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One of the most common questions that I get asked by clients is how to upload a new WordPress theme, so I’ve put together a video which demonstrates the entire process. There are 2 things required to follow along with the video. 1) An ftp application for transferring the files of the new theme up to your blog. There are many many ftp applications. My favorite, which I demonstrate in the video is FireFTP. This is a plugin for the popular FireFox browser, which I highly recommend. Download FireFox browser (if you don’t already have it) Then get the FireFtp plugin here. I’ll show you how to install it in the video. Alternatives: FileZilla (free) Smart FTP (free for personal use) Cyber Duck (for MAC users) 2) The new theme that you’d like to install. The best place to start looking for new themes is the WordPress theme repository. The rest of the information you’ll need is covered in the video, including a bonus section on copying any code changes that you may have done in your old theme over to the new one. Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Blip.tv video. That’s it. Now you should have no problem uploading a new WordPress theme. There are varied remedies for sundry diseases. Several remedies are antifungal medicines. In certain instances pharmacies offer to theirs customers Viagra. If you’re concerned about erectile problem, you have to study about “cialis daily” and “daily cialis“. Probably you already know something about the question. Maybe “cialis for daily use cost” is an extremely complicated matter. Matters, like “undefined”, are linked many types of medical problems. A scientific research found that about 14 percent of patients taking Bupropion had sexual disfunction. Finally ordering remedies from the Web can save money, but keep these tips in...

In this video I cover how to make some very basic changes to your WordPress theme. In the first section I open up the stylesheet and change a couple formatting colors. And in the second section I open up the single.php file and show you how to add simple snippets of code that you would like to show up at the bottom of each post. Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Blip.tv video. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. There are varied remedies for sundry diseases. Several remedies are antifungal medicines. In definite instances pharmacies offer to theirs customers Viagra. If you’re concerned about erectile problem, you have to study about “cialis daily” and “daily cialis“. Probably you already know something about the question. Maybe “cialis for daily use cost” is an extremely complicated matter. Matters, like “undefined”, are linked many types of medical problems. A scientific research found that about 14 percent of patients taking Bupropion had sexual disfunction. Finally ordering remedies from the Web can save money, but keep these tips in...

EDIT: SINCE WORDPRESS IS NOW WELL BEYOND VERSION 2.3, THIS POST IS NO LONGER RELEVANT AND I HAVE CLOSED COMMENTS ON IT. YOU SHOULD BE UPDATING TO THE NEWEST VERSION USING THE BUILT-IN UPDATER IN YOUR DASHBOARD. This is a step by step guide to upgrading to WordPress 2.3. This guide only takes into consideration plugins installed by Ninja Blog Setup. If you have others then you may need to upgrade or disable them if you encounter any errors. The only plugin that causes any problems when upgrading is the Add Meta Tags plugin. The plugin has been updated now, so you can just grab the latest version and install it. As of writing this post there wasn’t a update to the plugin, but it is a very useful plugin so I have provided a file that has a patch which makes it compatible with WordPress 2.3. Download the patched plugin, by right clicking here and saving to your desktop. Unzip the file and then using an ftp program, upload the add-meta-tags.php file up to the /plugins/ folder and overwrite the one that is already on your site. Upgrade the Google (XML) Sitemaps plugin by de-activating the current version, and deleting it and then installing the latest version from here. The new version is needed for WordPress 2.3. NOTE: pressing the “Update” button from the plugin page is not getting the latest version, you MUST do it manually as I described above. Deactivate the Simple Tagging & Sitemap Tags plugins as they are no longer required for WordPress 2.3 and will cause errors if kept active. You will be able to import your tags, so they won’t be lost. Backup your entire system by going to Manage / Backup and select all the tables and perform a backup. Run Instant Upgrade to upgrade WordPress to the latest version by going to Manage / Instant Upgrade. If the upgrade needs completion manually just follow the links. Use this plugin (Simple Tagging Import) to import your “Simple Tagging” tags into the new WordPress tagging system. Download and install the plugin and then follow the instructions on the documentation. Go back to your WordPress backup page to include all the tables on your weekly or daily backups. This is necessary since there are new tables from the old version and you want them all to be backed up. Add code to your template to display the new WordPress tags. Do this by going to Presentation / Theme Editor. Open the Single Post file from the right hand menu. And then add the following line: Tags <?php the_tags(' ', ' ', ' ');...

This is intended to present an overview of what you’ll need to know when signing up for a WordPress hosting account. The first thing we need to clarify is that this article covers the full WordPress blog software that can be downloaded at WordPress.org, which requires you to purchase your own domain name and blog hosting package, not the free blogs that you sign up for at WordPress.com. The full version of hosted WordPress is just so much more powerful than a free WordPress.com or Blogger.com account. The power and control that is provided by all the third party plugins and custom WordPress themes allows you to present a much more professional online image. Types of Blog Hosts In reality almost any hosting account can be used as a WordPress web host. There are really only two requirements: The ability to run php scripts The ability host a MySql server database Any hosting environment which offers these two features can be used for hosting WordPress. Other WordPress Hosting Considerations From there the options can get somewhat complicated for the beginner. Here are some common terms and how they relate to WordPress hosting: Mail Host – Almost all hosting accounts offer some type of mail hosting. Some will limit the number of email accounts that can be set up under basic hosting plans, so make sure if you are setting up a business blog, that you have email accounts available for all the employees in your company. Cpanel – Cpanel is a Linux web hosting account management tool that can be used to easily add domain names to your account, check for errors on your server and monitor disk space and bandwidth usage. I recommend finding a blog hosting software package that includes Cpanel. Fantastico Web Hosting – Fantastico is a great application that comes with most Cpanel installations and makes installing third party software, like WordPress or other blog hosting software, a snap. The full range of applications available with Fantastico is impressive: email autoresponders, help desk solutions, forums and content management systems like Drupal, including Drupal themes packages. Most people, would consider Fantastico a WordPress hosting essential feature. Web Hosting Reseller Account – If you intend on creating many blogs or would like to share, or even sell hosting with one or more friends, then you may want to consider a reseller hosting account. This special type of hosting account allows you to divide your account and provide separate access to other people. WordPress Hosting Advanced Features Some other terms that you may see when looking at WordPress hosting options are things like: Dual Processor Server – this...

EDIT: THIS POST IS NO LONGER RELEVANT DUE TO THE BUILT-IN UPGRADE FEATURE OF WORDPRESS. COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. This is a video about how to upgrade WordPress using the Instant Upgrade plugin. In order to follow along you will need to have this plugin installed (it comes standard with any Ninja Blog Setup WordPress Installations). [Note: if you don’t have the plugin installed, you can visit the Instant Upgrade project page to retrieve the latest version.] WARNING: before doing any type of changes to your site, you should always perform a backup. The WordPress backup plugin also comes standard with all Ninja Installations, but if you don’t have it, then download and install the WordPress Database Backup plugin before you begin your upgrade. Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Blip.tv video. Quite often the latest versions of WordPress are security updates and they should be performed as soon as possible. Feed readers can view the video here. There are varied remedies for sundry diseases. Several remedies are antifungal medicines. In definite instances pharmacies offer to their customers Viagra. If you’re concerned about erectile problem, you have to study about “cialis daily” and “daily cialis“. Probably you already know something about the matter. Maybe “cialis for daily use cost” is an extremely complicated question. Matters, like “undefined”, are linked many types of medical problems. A scientific research found that about 14 percent of patients capture Bupropion had sexual dysfunction. Finally ordering remedies from the Web can save money, but keep these tips in...