In today’s post I want to start a new tradition. I’m going to start answering questions I find in the Warrior Forum.
In today’s video response I am answering the question… Should I use Fantastico to install wordpress?
Here is a quote from the actual post…
Dipping my toe into w2.0 (as I believe it’s called…)
As a complete WP newb, would I be better to get myself going with WP from the WP site itself, or through my Hostgator account cPanel?
It seems there are many people getting quite a degree of success using WP, and as someone who’s never really looked into it, I’d like to get something going.
Advice on tutorials etc, all greatly appreciated.
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/33023-wordpress-newb-question.html
What I’ve started to do is the initial install with Fantastic (I agree – it makes it so easy and quick), then install a plug-in to handle the updates to any new versions of Wordpress for me.
You can use Fantastic to update Wordpress, but as I found out (oops) doing that overwrites any themes (and probably plug-ins) that you have installed, so you need to reload those afterwards.
(Mind you, Wordpress 2.7 is supposed to have updating built in, so that should be an even better solution to the update problem.)
I agree that Fantastico is the fastest and easiest way to install Wordpress if you are doing it one blog at a time.
I occasionally will set up multiple WP blogs at one time and like to use a program that installs multiple sites at once. There are a few good ones out there but I like WP ManagerDX the best. You can also manage your blogs easier this way instead of having to log into each one to update and post.
Justin