How to move a WordPress blog from one host to another

August 28, 2009

This post is about moving a self-hosted WordPress blog from one web host to another. If you're wanting to move from WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress, that's a very much easier process, which will be covered in the next post. Image by Nion My worst every serve move was for a friend who phoned me at 3.30pm to say that her hosting company were being shut down at 5pm: "can you help?!" As... Read more

How to reset your WordPress password when you can't get in to admin

August 17, 2009

Changing your WordPress password is easy enough if you can actually sign in to WP - just go to Users > My Profile, scroll to the bottom and input the new pw twice: job done. But if you can't get into WordPress in the first place, things get a little more complicated. What you're supposed to do is go through the password reset routine: from your WP login screen... Read more

What's the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?

April 16, 2009

Talk about frequently asked questions: four people have asked me this one this week already! But there must be plenty of others who, like me when I first approached WP, don't even realise there is a difference, or that there are two different flavours of WordPress to deal with. The least you need to know WordPress.com is a free, hosted blog system (similar to Blogger). Your blog lives on... Read more