Posts Tagged ‘Install WordPress’

wp-config.php Essentials

May 1st, 2010 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Foundation
wp-config.php is essential to WordPress.

For manual installers, it is set and forget. For automatic installers (SimpleScripts or Fantastico) it is often quite invisible.

Unless something unexpected changes, WordPress 3 adds little different to the way wp-config.php works, so it is still vital to learn a couple of tweaks.

wp-config.php is well documented internally, and the installation instructions tell you what you need to change to make sure that your WordPress installation can see the database.

But, there are two situations that commonly occur in a standard WordPress installation that are far from ideal: memory exhausted messages and excessive page and post revisions.
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WordPress 3.0 Beta

April 30th, 2010 by Keith from shrewdies | 7 Comments | Filed in Foundation
WordPress 3.0 Beta is now available, so I used it today on a new website.

I wouldn’t normally use a beta version on a production website, but the full release will be available before that site is fully live, giving me a chance to test some new features.

Site installation continues to be simple, and I took the simplest option of using the automatic script provided by my server host. This has the nice option of changing the default admin username to something less guessable – always a good idea for improved security.

WordPress Settings

Settings are the same as version 2, so I made the usual adjustments: (more…)

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What Is The Point Of Re-Installing WordPress?

September 29th, 2009 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Foundation
Installing WordPress is simple, and upgrading WordPress is simple, but upgrading after a long time, with many version changes is like installing again. In fact, re-installing is much harder than a brand new install.

Let this be a lesson. If you ever want to revive a neglected site – just start again.

WordPress Update

WordPress Update

The first hurdle is the incredible change in WordPress and it’s plugins over the last couple of years. WordPress has added functionality (e.g. tags) that was once only available as plugins.

More importantly, as I indicated in my last post, the purpose of this site has changed, and with it the categories and tags.

The good news is that the basic site is now upgraded and working. The purpose is clear, and now enshrined on a brand new About page. The bad news is that there are a lot of old posts and pages that need re-writing – and none of them really worth the effort.

If you need to revitalize an old site, you need to think about upgrading or starting with a brand new install.

It is easy to decide what to do – just look at your visitor logs. You will see one of three possible situations:

  1. Very little traffic, or
  2. Generally little traffic except for a few pages, or
  3. Lots of traffic.

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Business Web Hosting First

August 13th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | 1 Comment | Filed in Phase 1, WordPress Hosting

Install Business Web Hosting

Best done with ftp of full WordPress, Themes and Plugins and an install script, but I do not have one yet.

This time, done with Fantastico.

Need:

Site Name: Hard Headed Hosting (motto)

Description: see top of page, or page info if themes has wiped it.

Admin name, password and email address

Configure Business Web Hosting

Set user options to not use visual editor

Set Options Date to l, F j, Y (unfortunately, most themes don’t honor this)

Edit first post, including slug, and comment. In scripted install, might be possible to customize this to use site concept, e.g. Business Web Hosting

Problem – will not save with any markup code. (solved – this server needs .htaccess in wp-admin. Thank you whooami)

Options to finish.
Plugins to load, activate and configure.
Contact, Privacy Policy, About Pages
Categories to set up.
Blogroll to configure.
Theme to load and configure.
Stuff to write.

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