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WordPress Xampp

March 23rd, 2011 admin No comments

Question:

I’ve read that you can make your own website and then host it yourself from your home computer… Is this really possible? How can I do this? Is it all free?

Answer:

What you have heard is correct. However, just because something is possible doesn’t mean it is practical.

Let me attempt to explain.

In order to host your own website on your home computer, you will need to turn it into a server.

There are free options to do this. I use XAMPP. It is very easy to install and set up. I use it only for running WordPress on a local environment for testing.

The computer you use for your server will need a high speed connection to the Internet. It needs to be very reliable and you’ll want to have some sort of power backup solution. More than likely you will need to dedicate that computer to being a server.

You’ll need to learn how to keep your server secure as well. I don’t know much about that – just that you will need security.

If you are a website guru already, it may be practical for you.

If you haven’t yet built a website, then you may want to learn how to do that first. None of it is difficult, but I’m assuming that if you want to host a site, then you either have a site or you want to build one. If you don’t yet have a site built, learning how to make your own site as well as host it will likely result in very slow progress.

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If you happen to create a site that becomes very popular, it is unlikely that your home computer and Internet connection will be able to handle the requests. The resulting slow site or crashed server could lose you a lot of potential visitors.

Another thing to consider is cost. For 8 bucks per month you can get all the hosting you’ll likely need – that’s much less than a T1 line will cost. Being your own host isn’t cheap if you do it right and we haven’t even talked about server costs.

My suggestion would be to buy hosting, build that site, learn how to optimize it, and study up on servers as you have time.

After all, hosting is cheap. Keeping visitors happy is priceless.

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How to Run WordPress on Your Windows Computer Using XAMPP — Part 1 of 2


WordPress More Tag

March 7th, 2011 admin No comments

Do tags on WordPress work even if they are not dispalyed at the end of each post?

Hi everyone,
I have installed WordPress as my blog template, and am currently using the 5.2 version with Blixed 1.0 as the theme.
Now I can use tags which, as far as I know, are tools that help the visibility of the site.
Blixed 1.0 does not show tags at the end of each post.
I wonder: do tags fully work even if they are not displayed at the end of each post or should I choose a different theme? My website has a nice number of visits (about 550 per day, and considering it is in Italian it’s not bad). I wish I could add more visitors. Can tags help me?
Thanks everybody in advance and have you all a nice weekend.

The latest version of Blixed does support tags for WordPress 2.5. If you installed the theme prior to upgrading to WordPress 2.5 you might have to download and re-install the latest version of Blixed.

How to use the More Tag in WordPress


WordPress Redirect

November 14th, 2010 admin No comments

WordPress Issue: Not able to view index.php because I’m being redirected to index.html?

http://noobtutorials.lacedesignco.com/index.php

I am not able to view the index.php because I’m being redirected to index.html. I also tried putting in a redirect script in the index.html page, but it constantly jumps back and forth from index.php to index.html.

Is this really a wordpress issue or a php issue (something I’ve done)?

I’ve posted this same question in the wordpress forums, but no response yet.
Thank you Chris P. Muah Muah Muah! .

I didn’t have an .htaccess file, so I created one like you said. This will be one of the new tutorials!!

The problem might be with the way your web hosting is setup.

Open up your .htaccess file (should be in your root folder – if it’s not there, you can create a blank file with this name) and enter the line:

DirectoryIndex index.php

This will instruct your server to serve the index.php file automatically. If there already was a DirectoryIndex line in your .htaccess, replace it with this one.

How to Redirect Your Root URL to Your WordPress Subdirectory Using Cpanel


WordPress Categories Page Template

September 26th, 2010 admin No comments

Page layout problems in Internet Explorer?

I’m having a problem with a template for my site, http://joewhite.xmgfree.com/news/.

If you look at the bullet lists ‘archives’ and ‘categories’ in IE and compare them in Firefox you will see that they are spaced out wrong in IE. This is a template somebody made for WordPress. The code can be accessed through view-source. Is there anyway to fix this? This template is intergrated into my main site http://joewhite.xmgfree.com/ through a PHP include so any work-around would need to take my own layout into consideration. Please help, thanks.

hey man the 1st thing I would suggest is to remove all padding and margins from the ul and li tags then work “outwards” from there, you may need to hack the css to fix this though as IE is crappy in the sence that ignores things…

here is the examples of removing padding and margins:

ul {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;
padding: 0px;
}

li {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;
padding: 0px;
}

if the bullet goes invisible in IE just increase the 15 a bit..

to hack a css you can do the following with almost any value (im showing height as anexample):

.class_tag {
height: 40px !important; /* Firefox Value */
height: 60px; /* IE value */
}

Firefox will automaticall ignore the second value and IE will use the last value it sees (the second one) so yeagh that should help you to solve the problem ;)

How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template


WordPress Blog Url

June 30th, 2010 admin No comments

Setting up a personal wordpress blog?

Hello, i already have a wordpress blog of mine, but i now want a wordpress based personal blog with a url of the type blog.myname.net . Are there any free providers out there or do i have to buy hosting. If yes from where ?

Thank You

Yes, you just need to get hosting which includes WordPress installation.

I recommend one of these: http://www.webhostingtable.com/

Powweb has the best offer right now, they have a limited time sale, hosting for $4.88/month ($58.56/year).

Their hosting plan includes easy, one click install of WordPress from their control panel. When you install it, if you want you can import your old wordpress blog (wp-admin -> left side panel -> Tools -> Export/Import).

As for the domain name, you can transfer it to your new host at sign up. They will guide you on how to do it. The domain name only has to be older than 60 days for it to be transferable. Powweb includes one free domain name registration (or transfer) so they’ll do it for free and add a year to its registration.

P.S. If a domain name is less than 60 days old and you can’t transfer it to your new host, you just need to change the dns settings and point it to your new host. For example for Powweb you would just need to log in to your domain’s control panel and add ns1.powweb.com and ns2.powweb.com as your name servers. This way your old domain name would now be connected to your new host.

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