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If you need a specific older WordPress version, or you are installing WordPress in an unusual directory structure, use Install WordPress manually instead.

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Before you start

  • You have a website set up in the control panel. If not, work through Put your first site live up to the end of “Create the website” first.
  • Your domain is pointing at hosting.com. WordPress records the URL where it is installed, so installing WordPress before your DNS resolves can mean you need to correct the URL later.
  • Decide on an admin username that is not admin, and have a strong, unique password ready.

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Steps

  1. Go to https://my.hosting.com and log in.
  2. In the left sidebar, click Websites.
  3. On the Manage websites page, click your website.
  4. Click the Apps tab.
  5. Click Install app.
  6. Select WordPress and complete the installation settings.
When prompted, select the domain where you want to install WordPress. Leave the directory field blank if you want WordPress to open at example.com rather than example.com/wordpress. Enter your site title and create the WordPress admin username, password, and email address.
  1. Click Install.
Installation takes a minute or two. When it finishes, WordPress appears in the Applications installed section on your site’s page.

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Log in for the first time

  1. On your site’s page, in the Applications installed section, click Manage.
  2. In the General section, click Login to admin. The WordPress dashboard opens in a new tab, already signed in.
You can also go to https://example.com/wp-admin directly and sign in with the username and password you created during installation.

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Check it worked

Open https://example.com in a new tab. You should see a WordPress site with a default theme and a sample post. Then open https://example.com/wp-admin and confirm that you can sign in with the credentials you chose. In WordPress, go to Settings, then General, and check that the WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) use https://example.com, with https and no trailing slash. If the URL is wrong, fix it now. Changing it later, once you have content and links, can require considerably more work.

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What goes wrong

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