The famous WordPress 5-minute installation revisited, aka Grandma’s no-fail WP Multiple Blog Installation Tutorial
(best experienced with an account on pair.com and an Apple computer running Mac OS X)
OK, so you’ve heard of how wonderful it is to have a blog, and now you want to install WordPress. I know how it feels. I’ve had exactly the same thought several times in the past - at least three times, I’d say, starting with WP version 1.2-mingus or thereabouts.
On the surface, WordPress sounded very easy and very convincing right from the beginning - but I must be a real dodo, because I had to go through the constantly growing online documentation, the Codex, the forums, the linked tutorials, more tutorials I came across by accident, etc., many many times before things started to click and make some real sense for me. I guess there was just too much for my old head to get round it quickly - so for a couple of times at least, I got where I thought I was really close to having my blogs going… but had instead to surrender to their not being working, and give up.
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