If you've began creating a website using WordPress.Com you may have noticed the limitations after using the platform for some time. While WordPress.Com is suitable for bloggers, if you wish to set up a membership or eCommerce website, the ideal platform is the self-hosted WordPress.Org. Using … [Read more...] about How to Migrate from WordPress.Com to WordPress.Org
How to Reset a WordPress Install
Are You Looking for a Way to Reset Your WordPress Website? Perhaps You Wish to Start from Scratch? While There Isn't an In-Built WordPress 'Reset' Button, Admin are able to Reset their Website Either Manually or Through the Use of a Plugin. In this tutorial we'll take a look at how a WordPress … [Read more...] about How to Reset a WordPress Install
How to Fix: WordPress Site not Working on Localhost After Port Change
If you have installed WordPress on localhost (example: using XAMPP) and then later you need to change the Apache's HTTP port number, you will find that the existing WordPress installs will stop loading. It will auto redirect to the URL with the old port number and fail to load. Trying to load the … [Read more...] about How to Fix: WordPress Site not Working on Localhost After Port Change
How to Install WordPress Plugins
This is a tutorial for the video answers to top WordPress questions series that we have been publishing on this site to help users get started with WordPress. In this tutorial, you will learn: How to find and install plugins from the WordPress Plugin Repository, from within the WordPress … [Read more...] about How to Install WordPress Plugins
How to Reset the htaccess File of Your WordPress Site Using FTP
Sometimes, changes to a .htaccess file, whether manually or via a tool with appropriate access, renders a WordPress site inoperable. It might be that all pages 404, or there is simply a white screen without errors, or you get redirected to weird places, or you have the inability to … [Read more...] about How to Reset the htaccess File of Your WordPress Site Using FTP
How to Install WordPress Multi-Site in Localhost (Using XAMPP)
So you want to install a WordPress Multi-site Network on your local computer using XAMPP, huh? (you like that HTML Goodies throwback?) Well, in this article, and the accompanying video I will go through the process to make that happen. I will be using XAMPP to run a "web server" on my local … [Read more...] about How to Install WordPress Multi-Site in Localhost (Using XAMPP)
How to Change the URL of a WordPress Site
Sometimes the URL or domain for a WordPress site is no longer appropriate. This could be for several reasons. Perhaps everything was setup using a different domain (like localhost) for testing purposes. Maybe, it was installed in a folder and now needs to shine at the root of the site. Maybe the … [Read more...] about How to Change the URL of a WordPress Site
How to Completely Delete a WordPress Blog
When clients ask me how to delete their WordPress blog, after a couple minutes of conversation I learn that, in most cases, they just want to take it off the web temporarily. To do that is very simple. I'll explain how below but if you truly want to delete the blog and everything associated with it, … [Read more...] about How to Completely Delete a WordPress Blog
How to Install A WordPress Multi-Site Network [Video Tutorial]
Ever since version 3 of WordPress was launched, users had the ability to create a network of WP sites or blogs, allowing us to own a site similar to WordPress.com. Using what's called the 'multisite' feature we could have many sites running, only having just one installation of the software … [Read more...] about How to Install A WordPress Multi-Site Network [Video Tutorial]
How to Fix the Character Encoding Problem in WordPress
I recently changed my web hosting again in an attempt to speed up the page load time of my website. I had to do it as the former hosting's page response time was horrible. It was taking 9 seconds for my home page to load with the former hosting. Now my home page loads under 4 seconds! It's amazing … [Read more...] about How to Fix the Character Encoding Problem in WordPress