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CiviCRM gives us all benefits and capabilities of a large commercial CRM and donor management system completely free of licensing costs. CiviCRM allows non-profits to benefit from an integrated solution for donor management, events, bulk email, etc. substantially increasing their effectiveness as compared to managing a variety of non-

The [httphttps://wikidocs.civicrm.org/confluencesysadmin/en/latest/displayinstall/CRMDOCwordpress/Installing+CiviCRM+for+WordPress#InstallingCiviCRMforWordPress-PluginIssues instructions] are well-written and easy to follow<ref>There is an issue on GitHub discussing simplifying the instructions down to the "essentials for routine installs"; with notes about edge cases. https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-sysadmin-guide/issues/52#issuecomment-404952171</ref>.  Some of the '''help''' content from `wp civicrm --help`<pre> wp civicrm install =============== Command for to install CiviCRM. The install command requires that you have downloaded a tarball or zip file first. Options: --dbhost MySQL host for your WordPress/CiviCRM database. Defaults to localhost. --dbname MySQL database name of your WordPress/CiviCRM database. --dbpass MySQL password for your WordPress/CiviCRM database. --dbuser MySQL username for your WordPress/CiviCRM database. --lang Default language to use for installation. --langtarfile Path to your l10n tar.gz file. --site_url Base Url for your WordPress/CiviCRM website without http ( e.g. mysite.com ) --ssl Using ssl for your WordPress/CiviCRM website if set to on ( e.g. --ssl=on ) --tarfile Path to your CiviCRM tar.gz file.</pre> On DreamHost, I logged in to my [https://panel.dreamhost.com control panel] and created a new database called ''coastal_crm'' The only downside was that the very popular "JetPack" plugin for WordPress is listed as incompatible with the CiviCRM plugin. So I disabled the JetPack plugin.