Migrating WordPress to a New Server
October 26, 2011 Moving to a new host? Check out this tutorial on how to migrate WordPress to a new server.
Daily Tip: How to Reset Your WordPress Password From the Database
April 26, 2011 From time to time you may encounter an unusual situation wherein you need to reset your WordPress password but you no longer (or never did) have access to the email address associated with your account. Perhaps you’ve “inherited” this website [...]
Speeding Up Your WordPress Website: 11 Ways to Improve Your Load Time
One of the questions that comes up fairly regularly in my weekly WPMU DEV chats is “how can I speed up my WordPress website?” It’s an important question, particularly for businesses who want to scale their website. Of course, the [...]
Daily Tip: How to Check if Your Server is Ready for WordPress 3.2 Requirements
WordPress 3.2 is coming soon and the WordPress team hopes to have a faster release cycle than 3.1. This release will include new minimum requirements that your server must meet in order for you to be eligible to upgrade your [...]
WordPress Query Overview: How a Page Request Is Translated To a MySQL Query
This article comes to you courtesy of Ozh, one of our favorites in the WordPress community. Read a little bit about him below and enjoy this excellent tutorial. Ozh has been using and hacking with WordPress since may 2004 on [...]
Daily Tip: The Lazy Man’s WordPress Server Diagnosis Tool
The Diagnosis plugin adds subpages to the Dashboard menu with technical details about PHP, MySQL and other server details an administrator might need. It includes an information page and phpinfo() page that make technical data very easy for the average [...]
Daily Tip: Are You Ready for WordPress 3.2 PHP and MySQL Requirements?
WordPress announced that it is ending support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4. WordPress 3.1, which is coming soon, will be the last major release to support PHP and MySQL 4. WordPress 3.2, slated for May 2011, will be the [...]
WordPress Maintenance 101: How to Optimize and Repair Database Tables
From time to time it is a good idea to do a little housekeeping with your WordPress installation, especially if you’ve been experimenting with and deleting plugins. MySQL databases don’t clean themselves. Optimizing your database is something akin to when [...]
Daily Tip: Bulk Edit of the Status Field for all Posts in WordPress Database
If you need to change the access and privacy of WordPress posts in one quick move, here’s how you can do it through the database. Open phpMyAdmin and run this query: UPDATE wp_posts SET post_status = 'STATUS' WHERE post_status != [...]
How to Backup and Import a Very Large WordPress MySQL Database
I recently had the experience of working with a very large (over 40MB) database for a WPMU + BuddyPress + bbPress site that was just plain too big to export and import with phpMyAdmin. All I wanted to do was [...]
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