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Wordpress Tutorials

matt — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:07:43 +0000

Tripwire Magazine have released a series of Wordpress Tutorials which are a great resource for anyone starting out with wordpress. They are informative videos showing the user interface and narrated as they go through the functionality. Please note these tutorials are not produced or owned by netOxide LLP.

I’ve added a couple to this post but for all the tutorials please go and see the full article:
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tutorials/developer-toolbox/xxx-massive-wordpress-tutorial-collection.html

WordPress 2.7 – Overview

Really comprehensive overview giving a good introduction to Wordpress 2.7+.

How to write a Post

In this tutorial you will learn the basics of writing a post in Wordpress 2.7+.

How to write a Page

In this tutorial you will learn how to create and edit a page in Wordpress 2.7+.

Using the Media Library

Learn to use the Media Library in Wordpress 2.7+.

WordPress Add an Image

Learn how to add media files like images to a post in Wordpress 2.7+.

switch on PHP5 processing for .php files

matt — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:30:18 +0000

netOxide servers default to php4, to enable PHP5 as default, add the following to a .htaccess file and put it in the root of the php application.

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

netOxide or my.netOxide

matt — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:36:54 +0000

When you first register at netOxide.co.uk you receive a user name and password that gives you access to the customer control panel and allows you to order domains and web hosting, access your invoice history and check when services are due for renewal.

When you purchase web hosting for a domain, you access the website’s control panel by going to my.netoxide.co.uk and entering the domain name and password.

By default, the domain password is set to a highly secure password, and although the ability for you to change this password is available, it is recommended that you keep it unchanged.

However, this does mean you have a complicated password to remember, and if you host more than one site with us, it can soon get unmanageable. You can, however, in the customer control panel, view a list of all the sites you have hosted with netOxide. Clicking the name, takes you directly to the individual site and logs you into the site control panel.

Thus you can maintain security and still have a single point of login.

Installing Wordpress

matt — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:04:25 +0000

Enter an installation directory or leave it blank to install in the root of your web site. Click the Install Now button

Wait a bit, and that’s wordpress installed. Navigate to the worpress site by clicking on the provided url to enter your initial user details and configure worpress.

Or click the configuration details to see more information and liks to help for using wordpress.

Note: at no point did you have to mess about configuring databases, edit html / php / configuration files, just simple single click installtion… enjoy.

We also recommend installing the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin as this is the easiest means of keeping your wordpress site up-to-date and secure.

Getting started with site builder

matt — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:53:50 +0000

Site Builder allows you to design and build your site on-line with a simplistic and flexible wizard based site design tools. It allows you to select the style of your site, choose from various themes and color schemes and then edit and add content to your site online and instantaneously. It is a very basic site management tool, but there-in lies it’s benefit: it is simple to use.

Site Builder Introduction

Select the style of your site. When you first run site builder it will ask you for the style of your site, Business or Personal.

Choose the site theme. Select the site theme by browsing through the site previews and choosing your color scheme.

Enter some basic details for the site

Then you can start adding pages to the site, you can choose from a large variety of pages, About, welcome screens, CV / Resume, a Links page, Photo Album, etc.

And if the content style you wish to add is not already there you can always choose to add your own html.

For each of the page content types you are provided with easy wizard style pages where you enter and control the information you want to display. You can even easily upload and manage pictures where they are needed.

Adding links to others sites cannot be easier with full support for categories.

Then preview your page to see what it will be like, before “publishing” to make it publically available.

Notice at the top of the site, when in Site Builder mode, you have access to control the site settings, such as the theme and color scheme, page orders and adding new content.

How to upload / run SQL scripts on your database easily

matt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:04:53 +0000

Whether you are moving to netOxide for the first time and need to transfer yur existing MySQL databases or simply restoring a MySQL database to a previous version, the easiest way to load your .sql files into the database is as follows:

Log on to my.netOxide.co.uk
Select the MySQL icon under Web Tools
Under Manage MySQL Databases it says “To restore a database which you’ve previously backed up. click here.” Click where indicated to take you to the Restore Database screen.
Select the database to run the sql script on, select the SQL script from your local machine, then click restore.

The SQL script will be uploaded and run on the database server.

If it is a large script, and you see a Server Error 500, don’t worry, the script has taken longer to execute than the response time out on the web server. MySQL will happily keep processign the script in the background. In this case, click the Manage button against the database in the control panel, and this will launch PhpMyAdmin where you will be able to see the progress of tables and data being added.