Move WordPress database to a new domain name or directory for free

by Clifford Paulick August 3^rd, 2012 3 Responses

If looking for a more thorough walk-through of moving files and databases from server to server, visit Migrating WordPress to a New Server.
In case you’re interested, you can also move between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
Several years ago, I did a WordPress install at domain.com/blog and had a static homepage (i.e. not served up by WordPress). I’m not going to tell you that you should or shouldn’t do that. I’m going to tell you how to go from one to the other. For me, I moved WordPress from /blog to /.

But I was concerned about the database and my URLs. 2 key points:

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Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Menus

by Paul Kaiser August 3^rd, 2012 5 Responses

WordPress offers an excellent way to manage your site’s menus, but it may not be apparent when you first install your site. In fact, a fresh installation doesn’t use the easy menu system at all–you have to hook that up yourself. Follow along as I show you the menu system basics and how to start using it on your new site.
Watch and learn

Working with the original WordPress menus

Beginner's Guide to WordPress Menus-Two men confused while reading French menu

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How to add Navigation Menus to your WordPress Theme

by Paul Kaiser August 1^st, 2012 3 Responses

WordPress menus for everyone
Global navigation menus became much easier to manage when WordPress version 3 added a snazzy menu manager–no plugin or JavaScript required. Every now and then, you may want to use an oldie-but-goodie theme that has not been updated to support WordPress menus. I’ll show you how to easily add menu support to these older themes.
Some old themes still have punch

WordPress Menus-Title photo of coffee shop menu

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How to Get Perfect Blog Images Every Time with Auto Scale and Crop for WordPress

by Craig Grella August 1^st, 2012 5 Responses

Placing images in your posts has several benefits. For one, posts with images are easier to read – photos break up long blocks of text and give context to the story being told. Images also have search engine mojo; and when labeled correctly they can be an important part of how potential visitors find your article and your site.

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3 WordPress Animation Tricks with animate.css

by Paul Kaiser July 31^st, 2012 18 Responses

Have you ever wanted WordPress animations to spice up your website with some subtle effects? The freely-available animate.css toolset can help you make it happen in most decent browsers–and won’t break things for older browsers, either. Check out the general animate.css demo, and then learn how to use it to add some hop, skip, and jump to WordPress!
Essential first step for WordPress animate.css
I’ll show you different ways to animate your web content. No matter which ways you use, the first step is the same: include the “animate.css” file in your site’s “head” area.
Download the animate.css files and unzip

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Everything You Ever Needed to Know About WordPress Settings

by Craig Grella July 31^st, 2012 3 Responses

The settings panel is one of the most overlooked sections of a WordPress installation, and for good reason – WordPress works so well out of the box that you don’t need too much customization to get up and running quickly with your new site. But, with just a few simple tweaks to your WordPress settings panel, you can enhance your site’s look, make it easier for viewers to leave comments, and even enhance your site’s search engine optimization.

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WordPress for Mac: How to Install Locally with MAMP [Tutorial]

by Tom Ewer July 31^st, 2012 15 Responses

Any WordPress developer should have a local version of WordPress installed on their PC or Mac. Even if you are only a bit of a tinkerer, an offline environment is a much better place to do your work.

Why? Many reasons, including:

It’s great for testing
You can have as many installations as you like
It is a lot faster
You can experiment with design/functionality changes at no risk
There is no danger of the site being inadvertently indexed by Google

WordPress for Mac: How to Install Locally with MAMP [Tutorial]

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How to Add a Delete Button to the WordPress Admin Bar

by Joe Foley July 28^th, 2012 Leave a comment

I came across this nice little piece of code recently at wpengineer.com. It adds a Delete button to your WordPress Admin Bar when you’re on a single post page. This lets you easily delete a post from your front end – very handy for some sites that end up doing a lot of deleting for one reason or another.

To use this, enter the following code into your functions.php file. (Appearance > Edit > Theme Functions – functions.php)
function fb_add_admin_bar_trash_menu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
if ( !is_super_admin() || !is_admin_bar_showing() )
return;
$current_object = get_queried_object();
if ( empty($current_object) )
return;
if ( !empty( $current_object->post_type ) &&

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8 Simple WordPress Security Measures For The Beginning User

by James Dunn July 27^th, 2012 2 Responses

No matter how new or experienced you are with WordPress, it’s never too early or too late to get serious about WordPress security. Not taking care of WordPress security is like having a lock on something and leaving the key in the lock. Today we’ll discuss ten things that everyone – even new users – can do to increase WordPress security on their websites. While this is not everything that can be done to secure a WordPress website, all of this can be done by the newest user.

Things To Do When You Install

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How to Find Your WordPress Database Name

by Joe Foley July 26^th, 2012 2 Responses

If you’ve ever had the need to find the name of your WordPress database, then there’s an easy way to do that – simply look for it in your wp-config.php file located in the root folder of your WordPress install.
Accessing Your WP-Config.php File
If you are doing something where you need the name of your database, then I’m assuming you have access to your server.

Simply go to the main folder of your WordPress install and locate the file called wp-config.php.

Open that file by clicking “View” or “Edit” or however your system lets you see the file.