Quick WordPress installation
Installing WordPress on a server requires only a few steps. Here I describe all the steps that will lead to your first WordPress installation.
Under “Installation instructions” you will also find the minimum requirements that WordPress expects on the server. So if you want to install WordPress, the server must meet these requirements. However, most providers should be able to fulfill these easily. For the version used here (6.5.5), these are
Most providers allow you to unzip archives directly on the server. If this is not possible with your provider, unpack the archive on your computer. Depending on how you extracted the package, you will find the files relevant to you under <download folder>/WordPress-6.7.2-en_EN/WordPress/, for example. There it should look something like this:
Simply follow the instructions here. Just before Wordpress starts the installation, you should activate the checkbox “Visibility for search engines”:
At least as long as you have not yet finished the page, the search engines should not yet index the page. You will find the same setting later in the Wordpress backend under Settings/Read:
The installation of Wordpress is now complete and you can view the page. There is already standard content stored that you will certainly want to change. You will probably also want to use a different theme and install and set up one or two plugins.