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WP in cPanel
Filed under: Asides | April 5th, 2005
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. (36)
XeroCool | April 5th, 2005 @ 1:04 pm
FYI matt, Wordpress has been in Cpanel (Fantastico) really long now.
Carthik | April 5th, 2005 @ 1:10 pm
This is great news!
Jeremy Flint | April 5th, 2005 @ 1:12 pm
My host offers installtion of wordpress using Fantastico.
Vidar | April 5th, 2005 @ 1:15 pm
Same here, now if only they’d get with the program! The latest version they have is 1.2.2
Matt | April 5th, 2005 @ 1:17 pm
Fantastico tends to be pretty behind. That is separate from the direct cPanel integration.
Geof F. Morris | April 5th, 2005 @ 2:19 pm
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...]
Clyde | April 5th, 2005 @ 2:26 pm
The latest version on cPanel is 1.2.2
Matt | April 5th, 2005 @ 2:26 pm
That’s fantastico, this is different.
Clyde | April 5th, 2005 @ 2:29 pm
Nope, sorry, My host uses cPanel and I just checked it out.
John | April 5th, 2005 @ 2:42 pm
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.
AmandaW | April 5th, 2005 @ 3:04 pm
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.
Clyde | April 5th, 2005 @ 3:30 pm
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.”
Jeff | April 5th, 2005 @ 3:56 pm
I think you need to find a new host.
Jeff | April 5th, 2005 @ 3:59 pm
I can confirm that the latest version is “1.5-1.0″ (i.e. 1.5) in the cPanel-recommended RELEASE tree.
Tom | April 5th, 2005 @ 4:04 pm
Like Clyde, just checked cPanel and theres no sign of it.
Matt Roberts | April 5th, 2005 @ 5:49 pm
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.
Adam Bouskila | April 5th, 2005 @ 6:15 pm
Sounds great, thanks for the news.
TedFox | April 5th, 2005 @ 6:19 pm
3 months testing?? I think we’ll be up to version 2.0 by then… *crosses fingers*
Joe | April 5th, 2005 @ 6:28 pm
That’s great!
WP’ll become even more popular than it is now.
Roy Schestowitz | April 5th, 2005 @ 6:52 pm
My host embedded Fantastico in CPanel some months ago:
http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/fantastico.jpg
dawn | April 5th, 2005 @ 7:19 pm
Yay! Great news!
danithew | April 5th, 2005 @ 7:23 pm
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.
Mr. Dew | April 5th, 2005 @ 7:38 pm
Sounds good, but I have concerns over how it updates, I wouldn’t want it to replace my themes and customized stuff.
Matt Roberts | April 5th, 2005 @ 8:11 pm
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.
jeff | April 5th, 2005 @ 10:04 pm
not sure if dreamhost.com uses cPanel, but they support a one-click install via their own control panel. it’s pretty nifty.
Jeff | April 6th, 2005 @ 1:05 am
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.
echa | April 6th, 2005 @ 1:14 am
So? Which addon script do you mean then, matt?
Broke | April 6th, 2005 @ 1:41 am
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.
Carthik | April 6th, 2005 @ 6:04 am
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.
Matt | April 6th, 2005 @ 6:21 am
1.5 includes code to upgrade your 1.2 templates if all the proper directories are writable.
steve | April 6th, 2005 @ 7:56 am
My webhost uses fantastico to install wp 1.2.2 also, but I (wordpress) upgraded to 1.5 with no problems at all.
Randy | April 6th, 2005 @ 8:37 am
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
Lisa | April 6th, 2005 @ 4:10 pm
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!
Brian | April 7th, 2005 @ 6:34 am
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?
echa | April 7th, 2005 @ 1:17 pm
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
JalanSutera | May 8th, 2005 @ 7:26 pm
Installing WP using Fantastico in Cpanel is an easy task. Just click and you get WP installed!