Setting Up a Wordpress Blog on LunarPages is as easy as filling in a form with the LunarPages Fantastico option. To get started, if you haven’t already, sign up for a LunarPages account.
Adding Your Domain to LunarPages
Before you can install Wordpress, you’ll need your domain to be on your LunarPages account. If it already is, skip these two paragraphs. Otherwise go into your cPanel and add your domain to the account via Addon Domains.
If your domain’s DNS is pointed to the LunarPages nameservers: ns1.lunarbreeze.com and ns2.lunarbreeze.com. If the domains are not registered with LunarPages, you’ll have to make these changes at your domain registrar. The DNS change may take a few hours to take effect. Now you’re ready to begin.
Installing Wordpress on LunarPages
This is the two minute part. It’s so easy that you don’t need any experience with running blogs or web design in order to set up your Wordpress blog. Just fill in a form and Fantastico will do the rest!
Go to your cPanel and scroll down to the Fantastico icon. Click that to enter Fantastico, an easy-installer.
Select the Wordpress option on the left sidebar.
Choose “New Installation.” Sometimes it takes Fantastico a few days to catch up with a Wordpress upgrade, but you can use the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin to upgrade if Fantastico isn’t offering the newest version.
Step 1) Fill in your blog’s domain, admin name/password, and site name information.
You’ll be able to change the “Site Name” and “Site Description” after you finish the installation, but you won’t be able to change the domain and admin information (though you can add a new admin user).
Step 2) Confirm and click to finish installation.
Step 3) And you’re done!
Now you can go to your site, login, and you’re ready to go!
If you have any problems, contact me for blog installation and setup assistance.
And if you’re new to Wordpress, check out this handy list of must-have Wordpress plugins.
A number of hosts besides LunarPages allow you to install Wordpress via Fantastico. This walk-through and these screenshots are taken from Fantastico at LunarPages but they should be useful elsewhere.
