There are many ways to bake a cake, so I am only going to cover how I got MY WordPress installed. You will be amazed at how easy it is.

As I mentioned in my post about choosing a host, mine is GoDaddy. They offer a painless method of installing WordPress. (I am sure many other hosts do too, but I can only write about my own experience. If your host offers a similar service, please leave a comment below).

Once I registered my domain name with GoDaddy, I also purchased their Delux Hosting plan, for $7 per month.

This hosting plans comes bundled with Metropolis, which offers 30 free applications I can use on my site. The only one that matters to me at present is the WordPress application.
I log into my account, click on Content Management,and then on Metroplis.

From there, I choose Wordpress> Install.

I am asked to choose which directory to install WordPress. Because I do not want all the wordpress files in my root directory, I choose a folder which I name wordpress.

I then choose some admin names and passwords

And then I wait for GoDaddy to do the work. I get a confirmation email that the process is completed about 15 minutes later.

I can now log into my account using the url
www.knowhowtoblog.com/wordpress/wp-admin/

I am done!

Well, not really.

I still want to tweak the installation slightly, because I want my blog to reside in my root directory, not my wordpress directory as I previously stipulated.
In other words, I want all the files to be in

www.knowhowtoblog.com/wordpress/,

but I want my blog to be seen at

www.knowhowtoblog.com

There is a set of very clear instructions on how to do this in the wordpress application. Here is a copy of that document:

Giving WordPress its Own Directory While Leaving Your Blog in the Root Directory

Many people want WordPress to power their site’s root (e.g. http://example.com) but they don’t want all of the WordPress files cluttering up their root directory. WordPress allows you to install the WordPress files to a subdirectory, but have your blog exist in the site root.

The process to move WordPress into its own directory is as follows:

1. Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we will use /wordpress in our examples).
2. Go to the Options panel.
3. In the box for WordPress address (URL): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files. Example: http://example.com/wordpress
4. In the box for Blog address (URL): change the address to the root directory’s URL. Example: http://example.com
5. Click Update Options.
6. Move your WordPress core files to the new location (WordPress address).
7. Copy the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (Blog address).
8. Open your root directory’s index.php file in a text editor
9. Change the following and save the file. Change the line that says:
require(’./wp-blog-header.php’);
to the following, using your directory name for the WordPress core files:
require(’./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);
10. Login to the new location. It might now be http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/
11. If you have set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure. WordPress will automatically update your .htaccess file if it has the appropriate file permissions. If WordPress can’t write to your .htaccess file, it will display the new rewrite rules to you, which you should manually copy into your .htaccess file (in the same directory as the main index.php file.)

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