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WordPress

Wesley Hebert
Wesley Hebert
2,700 Points
Posted by Wesley Hebert
Wesley Hebert
2,700 Points

Wordpress website hosting

so I have a website currently up but want to create a new website using wordpress while the old site stays up and running. Im confused how to go about this

mikes02
mikes02
Courses Plus Student 16,968 Points

Can you be more specific about what aspect confuses you? Is it how to go about finding suitable hosting? How to develop a WordPress site? The more specific you can be the better other forum members will be able to help you troubleshoot the issue.

Chris Huie
Chris Huie
13,029 Points

Kind of flying blind on how specific you want to get here, but the way I understood the question the best option would be to develop on your local machine. There is a course on developing wordpress locally and you just need to install WAMP or MAMP depending on your OS. This way your current site is unaffected and you can tweak your site till you are ready to replace the current hosted site.

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Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points
Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

Hi Wesley, it sounds like you want to use the same hosting to try out WordPress without disturbing your existing site?

You can definitely do this. Two options would be:

  1. Install WordPress in a subdirectory. To do this make a new folder amongst your current website files e.g. /blog/ and put WordPress' files in there. Navigate to your example.com/blog/and run the WordPress installation.

  2. Install WordPress in a subdomain. Depending on your hosting you may be allowed to create subdomains e.g. blog.example.com. Your host can tell you more about how to do this on your server. You would then have a specific folder where files for that subdomain go in which you should put WordPress' files. When it's all uploaded navigate to your subdomain and run the WordPress install.

Alternatively you could get a new hosting package and domain but that's not necessary if you just want to try it out.