Bluehost User Guide, Guide To CPANEL

There are several writing guides out there that explain exactly how  to use CPANEL to set up an blog from scratch…however, I want make my contribution, so today I’m going to show you exactly how to use cpanel to install a blog for any niche you need.

First All, What Is CPANEL?

CPanel(easiest control panel) is a fully featured web-based control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface. The aims is to give you the ability to manage your web site in a simple and fast way. You are able to manage all aspects of e-mail, FTP, files, CGI scripts, backup, and web site statistics.

How To Set Up Your Blog

When it comes to hosting, Bluehost is one of the world’s to 10 largest web hosting companies with over 800,000 domains hosted. The best thing is that is one of the few hosting company that offers CPanel hosting.

OK, let’s start with the step by step process to set up your blog.

To register to Blueshost all you have to do is click on “Sign up Now” button.

In the next page, you can type the domain name you want to transfer to Bluehost(domain.com). You will find that you have two choices: Enter a new domain name(image left) or enter the domain name you already have(image right).

Ok, choose the price for your domain:

• 24 month price - $6.95 per month(reccomended)
• 12 month price - $7.95 per month
• 6 month price - $8.95 per month, +$30 setup fee, +$10 for your domain name
• 3 month price- $9.95 per month, +$30 setup fee, +$10 for your domain name

Here’s an screenshot of the CPANEL

Setting Up Email In CPANEL

To set up an e-mail account for ANY domain is very easy.

1. Go into your CPanel, than in the section called “email” click Email Accounts icon.
2. Under Add a New Email Account section, enter a handle name, e.g. bob, info, admin,.
3. Select the appropriate domain from the drop-down list after @ character.
4. Enter a password for this email account. This can always be changed later.
5. Click the Create button.

Once you have all the email accounts created, you can check the email accounts 1 of 2 ways:

1) Check the email using the webmail athttp://www.yourdomain.com/webmail. When prompted, enter the complete email address (e.g. bob@yourdomain.com) as the user and the password for this email account.

If you do not have access to www.yourdomain.com/webmail because port 2095 is blocked on your network, you can alternately use http://login.bluehost.com using same login credential as described above.

2) Set up an Email client like Outlook, Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc. See this Knowledge Base article Quick Email Setup for basic setups.

How To Install WordPress With Bluehost

Starting a blog with Bluehost is very easy. All you need to do is use the “Fantastico button”. The fantastico script installer allows anyone to install a few software base, quickly. For instance, you can launch a blog in a default WordPress state in just 30 seconds work. Just  enter some data and go.

The following 6 steps let you learn how to setup a WordPress blog through Bluehost from scratch.

1. Click on the Fantastico button – Go to your Bluehost dashboard and click on the Fantastico De Luxe button, as you see in the image below.

2. Click on WordPress button – On the next page, will appear the screen below. Don’t worry, if anything goes wrong you can just delete it from this screen through the “Remove link” and start again. As you can see the WordPress button is at the top of the script list. Ok, click the WordPress icon.

3. Click on the “Install Now” button – On the next page you will get a short overview of the script and then an icon on the bottom to Install Now.

4. Choose the option – Ok, now you’ve access to several options. You can choose between several WordPress version, I recommend the latest stable version.

5. Choose your blog name – This is the most important part. On the Next page you need to choose the site/blog name. I suggest to uncheck the “Generate me an Administrator” Login box and make your own username and password. Keep the “Automatically create a new database” option checked unless you know how to or already have a database setup to use.

6. Finalise the Installation – Once clicked the Complete button the WordPress setup process is finished, Or at least it was on this Bluehost account. The next few screens show your access information. That it!

WordPress Blog Set Up

Once installed WordPress, go to www.your-domain-name.com/wp-login.php(of course, change “your-domain-name.com” with your real domain) and type user name and password.

Once into your dashboard you need to change your permanente link. By default, WordPress uses a dynamic structure that simply allocates a page a number. In order to maximise search engine traffic you will want to ensure that the permalinks on your site have your keywords in them. Here’s an example of a permalink:

http://www.yoursite.com/article/

How to change your permanent link: From the Dashboard, click on Setting, then from the lower layer of the menu, click Permalinks:

There are three main choices, none of which are suitable! Thankfully, you can also specify a custom setting . Here is it:

/%postname%/

What that means is that it will simply use the name of your page(title of your post) as the url.

Now when I refresh the page I was looking at, my address bar has changed:

Ahh, more search engine friendly.

Add Plugins

It time to add some useful plugins. By default you have already installed Akismet. If you would to add some new plugin, simply download the plugin from the original site, then upload it through an FTP client like Filezilla. To see how do to install Filezilla, I reccomend to download my book “how to make money online”

I personally don’t have installed a lot of plugins. However, it is no the first time I get ask “Nicola, what WordPress main plugins do you use”?

So, here a list of plugin I use:

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• Twitter Tools
• wp db backup
• Defensio
• WordPress thread comment
• Mobify.me
• Wp table
• Publish to Facebook
• Recaptcha
• Sideblog

Add A Professional Wp Theme

When you saw the3dtechnologies.com you probably thought, COOL and then thought to yourself, just if I could create a blog like that! Well I have to be honest with you, I paid $89 for my WordPress Theme.

The main reason you should use a custom wp theme is because has a lot of features and allows you to change many aspect of your layout and design quickly.

Once bought it and download it, if do not sure how to ftp it, use Filezilla(it’s free). Download my book to know how to download and use it.

Once logged, in the right side, click ‘wp-content’ than ‘themes’ and upload your theme folder there. That it! On your WordPress dashboard, go on design and select the preview of the theme you’ve installed. That it!

Congratulations because younow are a new blogger.