Move A Wordpress Website from Local to Live

Name: Move A Wordpress Website from Local to Live
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This course makes moving a Wordpress site from local to live easy and fun. A complete and cheap step by step guide.

Created byCarl Heaton

Last updated 2/2014

English

What you'll learn

you will be able to buy a domain and hook it up to your hosting
you will be able to move a local wordpress website to a live server
you will also know how to submit your website to search engines and install analytics

Course content

3 sections • 6 lectures • 45m total length

1. Buying Domain & Setting Up Hosting9:42

Creating a local WordPress website comes with a lot of advantages like speed of development, no waiting time for uploads and easy access to the site files. However the downside is when you have to move your work of web art onto the a live server. These screencasts show you how to buy a domain, setup hosting, move the website live and submit to Google. So enjoy these 30 minutes of screencasts and learn how to move a WordPress website from local to live.
1. How to Setup Hosting and a Domain3:10
There are many excellent Wordpress courses on UDEMY , so we are assuming that you have created a local version of your website during development. We now need to put your hard work live. We are ready to put it live, this starts with buying a domain and hooking it up to our hosting: How to Find and P…

2 Uploading The Wordpress Theme & Database15:00

Moving a WordPress site from local to live is not easy at it has a lot of steps. Luckily this video contains them all and you can hit pause after each stage so you work along side Koen and I.
Preparing and Uploading The WordPress Files3:37
First we need to zip the local files ready for uploading to the server. The nice thing about using cPanel is that we don`t have to upload each file separately which can potentially take hours. Once we have the zip file we can upload it using the cPanel File Manager. This will take some time so once…

3 Submitting To Google11:32

Congratulations you have a website ready to show to the world. In this tutorial Koen and I dedicated this project to the late and great Charlie Chaplie so it’s time to submit to Google and starting getting some visitors.
Sitemap to Submission, Verification to Congratulations2:37
Create a Sitemap To create a dynamically updating we need to install a plugin. This is a sinch by going to Dashboard > Plug-ins > Add New and then search for Google XML . Once you install the plug-in look for Create sitemap and create your first sitemap which for us can be found at http://www.Th…

Requirements

a locally hosted wordpress website
a computer and a brain

Description

Creating a local WordPress website comes with a lot of advantages like speed of development, no waiting time for uploads and easy access to the site files. However the downside is when you have to move your work of web art onto the a live server.

These screencasts show you how to buy a domain, setup hosting, move the website live and submit to Google. So enjoy these 30 minutes of screencasts and learn how to move a WordPress website from local to live.

Step by Step of Moving a Local Wordpress Site LIVE

Search for domain name and use domain suggest if you need help
Purchase the domain using services like GoDaddy or NamesCheap
Setup hosting either by purchasing a new account or doing an addon domain
Copy the nameservers details from the hosting to the domain (simmer for 10 minutes to 2 days)
Zip local files and upload via filemanager in cPanel then expand the directory
Use the phpMyAdmin to export the local database
Use Notepad++ or Mac equivalent to open the SQL file and find and replace “http://localhost” with “http://www.yourwebsite.com”
Create MySQL database, create the user, add the user to the database
Edit the wp-config and change the local details to the new database
With your website ready add the sitemap plugin and submit to the Google webmaster tools
Register for Google Apps and then add the tracking script to your theme
Double check all the pages on your site, grab a coffee and congratulate yourself

Who this course is for:

wordpress beginners
web designers
graphic designers uploading their portfolio
anyone wanting to put a wordpress website live

Move A Wordpress Website from Local to Live

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Course content

Stage 1 of 3 - A Quick Way to Setup Hosting & Domain2 lectures • 13min

Stage 2 of 3 - The Easy Way to Upload The Files and Database2 lectures • 19min

Stage 3 of 3 - Telling the World about YOUR Wordpress2 lectures • 14min

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