Installing WordPress on Your Church Website

Continuining in the Using WordPress for Church Websites series, let’s talk quickly about installing WordPress on your church website.

Because WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms out there today, most website hosting plans offer a “one-click install” of it. (I do with my hosting services.)

If you know what you’re doing … you can do it yourself with the WordPress “Famous 5-Minute Install” tutorial post here.

I’m a little out of my league when discussing purely technical details of the install … all of that is available on the WordPress site in their basic requirements anyway.

What I do know is that, you’ll need a Linux hosting plan to use it on your website, that offers MySQL databases.

With WordPress, your content (i.e. text) is stored in a database (MySQL). When someone surfs to your page, the database is queried … and a web page is then output to your guest’s browser. WordPress in essence builds that page based on your template files (called themes).

These are just some basics of installing WordPress that I thought I’d throw out there.

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My Linux hosting plans support all this, including one-click install of WordPress. As always I’m happy to help you walk through installation of it if you’re using my hosting services. :-)

Just email me with questions …

January 25, 2007 · Filed Under Church Marketing, Web Site Design, WordPress