Month: February 2011
Installing WordPress Quickly
For most of my clients, I can create a new WordPress installation quickly, then upload my custom themes before I input my clients content.
Within 30 minutes, a professional site prototype is ready for review. This is first step for more site owner's input.
Here's the video to show you
How to Install WordPress 3.1 with most affordable Web Hosting
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Tips When Installing WordPress In Fantastico
1. Don't use "Admin" as the Administrator-username, but some hard to guess (easy to remember) user name. e.g. bbbestadmin333 (no space) . This is not something you can change easily in the WordPress dashboard. You may only change it via the MySQL db admin or some SQL script.
2. I prefer not to install the WordPress in the root folder, I always put something like
"bayarea" (or name or your city with no space: sanjose) in the field of "Install in directory": fremont
If you email me, I can tell the trick how to show the front page of the WordPress installation in the subfolder.
By putting a simple index.php in the root, your visit will see the contents of http://yourdomain.com/sanjose at http://yourdomain.com/ root folder.
WordPress 3.1 Is Here!
WordPress 3.1 was released on Feb. 22nd, 2011 (Some said it was 23rd, but Matt Mullenweg's blog announced it on Feb. 22nd). This version is named "Reinhardt" in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
Notable New Features of WordPress 3.1
Here are some new features in the spotlight:
1. a lightning fast redesigned linking workflow: It enables you to link to your existing posts and pages. They call this feature "Internal Linking".
2. a new Admin bar in the front end when you are logged in and viewing the site. It lets you click to your most-used dashboard pages quickly.
3. a streamlined writing interface: to hide many of the seldom-used panels by default so you see a cleaner screen when composing.
And other great new features for developers: new Post Format support (Standard, Gallery, Aside, Image, Video, etc), new CMS capabilities, new Network Admin with an import and export system, and the ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries.
In Matt's words: "With the 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before."