How To Upload Wordpress Website Using The Cpanel

WordPress is the near usually used CMS (Content Management Software) on the net, with a market share of 59.v% of websites built on the cyberspace. In that location are numerous ways to become a WordPress web log up and running for the public to run into. One of the more than pop means to publish a blog is WordPress' official site- WordPress.com. This site offers the opportunities for its users to build and maintain a free WordPress web log. At that place are downsides to a free WordPress weblog business relationship, however. To utilize custom themes, some plugins, or to use your own domain name requires a paid upgrade. Users are too unable to manage their email or any other facet of their domain with WordPress.com.

An alternative to using a gratis WordPress.com account would be to install a standalone example of WordPress on your hosted server. Using installation software such as WordPress Managing director, Softaculous, QuickInstall, or other software packet delivery systems allows a user to install a WordPress blog instance from scratch. Having a free-standing WordPress install gives you more flexibility on managing your web log, including installing plugins or themes, customizing the CSS beyond a theme, configuring advanced PHP settings, etc.

What if y'all already accept a blog on WordPress.com and want to transfer information technology to a server where you have more control? Dissimilar a physical installation on your server, WordPress.com doesn't permit y'all admission to the website'south files, but rather acts as a WYSIWIG (what yous see is what you get). The downside being that without any access to the files it becomes hard to transfer your WordPress.com web log to another server. Fear non, still. There is a solution! Let's motility a WordPress.com blog to a hosted cPanel server.

(Note- the instructions below operate under the supposition you have a cPanel account to create a WordPress blog on. If you don't already have one, and don't desire to share your server resources with another site, please check out our cPanel Solo License offer and our Cipher to WordPress blog explaining how to build your WordPress web log from the basis up with a cPanel Solo business relationship.)

Consign your blog into an XML file

In theConfigure section of the WordPress.com site dashboard (the lefthand side bill of fare), there is a gear icon labeledSettings. If y'all scroll downwardly to the bottom of the folio, underSite Tools, at that place's anExport option that allows y'all to download an XML version of your site. XML, or extensible markup language, is a language that sets rules for encoding documents in a human-readable and auto-readable format. This file volition contain the necessary data to import your previous site data into your new site location, so make sure not to alter or delete this file.

Make sure to export both your content and media library to go all of your files ready for transfer. Exporting your content will create the XML file, and exporting media library volition create a .tar file with your media within.

Install WordPress on your server

In cPanel nether Applications is the WordPress Manager. Using WordPress Manager will help you become a make new WordPress instance installed.

ClickCreate Installationin WordPress Manager
Select the domain you wish to install WordPress on (in my case, philtestdomain.xyz) and clickInstall.
WordPress Manager will generate credentials for you (which can be inverse at a later fourth dimension), so brand sure to relieve your username and password in a safe place.

You now have a brand new WordPress installation! Allow's go the site imported.

Importing the XML into your new installation

We only have a few more than steps to become earlier your data is imported into your new WordPress installation! Just follow these instructions and allow the WordPress Import role exercise all of the heavy lifting!

Log into your WordPress site every bit an administrator (these are the credentials you saved when creating the new installation)
Go to Tools: Import in the WordPress Admin Panel
Install the WordPress Importer from the list
Activate and Run Importer
Upload this file (the XML) using the form provided on that page
Map the author in the XML to users on the site (either the Ambassador user you created or some other user you may choose to create)

When importing the content into your new WordPress installation, make sure to cheque theDownload and import file attachmentsbox to include media such every bit images from the posts in the import.

7. WordPress volition then import each of your posts, pages, comments, categories, etc. independent in the XML to this site

(note: when being asked to import the author, yous tin can maintain the old writer name from the WordPress.com blog or choose the admin proper noun created when you installed WordPress)

And there you become! You've successfully migrated your WordPress.com web log into a cPanel hosted WordPress installation! If y'all'd similar to talk more almost WordPress or migrating content or anything cPanel in general, please bring together the states on our Slack or Discord channels or subscribe to the official cPanel subreddit!