Under most circumstances installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. Here’s the step by step instructions to install your WordPress, for those that are already comfortable with performing such installations. More detailed instructions follow:

1. Download and unzip the WordPress package, if you haven’t already.
2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.
3. Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.
4. Open wp-config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details.
5. Place the WordPress files in the desired location on your web server:

• If you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g. http://example.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (but excluding the directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.
• If you want to have your WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. http://example.com/blog/), rename the directory wordpress to the name you’d like the subdirectory to have and move or upload it to your web server. For example if you want the WordPress installation in a subdirectory called “blog”, you should rename the directory called “wordpress” to “blog” and upload it to the root directory of your web server.

6. Run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in your favorite web browser.

• If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php
• If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

That’s it!

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Blogthis - Adds a set of blog-this links to Digg, del.icio.us, and Technorati to your WordPress blog.

Digg This - WordPress plugin that detects incoming links from Digg and displays a link back to the Digg page.

Digg Integrator - Provides your users with the ability to submit your posts to Digg and digg the posts directly from your blog.

AstonishMe Digg Plugin - Quickly and easily add a Digg button at the bottom of your WordPress posts. After the article has been submitted this plugin will begin showing the Digg count as well.

Digg Plugin - Post new Digg articles based on your current posts information and attach “Digg This” buttons anywhere within your posts.

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Digg Dugg - Embed the latest news from Digg into your WordPress blog.

Digg Defender - Caching plugin that directs traffic coming from Digg to Coral Cache to try and prevent a server crash from the Digg effect.

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Good plugins to enable rich comments:
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Nicer Trackbacks - Improves the appearance of trackbacks from other blogs.
WP-NoSh*t - Filters bad words from comments.
Numbered Comments Adds numbers to comments.
AuthorHighlight - Highlights comments by the blog’s author.
Comment Highlighter - Styles comments based on the author’s name, email, or URL.
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