The XXX-Coach Blog Expert

If you still feel unconfident to install your WordPress Blog on a webserver, Coach Erwin can support and help you setting up your blog.

Coach Erwin uses phone/Skype to support you, and also uses, in need of, the Remote Assistance function with Windows Live Messenger.

A basic setup can be done in an one session of one hour, where you at the end:

• have WordPress installed and working;
• WordPress installed in your language, if needed;
• and have a blog ready to mold and use.

A more complete setup contains, next to the basic setup:

• support in uploading and installing your theme;
• installation and explanation of the most important plugins.

Want your WordPress Blog installed? Contact Coach Erwin at info@xxx-coach.com

Basic setup: €50 excl. VAT (to be paid before the session).

More Complete Setup: depending on your requirements.

To make the installation process as easy and quickly as possible, you will need to do the following steps before the session:

• have a webserver where you can have your blog. If you do not have one yet, Coach Erwin recommends Lonex. Coach Erwin already works more than 5 years with Lonex, and is really satisfied with their service and support.
• download the most current WordPress software version: Download .zip format or Download .tar.gz format
• have a FTP manager installed and functioning. Coach Erwin uses and recommends SmartFTP.

You have the possibility to install your WordPress blog in the language you want. To be able to do this, you will have to do some extras steps, which I will explain here.

1. Go to http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language and select your language from the list, and download the file to your hard disk.
2. Once it is unzipped, open your FTP Manager and select on the server where you installed the WordPress files, the folder ‘wp-content’.
3. Under the folder ‘wp-content’ create a subfolder named ‘languages’.
4. In your FTP Manager, on the harddisk browser, go to the place where you have unzipped the language file.
5. Select the file with extension ‘.mo’ and upload it to the folder wp-content/languages/
6. Finally, open the wp-config.php file, and go to line 17 (define (‘WPLANG’, ”);), and enter between the ‘ ‘ your language code. For Spanish from Spain that would be es_ES.
7. Save the wp-config.php file and upload it to the server.
8. And that is it. Well done. You have just installed WordPress in the language of your choice.

If you have any question, comment or feedback, feel free to use this post’s comment form.

Have a great and excellent day.

Coach Erwin

As you know, you have a certain amount of videos available that supports and helps you to install and start working with WordPress. But for those people that really want to have a quick step-by-step guide at their hand to use as backup after they have seen the videos, I have here that quick guide:

1. Download the latest WordPress:
   • Download .zip format
   • Download .tar.gz format
2. Uncompress the dowloaded WordPress file. I would suggest that you make a specific WordPress folder, as later on you will also download themes and plugins, and that way you will keep an easy overview.
3. Once uncompressed, login into the administration panel of your webhosting service, and create a MySQL database. (Please consult your webhosting service for support if needed, as creating a MySQL database differs from hosting service to hosting service). In one of the videos, I explain how you can do this if you have Lonex as hosting service.
4. Once you have created the MySQL database, you will need to configure the wp-config-sample.php file, which you find directly under the folder ‘wordpress’. When you have found the file, open it and you will have to change the following parts:
   define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere‘);    // 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
   The fields that I have highlighted in yellow are those that you need to change. When done, just close the file and save it. !!!MAKE SURE THAT YOU SAVE IT AS IT IS, I.E. UNDER A .PHP EXTENTION!!!
5. Before you continue, you need to ask yourself the following question: how have you foreseen the structure of your domain name and blog. Basically, this question asks you if you are going to use this domain name solely for this blog, or if you are going to use in combination with other tools. If you are going to use it soley for the blog, than you can upload the wordpress files (next step) directly under the domain name. If not, than I would suggest to create a folder under your domain name and upload WordPress under that folder, as I have done with the XXX-Coach Blogexpert.
6. Open now your FTP manager, like SmartFTP (I really do recommend this one to Windows users as it is free), select all the folders (wp-admin,wp-content,wp-includes) and all the files, and upload it to your hosting server.
7. When the upload is completed, change the file name ’wp-config-sample.php’ to ‘wp-config.php’.
8. Open now your internet program (Internet Explorer, Firefox, …) and type the following url in the address path: yourdomainname/nameof folder(if any/wp-admin/install.php (example using this blog’s url: www.xxx-coach.com/blogexpert/wp-admin/install.php)
9. If you have done all steps correctly as mentioned herefore, you will be at the first page of installation, where you will have to type in your Blog Title, and your email address. !!!!MAKE SURE THAT YOU TYPE AN EXISTING EMAIL ADDRESS HERE AS YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH YOUR ADMIN PASSWORD!!!
10. Click on the bottom ‘Install’.
11. Congratulations. Well done. Now click on the wp-login link and enter to your admin panel.
12. Last but not least, open your FTP manager and on the server, click on the folder wp-admin, and delete the file ‘install.php’. !!!!THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT AS THIS WILL PREVENT OTHERS TO REINSTALL WORDPRESS AND TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR BLOG!!!

I hope that this is an useful step-by-step install guide for WordPress. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave theme here in the comments’ form.

Have a great and excellent day, and enjoy your blogging.

Coach Erwin

Hi there,

This is an enormous important point that you need to do when you just have installed WordPress on your server:

DELETE THE FILE ‘INSTALL.PHP’ WHICH YOU FIND UNDER THE FOLDER ‘WP-ADMIN’ AFTER YOU HAVE INSTALLED WORDPRESS SUCCESSFULLY!!!

The reason for that is that whoever can run the install.php again will be able to take full control of your blog, and I am convinced that you do NOT want this. So, when you have successfully installed WordPress and has just logged in for the first time, DELETE the ‘install.php’ NOW.

Coach Erwin

Today, October 18th, 2007 is the official launch of this new blog, and you have already four short videos available that explain how to install the WordPress Software on your web server.

Click on the picture below to be taken to page with those four videos:

Enjoy them and happy blogging.

Coach Erwin