While that is mostly true, many web hosts do not have CPanel or Fantastico. Many still have to install WordPress without them.

Also, this article is about blogging with with WordPress.com, not the self hosted version. WordPress.com is set up to easily handle Arabic, Hebrew, and other RTL languages, in addition to Esperanto, many African languages, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Croatian, and many other languages. The language is activated upon registration.

I read the whole thread and I hope you have not lost your patience yet

If you have your own domain, most probably - when you log in to your CPanel (where you can manage your website)- you will have something there called (Fantastico), click on it and under *Blogs), you will find WordPress there, then you are ready to go by just clicking on (Install). You can double check on that.

I am not sure if you want to blog in Arabic, but it is now doable in WordPress and once you set the language to Arabic in the General Options tab as explained above, everything will be right aligned and fine. That being said, if you plan to publish posts in both Arabic and English, then all English posts will be right-aligned if you have Arabic set as your main blogging language.

I hope this helps. If not, please let me know and I will do my best to help.

Eid Mubarak to you and your family inshaa Allah.

Thanks,
Mohamed Zeid

Don

I don’t know if it is updated, but the official Arabic WordPress Support site is at WordPress-AR.SourceForge.net. You can find more information at WordPress in Your Language and Installing WordPress in Your Language.

There are many Arabic users of WordPress. And the installation of WordPress has nothing to do with Arabic, but English. If you follow the Installing WordPress instructions and then make the specific changes after installation to make WordPress work in your language. I know it’s frustrating, but millions of people in a variety of languages have succeeded at this. The WordPress Support Forum is your best bet, and I know they have Arabic speakers there who might be able to help, especially if you are specific in your request.

Good luck.

As for the config file, I did open it in notepad. Same problem despite the number of times I had to re-download and unzip the files.

Anyways, thanks for your help. I’m off trying to figure this out. The Arabic tutorials assume that you know too much, and I have no way to get in contact with the writers to ask them for further help and clarification. Comments often go unanswered. I hope in the future there will be better services, especially for the many non-English speaking writers who can’t figure this out.

As for why the config file gave you weird symbols, my guess is that you were not using a TEXT ONLY editor. You cannot open it or save it in WordPerfect, Word or any other word processing program. You can, however, read it in notepad in Windows or with other text editors as suggested in Free Text Only Editors for Templates, PHP, HTML, CSS, and More.

The tutorials are not outdated. They are updated constantly. If you could be more specific, then I can immediately make sure that whatever tutorial you are talking about is checked and updated, but they are up to date. That’s part of my job.

I know this is difficult, but make sure you are using a text only editor and check in with the WordPress Support Forum for more help. They are great folks there.

Secondly, I tried downloading the Arabic version of wordpress and failed at installing it properly, mainly because the config file gave me a bunch of weird symbols instead of either English or Arabic text. I tried numerous times and went through every step carefully, but I can’t seem to find where my problem is.

Thirdly, seeing as most tutorials are outdated, I can’t find something both useful and easy to follow regarding wordpress in Arabic. I downloaded plugins that translate text, but they don’t work the way I want them to.

I’ve been working at this for over a week. I’m losing patience but I don’t want to give up, despite the fact that I’m clueless. Would you be willing to help me in downloading and installing the latest Arabic version of wordpress on my site?

Thanks.