Manually Installing WordPress on GoDaddy Free Linux Shared Hosting


  1. Log in to your GoDaddy account and create a MySQL database
  2. Wait for the database to be created. Log in to the database, and note the server address
  3. Download the latest WordPress packager The latest version is available here: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
  4. Unzip/decompress the package and upload the “wordpress” folder within to
  5. Run the WordPress installer
    1. When prompted, enter the name of the database that was created.

Hiding the Ads

To hide the “free hosting” ads from your site, edit the CSS for your Drupal template and add this entry

#conash3D0{
  display: none;
}

As of writing this, I am running into an issue with the administrator environment. It looks like some of the javascript isn’t executing so the UI isn’t rendering correctly. The site renders fine, though. More on that as I work it out. Any suggestions would be greatly

UPDATE

I found a blog entry that details how to fix the javascript issue mentioned above. http://allebrum.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/getting-wordpress-to-work-on-godaddys-free-hosting-account-finally/


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