Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Research and WebSite
Posted in WordPress Tips on Mar 30th, 2008
Last night I spent about half an hour upgrading four WordPress blogs using the new WordPress Automatic upgrade plugin.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
I tried it out first on my test blog [...]
Posted in Expression Web Tutorials, WordPress Tips on Mar 8th, 2008
This particular site use WordPress and is a Blog. I am not very knowledgeable where php is concerned so modifying the code to set up a blog is not easy for me. But I keep at it and hopefully get it done so the blog will continue to work and the code will validate. While [...]
Posted in WordPress Tips on Jan 19th, 2008
Once you have installed your wordpress blog and it is working as it should, it is time to think about what theme you will use. Remember, not all themes are created equal. For me, this was the hardest choice. I wanted the theme I chose to:
Validate out-of-the-box or, at the least, have very few errors [...]
Posted in WordPress Tips on Oct 17th, 2007
WordPress Database Backup lets you backup on-demand your WordPress database.
wp-db-backup takes advantage of the WordPress cron system which means it can setup your backups to occur at almost any frequency.
Download the latest version
Installation
Extract wp-db-backup.php, upload it into /wp-content/plugins/
and activate it under the Plugins menu.
How to Use
Step 1 - Click the Manage menu in [...]
Posted in WordPress Tips on Oct 15th, 2007
Recently, I upgraded my WordPress Blogs to the latest version 2.3. At the same time I thought it might be nice to add my signature to some of my posts. I was checking the list of plugins that work with WP version 2.3 and found Signature Plugin for WordPress by Dagon Design
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Posted in WordPress Tips on Oct 13th, 2007
This tutorial was originally written while upgrading from WordPress Version 2.1.3 to Version 2.2.1. It is included in Launching a WordPress Blog EBook written by Tina Clarke and Pat Geary. You may download the EBook from Genealogy Web Creations. I followed the detailed tutorial on Upgrading WordPress. The steps may vary slightly depending on what [...]
Posted in WordPress Tips on Aug 25th, 2007
Launching a WordPress Blog EBook by Tina Clarke Microsoft MVP - FrontPage and Pat Geary Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
New, Just Released and available for FREE download NOW
Learn to install and setup your own WordPress Blog with this easy to follow tutorial.
This Launching a WordPress Blog EBook is focused on giving a guideline for installing WordPress [...]
Posted in WordPress Tips on Aug 13th, 2007
I had never heard of referrer spam until I read this article on the Lorelle on WordPress Blog. It was written by Michael Hampton
Right around the time you realize that people you don’t know are actually reading your blog, you probably are going to start checking your stats to see where in the world they’re [...]
Posted in WordPress Tips on Jul 22nd, 2007
“Blogging for Business” was the title of one of the lessons in the SEO Training Class I was taking. “I can do this”, I thought. I downloaded the WordPress software and following Cricket’s tutorial for installing WordPress created Genealogy Tips & Tutorials in December 2005 as a subdomain of my Family Genealogy Site.
I upgraded the [...]
Posted in General Articles, WordPress Tips on Dec 16th, 2005
For the past year, I have been taking the free SEO Training Class offered by Cricket of GNC Web Creations. The SEO Training Class helps small business owners - as well as nonprofits and anyone else interested - learn the basics of search engine optimization to increase the visibility of their business/site in the search [...]
