I always thought that Fantastico essentially just; Placed a copy of WordPress on your server (not always the latest version, as you say, this is a local copy limited by the update frequency of Fantastico) Set-up a database (and user) automatically Configured wp-config.php accordingly Then you’d just continue to use WordPress for maintenance as you … Read more
I would now like to know if it is easily possible to update wordpress when I only have FTP-access and phpMyAdmin. WordPress has automatic update feature, that will do its best to perform update without you having to upload new version manually. It is not perfect, but it is quite robust and works on most … Read more
If I am correctly understanding your setup, you are using wordpress hosting now, but want to make your domain be a self-hosted copy of your blog 1) Export all your current blog entries/layouts/etc. 2) Change new domain not to forward to the existing blog. 3) Set up wordpress on your new domain 4) Import all … Read more
Backups: Sounds like you need two types. 1. Versioning (eg use Git or SVN) and 2. Failsafe backup – some good plugins for this, or use a cron job to backup the WP files and database Sounds like there’s two needs here as well. 1. An environment to easily scale WP and 2. A host … Read more
If you are not moving to a different domain name, the file path shouldn’t really matter. Try these first: Made a copy of your original backup bd Open the new copy and search/replace example.com/ to example.com/blog/ This should get you going no matter what server setup you have. If it doesn’t, and you already have … Read more
What you are looking for is called “CDN” or “Content Delivery Network”. Here is a WIKI! definition if you are not familiar. There are plenty of good tutorials out there that will show you how to carry this out using WordPress. Here is one you can have a look at. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wordpress-cdn-content-delivery-network-configuration.html
Short answer: No, WordPress doesn’t care about pastebin in particular and doesn’t do any sort of filtering like you’re describing. Long answer: Your host is doing it. Step 1: Ask your host if they have mod_security enabled and what their filtering rules are. Step 2: Try pasting the same link via a comment or something. … Read more
You can follow the WordPress docs and leave WordPress in a directory but have it appear to be in root. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install This will correctly change the location in the database. This might be the best way to go if the host requires WordPress to be in a subfolder for some reason. Or, you can … Read more
Here is my solution. First download this file. Then follow these steps. In shortly Backup/download your database. Upload it to your new site. Copy all wordpress folder including wp-admin,wp-content etc from your old site to new one. Edit the downloaded php file, change the password. you need to change the password in this line. define(‘DDWPDC_PASSWORD’, … Read more
I highly recommend Amazon AWS. You can continue to use WP Super Cache with Amazon S3 (for storage of your static files such as images etc). For high traffic scenarios, you can set up auto scaling rules of EC2 server instances to set up new servers as needed (and cut them when not needed). This … Read more