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16 years ago

I know it's not totally relevant to what you were asking as it's not how to use Wordpress BUT I'll ask anyway

, I'd really like a video on how to transfer a wordpress blog from one server to another (I sell blogs on Sitepoint sometimes).

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jjpmarketing

16 years ago

How about... How to create your own theme from scratch in Wordpress...

you could cover splicing a theme, and everything else that goes along with it.

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VinceNouvel 16 years ago

I second that.. Would love to know more about how to customize your own wordpress theme.. I just love to do this kind of stuff myself
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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Hamida Pall

I know it's not totally relevant to what you were asking as it's not how to use Wordpress BUT I'll ask anyway

, I'd really like a video on how to transfer a wordpress blog from one server to another (I sell blogs on Sitepoint sometimes).

Coming right up. Just got to figure out why my microphone isn't recording. D'oh!

Originally Posted by jjpmarketing

How about... How to create your own theme from scratch in Wordpress...

you could cover splicing a theme, and everything else that goes along with it.

Now that's a good idea. Not one I can knock up in a couple of minutes but I'll see what I can do

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tommygadget

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Hamida Pall

I know it's not totally relevant to what you were asking as it's not how to use Wordpress BUT I'll ask anyway

, I'd really like a video on how to transfer a wordpress blog from one server to another (I sell blogs on Sitepoint sometimes).

That's exactly what I was going to ask. Last night, it took me hours to reconstruct a blog on a different server. The problem was due to database user names and passwords and some entries located in the WP database. I need a clean tutorial with all the details, especially the database issues laid out. Also, how to do a routine WP backup would be nice...

TomG.

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Mark Brian

16 years ago

How to create your own plug-in

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Andy Fletcher 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Mark Brian

How to create your own plug-in

I definitely like the idea of doing a series of videos on theme and plugin creation. Thanks.
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VinceNouvel 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Mark Brian

How to create your own plug-in

I think Robert Plank have this course before.. But its very interesting indeed.
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Joe721 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Mark Brian

How to create your own plug-in

Just been doing that, and almost finished version 1.0. While the basic ideas involved (hooking into wordpress) are quite easy, managing the content and database during different views can certainly be tricky. If you have any specific questions I'd be glad to help
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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

OK. Here's the first video showing you how to export and import a Wordpress blog. This is my first video tutorial so please let me know if things aren't clear.

http://screencast.com/t/1zeynWeZL

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mario_a

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

OK. Here's the first video showing you how to export and import a Wordpress blog. This is my first video tutorial so please let me know if things aren't clear.

2008-09-16_2003

Thanks for the video, Andy. I did not know it was this simple to transfer a WP blog.
Will this also work in older versions of WP, such as WP 2.3 ?

Thanks,
Mario

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by mario_a

Thanks for the video, Andy. I did not know it was this simple to transfer a WP blog.
Will this also work in older versions of WP, such as WP 2.3 ?

Thanks,
Mario

I'm not 100% sure when they introduced the import/export functionality but I'm pretty sure it was some time ago. The only difference (as far as I'm aware) is the layout of the admin interface has changed a fair bit recently so you may find the links are in different places.

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jjpmarketing

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro

On the import/export function, do you know how to get around the 2MB limit of the XML file?

I am going to get into the coded of the file and see how to divide it. I am doing wordpress videos also. The import/export function is great unless you have a ton of content.

Steve

Couldn't you get around this by just backing up the database? Then importing it into the new database?

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro

On the import/export function, do you know how to get around the 2MB limit of the XML file?

I am going to get into the coded of the file and see how to divide it. I am doing wordpress videos also. The import/export function is great unless you have a ton of content.

Steve

Originally Posted by jjpmarketing

Couldn't you get around this by just backing up the database? Then importing it into the new database?

If you go over the 2MB limit (this will be different between the various hosting providers out there since it's a PHP setting, not specific to Wordpress) then you'll need to do as suggested here and do a MySQL export/import of the data instead.

