plug-ins
• How to install Themes

Any questions?

Note: I will delete the Database name, User name and Password after this tutorial for security reason.

Today, let’s talk about how to install and set-up a Paypal Donations Wordpress Plug-in.  It’s very simple and wont take much of your valuable time, just follow these simple instructions.

Let’s begin.

STEP1, Download the Paypal Donations Wordpress plug-in. It wont take much time to download, visit here.  After you have downloaded the plug-in, extract it.

STEP2, Upload the extracted file, Paypal Donations plug-in. You can upload the file by using FTP client, and upload it to your “Plug-in folder”. (On your server: Go to> wp-content>plug-in folder)

Now, that you have successfully uploaded the Paypal Donations plug-in, it’s about time to activate it.

STEP3, To activate – Log in to your Wordpress admin and on your Dashboard look for the Plugins section (for version 2.7.1 you can found it at the left-side of your Dashboard). Just click the Plug-in link, and then look for the “paypal-donations” plug-in, check the box to activate it.

After you have activated the paypal donations plug-in.

STEP4, Go to the Settings – look for the Paypal donations, click it and then fill-up the information needed. And then, Save Changes.

Now, you are ready to add the button.

STEP5, copy the simple code [ paypal-donation ] (remove spaces) and paste it under your blog post or page.

Ok, perfect! You’re done!

Do you think this Paypal Donations plug-in is working? – Wanna try, click it now

Today, I will share to you a good resource where you can download a free blog template. Let’s talk about free beauty templates ready for downloads at SiteSource101.com.

Free Beauty Template #1

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Free Beauty Template #2

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Free Beauty Template #3

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For more templates to choose from, visit SiteSource101.com’s Free Beauty Templates. Please let me know what you think, or if you have any related topics please let me know. I would be happy to post it here. Thanks.

Today, let’s talk about masking domain and domain forwarding. The art of hiding true-self identity, just like Batman.

Masking works in combination with domain name forwarding, which redirects all Web traffic for a domain to a specified URL, by preventing the forwarded domain URL from displaying in the browser’s address bar. For more information about forwarding domains, see Forwarding Your Domain to Another URL.

When setting up domain masking, you can enter a Title and Meta tags to assist with ranking your Web site on search engines. This information does not change the look of your Web site.

For example, I have a domain AccountManagersOnline.com and want people who visit it to be redirected to https://www.securepaynet.net/default.aspx?prog_id=447778 (this is my domain reseller account, you can buy a dot com domain as low as 9 dollar for a one year period.) but I don’t want them to see the URL of the site you forwarded to (AccountManagersOnlines.com). By using masking to forward your domain, visitors see AccountManagersOnlines.com, even though you forwarded them to the content on

To Add Masking to Your Domain Name Forwarding

1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, click Domain Manager.
3. Use the checkbox(es) to select the domain name(s) you want to modify.
4. Click Forward.
5. On the Forwarding tab, select Enable forwarding.
6. In the Forward to field, enter the URL to which you want to forward your domain name(s).
7. In the Redirect type area, select one of the following:

• 301 Moved Permanently – Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward To field using a “301 Moved Permanently” HTTP response. The HTTP 301 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) that the location has permanently moved.
• 302 Moved Temporarily – Redirects to the site you specified in the Forward To field using a “302 Found” HTTP response. The HTTP 302 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) that the location has temporarily moved.

8. Go to the Masking tab.
9. Select Enable masking, and then enter the following:

• Masked title – A short title that describes your Web site, up to 80 characters.
• Masked description Meta tag – A short description about your Web site, up to 150 characters.
• Masked keyword Meta tag -Keywords that describe your page, separated by commas or spaces, up to 500 characters. Search engines use keywords to identify the content on your Web site.

10. Click OK.

Note: Forwarded domains can take up to 24 hours to become active.

You can also see related topic here.

Today, I will cover 2 ways to install WordPress blog in step-by-step process and the things to consider in installing WordPress.

1. How to Install a Custom WordPress blog
2. How to Install WordPress using Fantastico

Don’t worry, it wouldn’t require programming skills in WordPress installation, all you have to do is follow the simple and detailed installation instructions.

Things to Consider Before Installing WordPress

These are the few things you need to consider before you begin the WordPress blog installation includes website access and software:

• An access to your web server (via shell or FTP)

• FTP Client (if you need to install WordPress on a remote server)

• A Text editor/ DreamWeaver/ Notepad

To install custom WordPress package to your web host you need to know the following requirements:

• PHP version 4.3 or greater

• MySQL version 4.0 or greater

Let’s start, just follow the detailed WordPress blog installation instructions to be guided:

a: To create a MySQL® Database, log-in to your website cPanel: (see figure below)

b: After you have successfully logged-in, look for the “databases” section and then click the MySQL® Database icon. (see figure below)

Once you have clicked the MySQL® Database icon, you will be able to see the MySQL Databases page:

c: Enter your desired Database name on the text box New Database, then hit the Create Database button. In this example, I created a database name “sampledb”. (see figure below).

Once successully done, you will be able to see a confirmation. (see figure below)

Then, click the [Go Back] link to go back to the MySQL Database page, then continue to create the MySQL Username & Password.

d: Add New User (see figure below)

Enter your desired username and password, and you have the option to generate password but I won’t suggest that to you. After you have completed the required field, click the Create User button.

After you have clicked the Create User button, you will see the confirmation. In this exercise, I used user1 as the username and samplepass101 as the password. (see figure below)

Click [Go Back] link, then continue the final step in creating a database name.

e: Add User To Database

All you have to do is locate the Database Name that we have created in Step1c:, and the Username that we created on Step1d and then click the Add button. (see figure below)

After you have clicked the Add button, you will be able to see a confirmation. (see figure below)

This is the final step! You will be able to set the user previlidges, and click the Make Changes button. Congratulation! You have successfully created a MySQL® Database and now you are ready for Step2:

To download a Free WordPress package, visit here http://wordpress.org/download/ and then click the download button.

a: Click the download button found at the upper right of the page. (see the download button below)

After you have clicked the Download WordPress 2.7.1 button, the download form will pop-up and ask you to save the file on your desired location, click OK. (see image below)

b: Locate the WordPress file, and then Unzip. (see image below)

c: After you have extracted the file, open the wordpress folder. Locate and open the wp-config-sample.php file in your preferred HTML editor. If you do not have Dream Weaver, you can open it in Notepad. (below is the files inside the wordpress folder)

In this exercise, I opened the wp-config-sample.php in Dreamweaver editor. (see image below)

After you have opened the wp-config-sample.php file, replace the following details: Note: Please do NOT remove the single quote (’).

• ‘putyourdbnamehere’ – see Step1 c to know the Database name you have created.
• ‘usernamehere’ – check Step1 d to know the Username.
• ‘yourpasswordhere’ – check Step1 d for the Password.

After you have made the changes, SAVE the file as wp-config.php. (remove the “sample” word).

Good job! You’re now done with Step 1 & 2, now we are ready to proceed to Step 3.

a. Open your FTP client and Upload the entire contents of the WordPress folder to the location where you want your blog. I am using CoreFTP LE, you can download here. (see image below)

I uploaded the entire files from WordPress folder to my Sample WordPress folder on my website directory using the Core FTP LE client.

In step 1, we created a database name, user name & password using the cPanel.

In step 2, we downloaded and extracted the WordPress zip file. And we edited the wp-config-sample.php file, we changed the db_name, db_user & db_password using the Dream weaver editor and Saved file as wp-config.php.

In step 3, we uploaded the WordPress files into the website server using the FTP client.