Just a few years back, if you wanted to host a WordPress blog on your own website, you avoided GoDaddy at all costs. WordPress and other mainstream Web applications simply didn’t work on GoDaddy shared hosting without a lot of extra work. As a result, GoDaddy quickly gained a reputation as a cheap Web host that’s good only for regular HTML web sites. Over time GoDaddy support for Web applications improved, but installing WordPress still required extra work. GoDaddy also introduced automatic installers for WordPress, but the result was usually a non-standard installation and code that was a few versions too old.
Fast forward to today. With GoDaddy’s new Hosting Connection, you can install the latest version of WordPress and many other Web applications such as Joomla with just a few mouse clicks. It really couldn’t be much easier. Following are step-by-step instructions to install WordPress on GoDaddy shared hosting:
1. Get a Linux Web Hosting Account
GoDaddy only supports WordPress installations on Linux. Therefore, you must ensure that you have a GoDaddy Linux web hosting account. To sign up, go to the GoDaddy home page, click the “Hosting & Servers” link, then select “Web Site Hosting” from the drop-down menu. Follow the steps to complete the purchase.
Note that GoDaddy offer three levels of service: Economy, Deluxe and Premium. I recommend the Deluxe plan, which will support up to 25 WordPress blogs and costs $6.99/month or less. Be sure to select “Linux” as your operating system:
2. Login to Your GoDaddy Account
You selected a GoDaddy user name and password when you purchased a Web hosting account. Use these to login to your GoDaddy account at the home page:
3. Go to Your Hosting Account
Click the “Hosting & Servers” link, then select “My Hosting Account” from the drop-down menu:
A list of your Web hosting accounts appears. If you have more than one account, be sure to select the Linux account. Click on the corresponding “Manage Account” link:
4. Go to the GoDaddy Hosting Connection
The GoDaddy Hosting Control Center appears. Next you need to go to the GoDaddy Hosting Connection, which offers 30+ free and premium quick-install applications including WordPress. Click the “Your Applications” button or any “Hosting Connection” link.
5. Select the WordPress Application
The GoDaddy Hosting Connection appears. On the left is a list of available applications. Click the “Blogs” header, then click the “WordPress” link:
6. Install WordPress
Information about the WordPress application appears. Click the “Install Now!” button:
7. Select Domain
Select the domain where you want to host your blog. All domains you have purchased through GoDaddy will appear in the list. If you want to host your blog on a domain that you purchased from another registrar, click the “Can’t find the domain you’re looking for” link.
Once you have selected your domain, click the “Continue” button in the lower right.
8. Setup Database
Next you need to setup the MySQL database that will hold your WordPress blog. For the “Database description”, I recommend that you use your blog name followed by WordPress, for example, “MyBlog-WordPress”. This makes it easy to distinguish databases if you host multiple blogs. Choose a database password and be sure to save it somewhere. Note that you will not need this password unless you want to access your database manually, which is rare. Still, it’s important that you do not lose this password. Click the “Next” button in the lower right to continue.
9. Choose Installation Directory
Specify the sub-directory in your domain where WordPress will be installed. If you want to install your blog in the root directory, clear the field. Click the “Next” button to continue.
10. Setup User Name and Password
For the last step, specify the WordPress user information. This is the user name and password that you use every time you access your blog. You cannot modify the user name (though you can add and delete users) so choose wisely. The email address is where WordPress will send you notifications such as when someone leaves a comment on your blog. And of course, “Blog Title” is the title of your blog. Click the “Next” button to finish.
11. Wait a Few Minutes
In just a few minutes, GoDaddy will send you an email indicating that your WordPress installation is complete.
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June 17th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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June 20th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Sorry buddy, Godaddy is no good. If I’ve had the worst experience with this hosting company. I got a shared hosting account for ASP.Net, and after I set it up, they kept disabling features. They disabled threads, they put a bottleneck on all bandwidth, and they removed write permissions from many folders that I needed. When I complained to their support(less) system, they were very eager to send me around in circles.
I say, avoid Godaddy for anything.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
GoDaddy’s one click WordPress install sucks. After the installation I couldn’t even login using my admin username and password. Uninstalled everything, waited about an hour and tried to install the application again. Same results. Their support did everything to get rid of me. Hosting WP on GoDaddy is a nightmare.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
>GoDaddy’s one click WordPress install sucks. After the installation I couldn’t even login using my admin username and password.
