Tag: blogging
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Next in my quest to move my website design to a more professional workflow is using version control more thoroughly. For me this means getting to grips with a little app that I’ve been avoiding for a few years – GIT! So what’s my goal…. Basically I want a local development server that links to…
Setting up Git with 1&1
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Preparing the new platform Create a new directory Create a new SFTP account Create a new mySQL DB and user Update wp-config.php Update DNS to point to the new folder Create a new directory Just one minor rant before I get started – 1&1 your cPanel replacement is rubbish!!! Anyway job number 1 is creating…
WordPress migration to a new host – Part 2
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I intend to do the move in three stages:- Export and download the current site – files and DB Prepare the new platform Upload and Import the content and DB Alter domain details to point to the correct nameservers Simple…I hope First up Satiricalblog.com – which on first look at the admin section reminds me…
WordPress migration to a new host – Part 1
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One of my biggest frustrations with WordPress has been the amount of times that, at seemingly random times, I would get a completely blank screen. Now a little research, and enabling debug messages, turned up that this was typically due to various plugins overloading the php memory limit. The mighty google thre up a few solutions,…
fixing the WordPress white screen of death
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So part of rekindling of my blogging love is the firm commitment to learn how to create my own themes. Partly this is due to the frustration at the current crop of themes not quite nailing it, and seemingly growing number that seem to charge for anything above the basics. This of course is a…
WordPress Theme creation
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What I’ve learnt from getting back into blogging has been how very different Word Press and Blogger are as platforms. Probably for all the right reasons – it just feels a lot more grown-up and serious. Anyway I digress (marginally) from the point of this post – which is there are so so many options around design/widgets/forms/formats/categories/tags…almost…
Contact forms… which is best