{"id":3969,"date":"2026-05-05T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/install-wordpress-with-softaculous\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:34","slug":"install-wordpress-with-softaculous","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/install-wordpress-with-softaculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Install WordPress with Softaculous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Softaculous lets you install WordPress from inside cPanel without uploading WordPress files manually or creating the database yourself.<\/p>\n<p>To install WordPress:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the client area at https:\/\/clients.4uhosting.co.uk.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>My Services<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the hosting service and select <strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Login to cPanel<\/strong> from the left side.<\/li>\n<li>In cPanel, open <strong>Softaculous Apps Installer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>WordPress<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Install<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the domain you want to install WordPress on.<\/li>\n<li>Leave the directory field empty if you want WordPress to load from the main domain.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the site name, site description, admin username, admin password and admin email address.<\/li>\n<li>Check the remaining settings, then select <strong>Install<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you enter a folder name in the directory field, WordPress will install in that folder instead. For example, entering <code>blog<\/code> would install WordPress at <code>yourdomain.co.uk\/blog<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep a note of the WordPress admin username and password you choose during the installation. You will need them to log in to the WordPress dashboard after the installation has finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softaculous lets you install WordPress from inside cPanel without uploading WordPress files manually or creating the database yourself. To install WordPress: Log in to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[37],"class_list":["post-3969","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3969\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}