In my last post I talked about how to start a self hosted Wordpress blog. One of the things involved in that was , how to install Wordpress on your Shared Hosting so that you can start posting on it. Today we will talk about that.I am assuming here that you have already bought a domain name and Shared hosting for your blog.
CREATE A DATABASE
The first requirement for installing Wordpress on your shared hosting server is to create a user name and a database to be used by wordpress.If you are on CPANEL (control panel of your webshosting) , Navigate to Databases >> My SQL databases. [Read the Full Article]
Many of you may have wondered how these Wordpress blogs are being setup and maintained? Is it too technical to set it up or is it too complicated for a novice guy to set it up and maintain. Today, i will talk about how to setup a self hosted wordpress blog/site and what stuff you need for doing this.
WHAT A SELF HOSTED WORDPRESS SITE/BLOG IS
The first thing many of you wonder what is a self hosted wordpress blog is? Basically its a blog/website hosted on a server (Shared hosting or dedicated) and you need to pay monthly or yearly fees for the hosting you use for your wordpress blog. The self hosting provides you the full control over the blog and its content.
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Its been a long time since i wrote anything here. Actually was a bit busy with so many stuffs. Anyway, today i will talk about something which is very important for running of any blog or website. How to keep track of your website stats or visitors coming to your site.
The importance of tracking your visitors and other website stats like traffic details, geographical stats, search engine traffic and much more helps you manage your blog in a efficient way helping you make it grow more and more. There are many trackers available which help you do this. These includes some plugins from wordpress and other developers and few other ones.
I will be talking about Statcounter here as i find it too good and provide wealth of information for free( yes no dime at all) and that too in real time. Here is what you read on its front page.
A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!
- Free, Fast, Responsive, Quick loading and Reliable Service. (Why is it free?)
- Invisible Tracking – no ads on your website.
- Accurate real-time website statistics with detailed visitor tracking and analysis.
The setup is too easy. Just like creating a new mail id. After you sign in with user name, you need to add your website/blog in it. Its simple. You will be offered a HTML code after you tell it whether you want a visible or invisible [Read the Full Article]
Wordpress 2.8 beta 1 is released to public testing. The new version had loads of improvements in user features, themes, plugins and other advanced features including many bug fixes. Some of the improvemnts that came with it includes improved datbase performance, a new theme search and installer feature.
For all the changes and new features, visit wordpress page here.
I downloaded this version and installed wordpress on my local system to test it. I logged in using the deault password generated during the install. The first thing i noticed , it asked me to change the default wordpress passord that was generated for secuirty reasons.
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When i first thought of starting my own blog i had two options of the platform on which the blog will run. First one was Blogger which is owned by google and other was the Wordpress. At that particular time i wasnt aware much of the know how about Blogs and its management.
I started both with Wordpress.com and Blogger for my first blog Avinashteh. I started with few posts both on wordpress and blogger. But then later on i found i cant have full control over my blog on Wordpress.com as its doesnt allow all features that a self owned (hosted on a paid server e.g. on shared hosting ) and hence i shifted to Blogger fully.
One of the reasons i shifted to blogger was that i was almost blank on how to use wordpress fully. Initially it was like, i wasnt even aware of whats difference between a wordpress.com & wordpress.org along with whats a paid hosting. I tried to find out how the diff options like plugins and themes worked but couldnt get full satisfaction on wordpress.
Then after few months on blogger which allowed me more control on my blog, i started to feel crippled by the options available on it compared to wordpress. Till then i had collected a good enough knowledge of wordpress and hence thought of shifting to wordpress platform.
I moved whole of my blogger blog to wordpress platform on a paid host. The story is more but i will stop this story here.
Now i will talk about how to install Wordpress locally on your system so that you can test your blog before making it available online without any errors.
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