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WordPress Hosting Requirements

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In another piece we published today, we pointed you at a web host where you can get honest-to-goodness free WordPress Hosting. And while we’re completely comfortable recommending x10Hosting, there will be …

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WordPress Data Portability

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At The WordPress Helpers we focus mostly on self-hosted, download-WordPress-and-run-through-the-five-minute-install version of WordPress. But there are other choices; a growing number of “managed hosting” companies will do the heavy lifting …

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WordPress htaccess … DOH! … .htaccess

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WordPress is simultaneously the simplest and easiest you-are-in-complete-control website tool, and one of the most frustrating. Case in point: WordPress htaccess. OK, hang on: to start with, there’s no “WordPress …

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Automatic WordPress Site Creation

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Last week, we ran a story about how the WordPress Database works. Specifically, we were talking about something that doesn’t work; the WordPress Database doesn’t ever get created automatically. At least, not …

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Sourcing WordPress Confusion

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The other day, I got what felt like a ringing endorsement of the ideas we had when we decided to start The WordPress Helpers. I’d come across a story twice that day, …

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Changing The WordPress Footer

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At the bottom of many web sites, you’ll find something called, common-sensically enough “the footer”. WordPress treats the footer as a special element, and while you can do many things …

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The WordPress Database

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Ever wonder how WordPress “works”? Of course you have, but can you break it down? The image you see here does that pretty well, but … maybe like so many others …

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WordPress Community Commentary

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Of all the things that go into successful use of WordPress, the one that matters most isn’t technical. It isn’t social, per se. It isn’t even about how your WordPress web …

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WordPress Hosting Choices

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Hosting. It’s one of the least interesting topics there is. But get your hosting wrong and you’re asking for trouble. Let’s talk about WordPress Hosting Choices. First, back up. “WordPress …