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Mysql import and export during wordpress blog migration from one to another server or web-host
How to create headings and paragraphs in html
Learning wordpress template design
Wordpress seo related to titles and tags
Suitable permalink structures for wordpress
How to handle affiliate links in wordpress
SETTING UP NEW WORDPRESS BLOG : STEP 3 PRIMARY SETUP OF BLOG
IF YOU HAVE AN EXISTING BLOG ON WORDPRESS AND YOU WANT TO TRANSFER IT TO NEW ONE THEN READ THIS ARTICLE
AFTER INSTALLING WORDPRESS YOU MUST GIVE IT SOME PRIMARY SETTINGS
DELETE OLD ADMIN ACCOUNT AND REPLACE IT WITH NEW ONE
After installation you will find an admin account with username admin .This username is default and everyone gets this username after wordpress installation .This is less secure so you can replace it via following technique…
LOGIN TO WORDPRESS
GO TO USERS >ADD NEW IN LEFT PANEL OF YOUR DASHBOARD SET NEW USERNAME WITH A STRONG PASSWORD AND GIVE IT ADMINISTRATION POWER
NOW LOGOUT FROM YOUR WORDPRESS THEN LOGIN VIA THIS NEW USER
GO TO AGAIN USERS DELETE THE USER WITH USERNAME ADMIN SETUP
BLOG TITLE AND DESCRIPTION
Now you should setup blog title and decription so that it can creat its own identity in search engine index .
SETUP PERMALINK STRUCTRE
Read this article for understanding permalink value in seo .
COMMENTS SETUP
Comments are very important for a blogger .
Go to Discussion and tick these options mustly
“A comment is held for moderation”
“Enable threaded (nested) comments “
BLOG PAGES
In default wordpress theme you will get a page about .If you are not interested to tell about yourself then delete this page or fill it .
SETTING UP NEW WORDPRESS : STEP 2 IF YOU ARE A BLOGSPOT USER
IF YOU HAVE ALREADY A BLOG ON BLOGGER ( BLOGSPOT ) AND YOU WANT TO TRANSFER IT ON WORDPRESS THEN IT IS VERY EASY .
INSTALL WORDPRESS ON YOUR WEB SERVER
SETUP PERMALINKS
IMPORT YOUR BLOGGER BLOG VIA WORDPRESS IMPORT OPTION
DELETE YOUR BLOGSPOT BLOG NOW
INSTALL WORDPRESS ON YOUR WEB SERVER
After getting a webhost .You will need to install worpress .It can be done by two ways
1.Manually wordpress upload and install
2.Using Script installers such as Fantastico
Manually
It is time consuming and difficult method but if you are using free webhosting you may have to use this method because most of free webhosts do not provide auto script installers .
Download wordpress zip package from wordpress.org
Extract files to a folder
Upload these files via any ftp client to where you want to install wordpress on your web space ( e.g. in root directory or in any sub direcotory as you want )
Create a mysql database
open file wp-config-sample.php on notepad and make changes and then save it as wp-config.php. (enter database name ,database host ,and password )
Type yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php into your browser.
Now run the installation and it is very easy and quick now.
Using Script installers such as Fantestico
It is very easy and fast and every paid webhost provides this service in its control panel .The interface of most of web hosts is similer and looking like this
Click on Fantastico and select wordpress from list
Then select new install
Then select domain name and folder ( do not name an existing folder because fantastico creats folder itself )
Then select admin username and passowrd and click ok
On next screen fantastico will tell you the mysql database created.You should note the name of database and press finish installation .
SETUP PERMALINKS
After installing wordpress login to your wordpress (www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/)
You will be redirected to your wordpress dashboard
See the left sidebar and see the settings
You will find the option permalinks
Select permalink custom structure and enter the following structure here
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html
IMPORT YOUR BLOG FROM BLOGSPOT VIA WORDPRESS IMPORT OPTION
On your dashboard go to the tools and select import
Then choose blogger from the list
You will see the authorise option on nest screen
Click here and grant access to your blogger account via login
Wordpress will show your blogspot blog and now you can import your blog with one click .
DELETE YOUR BLOGSPOT BLOG NOW
You should delete your blogspot blog to avoid duplicate content problems so that google and other search engines exclude your old blog from their index .
FREE AND PREMIUM RESOURCES FOR WORDPRESS THEME DESIGNERS
Designing a wordpress theme is not an easy job but there are some good free and premium resources available with the help of those we can create wordpress themes .
Free Resources
iStylr – LIVE Designer
It is a great free software to builb wordpress theme layout .We can customize an existing theme with it and create new too .I will give this tool 4/5 ranking .You can download this tool anywhere from the web .
Wp theme generetor
It is a very primitive type of tool to create crude wordpress themes .It is currently in beta so its functionality is very low but in future it may be very useful .
Online wordpress theme generetor
It is a very impressive tool to create wordpress themes online .You can customize header,body ,footer .You can add extraa sidebar .I will give 3/5 rank to this tool .
CONCLUSION IS THAT WE CAN NOT DO MUCH MORE WITH FREE TOOLS AVAILABLE .IF WE WANT TO DEVELPOE PROFESSIONAL WORDPRESS THEMES TO MAKE MONEY WE MUST HAVE GOOD KNOWLEGE OF XHTML ,CSS AND PHP AND THE PREMIUM RESOURCES CAN GUIDE US VERY WELL LISTED BELOW .
WordPress Theme Design
I have already written a post describing the importance of this ebook in wp theme designing . READ HERE
How to be a Rockstar Wordpress Designer
It is also a very good ebook .You can learn theme designing step by step .The author has described how to convert an xhtml template to wordpress theme .
