WordPress installs from cPanel in a couple of minutes; you don't need to download anything.
- Open cPanel and find the installer: Softaculous (under Software) or WordPress Management (under Domains) — whichever your cPanel shows. Both work the same way.
- Click Install, choose the domain (leave the directory blank so the site is at the root), and set the site title.
- Choose an admin username that isn't "admin", and a long generated password. Enter the email address you want notifications sent to.
- Install. When it finishes you'll get the link to your dashboard —
https://yourdomain.co.uk/wp-admin.
First things to do once you're in: install the free LiteSpeed Cache plugin (our servers run LiteSpeed, so it makes a real difference), delete the sample content and any plugins you didn't choose, and set a strong password for every user. SSL is already in place, so make sure Settings → General shows both URLs starting with https://.
Migrating an existing WordPress site rather than starting fresh? Don't install anything — open a ticket and we'll move it for you, free, with nothing lost.
