Create WordPress Blog Lab

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Ok, let me share about my experience to build WordPress blog at Freeweb7.com in this article. I think that it is really worthy to try the WordPress engine blog in free web hosting service first before apply it in paid web hosting service. By have this free hosting WordPress blog as laboratory, we can explore the WordPress freely without waste the resource but time. And we still can use this free hosting WordPress blog as our lab although already create our paid webhosting WordPress blog. We can use it to test any WordPress stuff before install in our real (paid web hosting) WordPress blog. And this free web hosting wordpress blog always useful even tough we already have our real wordpress blog in paid web hosting service.

Here how to build the free hosting WordPress blog:

Get latest WordPress engine and save it to my Laptop

Go to freeweb7.com  (as my free web hosting service provider) and click “Register” button

Fill the registration form and click “submit” button. My user name that i fill will use for link name if do not use own domain name, so I chose it carefully.

The freeweb7.com send the confirmation link to my email

Check the email and click the confirmation link

The link goes to registration second step form; fill it with all that is needed.

I do not fill the extra domain because do not use it. You can fill it if already have your own domain name.

Click “submit” button

My domain which is “myusername.Freeweb7.com” already created

Need to create database at myusername.freeweb7.com to serve WordPress blog.

Go to control panel, click “Create/delete MySQL database” button.

Create database name, username and password for accessing the database

Choose grant all access to the username that I create before.

I upload the WordPress engine to username.freeweb7.com using FTP Connection. I use FileZilla which is my favorite FTP manager to do the FTP. I upload all WordPress engine use FileZilla to my web root directory.

I create “wp-config.php” by edit “wp-config-sample.php” which I find in WordPress engine file that uploaded before. I save “wp-config-sample.php” as “wp-config.php” after do editing. I learn how to make “wp-config.php” at WordPress codex.

I browse my blog (myusername.freeweb7.com) and I automatically redirect to “WP-Admin” page.

I am asked to fill the blog title and email address. I fill all of it, and choose to allow my blog appear at search engine

Then click “Install” button.

The success page that contain username and password to administrate the WordPress blog appear, which mean the installation already success. I save the password for future use.

Click “Login” button and use my username and password which appear at success page before.

There is a note appear to tell me to chan admin password. I change it with most suitable secure password.

My WordPress blog which is hosting at freeweb7.com already ready. I check it by browse myusername.freeweb7.com.

I can see that my free WordPress basic blog already appear. It will need many tweaking (and learning) to be better blog.

You may think that to have free webhosting WordPress blog is useless but I really learn much from my free web hosting WordPress blog. It is because there is no fears to do whatever in this free blog. I always can build new one without harm my resource if something bad happen when does test on it. And I already did countless tests in my free WordPress blog for many blog stuff. Yes, I always test in this free WordPress blog if there is something new blog stuff that I want use in my real blog. It makes my real blog always safe from wrong blog stuff. So, what is your waiting for? Just have your own WordPress blog Lab, and get next step for blogging. Btw, i do manual wordpress installation in this article, you can read WordPress Automatic installation for automatic process.

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