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Moving Your WordPress Blog to a Different Host
If you are unhappy with your hosting provider for some reason, but don’t want to change hosts because you have your WordPress blog site up and running smoothly, hesitate no more. Although moving your WordPress [more…]
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…]
Using WordPress.com to Host Your Blog
WordPress.com is a free service for hosting your blog. WordPress.com is a hosted solution, which means it has no software requirement, no downloads, and no installation or server configurations. Everything’s [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…]
Managing Bandwidth and Disk Space on Your WordPress Blog
When you sign up with a web hosting service to host your WordPress blog, you need to manage disk space and bandwidth. Disk space is nothing more complicated than the hard drive on your own computer. Bandwidth [more…]
Using FTP to Upload Content to Your WordPress Blog
After you create content for your Wordpress blog, you have to move to you host server. FTP, a protocol for transferring data, is a perfect tool for uploading content to your WordPress blog. The example [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…]
Setting up a MySQL Database for Your WordPress Blog
The WordPress software is a personal publishing system that uses a PHP/MySQL platform, which provides everything you need to create your own blog and publish your own content dynamically without knowing [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 Run the WordPress Installation Script
Before you start your WordPress blog, you have to download the software and then upload it to your server. The final step in the installation procedure for WordPress is running the Installation script [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…]
How to Upgrade WordPress Automatically
After you install WordPress and log in for the first time, you can see the version number at the bottom-right corner of the WordPress Dashboard. From time to time, WordPress will send you a message to [more…]
How to Upgrade Your WordPress Software Manually
Although few people upgrade WordPress manually, certain circumstances — probably related to the inability of your hosting environment to accommodate the automatic method — exist where you can manually [more…]
Preparing to Move Your Existing Blog to WordPress
WordPress makes it relatively easy to pack up your data and archives from one blog platform and move to a new WordPress blog. WordPress lets you move your blog from such platforms as Blogspot, TypePad, [more…]
Moving your Blog to WordPress from Blogger
The first step to moving your blog to WordPress is to download and install the WordPress software. The steps here show you how to move your Blogger (also known as Blogspot) blog to WordPress once you have [more…]
How to Move Your Blog to WordPress from LiveJournal
Both WordPress.com and WordPress.org offer an import script for LiveJournal users, and the process of importing your blog from LiveJournal to WordPress is the same for each platform. Before you begin the [more…]
Moving Your Blog from Movable Type and TypePad into WordPress
Import scripts make it easy to move your blog from Movable Type or TypePad to WordPress. Because these two blogging platforms run on essentially the same code base, the import/export procedure is the same [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…]
Importing One WordPress Blog into Another WordPress Blog
The WordPress import script lets you import one WordPress blog into another; this is true for both the hosted and self-hosted versions of WordPress. WordPress imports all your posts, comments, custom fields [more…]
How to Install Plugins from the WordPress.com Dashboard
The WordPress Dashboard Plugins module includes three WordPress plugins that are linked to its individual plugin page within the WordPress Plugin Directory. The Plugins module has a very exciting feature [more…]
How to Display Avatars on Your WordPress Blog
The Avatar you pick for your WordPress blog tells your readers a lot about you. An avatar is an online graphical representation of an individual. It’s a small graphic icon that you use to visually represent [more…]
