Youtube Direct Guide

By techgist, April 14th, 2011 in How-To,Wordpress  |  2 Comments

YouTube Direct, you can now have your visitors upload videos from your website and moderate them from an administration dashboard. YouTube Direct consists of 2 components,

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How to Backup and Restore WordPress Database Manually

By techgist, October 15th, 2009 in How-To,Wordpress  |  3 Comments

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A successful blogger always cares about his database because it means great time to him. It is the most essential part of a blogger to run a periodical backup of the database. If you have not yet installed and activated the WordPress Database Backup Plug-in, we request you to read our other article Important things you must do after WordPress installation and install the back up plug-in. Even though the database backup plug-in is available it is always better to know how to manually backup and restore WordPress Database.

We provide here a quick guide to Backup and restore WordPress Database manually using phpMyAdmin.

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How to Change WordPress Admin Username

By techgist, October 15th, 2009 in How-To,Wordpress  |  1 Comments

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After the successful installation of WordPress, the most important thing you have to do is changing the temporary password created by WordPress but unfortunately you can not change the username. Hence, it is possible for a hacker who can easily use a brute force attack on the admin account and take control of your WordPress Admin Panel. So, we advice you to change the WordPress admin user name at the earliest in order to increase security.

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Important things you must do after WordPress Installation

By techgist, September 27th, 2009 in How-To,Wordpress  |  0 Comments

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Installing WordPress is not a big deal but once the installation is complete there are some important tasks that you must do to get most out of your blog.

Below is the list of check points like installing essential plug-in and choosing the right theme etc.

  • Change Admin Password
  • Activate your theme
  • Configure Permalinks
  • Activate Akismet
  • Add Categories & Rename Uncategorized
  • Database Backup
  • Track Blog Traffic
  • Test with Dummy Post
  • Google XML Sitemap
  • Submit your RSS Feed to Feed Burner

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Installing WordPress on your website

By techgist, September 20th, 2009 in How-To,Wordpress  |  0 Comments

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WordPress is the best blog publishing application and content management system. Further, WordPress is one of the trustworthy open source blog scripts freely available at present. Nowadays, most of the web hosts provide a one click installation of WordPress installation through Fantastico script. If the above feature is not available with your web host or if you wish to take more advantage of WordPress; install WordPress by yourself.

WordPress installation is easy and it will take less than 5 minutes time to install. Below is the step by step installation guide of WordPress.

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Elegant Themes – Premium WordPress Themes

By techgist, September 20th, 2009 in Reviews,Wordpress  |  0 Comments

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“Your website is not just a tool; it is an integral part of your identity”.

Everyone who lives in this modern world has to agree with the above words of Mr. Nich Roach of Elegantthemes. Yes, the business credentials are estimated today by analyzing the company’s website first. People trust the website which is professionally crafted and they are willing to transact through such website at once. Thus an elegant theme of a website plays a vital role in modern day business. This scenario in business increased the need for professionally designed website themes

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