Following guidelines are given assuming that you already have created your WordPress Database on your website hosting account.
- Find the Home icon in the upper left corner of the main page and click on it.
- Click on the Privileges. Click ‘Add a new User.
- Decide a username for WordPress and enter it in the Username field. While doing this one should make sure to keep ‘Use text field’ as selected from dropdown list.
- Decide a password woth a good password characteristics such as containing multiple combinations for upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. Enter it in the Password field. Similar to username you also have to take care of keeping ‘Use text field’ as selected from dropdown list. Re-type the password in ‘Retype’ field.
- Make sure your username and password are difficult to guess but easy to remember to yourself, if you are not confident about it then it is good to keep record of them in a secret file or diary.
- Its recommended to leave all the options under ‘Global Privileges as they are by default. And clik on ‘Go’
- After this you just need to come back to the Privileges screen and click on the ‘Check privileges’ icon on the user created by you. You will come to ‘Databas-specific privileges’ section. Uou will find a dropdown list named as ‘Add priileges to the following database’ where you should select the database created by you. The page will get refreshed automatically, click ‘Check All’ to grant all privileges anc click on ‘Go’.
- You will come to the resulting page and here you should check that the host name listed after ‘Server:’ is at the top of the page. (This generally is ‘localhost’)