09-09-2019, 03:49 PM
Okay so @deanhills, why not consider installing WordPress manually. Why do you even need the Softaculous Auto Installer. To be honest, I never use it you know. Even that it's available on my hosting service.
There are plenty of guides on how to install WordPress manually, maybe I can post one on the same here in this forum. I find it a lot more convenient to install it myself. You know it's nothing but just unarchiving the zip file into the root directory and then establishing a MySQL connection with a freshly created database. In short, that's it.
If course, Softaculous is the destination for newbies who aren't used to the world of web designing. However, advanced users must learn to do that on their own and that's what I've done. When I was new to the web development world, I too relied on Softaculous for all the installations. Slowly as I progressed, I learned doing things on my own and gradually things fell in place for me.
That's why I say that both the plugins are good and have their own pros and cons. There's one last thing I would like to add to this. For WordPress migration, I suggest not to use a plug-in at all. Simply archive ask your files in a zip and unzip it on your new host. For this one thing is important- see to it that the database name, database user and password remains same (if you do remember it). Then migrate your database to my exporting it through phpMyAdmin and then restoring it on the same. That's when you're ready to go.
Since WordPress is full of security holes, and the themes and plugins add to this, I prefer not to use too many plugins, with only the least required. And that's what I suggest everyone too.
Regards,
There are plenty of guides on how to install WordPress manually, maybe I can post one on the same here in this forum. I find it a lot more convenient to install it myself. You know it's nothing but just unarchiving the zip file into the root directory and then establishing a MySQL connection with a freshly created database. In short, that's it.
If course, Softaculous is the destination for newbies who aren't used to the world of web designing. However, advanced users must learn to do that on their own and that's what I've done. When I was new to the web development world, I too relied on Softaculous for all the installations. Slowly as I progressed, I learned doing things on my own and gradually things fell in place for me.
That's why I say that both the plugins are good and have their own pros and cons. There's one last thing I would like to add to this. For WordPress migration, I suggest not to use a plug-in at all. Simply archive ask your files in a zip and unzip it on your new host. For this one thing is important- see to it that the database name, database user and password remains same (if you do remember it). Then migrate your database to my exporting it through phpMyAdmin and then restoring it on the same. That's when you're ready to go.
Since WordPress is full of security holes, and the themes and plugins add to this, I prefer not to use too many plugins, with only the least required. And that's what I suggest everyone too.
Regards,