• I am in the middle of installing wordpress and I have gotten as far as creating the MySQL database and accessing phpMyAdmin to set user privileges.

    WordPress installation guide says

    “# Click the Home icon in the upper left to return to the main page, then click Privileges. If a user relating to WordPress does not already exist in the list of users, create one:

    1. Click Add a new User.
    2. Chose a username for WordPress (‘wordpress’ is good) and enter it in the User name field. (Be sure Use text field: is selected from the dropdown.)
    3. Choose a difficult-to-guess password (ideally containing a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols), and enter it in the Password field. (Be sure Use text field: is selected from the dropdown.) Re-enter the password in the Re-type field.
    4. Write down the username and password you chose.
    5. Leave all options under Global privileges at their defaults.
    6. Click Go. “
    # Return to the Privileges screen and click the Check privileges icon on the user you’ve just created for WordPress. In the Database-specific privileges section, select the database you’ve just created for WordPress under the Add privileges to the following database dropdown. The page will refresh with privileges for that database. Click Check All to select all privileges, and click Go.
    # On the resulting page, make note of the host name listed after Server: at the top of the page. (This will usually be localhost.)

    However, when I first created the MySQL database from the admin panel of my webhost, it asked me to set a password for it already, and did not ask me to set a username, but instead set the username to be the same as the database name.

    Also, when I click the Home icon under the phpMyAdmin screen for the database I created for wordpress I cannot find where to change the privileges.

    THIS is what the phpMyAdmin page looks like: I think it is probably a different version than what the instruction guide has, because I can’t find where to create or delete users or anything the instructions say at all. Help? ??

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