Blog in a Box – Raspberry Pi WordPress Complete Setup Guide

In this article, you are going to learn how to setup your blog in your Raspberry Pi.

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Let’s get started!

Step 1: What You’ll Need

1. Raspberry Pi 1, 2 or 3
   
2. 8GB MicroSD Card
   
3. Blog In A Box

Step 2: Download Blog in a Box

Go to “inabox.blog”

Scroll down to the first step.

Select your OS.

Execute the file after it downloads.

Input your WiFi settings if you want to connect via WiFi, if you wish to use a wired connection just click “Continue”.

Fill up the details such as username, password, pi login and so forth.

Click “Continue”

Select the drive you want to write the image to.

Extract your MicroSD Card.

Step 3: Set Up Blog in a Box

Insert the MicroSD Card into your Raspberry Pi.

Wait for it to fully configure itself.

When it asks for a login, the username will be “pi” and the password will be the Pi password you previously set in your PC.

Go to your PC and access “bloginabox.local” to access your blog.

Step 4: Modify Your Blog Settings

Click on the blue link at the bottom of the page.

You’ll be taken to the settings page, here you can allow the use of the Sense Hat or the Raspberry Pi Camera if you want to.

You can post a new entrance in your blog by clicking on “Add New Post”

Step 5: Install Plugins and Themes

Hop over to the Raspberry Pi.

Type in “cd/wordpress”

Press “Enter”

Type in “sudo nano wp-config,php”

Press “Enter”

Scroll down to where it says “DB_collate”

Create a new line and type “define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);”

Press “Ctrl X”, “Y” and “Enter”

Type in “sudo chmod -R 755 /otp/wordpress/wp-content/”

Press “Enter”

Type in “sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /otp/wordpress”

Press “Enter”

Now you can install all the plugins and themes for your blog.

Congratulations, you’ve just installed Blog In A Box into your Raspberry Pi, configured it, allowed the installation of plugins and themes and that’s it for this Instructable.

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