How to set up more than one Wordpress blog in one hosting account

There are times that you may want to set up more than one blog with one hosting account in order not to incur extra cost of signing up for a new hosting account to host your other blogs.

To set up unlimited blogs in Hostgator, use the following steps:

STEP 1: Register your domain name with a domain registrar and set up your Domain Name Server (DNS). Click here to see how it is done.

STEP 2:  Add the new domain to your hosting account. To do this, go to your hosting account Cpanel by typing “www.yourolddomainname.com/ cpanel” into your browser’s url address box. In the Cpanel, click the Addons Domains icon as shown below:

STEP 3: Install Wordpress by clicking the Fantastico Deluxe icon as shown below. Follow these steps to install your new Wordpress blog.

Step 4: Set up your Wordpress theme(s) and plugins for your new blog. Upon installation of your new Wordpress blog, your hosting provider will create a new folder in your hosting account (based on the admin user name that you specified during the Wordpress installation process). This folder will house your wp-admin, wp-content folders (containing your theme, plugin and upload sub-folders etc.) of your new Wordpress blog. Therefore, you would need to FTP your favourite theme(s) and plugins to these sub-folders.

Fire up your FTP program (FileZilla) and type in the host name, username and password belonging to your main site name (ie. the first domain that use the hosting account and not the new Wordpress blog domain name) and click the “Quickconnect” button to access your hosting files. Drag your preferred Wordpress theme(s) and plugins to the above mentioned theme and plugin folders respectively.

Step 5: Activate the theme and plugins that you have FTP to your new blog. To do this, type  e.g. http://www.newblogname.com/wp-admin into your browser’s url address box and sign in to your wp-admin screen using the username and password that you specified during the installation of your new Wordpress blog (as per step 3 above). While in the wp-admin screen, activate your preferred Wordpress theme and plugins.

You should now be able to start blogging with your new theme.

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