Manage Blogs > Create/Install/Edit Blog Project Here is where you start by adding a new blog project (or editing previously created one) for installation. Domain and Hosting Account Info Here you will enter all the information for your cPanel webhost and Blog Information. Please refer to your webhost login information that you received when you bought their services. Hostname/Domain - eg. www.yourdomain.com Web Folder (empty if none) - Case sensitive. E.g. enter MyBlog if you want it to be installed in www.foo.com/MyBlog. It is advised to use some web folder for installation rather than to clobber web root, it makes easier to uninstall. cPanel Login username - enter the username that your webhost gave you. cPanel Login password - enter the password of your cpanel login. Use single DB: - It may be cleaner solution to use separate database for each blog. However you may not be able to remove hosting provider limit on database count and then you would need to stack all sql tables into single database per cpanel account. You can't change this option for already installed blogs. Only required for Addon Domain Installations In this part you will setup the addon domain info. This will only apply if you are installing blogs on addon domains. Addon domains are domains you already added within your Primary domain's Cpanel > Addon Domains section. This is mostly used in shared hosting when resources are limited and hosting allows you to add unlimited domains but as addon domains. Let me explain the first 3 options here: 1. Home directory begins with?: select the one that pertains to your host. You will find this information in your cpanel on the left side where you see all the info about the server you are on. (ie. /home/username) 2. Hostname/domain/addon domain/sub-domain inside folder?: You need to check this. 3. Domain folder name: This gets a little tricky. Enter the addon domain folder name your host creates when you first added the addon domain in your cpanel. You can see how it was done by going into Cpanel > Addon Domains and where you see the list of the domains you will notice the folder it was created. (ie. addondomain.com or addondomain) You need to enter exactly the folder name you see in there. Blog Information, Theme, Plugins & First Post Here you will enter most of the common info that the WordPress needs to build a more friendly blog site. Site Name - enter the name you would like your blog to have (Ex. My Online Blog) Tag Line of Description - enter the sub-line you want to use for under the Site name. Owner Name - your name. Owner Email - your email address. Admin Login - WordPress allows 'admin' only. Admin Password - desired password for your WordPress blog admin login. Theme - select the Theme you desire for your blog. Upload single selected theme only, not all themes, and delete other installed themes when updating. "Default" and "classic" WP themes are always present. Plugins - select the Plugins you want for your blog. To see the description of each plugin click on List/Upload Plugins to your left menu. Also you will have the choice of selecting the options available in this part. If you don't choose any of the first 2 then all plugins listed in the dropdown menu above will be installed with your blog. If you choose the first option then it will Activate selected plugins only, not all plugins that are listed above will be activated. (If you are Updating blog then it will not replace the already activated plugins and only selected will be uploaded and activated). If you choose the second option then it will Activate selected plugins only but Delete other installed/activated plugins in your blog. (If you had plugins in your blog that are the same as the ones you selected above then they will be replaced, the rest of the plugins will be removed). The third option will include this blog, so Cron Job Upgrades Plugins in WordPress Admin Area > Plugins section directly. (this feature will only work with plugins that offer the Upgrade Automatically feature via WordPress admin area > Plugins section). For this function to work you will need to setup Cron job in cpanel. Please refer to the WP ManagerDX Installation Guide on how to setup correctly. First Post Title - enter the title of the first post you will want to appear in the category above. This post you can see when you first access this blog's main page. First Post Content - enter the content (body) of the post above. Add New Page(s), Categories & General Settings Add New Page(s): This part is for you to add up to 6 pages to your blog if you wish. Leave back if you don't want to add any pages. HTML code is allowed in the Page Content Textbox. Category Name - enter the name of the first category you want to include with this blog. If you wish to have more fields so you can add more categories then click the link that reads: Add more Category field(s) Ping URLs - this is the list of sites that will know when you have publish some posts. Letting them know you have new content. Posts per page - enter the amount of posts you want to show on each of your blog's pages. There is Blogroll section on the right side of your blog that has links to other sites. You may disable/delete these links or enter your own ones here. Summaries for feeds - check this option if you want to only show an excerpt of the content of this post. This is useful for people using your RSS feeds. Dissallow Comments - leave unchecked if you want to Allow people to post comments on the article else check and it will NOT Allow people to post comments on the article. Block search engine - If you want search engines to not spider your blog then check this option, else leave unchecked and search engines will spider your blog. Default setting is I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors Visible blogroll links - Makes existing or default WP blogroll links visible or not Permalink structure - This is the url structure for each link on the blog. Recommended structure: /%postname%/ Links - this information will be for setting up blog links In this part you can enter Your Own Blogroll Links (this will create your own links list instead of showing the default links list). Please Note: If you want to add more Link fields to enter more links info then click the Add more Link field(s) Manage Remote Publishing Options Check both options here if you want to post to WordPress from a desktop blogging client or remote website that uses the Atom Publishing Protocol or one of the XML-RPC publishing interfaces you must enable them below. This new feature was integrated by WordPress in version 2.6 and over. POP3 Mail Info - this information will be for setting up to post via email You may post to blogs directly from your email client program. If you wish to do so, create secret POP3 mailbox and enter it's info below. When you will email a message to that mailbox, it will appear as blog posting. Last part of this section where you choose a button below for processing: When creating a new project you will only see the Create, Install and Overwrite Installation buttons. When Editing an Existing project you will see more button options such as Save, Delete, Uninstall, Install, Overwrite Installation, and Update installation. Explanation for each option: Save Project >> - this will create(save) a new project without actually installing the WordPress blog on the domain. If you use this option then you will see it listed in the Pending Blog Installs section. From there you can install it on the domain or just edit the project. Install Blog >> - this option will actually Install your WordPress blog. (it will pop up a window showing you the process of installation) Overwrite Installation >> - this option will overwrite an already installed WordPress blog. CAUTION: This installation will replace all files and also the database. Save - this will only save your project (this button is when you come back to edit this project) Delete - this will only delete this project from the system, it will not delete your WordPress blog. Uninstall - this will physically delete all your WordPress blog files from your host. Check "With subdomain" to delete subdomain. Update installation - this option is for saving the changes to this project. If any of the below apply then please make your choices Check one or more of the following if you when clicking the Update Installation button. Update Whole WordPress (make backup in advance, some themes or plugins may break with new WordPress version. Do this just as a precaution.). Check to upgrade WordPress version to the latest one. This Update will only update WordPress script and database but it will NOT change the settings, theme and plugins you already had setup originaly. Update Themes. Check to reinstall theme and activate selected theme. Update Plugins. Check to reinstall plugins and activate the ones selected in the plugin list above. Update Selected Option(s) below with above settings/data: (This section will update any other fields you have changed above) Check any boxes below if you have changed any of these; Site Name, Description, Ping URLs, Posts Per Page, Front Page Displays, Summaries for feeds, Blogroll links, Comments, Blog search engines, Permalink structure, Remote Publishing Options, POP3 Mail options as above. Or WordPress Blog password.