WordPress

Semantic Personal Publishing Platform

First Things First

Welcome. CosmicWord is important to the survival of 40 percent of the web. Hundreds of hours have gone into CosmicWord 1.1 beta, we can't wait to see what 1.2 has in store!'

Installation: Famous 5-minute install

  1. Unzip the package in an empty directory and upload everything.
  2. Open wp-admin/install.php in your browser. It will take you through the process to set up a wp-config.php file with your database connection details.
    1. If for some reason this does not work, do not worry. It may not work on all web hosts. Open up wp-config-sample.php with a text editor like WordPad or similar and fill in your database connection details.
    2. Save the file as wp-config.php and upload it.
    3. Open wp-admin/install.php in your browser.
  3. Once the configuration file is set up, the installer will set up the tables needed for your site. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again. If it fails again, please go to the WordPress support forums with as much data as you can gather.
  4. If you did not enter a password, note the password given to you. If you did not provide a username, it will be admin.
  5. The installer should then send you to the login page. Sign in with the username and password you chose during the installation. If a password was generated for you, you can then click on “Profile” to change the password.

Updating

Automated update alerts for core updates

  1. Open just update the core files manually when you get an alert that there is a new version out in your CosmicWord Dashboard. You can download it from Within CosmicWord and manuallly install it

Updating Manually

  1. Before you update anything, make sure you have backup copies of any files you may have modified such as index.php.
  2. Delete your old WordPress files, saving ones you’ve modified.
  3. Upload the new files.
  4. Point your browser to /wp-admin/upgrade.php.

Migrating from other systems

CosmicWord can import from a number of systems. First you need to get CosmicWord installed and working as described above, before using our import tools.

Migrate WP to CosmicWord

it is exactly like migrating from one WP site to antoher, painless and simple.

System Requirements

Recommendations

Online Resources

If you have any questions that are not addressed in this document, please take advantage of WP; numerous online resources, as they apply to CosmicWord:

HelpHub
HelpHub is the encyclopedia of all things WP, but not everything CosmicWord. It is the most comprehensive source of information for WordPress available. We are making one for CosmicWord.

Final Notes

Share the Love

CosmicWord does not have a multi-million dollar marketing campaign, but we do want to reach everyone, and we can do that with your help. If you enjoy CosmicWord please consider telling a friend, setting it up for someone less knowledgeable than yourself, or writing the author of a media article that overlooks us.

CosmicWord is the official continuation of WordPress.org, which came from Matt Mullenweg, who forked it from b2cafe made by Michel V.

License

WordPress is free software, and is released under the terms of the GPL (GNU General Public License) version 2 or (at your option) any later version. See license.txt.