You must’ve done something wrong. Do you realize the Wordpress user name is case-sensitive? I’ve installed over 50 Wordpress blogs using GoDaddy’s one-click install and never had a problem, not once. And GoDaddy’s new single-click Wordpress upgrade is a huge timesaver. IMO GoDaddy is excellent for hosting Wordpress blogs.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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February 13th, 2009 at 12:58 am
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March 8th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I just went through and did this quick install thing, but how do I link Wordpress and my host so that I write on wordpress and it appears on my URL. Do I have to register the domain in my WP account, because right now I have a separate Wordpress URL and GoDaddy URL. ripcordnews.wordpress.com is different than ripcordnews.com and I don’t know what to do.
Please help.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Eric, Wordpress.com and GoDaddy.com are separate entities. If you install Wordpress (the software) on GoDaddy.com hosting, you would then access your blog through GoDaddy. You have separate URLs because you now have two separate Wordpress installations, one on GoDaddy.com and one on WordPress.com.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:54 am
HELP!!
I will pay someone to install wordpress so I can use the themes to run a site on go daddy right now!!
Here’s my perfect picture -
I can log in remotely, change the themes, admin my content. Adding a blog would be in the future -
Help help help - email me now - tpferri@gmail.com
April 9th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Hi,
Thank you for the clear and easy to follow instructions. I followed them and now I am running my Word Press blog with no issues. You are right that the login name IS case sensitive, I struggled with this for a few minutes as well.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:04 am
Now Godaddy has made it pretty easy to install Wordpress without using an FTP tool. All you need to do is go under the my applications section on your Wordpress control panal and just search for Wordpress.
I find this much easier than setting up the database and installing the software myself. It’s definitely much faster and more easier for the uneducated Wordpress user.
April 13th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I have a question regarding GoDaddy hosting. I have a couple of domain names (lets say 2 to make it simple) that I would like a different wordpress blog hosted. They are 2 completely different topics that have no need to be affiliated.
I understand how the one click install works and have done it a few times…however I have recently upgraded to the deluxe plan as it says “unlimited websites” and cannot for the life of me figure out how to have 2 different domains setup with wordpress and hosted by the same “unlimted websites” deluxe hosting accounts…
Any advice as simple to follow as the above one click install step by step??
April 13th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Once you know how to do it, it’s pretty easy to host multiple domains on GoDaddy with a WordPress blog on each domain. Essentially you create a folder in your hosting account for each domain, then point each domain to that folder. Here are some instructions:
http://help.godaddy.com/article/4688
April 13th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Ok, but what I get is http://www.exampleone.com comes up with wordpress on one and the other site http://www.exampletwo.com/exampletwo comes up only with the folder name. If I type in exampletwo.com it brings me to exampleone.com…
It appears I’m missing something that is right in front of me:)
April 17th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Godaddy sucks! WP install is not that difficult to do manually - godaddy wastes so much time in peoples lives - their sneaky suckers trying to weazel you into all sorts of crap and “upgrades” I think the best upgrade anyone can do is go with another host.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Hello I am just looking around many different websites that offer domain names. Well this is rediculous on how many people out there charge you for so many items that don’t need to be bought and still get the same quality as the paid for sites. I have found out that all you need to really pay out is max $10 year and no more for any product on domain names. And you can get free hosting, website design programs, free personalized emails, free blog account, and free online picture site. ALL WITH A $10 PAYMENT. So don’t waste your time on paying anymore for what you need unless you are running a huge website. And still it shouldn’t cost more than $89.00 Year. By the way if the Blog owner lets me post this I have settled down with http://www.rnrstuff.net. But there are other like this site here that seem real nice. But Beware the Domain BIZ is still very young and it is still got alot of growing so get it while its young.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Hi:
I’m having the same login problem into WP with Godaddy.
Anyone ever find an answer or solution?
Tnx,
Izzy
June 13th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Hi all,
I’m having the same problem here…just installed a WP and received an email from Godaddy.com…followed the URL they sent but just didn’t work out….tried to login WP but it just failed….
Anyone can gimme an advise? as I used HostGator before everything works fine…and just changed to Godaddy not so familiar with it…Thanks.