Well Welcome to WordPress....

Well where do I begin. I did not like Wordpress when I first started using it.I started off with Joomla. I taught myself Joomla then one day I had this sudden urge to learn WordPress. I kept hearing and seeing wordPress so I started teaching myself how to upload it and then how to use everything else. You should be reading this after you have bought a domain, purchased hosting and have your folder and domain connected so that whatever you put in the folder shows up on that specific domain. If not please refer to FTP File Managers, domains & Hosting. Once you have all that figured out then you can begin here. So if you have chosen to upload Wordpress as your CMS of choice then we will begin here. Go to www.wordpress.org NOTICE the .org. This is not a .com site. .org is totally different than .com, .com  will make you pay for things. the proper site is www.wordpress.org and they are the originator and owner of the Wordpress foundation etc.... So you go to www.wordpress.org and the first step is to download the Newset version Wordpress 3.5.1 it is a blue button on the right. Ok so once you have downloaded that file, click on the file and copy and paste it into a folder in which you may call My website, My web stuff etc, something like that. Once you have renamed it, open it. Once it's open you should look for a file called  wp-config-sample.php Rename this file to wp-config.php.
Now Second thing that  I would do is make a copy of the original WordPress. Copy the original Wordpress file and paste it into the same folder. Now you have wordpresscopy 2 right ? Change the Copy # WordPress file to your domain name.  I would change the name to whatever the name of the website is going to be, this way I know which domain I am working with since I work on many sites.
Third take the file with the name of your domain and open it. Look for the  wp-config.php . This is the only file that you have to change. You open this file with Textedit or Wordpad. You need to change these things that I have highlighted .... Do not change anything else. 

Note **** To get the Key go here 

Secret Key Generator - WordPress API https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ Click on the above link and get a New Key code and replace this one.  define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here'); define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here'); define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here'); define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here'); define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here'); define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here'); define('NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here');

<?php
/**
 * The base configurations of the WordPress.
 *
 * This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
 * Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information
 * by visiting {@link http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php Editing
 * wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.
 *
 * This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the
 * installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can just copy this file
 * to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

/**#@+
 * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.
 *
 * Change these to different unique phrases!
 * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
 * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.
 *
 * @since 2.6.0
 */
define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here');

/**#@-*/

/**
 * WordPress Database Table prefix.
 *
 * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
 * prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
 */
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';

/**
 * WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
 *
 * Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
 * language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
 * de_DE.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to 'de_DE' to enable German
 * language support.
 */
define('WPLANG', '');

/**
 * For developers: WordPress debugging mode.
 *
 * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.
 * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG
 * in their development environments.
 */
define('WP_DEBUG', false);

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

Now that you have  only changed the highlighted areas save it. Save the  wp-config.php. 
Now zip the whole entire file that you named after your domain. 
Once that file is Zipped then you can upload it into your ftp file manager. You can do this by filezilla or directly into your hostings file manager. Once the file is uploaded in to the proper folder, you then have to unzip -unarchive-extract the folder, depending on what your file manager calls it. 
Once the file is unarchived then you should open the domain named folder. In this folder should be all of the wordpress files. Highlight and move all those files directly under the main folder. When you bring in a zipped file like that all the folders need to be removed and placed into the proper folder. They do not automatically come in to the proper folder. 
then you can delete the folder it came in as and also the .zip folder, you don't need any of those. 
To check and see if the files are proper, open a new browser and put in your domain name
ex. www.yourdomain.com then add this /wp-admin. So it will look like this 
www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
If your WordPress is installed properly it will take you to a Set up page with the name of your Website, username & password setup. If not then you did something wrong. 
Once you set up the first page then you can log into the dashboard and start making your changes. 

Written by : Danielle Boyd
Owner of Locals Publishing INC.
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