755, 666, 777, What does it all mean? I don’t know what it is about this subject but many people are completely baffled by unix permissions, like 777, 666 and 755 particularly if one is used to using a PC or Mac but don’t have any unix or linux background. So why is it important for us? Well the vast majority of web servers run on Linux boxes. These servers assign a specific set of permissions [...]

Posts in the Supplemental Index This evening I was having a quick look at Google and page rankings. I noticed that man of the pages were not being displayed in Google, yet were first page items in Bing and Yahoo. I haven’t built any links so that’s part of the problem but then I checked the Supplemental Index Tool over here and found that 39% of my web pages were in the supplemental index. Huh? [...]

So you’ve finished working on your local wordpress install and want to upload it to your domain. It’s quite simple but you do need to make a couple of changes in the database once the website has been moved. Steps below: Take a backup of your database using phpmyadmin (save as a .sql.gz) Create a MYSQL5 database and user on your host (note the connection settings) Go into phpmyadmin Open the table wp_options for editing [...]

People are often scared of this but there is no need to be. Below I will show you just how easy it is. These are the basic steps that we will follow: Download Akeeba Quickstart Upload Akeeba Kickstart to your hosting package Download the latest WordPress installation from WordPress.org Upload the zip file to your hosting package (in the same folder as Kickstart) Create a database for your website on your hosting package Run Akeeba Quickstart [...]