{"id":27,"date":"2007-01-20T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2007-01-21T03:04:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T10:04:56","slug":"how-to-install-wordpress-on-a-godaddy-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/how-to-install-wordpress-on-a-godaddy-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install WordPress on a GoDaddy account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been hesitant to host my own blog because I imagined that it would be a truly painful process. I finally took the plunge last week and decided to set up a blog on my existing GoDaddy account. I followed Mels tutorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tutoriel.ca\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=20\">&#8220;How to install WordPress on a GoDaddy account&#8221;<\/a> and was quite literally done in 5 minutes. The only thing I had issues with was getting the Date &#038; Name permalinks to work because the install did not create a htacess file. The workaround was to upload a 1 byte htaccess file to the WordPress root directory and CHMOD it to 666 &#8211; once that was done my blog was ready to go. The software itself is incredibly easy to use and I was able to quickly copy some of posts over from my old blog.<br \/>\nI hope to post more often now &#8211; lets see how it goes  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been hesitant to host my own blog because I imagined that it would be a truly painful process. I finally took the plunge last week and decided to set up a blog on my existing GoDaddy account. I followed Mels tutorial on &#8220;How to install WordPress on a GoDaddy account&#8221; and was quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqPFW-r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rahulnair.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}