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WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of b2.

Main website: http://wordpress.org/

Demo website: http://demo.opensourcecms.com/wordpress/

Support forums: http://wordpress.org/support/

Manually installing wordpress is the easiest of all the CMS’s that exist. Really.

Step1: Head over to Wordpress Download Page and download the latest version of the blogging software.

Step 2: Extract the contents of the archive and upload the content of the wordpress folder to your webserver using a FTP client like SmartFTP.

Step 3: Open phpMyAdmin and create a database with the name wordpress.

Step 4: Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php after which open it up with a text editor and fill in the database connection details:

define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress‘); // The name of the database
define(’DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere‘); // Your MySQL username
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere‘); // …and password
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost‘); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

Step 5: Point your browser to yourwebsite.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php enter your blog’s title and your email(for notifications) and press Install Wordpress button.

That’s it, you now can login with the username admin and the generated password.

Success!

WordPress has been installed. Now you can log in with the username “admin” and password “dc5aa2a”.

What did i tell you? It was simple wasn’t it? you now have a running blog and the next step is to customize it. Wordpress features lots and lots of plugins and cool themes so that you can personalize your blog as you wish.