WORDPRESS how to

To install wordpress on a host and add a theme - quite simple but easy to get it wrong. I tried it on 000webhost setting up a separate hosting account (to sit alongside my JOOMLA attempts). The first time round I got it up and running but by FTP'ing  into the root (public) dir at sat there in a sub directory path so that opening up with the domain brought up a navigation screen rather than directly to the home page. So cleaned it all out a re-uploaded without the sub directory structure. So heres ho

Components
Hosting - used 000webhost with auto assigned sub domain for first attempts - will add a domain in due course
mysql database including db name, user, host name, password and set up php
Wordpress  3.5.1 on local drive unzipped and ready to find to FTP upload
Filezilla
Host name, username, password - get this from the host cpanel - in 000webhost its under account details
Upload with Filezilla just the contents of the wordpress dir (dont upload the dir) - should take 15mins or so. Set just host, username and pw - ignore port in most cases. Should be 3 dirs and about 16 root files - mostly php.
Go to the domain, Worpress setup screen comes up > click on create config file > enter the host mysql database name, username password and msql host. In CPANEL its all exactly as listed under mysql under list of current databases and users.
Then worpress should come up with run the install
Enter a site name, password etc and thats all there is to it.


Adding a 3rd party template (there are 2 outofthebox ones in wordpress) in this case I have Graphene theme (its well developed open source one with lots of add ins and user info, code etc)

Unzip again locally and pick the theme dir and drag in filezilla into public/ wp-content/themes dir

Then just go to the wordpress dashboard . theme, select "activate" for the new theme