First, login to your account with the information that was emailed to you. It will look something like this:

A new client account has been created in Plesk.
Client’s contact name: Joe Schmo
Client’s login: jschmo
Client’s password: 1111
Plesk entry point: http://ds5.hostwire.com:8880

Click on the “Plesk entry point” and type in your login and password. This will take you to the Hostwire Desktop.

In the Tools section, click on the fourth option, “Install a Site Application.”

Then click on the domain name for which you want to install WordPress.

You will be taken to a page that links to all kinds of free applications. Click on “Blog” underneath the Personal section and then click on the “Install” button next to the WordPress option. You must check the box on the License Agreement (perhaps you may even want to read it to avoid any misunderstandings in the future), then click “Next.”

Under “Installation Preferences,” you can choose to upload WordPress at the root of your directory so that it appears as the Homepage of your site. If you had something else in mind for the homepage of your site, then you should create a separate directory for your blog. For example, if you name your folder, “blog,” the url for people to access it would be: http://www.MyDomain.com/blog.

The rest is pretty self-explanatory. Create a database login password; then an admin password (this will be how you will login to your blog and add content to it – perhaps this should be different from your login information for your Hostwire account).

Last step – Name your blog. You can always change it in the admin area of your blog, so don’t worry if you haven’t decided quite yet. And yes, this name can be different from the domain name.

Click “Install” and you will be set within a few minutes. Go to www.MyDomain.com/blog/wp-admin (or if you installed it at the root, go to www.MyDomain.com/wp-admin), login with the username and password you set, and you’re good to go!

And if you are lost once you’re inside your blog, no worries…stay tuned, we’ll be covering the basics of navigating your blog’s Dashboard next!