Making a parent directory writable by the server

Here is how to change your folder permissions. Login to your ftp Make your wp-content folder 755 (In most FTP programs, this involves right-clicking -> “Permissions”). 755 is owner: read, write and execute permissions; group: read and execute permissions; others: read and execute permissions. Inside wp-content create a new folder called “uploads”, make it 755 … Read more

Editing Theme and Moving Servers

If you haven’t added a bunch of content and widgets on the local server, yes, it can be as easy as that. If you want to move everything – all your settings and content and such – you can follow these instructions: http://www.billerickson.net/how-to-move-your-wordpress-website/ G’luck!

How to change settings so I can upload images in WordPress posts?

Go to the admin panel and navigate to Settings>Media and see what it says in the Store uploads in this folder dialog box. You can try deleting whatever is in it and click save. WordPress will then try to use the default wp-content/uploads/images/2012… folders. If that doesn’t work I’d FTP to my server and check … Read more

WordPress switch servers

If you can access your sites database via phpMyAdmin, follow these steps to check that the links and images aren’t “hard-coded”: Navigate to your hosting account/phpMyAdmin Find the database and click on it to select it From the top toolbar click on Export In the export window select all tables by clicking the first one … Read more