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Andy Fletcher 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve Porcaro

Yeah I thought the 2MB limit was a host PHP thing, funny though I have multiple hosts and I have the same limit on all.

That's because 2MB is the default that you get out of the box so if the hosting providers don't change anything this is what they get
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TomBuford

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

OK. Here's the first video showing you how to export and import a Wordpress blog. This is my first video tutorial so please let me know if things aren't clear.

2008-09-16_2003

Andy

Great video. Quick and to the point. Thanks for taking the time to share this!

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Michael D

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

OK. Here's the first video showing you how to export and import a Wordpress blog. This is my first video tutorial so please let me know if things aren't clear.

2008-09-16_2003

Thanks for the video but I wanted to point out one thing because I think there was some confusion. This method will work if you are backing up your blog. If you are transferring the blog because you sold it to someone else and it is going to go on their server you need to backup the database as well. This is done in your Cpanel and using phpmyadmin. Its a little bit more complicated then that. The Wordpress website has some good documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

Just read through this and you should be fine because it breaks down all the scenarios and walks you through what you need to do.

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael D

Thanks for the video but I wanted to point out one thing because I think there was some confusion. This method will work if you are backing up your blog. If you are transferring the blog because you sold it to someone else and it is going to go on their server you need to backup the database as well. This is done in your Cpanel and using phpmyadmin. Its a little bit more complicated then that. The Wordpress website has some good documentation: Moving WordPress WordPress Codex

Just read through this and you should be fine because it breaks down all the scenarios and walks you through what you need to do.

Why won't this work to transfer a blog to the new owner? As far as I'm aware the export function exports everything except themes and plugins.

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Michael D 16 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

Why won't this work to transfer a blog to the new owner? As far as I'm aware the export function exports everything except themes and plugins.

I dug a little deeper and found that you are correct. This feature should work for most people. One thing to make sure is there seems to be a file size limit for your xml file when using this option within Wordpress. Most sites will be fine. But, for some large blogs it might not work correctly so you would have to use the database backup.

One other article I found was from a few months back and they ran into problems with the Wordpress /upload folder not backing up. So everything transferred correctly except images and videos they had uploaded. I am not sure if this is still the case or not with the updated Wordpress version or not but it is something to look out for. I assume you would want to copy that folder along with your theme and plugin folder.

The other issue some people seemed to have with this option was when they were importing/exporting different Wordpress Versions. I would probably play it safe by making sure the two versions of Wordpress match each other just in case.

I have always used the database backup with Mysql which is a little more in depth and never tried this route. Thanks for the info it was very helpful.
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TorontoCarol

16 years ago

I need to update my wordpress blog but am paranoid that I will lose the content. Also, I do backups, but haven't a clue how I would re-instate the content if I had to.

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by TorontoCarol

I need to update my wordpress blog but am paranoid that I will lose the content. Also, I do backups, but haven't a clue how I would re-instate the content if I had to.

Hi Carol,

Watch the video I posted above, it's about moving blogs from one host to another (ie when you sell them). In your case you'd do exactly the same thing except it's hosted in the same place and you'll just restore from backup.

Let me know if you need any further help with this.

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StealthA00

16 years ago

Andy,

I think it is a good idea and will be helpful to many. My biggest problem right now is including RSS feeds onto my website. Basically, including eBay RSS auction feeds onto several pages on a Wordpress site. There seems to be many plugins that assist with this, but many seem to be obsolete/broken, and I really don't know where to start. That's what I think

thanks.

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mario_a

16 years ago

Originally Posted by StealthA00

My biggest problem right now is including RSS feeds onto my website. Basically, including eBay RSS auction feeds onto several pages on a Wordpress site. There seems to be many plugins that assist with this, but many seem to be obsolete/broken, and I really don't know where to start.

I use the BayRSS plugin (non-affiliate link) to display EBay auctions on my WP sites. It is easy to use, and I can recommend it.

