There are several online tutorials teaching how to install WordPress the easy way and this includes how to use WordPress plugins, those small software programs that gives added functionality to your WordPress. In most of these tutorials it is advised that before starting your installation activities, you must possessed two things before you could start, and these are the software called WordPress and the other one is a web hosting company.
The first thing that you will do after having a web hosting company, you would have to download an open source content management system called WordPress, which is free, in contrast with your recently contracted web host that have varying fees which is dependent upon the support and kind of service they would be rendering. After you have downloaded the files you will now upload it to your webhost via FTP and you may avail File Zilla or FireFTP. You must be sure that you have your MySQL information and after accomplishing all these, you may go to homepage of your blog and on the first page you will see on display a message telling you that a configuration file is required. You create the file by clicking the create a configuration file button then proceed the installation processes. After you have done with this, your screen would show and tell you what information you have to accomplish and supply and generally your contracted web host should have provided these already such as data base name, password, database host, and table prefix. After supplying all the required data you have to click the submit button.
After clicking the submit button, you have to click the run and install and your WordPress plugins would establish all the tables that you need in your blogging and this happens within a few seconds only. After finishing the above sequence, the screen would show you to provide some basic information with regards to your new blog such items as site title, username, and password for two times as well as your email address which you would like to use for your blogging activities and check your checkbox that shows that you are requesting that your site be allowed to appear in search engines like Google or Technocrati then click the button install WordPress and that’s it, you have done it.