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WordPress powers over 40% of the web, and installing it on Stablepoint hosting takes about a minute with Softaculous.
  1. Log in to cPanel.
  2. In the Softaculous Apps Installer section, click WordPress.
  3. Click Install Now.
  4. Complete the form:
    • Choose Protocol: https:// (SSL is free and automatic on our hosting).
    • Choose Domain: the domain to install WordPress on.
    • In Directory: leave empty to install at yourdomain.com, or enter a folder (e.g. blog) for yourdomain.com/blog.
    • Site Name / Description: you can change these later in WordPress settings.
    • Admin Username: choose something other than “admin”.
    • Admin Password: use a strong password.
    • Admin Email: a real address you can access — password resets go here.
  5. Optionally enable automated backups and select an update policy.
  6. Click Install.
After a few seconds, Softaculous shows your site URL and the admin URL (yourdomain.com/wp-admin).

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Installing WordPress manually

If you prefer the manual route:
  1. Download WordPress from https://wordpress.org/download/.
  2. Upload and extract the archive into your document root via File Manager or FTP.
  3. Create a MySQL database and user in cPanel (MySQL Databases), and add the user to the database with all privileges.
  4. Visit your domain — the WordPress installer starts. Enter the database details (host: localhost), then complete the site and admin details.

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After installation

  • Log in at yourdomain.com/wp-admin.
  • Go to Settings → Permalinks and choose “Post name” for clean URLs.
  • Delete the default plugins/themes you won’t use.
  • Install a caching plugin (e.g. LiteSpeed Cache on our LiteSpeed servers) for performance.
  • Review our WordPress security guide.
If your domain’s DNS doesn’t point at our server yet, you can still install and preview WordPress — ask our support team about a temporary preview URL, or use your local hosts file to preview the site before switching DNS.