Whether you’re setting up a WordPress blog for the first time or cranking out your 50^th setup, you’re going to want it to be as easy, fast and painless as possible. It’s worth the extra effort to make sure that your new (or old) webhost offers a service called cPanel. CPanel is an excellent way to manage a wide variety of options on your new server ? you can set up email, park subdomains and manage FTP users. Once you?ve purchased your hosting and domain, you should get an email with your cPanel login information. To login to cpanel, use your username and password they send you, and visit your domain name with /cpanel at the end. It will look like this: http://www.mysite.com/cpanel.

(Don’t forget, as you are setting it up, to incorporate one of your top tier keywords in your description of the blog)

Whether you’re setting up a WordPress blog for the first time or cranking out your 50^th setup, you’re going to want it to be as easy, fast and painless as possible. It’s worth the extra effort to make sure that your new (or old) webhost offers a service called cPanel. CPanel is an excellent way to manage a wide variety of options on your new server ? you can set up email, park subdomains and manage FTP users. Once you?ve purchased your hosting and domain, you should get an email with your cPanel login information.

When you’re logging in for the first time, you?ll be greeted by this screen. The cPanel tutorials are excellent and the videos will take you through most of the features and tools that are now at your fingertips. For now, we?ll skip ahead ? click ?No, I?m fine, Thanks!? (you?ll see this screen again next time you log in, or it’s available in the main menu. You’re going to scroll down towards the bottom ? WAY down. Keep going. You?ll see:

You’re looking for Fantastico DeLuxe ? the blue happy face that is going to make your live *really* easy. Double click and you?ll be taken to the Fantastico menu:

You?ll be looking on the left hand column for the WordPress option. You?ll see quite a few other options for programs that you can install ? take a look, there may be others in the future that you?ll need to take advantage of. Once you?ve clicked on WordPress, you?ll be able to configure you’re custom install of WordPress.

You?ll be able to choose the directory in which your WordPress install goes. If your blog will be the main function of your site, you may choose to install it in the root directory ? if so, you?d leave the ?install in directory? box blank. This would mean that when you go to your domain at http://yoursite.com then your wordpress blog will come right up. In this example, we have a webstore installed in the root directory ? we want our blog to be in a directory off of the root called ?blog?. This means that when you type in http://yoursite.com/blog then the WordPress blog will come up. You could be more creative than ?blog? if you wish ? the flexibility is in your court. You can also have multiple wordpress installs on your server ? you may have a main blog installed in /blog/ and other blogs or sites under the WordPress template installed elsewhere. For example, you may have a page set up for an affiliate product ? you could create it’s own page under http://yoursite.com/affiliateproduct1 and keep the content and site design completely separate from your original blog install.

The Admin Access will simply be your username and login for your blog; you?ll be able to access the backend of your new WordPress blog at http://yoursite.com/wp-admin if your WordPress blog is installed in the root ? or in our example above, http://yoursite.com/blog/wp-admin

Once you?ve got everything set up, you?ll get a final confirmation before the installation:

You?ll be shown the access URL address for your WordPress install and you?ll see the MySQL database that it will be tied to. If you don’t know about MySQL, don’t sweat it ? it will work behind the scenes and you shouldn’t have to mess with it.

Now go check out your blog!

Take a look at a video of the process: