If you are looking for
the fastest, smartest and easiest way to install WordPress, then using
softaculous from cPanel should be your choice.
WordPress is very easy
to install.
Among Joomla, Drupal and other CMS programs, WordPress is used by
26.4 percent of the top 10 million websites in the world as of April 2016. WordPress
is also a free and open-source platform used by over 76.4 million websites.
I personally chose
WordPress because of its ease of use and fast installation process thanks to
softaculous. Softaculous is one of the plugins from cPanel that makes our
website installation life easy.
This section talks more
about how to install WordPress the smart and fastest way.
WordPress is a free
platform, however to get the best out of WordPress, some plugins and themes
have to be bought. We shall discuss more of the best themes, plugins and logo
branding strategies in chapter 14.
CPanel’s fast approach
to install WordPress even makes this job much easier.
There are two
approaches to install WordPress, the first approach is to create a database
with MySQL which is a database management system, and then download WordPress
from their main website to your hosting folder before navigating to that page
to install.