Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’

A Simple Tutorial on How You Can Install WordPress

The great thing about WordPress is that it try has been designed with the user in mind, and not just any user, but one that may or may not have the slightest idea how to create or migrate WordPress blogs at all. By this, I mean that it has a ton of features, is extremely flexible, and as I am about to outline for you today, it is also extremely easy to install. Let’s first start off by making sure that you have a good FTP client. For the sake of this tutorial, I recommend using Filezilla. It is a simple to use client that is reliable, and works cross platform as well. You can also use other platforms such as Transmit and CyberDuck, each of which have given me some good service over the years. The choice is yours in this respect. The first step that I take whenever I create a website is the database creation. I do this first because it means that the rest of the process can pass by smoothly. In your administration panel for your hosting account, simply create your database, a user, and be sure to note down these details including the password [...]

A Guide On Moving WordPress Around Your Server

Occasionally WordPress will need to be moved around within the current server. Fortunately, there is no need to re-install WordPress in the new location, and the following instructions will show how to copy wordpress easily and effectively. To start with, changing the URL for WordPress and moving it to another location requires either setting up a new directory, into which all of the relevant core files are then moved; or, if they will be copied into the (pre-prepared) root directory, a back-up of all index.php complete with any other required files must be created. It may also be necessary to move these files. The user then logs on to his blog, accesses the so called WordPress Address box, situated in the General panel within the Administration/ Settings) and changes the WordPress URI location. While within this administration settings panel, the Blog address location (URI) should also be updated (to match the new WordPress URI). When the settings are saved, the blog must not be viewed or opened and the complete folder containing the wp-content/cache needs to be deleted (only for users of the version WordPress 2.0 ). All WordPress core files, including all files contained within the old directory/ sub [...]

Building a Better Page Rank

Raising your WordPress Blog’s page rank is perhaps the best thing you can do for yourself, especially in terms of traffic because the traffic from the major search engines (like Google) is often very relevant and of the highest quality. Your page rank, on the one hand, is just a number but, on the other, that is the number Google uses to figure out how relevant your page is to a search query. There are a lot of different factors that can have an impact on your page rank but it is a good idea to know what you’re doing. Keep reading to learn about the different things you can do to raise up the page rank of your WordPress Blog or page. Social Media Consulting One way to increase your WordPress Blog’s page rank is to get other high PR sites to link to yours. If you do a little searching of your own around the ‘net you’ll discover that most of the sites that get a lot of links coming into them offer high quality and unique content on their site. It’s just common sense! No amount of effort will give you the kind of leverage good content [...]

General Guide On WordPress Plugin Installation

How To Clone WordPress There are many plug ins available to enhance functionality of WordPress, such as for instance rating systems, post word counts, weather reports and many others. As there is such a vast choice of plug ins, they are not included in the WordPress core files and have to be downloaded. Freely available to the public and designed by volunteers, they are generally considered to be safe and have certainly be tested thoroughly; however it should be noted that they are works in progress and may need some attention by the user. It is advisable to check how to copy WordPress containing plug ins on one of the many tutorial websites (Tamba2, for instance, has some very detailed instructions). New plug ins to add may be located by users in their Add New tab (Administration/ Plugins panel); as an alternative they could access the WordPress Plugins Repository website. Users wanting to have a go at creating plug ins of their own can find help in the page containing Plugin Resources. The Plugin Compatibility page helps to determine whether a plug in is compatible with a user’s version of WordPress. Plug ins can be added by using one of [...]

A Simple Approach For WordPress Blogs And SEO

I can harp on about it all day long about how important it is to search engine optimize your blog, but is it going to get through? Really? Here’s hoping for the best, becuase today I am going to teach you the very basics that you need to do in order to make the search engines love your blog. Before I start off, you are probably wondering why you would want the search engines to love your blog, right? The answer to that question is very straight forward. You see, people still use the search engines to search for stuff. If you rank for the keywords that people are searching for, then you get traffic. The higher you rank, the more traffic that you get. That said, there is a lot more to SEO than just ranking for phrases. Proper keyword research and competition analysis is key, and will give you an indication of whether or not it is worth trying to rank for a phrase or not. Please, give this some consideration first. How To Optimize Your WordPress Blog Before I go too much further, most of what I am going to teach you today relies on plugins. This [...]

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