Setting Up a New WordPress Site

Set Up New WordPress Site

This guide details how to create a development / staging site with WordPress.

These are usually created on Silvertoad’s own development accounts: dev.silvertoad.co.uk and build.silvertoad.co.uk ; both of which can be found on our Guru server. This process can be used for other domains, but will need these details swapping to the location you’ll be using.

1. Go to the server you wish to use and log in using root credentials found in LastPass (under Server Logins) (Dev and Build are on Guru GRP)
2. Go to Account Information, List Accounts and search for dev or build, whichever account you wish to use.
3. Click the CP logo, then click File Manager, Public_html.
4. Go to https://wordpress.org/download/  to download the latest version of WordPress
5. In Public_html create a folder called the name of the site you’ll be using.
6. Go into this folder, click upload and upload the WordPress zip file. Right click to extract it.
7. Take ‘WordPress’ out of folder and skip the trash.
8. Go back to cPanel Main (should be your second tab open), click Subdomains
9. In the Subdomain box, type the name of your site only (if more than one word, use hyphens instead of spaces)
10. Leave the domain box as dev.silvertoad.co.uk
11. For document root, use /public_html/yoursite (change yoursite to the name of your site which you used for the folder)
12. Click create
13. Go back to cPanel Main (should be your second tab open), and click MySQL Databases
14. Create a new database, and name it the same as what you named your folder in the above steps. Click create, then click ‘go back’.
15. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you will see ‘add user to database’. In the ‘user’ drop down menu, select devsilve_user.
16. In the ‘database’ drop down menu, select the name of your site. Click add.
17. Click Add All Privileges and click make changes.
18. In a new tab, go to : yoursite.dev.silvertoad.co.uk (change ‘yoursite’ to the name of your site)
19. Click ‘let’s go’
20. Change the database name to the name of the database you set up in step 11. Go to My SQL Databases and copy the name, don’t type it. (devsilve_yoursite)
21. Change the username to devsilve_user
22. Change password to the devsilve_user password (can be found in Lastpass)
23. Leave database host and table prefix as they are
24. Click Submit
25. Click Run The Installation
26. In the Welcome page, change your site title to the name of your site
27. In username, add your usual WordPress username using for Silvertoad (lucys for Lucy, tyler for Tyler etc.). If you don’t have a usual username, type in your name or something similar to that to create one.
28. In username, set your password to your usual password for Silvertoad.
29. In email, use your Silvertoad email
30. Click Install WordPress
31. Click Log In, and click log in again. You’ll be taken to the back end of your WordPress site.
32. To view the front end of your site at any time, go to yoursite.dev.silvertoad.co.uk
33. To access the back end (and to log into it) go to yoursite.dev.silvertoad.co.uk/wp-admin