Manual WordPress Installation

If Quicklnstall is not available in your cPanel (some hosting accounts do not offer it), you can always choose to install WordPress manually on a site. This can be a confusing process for those that have never done it before, but many of the confusing aspects of the installation process have already been covered by this cPanel guidebook (like creating a database manually).

To start, you will need to download WordPress from http://wordpress.org/

Follow these steps to install WordPress:​

1. Decompress (unzip) the WordPress package you downloaded to your local computer.
    
2. Create a database through cPanel to use for the WP site. Then create a database user and add it to that database will all privileges.
    
3. Upload all of the files and folders from the decompressed WP package to your website through FTP. You will want to upload these files to the directory where you want WordPress to run (in the public_html or the addon domain directory for most sites).
    
4. Run the WordPress installation script and provide the information for the database and user you created. Type in your domain name followed by /wp-admin/install.php to access this script. If your domain was example.com, you would reach that script with this address: http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php

If you need additional help installing WordPress, you can take a look at their installation guide here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress