How to Install WordPress in One Click
Updated 20 July 20264 min read
To install WordPress, open the one-click app installer in your control panel, choose WordPress, pick the domain to install it on, set your admin username and a strong password, and click install. It takes a couple of minutes. Avoid the default 'admin' username, install to the domain root (not a /wp subfolder) unless you have a reason not to, and make sure SSL is active first so WordPress uses https:// from the start.
Install it
- 1In cPanel, open the Software section and launch the app installer.
- 2Choose WordPress and click Install.
- 3Select your domain and leave the 'In Directory' field blank to install at the root (yourdomain.com rather than yourdomain.com/blog).
- 4Set a site title, an admin username that is NOT 'admin', and a strong password. Save these somewhere safe.
- 5Enter your admin email, then click Install. When it finishes you'll get the link to your wp-admin login.
First things to do after installing
- Log in at yourdomain.com/wp-admin and check the site loads over https://.
- Go to Settings → Permalinks and choose 'Post name' for clean, SEO-friendly URLs.
- Delete the sample 'Hello world' post and default plugins you won't use.
- Install a caching plugin early — it's the single biggest speed win on shared hosting.
- Set up automatic updates for minor core releases and trusted plugins.