Online Backup for WordPress Plugin For Best Blog Data Protection

By Dave on February 18, 2010

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If you are serious about finding the best method for protecting the data in your blog then you should consider the Online Backup for WordPress Plugin, which has just been released by Backup Technology.

This backup plugin for Wordpress is different than other plugins that have previoulsy been release to perform this function in that it has the facility to store your backup file, in encrypted format for better protection, on a remote server at Backup Technology.

This is off-site backup at it’s best as it is all about an online backup facility that you control from your Wordpress admin dashboard.

You can download the plugin for free and currently when you create an account with Backup Technology they will provide 50 MB of free space on their secure servers for your backup files and when your account runs out of space then the older backups will get deleted to make space for the newer backups.

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How To Use The Wordpress Image Editor To Change Images in 2.9

By Dave on February 10, 2010

Version Wordpress 2.9 now has a built-in image editor, which allows you to do stuff with your uploaded images and includes what you would expect from basic image editing fuctionality, including crop, edit, rotate and flip, as well as scale your images or photos to show them off in exactly the way you want. Not rocket science, but a needed addition!

Wordpress say that:

“This is the first wave of our many planned media handling improvements!”

This is great as this is one part of this blogging software that has needed some improvement for some time now.

Being able to manipulate images after loading them up into the media gallery, instead of before in other photo or image editing software, is a great bonus and should be a real time saver.

At Last Real Wordpress Image Editing!

This cool new functionality is going to be very useful! You can add images using the post / page editor or directly using the Media option in the menu options on the left of your Wordpress admin dashboard. Under Media you will find two more options:  Library and Add New.

The first will take you to the Wordpress media library for your site, where you will see all the images, photos and other media you have already loaded listed for you. Here you can pick an image to edit or work on. The second will allow you to add new images now to the library.

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How To Easily Add A Video In Wordpress 2.9 To Pages Or Posts

By Dave on January 18, 2010

At last adding videos to your blog got really easy in Wordpress 2.9 and about time too!

Now if you want to embed a video into your Wordpress 2.9 pages and blog posts on your website all you have to do is paste the URL of the video into the page or post using the visual editor.

Yes it’s that easy!!!

This is how you do it…

Want to add a video to Wordpress 2.9?  Then read on:

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Code For Automatic Copyright Year Change In Wordpress Theme Footer

By Dave on January 3, 2010

This time of year one task that some of us might have to do is to change the year on our Copyright notice in the footer of our Wordpress Theme. Some themes will already have this code installed, especially premium themes that you will have had to pay for.

But in many cases, when using a free theme or older Wordpress theme you may find that the code to do this is not included and  that you have to manually change the year yourself.

Don’t Do It Manually – Make It Automatic!

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eg: HOW TO CHANGE 2009 TO 2010 AUTOMATICALLY

It’s easy to do but if you have several blogs or Wordpress sites it’s a lot better if your code does the Copyright year change for you automatically.

Changing the year manually just requires using the Wordpress Theme editor in the admin dashboard to change the code by replacing the previous year value with the current year value.

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How To Make A Wordpress Page Your Home Page And Keep The Blog Posts

By Dave on December 30, 2009

By default when you first install Wordpress and add your chosen theme you will have a Home Page that displays your  most recent Blog Posts. This is dynamic and changes every time to display new posts as you add them.

You can control how many posts are shown by the changing the “Blog pages show at most” value in the Reading Settings in your Wordpress admin dashboard. In addition if you don’t want to show full posts you can add the More tag in each post from within the post editor (visual or html) to control how much of each post is displayed.

homepagelogoBut what if you don’t want posts displayed on your home page.

What do you do?

How To Change Your Home Page In Wordpress!

Well fortunately this is quite simple to change from Wordpress admin, but may not be obvious until you try it out for yourself. You have the facility to set a different page that you create as the home page for your Wordpress site or blog.

In addition you can also set another page, which you also create, as the Blog page of  your website, where all your blog posts will be displayed, just as they were originally on the home page.

So let’s get to it!

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Wordpress 2.9 Released Image Editor Trash Can Easy Video Embeds Batch Plugins

By Dave on December 20, 2009

wordpress29WordPress 2.9 is here!

Wordpress has been updated again!

As soon as you think you have the latest version along comes another one. And it’s not just a bug fix this time as it has some major new features, in fact some that have been a long time coming…

WordPress version 2.9 “Carmen” was released earlier today and is named in honor of amazing jazz vocalist Carmen McRae.

As is now common practice with new Wordpress releases you can now upgrade easily right from within your Wordpress Admin Dashboard just by going to Tools and then click on Upgrade. And of course you can still do the upgrade the “old-fashioned” manual way by downloading Wordpress 2.9 from the WordPress.org website.

As the version number suggests (2.9) this is a major release of Wordpress and because of this the guys at wordpress.org have created a VIDEO featuring the new stuff so you can see what the new version does without actually having to read all about it!

Watch the Video…
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How To Change Name Servers (DNS) for GoDaddy Domain Names

By Dave on November 25, 2009

Want To Change Your Nameservers?

It’s easier than you think and this setp-by-step shows you exactly how to change domain name servers at Godaddy!

Now you have nothing to fear about DNS nameservers and getting your domain pointed to the right web host account.

One of the main things that tends to scare off newcomers to domain name purchasing and setting up a new website at a web host you have chosen, is that fact that after buying a domain name and setting up an account for the domain at the web host you then have to change the name servers for the domain so it can be found on the internet by web surfer like you and me!

Although it sounds technical, because who has heard of name servers before buying a domain name, changing your name server is actually very easy to do.

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