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[...] Purchase a cheap domain name and hosting through GoDaddy, for $4.99 a month. Right off the bat, that’s hundreds of dollars less than a web designer will charge. GoDaddy comes with WordPress, and you can install it with just a few clicks into your hosting control panel and trust me when I tell you that you don’t need a web designers help to do it, the entire process is pretty painless. Read this helpful article. [...]

By: Bhargav

Bhargav — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:29:54 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for your help. i have spent 4 hrs to find the way that how i can do this and even not get proper answer like this from godaddy.

Thanks

By: PID Controller %0B

PID Controller %0B — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:58:24 +0000

i just love blog authors that are very intelligent like you *`.,”-

By: jane

jane — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:05:53 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:33:32 +0000

Hi 2bretired,

You’ve got a few options. First, you can simply not update your website. I still use 2.5.1 for this site and I’ve never updated it. I’m using 2.7 for another site and there are several differences, but many of them are cosmetic.

Second, you can wait until Godaddy updates their system. When I started this site Godaddy used 2.5.1, now they are at 2.8.3 so they are obviously keeping up with the updates on their end. However, I’m not sure if they have a way to update using their system. For instance, I don’t think I can log into my godaddy account and upgrade this site from 2.5.1 to 2.8.3 - I think that for all new websites created they install the 2.8.3 bundle, but they leave existing sited to fend for themselves.

Which brings me to the third option - installing Wordpress manually. There are plenty of sites out there that discuss this process so I won’t go into it here (when I write tutorials I typically like to document the entire process with screenshots, to do that I’d need to upgrade this site to 2.8.3 - which I don’t want to do because everything is working right now so if it “ain’t broke …”).

I know that I’m not being much help, but I guess I’m trying to make 1 thing clear, just because they’ve released an update doesn’t mean you must upgrade.

I’m sorry I can’t be of more help.

By: 2bretired

2bretired — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:52:58 +0000

Word press just updated there software from 2.8.3 to 2.8.4.( to fix a security problem) Tried auto update but nothing happened. Contacted Godaddy who said they only install ver 2.8.3 and that I was on my own.
So how do I update the software on godaddy.
Thanks, Bob

By: admin

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:31:00 +0000

No problem Pandu, Glad I could help!

By: pandu

pandu — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:14:12 +0000

Frankly, I’m installing WP now on GoDaddy and get confused how difficult it is. Unlike using CPanel with Fantastico with one click intallation, here it made me lost my mind. Thanks to your tutorial that help me out to do it smoothly.

By: Janet Ching

Janet Ching — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:35:43 +0000

Thanks so much for your reply. I have followed your steps and now got to Hello World! Really cool for a non IT techie person like me! I now have to learn how to upload, move from my old blog to this new domain. Or find another nice template : ) Thanks, have to keep visiting your blog : )

By: admin

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:17:08 +0000

I assume you mean that you set up a windows hosting plan instead of a linux one? That’s what I did initially and it took several hours for Godaddy to change it over to linux hosting.

I have heard that WP may work with windows hosting now, so you might want to check with Godaddy before you go through the trouble of changing it.

As far as changing the template (aka “theme”), usually it’s pretty easy to do. All you need to do is upload the new theme via FTP (I use the Firefox browser, so I like the FireFTP plugin for this).

Anyway, upload the new theme to your wp-content/themes folder. Then you can activate the new theme under the appearance options in WP.

It shouldn’t be too much trouble changing from a 2 column theme to a 3 column theme, especially if you’re using WP 2.7 because it has a nice Widget manager (also located under Appearance).

The widget manager breaks down your columns into 2 separate sidebars (sidebar 1 and sidebar 2) and lets you drag and drop which widgets you want in each column/sidebar. So it’s pretty easy.

Having said that, there is always a chance for things to get hairy, so be patient and get ready to google for fixes.

Good luck and have fun!