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WordPress Fundamentals for Newbies

Feb 10th, 2009

Lot of times I get messages in my inbox about simple WordPress questions like how to configure a certain plugin to work with a certain theme so that gave me an idea to write an article about WordPress fundamentals (for newbies). I made a quick sketch in Paint, of what I feel is a diagram of whole fundamental inner workings of a WordPress blog.Basically it means that WordPress consists of three elements: WordPress core, plugins and themes.

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Ultimate solution to weird UTF character encoding problem

Nov 26th, 2008

Due to different formats of storing characters in the database, sometimes you may encounter problem with strange characters (like â€”) appearing in your WordPress posts. This can especially happen when moving the site to a different server, a process during which your database needs to be exported and imported. There are several ready solutions to this problem like modifying the character set before and after the database restore as described in this article.

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How to move WordPress site to new server with zero downtime

Sep 28th, 2008

It often comes as a topic and I decided to write a quick tutorial on how to move your WordPress site from one host to another with zero downtime. I will assume you are familiar with basic operations like database backup and FTP. So in order to transfer WordPress to new server you need to follow these steps:Backup the database from the old site and import it to the new site. Pay attention to database names. Change your wp-config.php in the old site to point to the database on the new site.

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You Don’t Mess With Other Peoples Websites!

Sep 14th, 2008

The moment in Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction", when John Travolta says "You just don't mess with other peoples cars" implying what he would do to a guy who did, shows exactly how I felt this morning when I found out about new hacking attack on my site. Discovering the threat First clue was a comment from a reader saying that Chrome browser issues a security warning while viewing my site ( I also use Chrome I wonder why it didn't for me?).