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Upgrading Your WordPress.com Software
New releases of WordPress occur roughly every 120 days. Don’t be discouraged or frustrated by the number of times you’ll upgrade your WordPress installation. Each upgrade improves security and adds new [more…]
How to Self-Host Your Blogs with WordPress.org
The self-installed version from WordPress.org requires you to download software from the WordPress website. The WordPress.org website is an excellent repository of tools and resources for you throughout [more…]
Hosting Multiple Blogs with One WordPress Installation
The self-hosted WordPress.org software lets you run an unlimited number of blogs on one installation of its software platform, on one domain. When you configure the options within WordPress to enable a [more…]
Using PHP to Change WordPress Template Tags
Before you play around with template tags in your WordPress templates or plugin functions, you need to understand what makes up a template tag and why, as well as the correct syntax, or function, for a [more…]
How to Use Fantastico to Install WordPress Files
Fantastico is a very popular script installer that you can use to install WordPress software on your hosting account. Not all hosts make Fantastico available. If yours doesn’t, you can install WordPress [more…]
Downloading the WordPress Software and Uploading Your WordPress Files
Before you can install WordPress manually, you have to download the WordPress software and upload the software to your server. None of this is difficult. So without further ado, get the latest version [more…]
How to Secure Your WordPress Configuration File
Your WordPress configuration files contain private information that you will want to protect against hackers who might find the valuable information stored in the wp-config.php file attractive. If someone [more…]
Using WordPress’s Main Configuration Settings
After Your WordPress configuration file (wp-config.php) is nice and secure, you need to know what’s stored within it so you can reference it and understand how WordPress communicates with the database [more…]
Optimizing the WordPress Configuration File
Optimizing your WordPress configuration file (wp-config.php) can change some of WordPress’s default behaviors and improve the speed at which your website loads. Improving the way WordPress works is easy [more…]
Set Up FTP on Your WordPress Blog Hosting Account
If you need to set up FTP for your WordPress blog, it’s easy. Many web hosts offer FTP as part of their hosting packages, so just confirm that your hosting provider makes FTP available to you for your [more…]
Using a MySQL Database to Manage Your WordPress Blog Data
Many new WordPress users are intimidated by the MySQL database. But WordPress bloggers don’t ever have to dig into the database unless they want to. You only need to explore the database if you’re dealing [more…]
Windows NotePad and NotePad++ Text Editor for WordPress Code
Make sure you use a text editor, like NotePad, and not a word processor, such as Microsoft Word, to write any code for WordPress because a word processing program automatically inserts formatting, characters [more…]
How to Use FileZilla FTP Client to Connect to a Web Server
Connecting to a web server using the Mozilla FileZilla FTP client is an easy process. To connect to your web server with a FileZilla client, follow these steps: [more…]
How to Change the Name of a WordPress Category
Upon installation, WordPress gives you one default category named Uncategorized. That category name is pretty generic, so you definitely want to change it to one that’s more specific to you. [more…]
How to Edit WordPress Files with FileZilla
You will run into situations where you need to edit certain WordPress files that live on your web server. You can download a WordPress file from your web server, open it, edit it, save it, and then upload [more…]
Using the Internet Explorer Browser with WordPress
Internet Explorer (IE) is by far one of the most popular browsers because it’s part and parcel of all Microsoft Windows operating systems. Over the years, IE has struggled with its reputation of not keeping [more…]
Using the Mozilla Firefox Browser with WordPress
Firefox is the second most popular web browser and has emerged over the years as a solid Internet Explorer (IE) competitor. WordPress Designers and developers tend to prefer Firefox over IE because [more…]
Understanding Cross-Browser Compatibility When Developing WordPress Websites
Cross-browser compatibility is the practice of testing designs across all major browser systems and is important in WordPress web design because you don’t just design websites for yourself, but for an [more…]
Free FTP Programs to Upload and Download WordPress Files
You use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to perform various tasks, such as uploading and downloading WordPress files, editing WordPress files, and changing WordPress file permissions. The ability to use FTP [more…]
Discovering the Many WordPress RSS Options
RSS feeds come in different flavors, including RSS 0.92, RDF/RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom. The differences among them lie within the base code that makes up the functionality of the syndication feed. What’s [more…]
Using WordPress RSS Feeds with Your Social Media Accounts
RSS feed technology is an important part of publishing content on a WordPress blog or website. RSS doesn’t only give your readers an option to subscribe to syndicated content from your website. Website [more…]
How to Use WordPress Static Page Parents and Children
People use the WordPress Pages feature on their sites to create static content (content that does not often change), such as an About Me or Contact Me page. Click the Pages menu in the WordPress Dashboard [more…]
How to Ensure Your WordPress Permalinks Work with Your Server
After you set the format for the permalinks for your site by using any options other than the default, WordPress writes specific rules, or directives, to the [more…]
How to Use RSS Feed Readers with WordPress Blogs
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. An RSS feed is a standard feature that WordPress blog readers have come to expect. So what is it, really? The Introduction to RSS page on [more…]
How to Create New WordPress Categories
As your WordPress blog grows, you can add new categories, the main topic of a blog post. You aren’t limited in the number of categories and subcategories you can create in your WordPress blog. Today, tomorrow [more…]