Regards,
Mario

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by StealthA00

Andy,

I think it is a good idea and will be helpful to many. My biggest problem right now is including RSS feeds onto my website. Basically, including eBay RSS auction feeds onto several pages on a Wordpress site. There seems to be many plugins that assist with this, but many seem to be obsolete/broken, and I really don't know where to start. That's what I think

thanks.

Good topic. It's getting late so I'll video this one in the morning.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by StealthA00

Andy,

I think it is a good idea and will be helpful to many. My biggest problem right now is including RSS feeds onto my website. Basically, including eBay RSS auction feeds onto several pages on a Wordpress site. There seems to be many plugins that assist with this, but many seem to be obsolete/broken, and I really don't know where to start. That's what I think

thanks.

Here's a video showing you how to take RSS feeds and create posts in your blog from them.

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Rajul kaushik 16 years ago

Hi Andy,
I enjoyed the RSS feedwordpress plugin installation video.
That's indeed a great utility.

I will be interested in soemthing related to custmising the blog theme's header. Could u post a small video guide on this if possible plz?
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Thomas Wilkinson

16 years ago

Andy, Thanks for the quicky on transfering blogs to someone else
and Hamida thanks for asking the question. I always got crossed up
and lost something in the process. Saving the theme and plugins separately
seems so self evident I don't know why I tend to forget it.

T.W.

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JeffersonB

16 years ago

Hey Andy

I'm a complete newbie to wordpress.org..

Basically i have upload everything and it looks all good.. however i have no media buttons on the toolbar..

is there a way you think you could help?

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jjpmarketing 16 years ago

Do yourself a favor. Avoid using wordpress.com for your blog at all costs. If you plan on having any affiliate links it will eventually get shut down/disabled by the mods at wordpress.

Get a hosting account with cPanel and put your blog on that site. It will provide more options for you as far as modifications and plugins go... and you will never have to worry about the content of your blog such as affiliate links getting you shut down.

I speak from experience.
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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by JeffersonB

Hey Andy

I'm a complete newbie to wordpress.org..

Basically i have upload everything and it looks all good.. however i have no media buttons on the toolbar..

is there a way you think you could help?

As recommended above I'd definitely go for hosting Wordpress yourself. A bit of extra effort to setup, then way better/easier etc.

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JeffersonB

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

As recommended above I'd definitely go for hosting Wordpress yourself. A bit of extra effort to setup, then way better/easier etc.

Yeah this is hosted myself.

This is where i have the problem.. my blog at wordpress.com is fine but the uploaded one has a problem

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by JeffersonB

Yeah this is hosted myself.

This is where i have the problem.. my blog at wordpress.com is fine but the uploaded one has a problem

A common cause for this functionality to be missing is a badly behaved plugin. Try disabling your plugins and see if that brings them back. If so switch them on and off individually to see if you can find which one is doing it.

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Hamida Harland

16 years ago

Hey Andy, thanks for that - super video, I didn't realise it was so easy! I used to use instructions I found online where you have to go to phpmyadmin and download the database that way, but this is much better.

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Josh Anderson

16 years ago

I'd like to know the easiest way to update my blog to the newest version of wordpress from an earlier version.

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DerrickMarkotter 16 years ago

I've got to agree with Tom - the Automatic Upgrade plugin works a treat.
It also backs up your files and allows you to download them before doing the upgrade.
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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Josh Anderson

I'd like to know the easiest way to update my blog to the newest version of wordpress from an earlier version.

Originally Posted by Tom Borowski

The easiest way I have ever experienced is by using the Automatic Upgrade plugin:

WordPress › Wordpress Automatic upgrade WordPress Plugins

Has worked for me going from 2.3 to 2.5 and from there to 2.6

If you download and install the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin and activate it then upgrading is pretty much reduced to clicking "next", "next", "next" in the wizard it gives you.

The only stopper you may have is you'll need to change the directory permissions to enable the plugin to save the backup files.

If anyone has any difficulties let me know and I'll turn this into a full video.

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Susan Hope

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

If you download and install the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin and activate it then upgrading is pretty much reduced to clicking "next", "next", "next" in the wizard it gives you.

