Launching a website in Kenya—whether for business, blogging, or personal branding—starts with setting up a solid foundation. And for many, that means installing WordPress, the world’s most popular content management system. If you’re new to WordPress, don’t worry. This easy tutorial is designed with beginners in mind, especially those using local Kenyan web hosting services with cPanel. You’ll be guided step-by-step through the installation process, so you can get your website up and running quickly, with no coding required.
Step1. Login to CPanel
First thing you need to do is to login to cPanel.
Once you are logged into the cPanel area, if you're on desktop check the left-hand side of your cPanel dashboard and you'll see two options, WordPress Toolkit and WordPress Manager by softaculous.
You can also find this by scrolling down to the software section of the cPanel, Click on the WordPress Manager by softaculous.
Step 2: Installing WordPress Using WordPress Manager by softaculous
Once in the WordPress management page you'll be presented with many options like install, scan, remote import, manage sets, and security measures. Just click on install.
Step 3: Final installation process, creating admin username, password.
Now from this page you'll be presented with options to choose your domain name, admin username and password, admin email address, blog title and description.
Now fill in your admin username and the password, make sure you use a strong and hard to guest password, you can use the password generator to generate a strong pasword.
Take your time to fil each of the available fields and scroll down to the bottom of the page, if you wish to send a copy of the installation details to your email, you'll see a box Email installation details to, fill it and click on install.
Wait for a few seconds and the installation should be complete.
