Please note that this is being written from the perspective of a user purchasing the relevant web hosting products through UK2.net

Step 1:

First and foremost you need a web hosting package and a domain name. The domain name will be the actual name of your blog.

Select the hosting package you require – I have chosen the UK2 Home Hosting package as it comes with ample room to run and maintain a blog plus you get a free domain name included with it. After selecting the hosting package, enter your domain name – making sure it is available. In this case I have chosen www.setupwordpressblog.com

After the order is complete select the ‘Take me to my account’ link which you’ll see on the confirmation page. This will take you to your UK2 control panel.

NB: You may need to wait up to 24 hours before completing the next steps depending as once you have purchased the domain name and setup your hosting package, your site will initially point to a UK2 holding page and this can take up to 24 hours to point to your new site.

Step 2:

Once inside the dashboard, select Web Hosting and then click on your domain to take you through to the cPanel. You will have to login to your cPanel here.

Select Web Hosting

Step 3:

Near the bottom of your cPanel page, in the Software menu, click on Softaculous. This is the one-click installer which enables you to setup blogs, Content Management Systems, galleries etc. at the click of a button.

Select Softaculous once inside cPanel Menu

Step 4:

Inside the Softaculous menu, you will see a number of drop-down boxes on your left. Select Blogs and then Select Worpress. There are 2 versions of WordPress on here – one of them is WordPress MU which allows you to run your particular blog on a number of different domains. Make sure you select the correct one – Select the standard WordPress for this. If you install the wrong one then select ‘All Installations’ which is at the top right of the screen, and then select delete – a big red X on the right.

Step 5:

After selecting WordPress it will give you the option to install – click install to proceed.

Step 6:

Step 6 will take you to the Software Setup page. There a number of settings to configure here and I have listed the important ones below – please click on the Software Settings image for further explanation.

1. Choose Protocol – select the drop down box and select the http://www option

2. In Directory – it’s best to leave this blank.

3. Site Name & Description – personalise this accordingly

4. Admin Password – please change this to something you’ll remember to make it more secure. Try to avoid using your name or words like password.

NB: Remember your login details and keep them safe!

*Click Install*

***Check e-mail: A confirmation e-mail will be sent your e-mail address, detailing your URL, login details plus your database details. Store this as you may need to come back to it for important information.

Step 7:

This will take you to the confirmation page where it will confirm your blog URL and your admin login URL. You can now access your blog on the internet! Please make a note of these URLS’s.

Step 8:

Login to the admin portal of your blog. This is normally the same address as your blog with the extension /wp-admin.php at the end. So my login would be www.setupwordpressblog.com/wp-admin.php

This will take you straight to your WordPress Dashboard where you can edit your layout, themes, settings etc.

Step 9:

Inside your blog’s dashboard you’ll have the option to edit your layout, themes, settings etc. Play around with these and see which settings you like best.

Step 10:

Get writing & start blogging!

Good Luck from the UK2 Marketing team.

Source: http://www.uk2.net/blog/set-up-wordpress-blog-in-5-minutes/

Installation

1. Upload DRPCoupon directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Use the DRP Coupon Options page to make create and manage coupons.

What Does it Do?

It let’s you add a coupon/s to your posts and pages
You can give it a title, start date, expiry date, coupon code and add the link or affiliate link
The only way a person can copy the coupon is to physically write it down ( they cant highlight and copy )
As soon as they click it, it copies the coupon to their clipboard for simple pasting
You can set an expiry date and it will disappear from the post or page automatically

How to do you display it after you create a coupon?
To have it show in a page or post. Just add the short code so if it called Best Buy it would be

Does the LINk require http:// or can i just put www.
You must put the full url http://www.yourlink.com

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1.Log into your iPage hosting control panel, and go to SimpleScripts

2.Once you click, you will be redirect to SimpleScript website

3.

4.While you are installing WordPress, you will be asked to enter the Application Path. This is the path to the directory where WordPress is installed, but it also affects the URL to your blog. There are two options – subdirectory or subdomain.

5.Enter blog title, create admin username and password similar to installation in cPanel.

6.You’ll see a progress bar churning as SimpleScripts configures and completes your new installation.

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1
Log into your Hostgator control panel.

2
Locate the section entitled “Software/Services.”

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Under “Software/ Services” click on Fantastico.

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On the Fantasico page, click the “WordPress” text link on the left sidebar.

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Click on “New Instillation.”

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On the next page,you need to enter the details like on which domain you want to install wordpress, in which directory and what will be your username and password.

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In the section that says, “Admin access data,” is where you’ll put the login name and password you want to use to log into your WordPress blog dashboard.

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Fill in the “Base Configuration” fields with the name you want to be associated with all the posts you write in your new blog. Also, add in your email address and the website’s domain name for your new blog.

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Click “Install WordPress.”

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You will be given the domain information, to make sure that it’s being installed on the correct domain. If it looks good, click “Finish Instillation.” And you are done.

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In general, this is what you do:

1. Write your post, highlight your anchor (link) text, then click the ‘link’ button (assuming you’re using the Visual Editor).
2. In the Link URL box, enter the link address without your blog URL, starting with a slash.
3. Add your other link goodies like ‘target’ or ‘class’, click Insert.
4. Finish and publish your post.
5. Go to Settings -> Simple Link Cloaker.
6. In the Add New section, enter the Link URL you just used into the left box.
7. Enter your affiliate link in the right box.
8. Click “Add Cloaked Links”.
9. Done.

Example: suppose we want to link to a Clickbank product, and we want to use the URL http://ilikewordpress.com/go/i-like-this-product, and the Clickbank hoplink is http://myclickbank.twitterlist.clickbank.com. In the left-hand box, we’d enter <strong>/go/i-like-this-product</strong>. Notice there is no ‘http://’ or other URL parts in this box, just the part of the URL <strong>after</strong> your regular blog address. Then in the right box we’d type the Clickbank hoplink. Click the “Add Cloaked Links” button, and the redirect code will be added to your .htaccess file.

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There’s actually a super-simple solution.

All you have to do is add the following to the END of your theme’s style.css file:

If you are new to working with your style.css file, here are a couple of pointers:

You can access the stylesheet in your WP dashboard by going to Appearance > Editor.

It is usually the last, or almost last, file listed in the right column. Click on it, if it’s not already selected, and you will see the code for your stylesheet in the editor window.

First, copy, paste, and save the entire stylesheet to a text file on your computer. You want to have the original to go back to just in case you inadvertently delete something.

Or, for a full solution, you can use BackupBuddy to make a full backup. (That may be over-kill in this situation, but it never hurts to be safe.)

Once you have the style.css file showing in the editor window, scroll all the way to the bottom and add the three lines of code in the image above. (You aren’t adding the numbers in the gray box – they are just to help you see the code.)

Be sure to “update file”, then go view your site.

See how simple that is?

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