The only stopper you may have is you'll need to change the directory permissions to enable the plugin to save the backup files.

If anyone has any difficulties let me know and I'll turn this into a full video.

Andy,

I have been very wary of trying this, so do you think you could do one anyway, that would be great as I have 3 blogs that need to upgrade now to the latest version.

Thanks everso.
Sue

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by SusanneUK

Andy,

I have been very wary of trying this, so do you think you could do one anyway, that would be great as I have 3 blogs that need to upgrade now to the latest version.

Thanks everso.
Sue

Sure thing! It'll have to wait until tomorrow morning now though. I've got to create a blog with an old version of Wordpress so I can do the upgrade since all mine are up-to-date.

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Chris Hunter 16 years ago

Great stuff, Andy!

@Josh,

Get the free plug-in that Tom suggested. I use it on all of my blogs and it works great.
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Susan Hope

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

Sure thing! It'll have to wait until tomorrow morning now though. I've got to create a blog with an old version of Wordpress so I can do the upgrade since all mine are up-to-date.

Thanks Andy, you are a Star!!

I will pm you as well for when it is done as you suggest in another reply.

Cheers
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ebiz96

16 years ago

Andy my friend Thank you...You just saved me lot of grief i was about to go through updating my blogs manually and had been Sh#tting that just incase i mess up and you just saved me lot of pain by providing a link to this magical 'WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin' .

It took me just under 10 minutes to update to wordpress 2.6, all done with few clicks like you said, this is brilliant and i am going to do the same on all blogs.

OH By the way your videos are awesome..

Thank you once again.

Ash

Originally Posted by Andy Fletcher

If you download and install the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin and activate it then upgrading is pretty much reduced to clicking "next", "next", "next" in the wizard it gives you.

The only stopper you may have is you'll need to change the directory permissions to enable the plugin to save the backup files.

If anyone has any difficulties let me know and I'll turn this into a full video.

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by ebiz96

Andy my friend Thank you...You just saved me lot of grief i was about to go through updating my blogs manually and had been Sh#tting that just incase i mess up and you just saved me lot of pain by providing a link to this magical 'WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin' .

It took me just under 10 minutes to update to wordpress 2.6, all done with few clicks like you said, this is brilliant and i am going to do the same on all blogs.

OH By the way your videos are awesome..

Thank you once again.

Ash

Glad it helped Ash. I hope you don't mind me quoting that as a testimonial when I release the paid package?

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

I'm back and about to record some more so if you've got any requests feel free to reply here and I'll see what I can do.

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KimW

16 years ago

I installed a plugin to secure the site, had problems with it, removed it,and now someone can register, and get sent the registration letter yet then they try to log in they get the following message:
ERROR: Invalid username.
Can you offer any help/suggestions to fix this?
Kim

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

I installed a plugin to secure the site, had problems with it, removed it,and now someone can register, and get sent the registration letter yet then they try to log in they get the following message:
ERROR: Invalid username.
Can you offer any help/suggestions to fix this?
Kim

Hard to know what to say on this one but if you PM me the site location I'll take a look at it for you.

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Andy

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Greg Cooksley

16 years ago

Hey Andy,

Are there any Wordpress tutorial videos out there that walk you
through the whole process of setting up a blog on your own website
from scratch.

I've also read that many of the free themes have code embedded
that is suspect.......how do you know which are the best safe
themes to download.

What do you do, if you start with one theme and then later decide
to change it to another.....is it a simple procedure? I think
being unsure of this one thing is what stops many people from
getting a blog up and going?

Have you looked at Wordpress Direct Auto WordPress Installer (no aff. link)
I would be interested in your thoughts on this site?

Regards

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Greg Cooksley

Hey Andy,

Are there any Wordpress tutorial videos out there that walk you
through the whole process of setting up a blog on your own website
from scratch.

I don't know of any, that's largely why I'm making some

I've also read that many of the free themes have code embedded
that is suspect.......how do you know which are the best safe
themes to download.

