How to quickly install WordPress via shell

This guide will show you how to install WordPress to your linux server with a single SSH input.

Point your domains dns at your webspace (if it isn’t already).

Create your wordpress MySQL database in your hosting control panel noting down username, password and database name in your text editor of choice.

SSH to your server and navigate to the web space root of the domain you wish to install WordPress into. Then run the following:

wget https://en-gb.wordpress.org/latest-en_GB.tar.gz && tar -xvzf latest-en_GB.tar.gz --strip-components=1 && rm latest-en_GB.tar.gz

Go to your domain name in your browser follow the install instructions and inputting your database username, password and database name when prompted.

Done. You should have a newly installed WordPress installation.