Please note the screenshots shown are taken from a Rosier Internet UK web hosting package, other hosts may vary. The principals however, remain the same.

So, what some people don’t know is that WordPress have an upload limit, which can be quite problematic when uploading pictures and themes. To check yours simply go into your WordPress Dashboard, select Media and Add New, see below.

As you can see (highlighted in red – taken from my personal blog) the maximum upload file size for this specific account is 100MB, which if that’s the case you’ll never have to change it, infact 16/25MB would be sufficient for most peoples needs.

The problem comes when some have a 2MB upload limit.

In this tutorial, I’ll take you step-by-step through the process of increasing your upload limit to 25MB.

Firstly, you’ll been to be logged into your hosting control panel.

Once you’re in, you need to go to ‘File Manager’.

Then we need to create a new file. Seen below, the icon highlighted with the red box.

You’ll then be asked to name the file. You need to call it “php.ini”, then press ok.

You’ll then be taken to edit the file, you want to enter the following:

memory_limit = 25M
upload_max_filesize = 25M
post_max_size = 25M

Then scroll down and press save.

Now we need to move the file to the public directory.

So you need to highlight the file and select the ‘Move File’ button, highlighted below.

You’ll be asked which directory to move the file to, enter “public_html” and press ‘OK’.

Just to confirm the file moved correctly, look in the public directory and make sure the ‘php.ini’ file is there. You may have more files than us (as this is only for tutorial purposes), so it may be further down the list.

Okay so you’ve purchased your WordPress hosting package from Rosier Internet and want to get blogging/creating your WordPress website.

Thankfully you haven’t got to download WordPress and upload it to our servers, thanks to our one-click install. We currently don’t have a tutorial for manual install of WordPress but that will be coming in the tutorial blog series, we’ll place a link here and notify you via our social media platforms when it is available.

So you need to sign into your Rosier Internet web hosting control panel, and then follow these instructions. If you don’t know how to access your hosting control panel, then click the link for the tutorial.

Scroll down to CGI Scripts, and WordPress Blog should be the first icon, click on it.

The following page will be displayed. Here you will need to decide where you want people to view the site. For example, this tutorial is being created on our Rosier Demo account and I’ve chosen for it to be seen at www.rosierdemo.co.uk (please note: the current contents of this site is not necessarily from this tutorial), however by entering ‘blog’ in the Installation Directory after /homes/sites/rosierdemo.co.uk/public_html/ then it would be displayed at www.rosierdemo.co.uk/blog. After you’ve chosen, please click the Install Now button.

Generally, installation is less than a minute. You’ll then be shown this confirmation message.

You now need to click on your domain name (http://www.rosierdemo.co.uk/). You’ll be taken to your site to continue the installation.

Once arriving at your site, you’ll be asked to choose between the single or multi blog installation, for the purpose of this tutorial we’re going to go with single, as it’s generally the most common.

After selecting ‘Single’ above, you’ll be taken to the next stage of the installation, shown below. Fear not, you’re almost done.

You’ll need to complete the information needed section below, as I have done. Entering the Site Title, Username (default is admin, can stick with it or change it – no spaces allowed) , a secure password (twice) and your e-mail address.
Please note: When entering the second password it will inform you the passwords do not match, just continue entering the password as they only match when they are completed in full.

Finally, you need to select the privacy option for the site, and then click the ‘Install WordPress’ button. Personally, I always allow my site to appear in the search engines as it is important for me that we get listed as it’ll help drive traffic to the site. Fear not though, you can change the options at a later date, simply by going into Settings (within your WordPress account) and Privacy.

And you are done, congratulations!!

For future reference, your WordPress account can be accessed, by adding /wp-admin/ to the end of your domain. For example, mine would be www.rosierdemo.co.uk/wp-admin/. Alternatively, if I’d added the site to my ‘blog’ directory (www.rosierdemo.co.uk/blog) then it would be accessed at www.rosierdemo.co.uk/blog/wp-admin/.