I've not heard of this myself and I'm not really sure what someone could do to a Wordpress theme. Still, if you want to be sure that a theme is safe stick to the big theme sites and stick with themes that have a lot of downloads, which means they're more likely to have been checked by someone.

What do you do, if you start with one theme and then later decide
to change it to another.....is it a simple procedure? I think
being unsure of this one thing is what stops many people from
getting a blog up and going?

Changing themes in Wordpress takes pretty much no effort. There's a "design" section which lists all the themes you have installed. You click on one and say "make it active". Job done.

Have you looked at Wordpress Direct Auto WordPress Installer (no aff. link)
I would be interested in your thoughts on this site?

It looks like a pretty standard spam blog creating piece of software. It'll probably work for a while then Google will find a way to mass ban blogs built with it like they've done with so many others. How long a while is and how successful it'll be during that time is anyone's guess.

If it was that successful though you can be sure the author would just be running thousands of copies of it himself and not giving it away (almost certainly as a frontend to selling you something).

Just my 2c, maybe it's awesome, I've not tried it

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KimW

16 years ago

Tommy,
there is an automatic backup plugin you can get that seems to work very well. PM me with your email if you'd like me to send it to you,
Kim

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tommygadget

16 years ago

I just saw your video. Geez, if it really works that easily I could just whack my thumb with a hammer. How annoying that is. I assume that the WP installations have to both be at the same revision level? Thanks for the vid, nice job BTW.

TomG.

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by narsticle

how can you struggle with wordpress. Its the simplest script ever made.

Please try and keep your comments constructive, this is a helpful forum.

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Kat Bartone

16 years ago

Hi Andy,

Awesome thread, thank you!

Couple of questions for you:

1. Just viewed the video on transferring WP to a new server. Would it be important to deactivate the plugins before copying stuff over, or is that irrelevant?

2. How can we keep tabs on your upcoming WP videos?

Thanks!

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Kat Bartone

Hi Andy,

Awesome thread, thank you!

You're welcome. I've learned loads from this forum so it's good to be able to give something back.

Couple of questions for you:

1. Just viewed the video on transferring WP to a new server. Would it be important to deactivate the plugins before copying stuff over, or is that irrelevant?

As far as I know it doesn't matter whether they are activated or not.

2. How can we keep tabs on your upcoming WP videos?

I'd not actually given any thought to this. If anyone would like to hear when they are ready (probably sometime next week I'd have thought) then please drop me a PM.

Thanks!

- Kat Bartone

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TorontoCarol

16 years ago

Hi Andy,
you made the wordpress upgrade sound so easy, I decided to go ahead. Fortunately, I chose one of my blogs that didnt have too much content. I used the automatic upgrade plugin and there was an error. Now my site is in forever maintenance mode and my content is gone.

I did do a backup, but I have no clue how to put it on the site again! Could you maybe do a video for that?

Thanks for all you've done so far, they are great.

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Chris Hunter

16 years ago

Originally Posted by TorontoCarol

Hi Andy,
you made the wordpress upgrade sound so easy, I decided to go ahead. Fortunately, I chose one of my blogs that didnt have too much content. I used the automatic upgrade plugin and there was an error. Now my site is in forever maintenance mode and my content is gone.

I did do a backup, but I have no clue how to put it on the site again! Could you maybe do a video for that?

Thanks for all you've done so far, they are great.

Carol,

This is the plug-in that you need - WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.2 Release

Make sure that you're using it.

Your webhost should be able to help you get the site back up with your database backup.

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mplatts 16 years ago

Hi Andy and everyone else,
Where's a good place to learn how to edit the themes? For example I want to change the header picture and font and also widen the main text box.
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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Originally Posted by TorontoCarol

Hi Andy,
you made the wordpress upgrade sound so easy, I decided to go ahead. Fortunately, I chose one of my blogs that didnt have too much content. I used the automatic upgrade plugin and there was an error. Now my site is in forever maintenance mode and my content is gone.

