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Creating a Word Press Blog
Home ; The Hosting Service ; Creating a MySQL Database ; Creating a MySQL User ; Assigning a User to the Database ; Installing Word Press ; Prepare Word Press for Your First Blog ; Upload Word Press for Your Blog ; Installing the Word Press Blog ; Installing and Activating a Different Theme ; Creating the First Post ; Prepare Word Press for Your Second Blog ; Word Press at the Root ; Changing Your WordPress Password ; Backing up Your WordPress Blog ; Backing up Your WordPress Database ; Dealing with SPAM ; Some WordPress Settings ; Captchas ; Blog Organization ; Exporting and Importing Blog Material ; Questions, and Some Answers ; What Determines What? ; Designing a Site ; Designing a Site 2 ; What to do About Spam ; Pingbacks ; Articles
In these pages I will take you, in detail, through the entire process of installing Word Press and creating TWO blogs.
Why two? Because there are steps you perform only once in your lifetime, and there are steps you perform each time you add a blog, and I’d like you to see the difference.
I assume that you are only a little web-savvy. I assume you have a registered domain (mine is www.ChrisGreaves.com ) and that you can download a copy of WordPress from http://wordpress.org/download/ . I assume you have a FTP program such as FileZilla and have made some limited use of it.
My biggest problem when first I came this way was in getting a grasp of all the user names and passwords; I thought “It’s a blog, isn’t THIS the password?”, and lost track of which was what. I use my own secure password generator, so I had strings like “6exwf9;$vsb” and “6e]{kcbpj” batting about inside my head; not easy to remember. For that reason I’m going to emphasize Safe Practices as we go along.
The entire work is divided into sections which provide a clean break between areas of computing and the work you do; after any section you can go to bed and start again the next day without losing your train of thought.
On the assumption that you are here because you have a good site dsiggn in mind, I have postponed the discussion of Designing a Site to much later; that is, I assume that your urget need is to learn the mechanics of Hosting a WordPress site.
If you are not used to working with pencil and paper, then you probably have NOT designed your site and you should do so now. Please scoot ahead and read and work through Designing a Site before you did yourself into a deep hole.
A Note on Email Addresses
Disposable email addresses are free. Google’s Gmail provides such addresses.
I strongly recommend that you obtain a NEW address for your blogs.
When you lose your password, which you will do, WordPress will invite you to click on a link, key in your email address, and will then generate a new password and email it to you.
You’ve seen this before, right?
Right.
Now consider this: any malicious reader who learns of your public email address could go to your login screen, type in your public email address, and cause WordPress to send you an email advising you that someone is trying to change your password. An annoying email, but it won’t change your password unless YOU click on the link.
If you can use a disposable and cryptic email address for all your online management tools, you reduce the risk of thieves trying to break in.
It’s a bit like having a steering-wheel lock in use in your car.
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