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
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
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