Posted: July 11th, 2010 | Filed under: Tutorials, Wordpress | Comments Off
Here’s a tutorial on what I suggest you do immediately after installing WordPress. My tutorials are based on fansites so keep that in mind.
First of all, you should always be using the latest version of WordPress. So if you see a message like this after you install, be sure to click Please update now link.
Click Update Automatically. Since you just installed WordPress, you don’t have to worry about the message that says “Important: before upgrading, please backup your database and files.” You really only have to worry about that if you have started using WordPress. Once it’s upgraded (it only takes a minute) you will see a message like this: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: July 11th, 2010 | Filed under: Tutorials, Wordpress | Comments Off
Here’s a little tutorial to explain how to install WordPress if your host uses CPanel.
Log into your cpanel & go to the Software section:
Click on Fantastico & you should see something like this on the left hand side:
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Posted: March 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Sidney Crosby, Website, Wordpress | Comments Off
After about a year and a half, my Sidney Crosby site is finally on the front page of google!
I first decided to move the site from Yahoo Groups over to a WordPress-run site back in late September 2008. It took months for the site to even show up in google results at all, and it was so far back that I couldn’t find it at all. Google said it was listed though, so I took their word for it. I was getting occasional hits from google results. A few months ago, I was on page 10 of google, and my hits were up to about 100 a day. Then came the Olympics, and as I said earlier, the site traffic went crazy. Fortunately, it hasn’t slowed down all that much & my site is now on the first page of results. Exciting! For me anyway!
Posted: March 9th, 2010 | Filed under: Wordpress | Comments Off
Via Cats Who Code
Although there’s lots of things that you can do in WordPress, sometimes you may need a quick fix for a specific problem. In those cases, working directly on the database can be a real life-saver. In this article, I’m going to show you 10+ extremely useful SQL queries for WordPress.
How to execute SQL queries
For those who don’t know yet, SQL queries have to be executed within the MySQL command line interpreter or a web interface such as the popular PhpMyAdmin. Since we’re going to work on WordPress, you should note that the SQL Executionner plugin provides an easy-to-use interface that allows you to run SQL queries directly on your WordPress blog dashboard.
Although all the queries from this article have been tested, don’t forget that you shouldn’t test any of those on a production blog. Also, make sure that you always have a working database backup.
Manually change your password
It may sound like the thing that only happens to others but forgetting a password can happen to any of us. In case you lost your blog admin password, the only solution is to create a new one directly in your MySQL database.
The following query will do it. Notice that we use the MD5() MySQL function to turn our password into an MD5 hash.
UPDATE 'wp_users' SET 'user_pass' = MD5('PASSWORD') WHERE 'user_login' ='admin' LIMIT 1;
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Posted: February 15th, 2010 | Filed under: Plugins, Wordpress | Comments Off
Presenting my new favorite WordPress plugin,
WordPress Mobile Pack!
This one sets up a mobile version of your website. You don’t have to set up a new subdomain (http://m.supergrrl.com for example) or install a mobile theme or anything. It’s all done automatically.
From the developers’s site:
The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.
It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.
The pack has been tested on WordPress 2.5.1, 2.6.5, 2.7.1, 2.8.6, and 2.9.1. It has been tested on WordPress MU 2.6 in the ‘plugins’, rather than ‘mu_plugins’, mode. PHP 5.x is also highly recommended, although the plugin also works with PHP 4.3.
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Posted: January 1st, 2010 | Filed under: Plugins, Wordpress, javascript | Tags: javascript, Plugins, Wordpress | 3 Comments »
I am testing a few of the plugins for WordPress that will allow you to have snow falling on your website via javascript. Personally I think that could get old but it might be fun to try for a day or two. Click on any images for a larger view.
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Posted: January 1st, 2010 | Filed under: Tutorials, Wordpress | Comments Off
I was looking for a way to display my favorite tweets in my sidebar through wordpress here on my blog. I found this solution for it, however I had to tweak it a bit.
I didn’t see an RSS feed for my favorites, so I went to my main page and got the RSS feed:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17767025.rss
(it’s in your sidebar under the trending topics and the list of who you are following)
and got the Favorites feed that way:
http://twitter.com/favorites /17767025.rss
(replacing /statuses/user_timeline/ with /favorites/ )
17767025 is the number associated with my Twitter account, so of course yours would be different.
