Installing WordPress

WordPress is an extremely popular open source content management system. It's ease of use combined with a huge number of plugins and themes mean it is used by more than 60 million websites, including 1/3 of the top 10 million sites.

This guide is aimed at the novice user, but will result in a self-updating WordPress install, supporting the vast majority of themes and plugins with minimal security concerns.

You will need

1. A server running Sympl
   • • A basic server with 1GB of RAM, 1 core and 10GB or more of disk space should suffice for moth sites.
     • If you already have a server running Sympl, you can use that.

Basic familiarity with SSH

A domain name to host the site on