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Dec 15, 20085

WordPress Theme Choosing Tips and Resources

Categories: Blog Setup
WordPress Theme Choosing Tips and Resources
Choosing a WordPress theme that will go good with the content of your blog and will stand the test of time is not an easy task. Sometimes it takes days for me to find that ultimate WordPress theme that I really like and has all the essential features that I want. I spend more time choosing a theme upfront even though the WordPress theme of a Blog can be changed anytime is because sometimes it can be a hassle to change the theme in the middle when I have made a lot of custom changes to the existing WordPress theme. What to Look for When Choosing a WordPress Theme Non Technical side of thingsThe first thing to pay attention to when choosing a WordPress Theme for your blog is the look and feel of the theme. Look and feel of a theme is very important. You want your visitors to feel comfortable when browsing your site. I try not to choose a theme that hurts the eye at the first look. The theme also gives your visitor an idea about your blog's content. So try to choose a theme that's relevant to the content. For example, if your blog is about Christmas ...
Dec 15, 200817

How to Install WordPress on Your Blog (Instructions with Screenshots)

Categories: Wordpress
How to Install WordPress on Your Blog (Instructions with Screenshots)
This is a quick WordPress Installation guide with screen shots to get your blog up and running quickly. After reading this WordPress Installation guide you will know exactly how you can install WordPress quickly on your Blog in Four easy steps.A detailed WordPress Installation Instruction can be found at WordPress.org. I install WordPress frequently for my friends and myself and I find the detailed installation instructions on WordPress.org to contain too much details for me, so I needed a cut down and more common version of WordPress installation instructions and hence the birth of this post.This WordPress installation instruction mainly takes into account the most common web hosting solution example (e.g. access to 'cPanel'). I install WordPress this way because it allows me to work on concurrent installation related tasks at the same time (e.g. Add database while the WrodPress files are being uploaded to my server) resulting in a reduced total WordPress install time. Step 1: Transfer the WordPress files to your web serverDownload and unzip the latest WordPress package from WordPress Download Page. Upload the WordPress files (all the directories and files that is inside the extracted WordPress Directory) to the root directory (In most cases this will be the ...
Dec 13, 2008138

How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online?

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips, Featured, Make Money
How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online?
This is a step by step and easy to follow guide that will help you setup your own blog from the start. This guide is not to motivate someone to start blogging. It is best suited for someone who already made the decision to start a blog and need some step by step direction of the whole process. Who Should Use This Guide? This guide is intended for anyone who is looking for an answer to any of the following questions:how do I setup a blog? how to start a blog and maintain it?Now, starting a blog is easy but in order to be able to successfully monetize the blog you need to establish the blog. In this guide, I have also covered the topics that help you establish your blog so you can monetize it.There is a lot of good content to go through, so it is a good idea to bookmark this page so you can come back to it later and go over the content at your own pace. Getting started Blog SetupGetting a good domain name Getting a cheap and reliable web hosting solution Setup WordPress on your Blog Selecting a nice theme for your WordPress BlogThings to know when selecting a themeWhat WordPress ...
Dec 11, 200831

Good Domain Name Picking Tips for Your Blog Setup

Categories: Web Hosting
Good Domain Name Picking Tips for Your Blog Setup
The first thing that comes to my mind when setting up a blog is getting a good domain name. In this article, I have described why I think it is important to choose a good domain name upfront. I have also explained how you can pick a good domain name for your blog or website followed by some domain name picking tips and general outlines ("dos" and "don't s"). Why pick a good domain name for your blog Apart from many other reasons, you want to pick a good domain name for your blog site from the start because most likely you will be stuck with that domain name for the rest of the blog's life. You may change the domain hosting provider from time to time depending on how reliable your current domain hosting provider is but the domain name will remain the same. The reason I say that you will be stuck with that name is mainly because changing the domain name is kind of like starting all over again from the start and you don't want to do that once your site is established and getting regular traffic. You will start with '0' Google Page rank and will have ...
Dec 7, 200839

How to import WordPress SQL database backup file without having ‘create new database’ privileges in phpMyAdmin