I did do a backup, but I have no clue how to put it on the site again! Could you maybe do a video for that?

Thanks for all you've done so far, they are great.

Hi Carol,

Sorry to hear it's stuck in maintenance mode. If you PM the site details I'll see what I can do to fix it and make a video about the solution for other people to follow.

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Next video is all ready. This one shows you how to setup a Google Analytics plugin to track site visitors.

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TorontoCarol

16 years ago

Thanks Chris. What I used was the wordpress automatic upgrade version 1.1, so I guess I need to get that latest one. My existing wordpress is only 1.5 so it really needs to be updated. I appreciated the tip to get in touch with my hosting tech support - I hadn't thought of that.

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TorontoCarol

16 years ago

Thanks for all your support Andy. I have sent you a pm.

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MizzCindy

16 years ago

Fantastic thread! The tutorial videos are great. Thank you for taking the time to offer them to us all.

How about a quickie tutorial for how to create static sites with WordPress? (I'm really hoping this isn't dead-simple and I'm just missing how to do it. I really hate looking like a dunder-head.)

Thanks, again!
Cindy

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Susan Hope

16 years ago

Originally Posted by MizzCindy

Fantastic thread! The tutorial videos are great. Thank you for taking the time to offer them to us all.

How about a quickie tutorial for how to create static sites with WordPress? (I'm really hoping this isn't dead-simple and I'm just missing how to do it. I really hate looking like a dunder-head.)

Thanks, again!
Cindy

Hi Cindy, I can help with that one and don't worry, your not a dunder head for asking, I had to as well LOL

If you want to make it static, you need to go to the dashboard and click "settings" then click on "Reading".

You will then see near the top "front page displays" (this is in the latest version of WP).

You can see where to select "Static" and I think once you make your first page (so follow these instructions after you have done that), the page you want to be the first page will then appear in the drop down list of which page should be first, select the page.

After that, you just always choose to write a "page" instead of a "post" and those pages will be listed, if you want them to be in your sidebar on the page you choose to be the home page.

Hope that helps.

Sue

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Andy Fletcher 16 years ago

Thanks for covering that one Sue. If anyone wants me to turn this into a video just let me know.
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- Greg Cooksley 16 years ago
  
  Hey Andy,
  
  Thanks for doing all these videos.....
  
  It''ll come back to you in heaps......trust me...
  
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  jjpmarketing 16 years ago
  
  Andy... that was awesome. I didn't know that plugin existed. I've always upgraded my blog the manual way. I even avoided this last upgrade because I just upgraded it 2 weeks prior to that release being available. This plugin makes it easy to upgrade.
  
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MizzCindy

16 years ago

Thanks, Sue!

This was very helpful. I went into my wp-admin and played around with this a bit. I couldn't quite get it to do everything I wanted it to do, but at least I got some of the functionality to work (all the links were showing up above my header - apparently I need to go play with theme files to change that).

Andy, I know Sue did a great job describing this, but if you have some spare time, I wouldn't mind seeing a video of the process as well. I'd like to make sure it really is my theme file settings and not something strange I'm doing when creating my test static pages.

If I use WordPress to create a site full of static pages which I continually add to, will I still get some google-love out of this? (...assuming I'm SEO optimizing everything in the same ways...)

Also, I hear somebody brought beer to this party. Where's the bar - I need a drink! LOL

Thanks, again! This is a great thread.

Cindy

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Hi Cindy, I can help with that one and don't worry, your not a dunder head for asking, I had to as well LOL

If you want to make it static, you need to go to the dashboard and click "settings" then click on "Reading".

You will then see near the top "front page displays" (this is in the latest version of WP).

You can see where to select "Static" and I think once you make your first page (so follow these instructions after you have done that), the page you want to be the first page will then appear in the drop down list of which page should be first, select the page.

After that, you just always choose to write a "page" instead of a "post" and those pages will be listed, if you want them to be in your sidebar on the page you choose to be the home page.

Hope that helps.

