Welcome to the first step in launching your WordPress site! If you don’t know what a hosting company is, don’t worry you don’t need to! But if you want to know what it is, it’s basically a company that has a building, or buildings, full of computers. All of those computers are then connected to the internet. A hosting…
Category: WPEngine Launch Guide
Start Your WP Hosting With WPEngine
One small step for man, one giant leap for man/womankind!! You’ve decided that you want to use one of the highest level WordPress Hosting products around. Alternatively, you could choose to host your site on WPLauncher’s hosting platform to get the same features at a lower price. Also, if you decided that you want to use Dreamhost as…
How to Get a Domain Name
Now that you’ve purchased the host that is right for you, let’s move onto: How to Get a Domain Name for Your WordPress site (and in our opinion it’s prettyyyyy awesome and much more fun than the previous steps). If you already have a domain name, feel free to skip this step. But, you’ll miss out, because we’ve shared some…
How to Point a Domain to WPEngine
So, you have purchased a domain name and have decided to host your website on WPEngine. If you haven’t purchased a domain name, check out our post on Finding and Using a Custom Domain Name. Start off by going to the WPEngine login page and login to your WPEngine account. Then, you need to find the IP Address…
How to Install a WordPress Theme for Your Website
The most tedious and challenging aspects of the build are over so congratulations, you made it through the gauntlet! Now, you get to work on the fun part and immediately see how cool you can make your website 🙂 . To start installing your WordPress theme go to: www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php in your web browser. It should pull up the…