WP in cPanel
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I just got a note from Billy at cPanel that WordPress is now a cPanel Addon Script, which means you will be able to install and keep WordPress updated automatically using cPanel which is installed on millions of hosts worldwide.
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FYI matt, WordPress has been in Cpanel (Fantastico) really long now.
This is great news!
My host offers installtion of wordpress using Fantastico.
Same here, now if only they’d get with the program! The latest version they have is 1.2.2
Fantastico tends to be pretty behind. That is separate from the direct cPanel integration.
Man. Now I’ll have to get subdomaining set up on my box, and then I can use CPanel to do my heavy lifting for me. [Although I've noticed, watching phpBB, that they lag behind the release of stable releases by a few days...]
The latest version on cPanel is 1.2.2
That’s fantastico, this is different.
Nope, sorry, My host uses cPanel and I just checked it out.
My provider offers both cPanel and Fantastico.
Fantastico offers v. 1.5 and cPanel (9.9.9-STABLE 15) offers v. 1.02. That is how I found WordPress was through the auto-install feature my ISP offers.
On a side note, my provider encourages people to use WordPress over M******Type because the other one does not play nice with their servers.
I installed WordPress via cPanel (Fantastico) some months ago, and I am in love. I’m fully capable of installing the script myself but I don’t keep up with script updates, and I hate having to “reinstall” something that’s working perfectly fine — but now cPanel does it for me. Very, very nice.
Although my host uses cPanel – here’s an explanation they gave me for some of (including WP) earlier versions of the auto install scripts.
“For stability reasons we test new releases for 3 months before we start offering them to our customers.”
I think you need to find a new host.
I can confirm that the latest version is “1.5-1.0″ (i.e. 1.5) in the cPanel-recommended RELEASE tree.
Like Clyde, just checked cPanel and theres no sign of it.
It all depends on your how often your provider updates their cPanel software. Mine had WP 1.5 within a day of its official release. Mostly due to the fact it accounted for 70% of the installs people used Fantastico for. My buddy has had to wait for several weeks (and several emails) to get his provider to update the software. Send an email to your host – its a painless install for them.
Sounds great, thanks for the news.
3 months testing?? I think we’ll be up to version 2.0 by then… *crosses fingers*
That’s great!
WP’ll become even more popular than it is now.
My host embedded Fantastico in CPanel some months ago:
http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/fantastico.jpg
Yay! Great news!
The main reason I signed up with vizaweb.com as a host (some time ago) was because they offered cpanel and fanastico. With fantastico, creating a WordPress blog was basically a one or two-step process.
Sounds good, but I have concerns over how it updates, I wouldn’t want it to replace my themes and customized stuff.
mr.dew – you loose all your themes in the upgrade using cPanel. Just a warning – but its VERY easy to upgrade your blog this way. cheers.
not sure if dreamhost.com uses cPanel, but they support a one-click install via their own control panel. it’s pretty nifty.
The cpanel installer is actually an ‘addon script’. The admin has to explicitely enable it (with one click). I believe (but I could be wrong) that Fantastico (not cPanel) actually converted the theme from 1.2.2 to 1.5.
So? Which addon script do you mean then, matt?
My host has WordPress 1.5 as part of Cpanel (through Fantastico), less than a minute to install and I didnt even have to worry about setting up the database.
Actually this Support Forum Postat some host’s website seems to show that CPanel has had WordPress as an Add-on Script for about a year now!
Maybe it was just that we weren’t aware of it so far.
Fantastico is seperate from CPanel addon scripts. I actually went looking for a Cpanel announcement but found the post I listed above, instead.
1.5 includes code to upgrade your 1.2 templates if all the proper directories are writable.
My webhost uses fantastico to install wp 1.2.2 also, but I (wordpress) upgraded to 1.5 with no problems at all.
I use ripplehost for my site. They use cpanel, but don’t have WP install available there yet. Don’t need it, really, but would use it instead of manual install/updates if it were there.
Randy
Excellent. We added the WordPress add-on script into our CPanel today so our clients have easy access to it. We also have it in our Fantastico install – - nothing like a little WordPress over kill!
That’s ok – - we recommend WordPress to everyone, over any other blogging app out there. 98% of our clients are WordPress users.
This is great, Matt!
Ok, I’m a bit new to this, so call me an idiot. How does cPanel keep WP up-to-date? What about plugins and templates that I have loaded? Will they be overwritten? Is there a good description about this somewhere?
wow! This is a good information, I will ask the webmaster if they have this new upgrade feature from fantastico, for the advance upgrade probably to the newer version after 1.5 later, but i dont mind to upgrade it manually, though
Installing WP using Fantastico in Cpanel is an easy task. Just click and you get WP installed!