Sue

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Andy Fletcher

16 years ago

Here's video 4. How to upgrade an old version of Wordpress to the latest. Enjoy!

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SusanUSA

16 years ago

Hi Andy,

Thanks for this thread. Here is my questions (I hope this is not a repeat that I missed as I skimmed through):

I now have WP hosting my blog. I started it on December 4, 2007 and to date have more than 550,000 hits, have sold more than $20,000 in eBooks and I am #1 on Google for my niche.

I don't want to upset this very fruitful applecart. But I would like to host the blog on my own domain now. How can I transfer my site so that I am hosting it from my own domain and not lose the great position I have now?

I have thought of just linking to the WP hosted site from my domain . . .

Thanks so much!

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StealthA00

16 years ago

JJP,

Yeah, I agree completely.. I haven't downloaded the plug-in yet but I did not know about it until this thread. Great thing to know.

I did the same thing you did .. updated once and then two weeks later had to update again. Kind of a nuisance. If this program does what it says it does (& I don't doubt it) it would be very helpful

Andy,
I watched the video and it was great! I had no idea it was so simple to do that. However, while very helpful, I suppose I should have been a little more specific. (I haven't been able to do much work on my site since I last posted, or looked too indepth) but what I want to do w/ the eBay RSS is this:
I don't want to post the RSS as a post. Instead, I want the RSS on my static WP pages. Just as an example I'll lay it out like this:
Page 1- Budweiser
Page 2- Michelob
Page 3- Coors Light
Page 4- Guinness (am I making anyone thirsty??? lol)
and on each (mostly static) page, link out via RSS to eBay products for the specific brand. And also incorporate information above, below and around the eBay products.
I know it will require special styling, and I don't expect you to make a video explaining CSS but I just wanted to clarify what I was asking: putting eBay RSS onto Static Pages.

Someone recommended bayRSS and I imagine that will help me to accomplish my goal. I really appreciate your efforts on the video, I never thought of doing things that way (rss to Posts) and I may adopt some variation of that method in the future. And it's obvious the video has helped more than just me. Good stuff.

Anywho, thanks!

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Susan Hope 16 years ago

You are very welcome Andy, I hope it helps Cindy.

Thanks for your help too Andy, hope you enjoy your beer later

Cheers
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  Originally Posted by SusanneUK
  
  You are very welcome Andy, I hope it helps Cindy.
  
  Thanks for your help too Andy, hope you enjoy your beer later
  
  Cheers
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16 years ago

Thanks that was a lot of help.

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MizzCindy

16 years ago

Oh oh oh oh! How about a video on how to edit/change the header image in a WordPress theme?

I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes it's a real challenge for me to find a theme that is structurally appropriate that also has relevant and suitable (or at least neutral) graphics.

BTW, Andy, whether or not you make any of these additional videos requested, you've already given us a tremendous gift in this thread!

Thank you!

Cindy

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Andy Fletcher

15 years ago

I should have some free time tomorrow afternoon so I thought I'd resurrect this thread.

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maya.m

15 years ago

Andy I have problems:
1.how to correct date (from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY) because I live in Europe.
2. How to correct date on WordPress blog site to my national language (for example: Decembre to December).

Thanks for everything you are doing for this community.

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bobmcalister

15 years ago

please anything on wordpress plus hostgator ...how to install a theme , how to add the content, how to add seo , how to do the plug ins, how to urn the thing..I am at my wits end all most and need to get this online
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Bennette

15 years ago

Originally Posted by bobmcalister

please anything on wordpress plus hostgator ...how to install a theme , how to add the content, how to add seo , how to do the plug ins, how to urn the thing..I am at my wits end all most and need to get this online
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I'm also interested in a video on this.

Question:
Is it better to pay for a theme or is a free theme with your own domain name, using a hosting co will work just as good?

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Andy Fletcher

15 years ago

Wow. Thought this thread was gone forever but I guess not

It's pretty late here and I'm out all day tomorrow but I'll try to make some more vids for this on Wednesday.

I recommend someone PMs me to give me a reminder!