How to Theme WordPress: From Blank To Beautiful in 2 Hours ( Video Tutorial DVD )
I have not used this but my friend have used .He said to me that it is very useful in learning wordpress theme designing .
JOIN WORDPRESS CODEX TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GLOBAL WORDPRESS COMMUNITY
HOW TO CREATE OWN WORDPRESS THEME WITHOUT ANY SPECIAL SKILL
Its not an easy question .Anyone can ask this question “how to develop new wordpress design without any special web design skill ? Is it possible ? There are many easy html websites creators available those build a visual website in minutes such as Webplus x2 BUT no any successful tool available to build own wordpress design .Many bloggers want to make money by developing wordpress themes but it is not so easy job to create designs .
IT IS NOT AN EASY JOB BUT ALSO IT IS NOT SO MUCH TOUGH TOO
DURING WANDERING ON GOOGLE I HAVE FOUND A MUCH EASY SOLUTION . I PURCHASED AN EBOOK TO INSPECT IT . I READ IT CAREFULLY AND THE METHOD GIVEN IN THIS BOOK IS SO MUCH EASY TO LEARN .IF ANY ONE HAS BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF XHTML , CSS AND PHP THEN HE CAN EASILY CREATE HIS OWN WORDPRES DESIGNS AND CAN BE A WORDPRESS DESIGNER HAVING BRIGHT FUTURE .
WHAT YOU WILL LEARNED IN THIS BOOK
STEP BY STEP CREATION OF WORDPRESS THEME
AUTHOR HAS PRESENTED AN VERY EASY METHOD TO MAKE A WORDPRESS THEME
AUTHOR HAS EXPLAINED HOW TO WORK WITH XHTML AND CSS
AUTHOR HAS CREATED A BEAUTIFUL THEME IN THIS BOOK WITH SHOWING EVERY STEP AND HAS NEVER GET A JUMP OVER STEPS .
YOU WILL SETUP A BASIC WORKFLOW FIRST AND MAKE ENVIRONMENT FOR WORDPRESS THEME DESIGN
YOU WILL PRODUCE DETAILED DESIGN AND CODE THEM UP
YOU WILL CUSTOMIZE THEME LAYOUT AND ENHANCE IT .
YOU CAN FIND MORE ON AMAZON ABOUT THIS BOOK
WEB DESIGN BASICS : WRITING A SIMPLE XHTML PAGE
XHTML means Extensible Hypertext Markup Language .
If you are looking to be a web developer you must have basic knowlege of xhtml ,css and php .
or
If you have a wordpress blog and you do not want to pay heavy money to cutomize your wordpress then you must have the basic knowlege of xhtml ,css and php because these three things make a wordpress blog .
I am starting a series of posts on XHTML and CSS and the first chapter of this series is ” how to write a basic xhtml page ” . Lets start……….
1 OPEN THE NOTEPAD
2 TYPE THE DOCUMENT TYPE DECLARATION LIKE THIS
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
YOU CAN COPY THIS CODE FROM ANY XHTML PAGE
3 IN NEXT LINE TYPE THE HTML OPENING TAG <
4 TYPE XMLNS ATTRIBUTE LIKE THIS…….
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
5 TYPE <head> (this is the opening head tag )
6 TYPE <title >my page title</title> (opening and closing title tag)
7 TYPE AGAIN </head> (this is the closing head tag )
8 NOW ADD THE OPENING BODY TAG <body>
9 NOW ADD THE CLOSING BODY TAG </body>
10 FINALLY ADD THE CLOSING HTML TAG </html>
11 SAVE THE FILE AS HTML AND TEST IT IN BROWSER
YOUR DOCUMENT WILL BE LOOKED LIKE THIS
ANOTHER READY TO USE GAMING WORDPRESS THEME WITH GOD OF WAR GRAPHICS
I have designed graphics for God of war playstation game lovers and apply those to a ready to use wordpress theme .I have create a header with god of war images and subscribe icon and made the theme easy to use .I hope that gamers will like this theme .The theme is originally designed by designed.nu/ and I have modified it .You can download this theme here .
If you need any help contact Doc-tech
WORDPRESS THEME FOR GAMING BLOGS : CYBEREXPRESS MODIFICATION
Doc-Tech has modified great theme cyber express for gamers .I have designed custom header ,images and other styles just for gaming blogs .I have modified this theme easy to use and you have to add only widgets in sidebars .This theme has many advanced features such as category slider , hove colors ,three column layouts ,sub categories slider .If you need any help for customizations contact me .Soon I have published the easy customizations guide in pdf so dont worry doc-tech is always with you .
WORDPRESS DESIGN : HOW TO EXTRACT A PART OF IMAGE
I have created a simple video showing how to extract a part from an image .Suppose you want to create a new image and you need the cricket bat for it then you can extract a cricket bat from any existing image .This video will simply showing the demo .It is created with serif photo plus software .
Open an image with photo plus
Select the magnetic selection tool from the left tool bar Press the shift key and work with your mouse
After selecting the whole part double click the meeting point and then cut that part and paste it as a new image .
PERMALINK STRUCTURES: WORDPRESS SEO CHAPTER 1
Wordpress provides following permalink structures
Default ( /?p=123 )
Day and name
Month and name
Numeric
Custom Structure
/%category%/%postname%/
%monthnum%/%postname%.html
%postname%.html
%postname%
(common custom structures)
Default ( /?p=123 ) structure is not seo friendly because it gives no information about post content .
Best known permalink structure is /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html and it is most prevalent .I also use this permalink structure .
Other effective perma structure and used by many famous blogs is %postname%.html
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