Categories: Troubleshooting
How to import WordPress SQL database backup file without having ‘create new database’ privileges in phpMyAdmin
In this article I have explained how you can import your WordPress SQL database backup file even when you do not have the 'create new database' privilege in phpMyAdmin. This is particularly useful when you are trying to import the SQL database as part of transferring your site from one host (old-host.com) to another host (new-host.com) and your new host doesn't have the 'Create new database' privilege in phpMyAdmin.In your phpMyAdmin page check for the 'create new database' privilege. If the privilege settings looks like the example shown below then your database import following the normal method is going to fail as it will try to create a database and you don't have permission to do that.[caption id="attachment_417" align="alignnone" width="192" caption="No privilege to create new database "][/caption]You will get the following error when trying to import the database file:#1044 - Access denied for user 'username'@'localhost' to database 'database_name'To get around this problem and to complete importing your database to your new host do the following:Login to your cPanel and click on 'MySQL Databases'. Create a new database with your preferred name (I am going to use the name 'newDB' for easy reference. You should have privilege to create a new database ...
Dec 3, 2008121

Find out which web hosting company offers the cheapest and reliable web hosting solution

Categories: Featured, Web Hosting
Find out which web hosting company offers the cheapest and reliable web hosting solution
I have been looking for a good web hosting company who offers cheap but reliable web hosting solution for quite a while. The keywords here are cheap and reliable and for some reason these two words do not want to go together very well :). If you are willing to pay big money then you have nothing to worry about... your options are endless. My focus is finding that sweet spot where reliability meets affordability. I update this page with my findings on affordable web hosting solutions. Hopefully this information will be of some help to someone looking to find a good web hosting company.If you don't feel like reading the full story and just want to get to our hosting recommendation then click here.I am very strict when it comes to the reliability of the web hosting company. Server uptime is very important for anyone who has a website doing whatever business that they are doing. If your site is down when a visitor or customer goes to your site then you are losing traffic and business. In addition to losing temporary customers, if your site goes down frequently then there is a good chance that your customers will ...
Nov 26, 2008138

WordPress Plugin for Category Specific RSS feed subscription menu

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Plugin for Category Specific RSS feed subscription menu
The 'Category Specific RSS feed subscription' WordPress Plugin allows you to add a menu with multiple RSS feed subscription option to your site in addition to the normal RSS subscription option. The category specific RSS feed menu can be added to a post, page or sidebar. Through this menu your visitors will be able to subscribe to the RSS feed of a specific topic/category of your blog/site that particularly interest them.Why use category specific RSS subscription? The reason is very simple... you don't want to be served with Meat when you are a Vegetarian!  If your site covers multiple topics then your subscribed readers may get annoyed when you update your site with content that they are not interested in and they get a notification in their RSS reader. With category specific RSS subscription option, your readers can choose which topic they want to subscribe to and will only get notified when you update/add content to your site with that specific topic. Apart from the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) advantage, this is a much more neat and clean RSS subscription option. Most of the time, your visitors will not subscribe to your RSS feed if they can not choose a topic/category ...
Nov 17, 20085

How to fix WordPress.com Stats plugin showing zero (0) visitors!

Categories: Troubleshooting
How to fix WordPress.com Stats plugin showing zero (0) visitors!
This article explains how to fix WordPres.com Stats plugin when it doesn't show any statistics for your site or shows 0 visitors.
Nov 15, 20085

Apache Mod Security update, How to Fix ‘Error 406′ or ‘Not Acceptable’ issue

Categories: Troubleshooting
Apache Mod Security update, How to Fix ‘Error 406′ or ‘Not Acceptable’ issue
Few weeks ago I started having "Not Acceptable! Error 406" on one of my WordPress sites when trying to save a post or a page. I kept getting the following message when trying to save a post.
Nov 13, 200823

How to Uninstall and Reinstall WordPress

Categories: Troubleshooting
How to Uninstall and Reinstall WordPress
In this post I have explained how you can uninstall and reinstall WordPress. You will rarely think about uninstalling/reinstalling WordPress on your site unless you start having 'Apache security mod rewrite and htaccess' issue like myself.  I decided to Reinstall WordPress on one of my sites after trying numerous fixes to solve the issue and getting no result. Some people uninstall/reinstall WordPress to start over from scratch. Anyway, whatever the reason is, you can uninstall and reinstall WordPress the following ways.
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