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05.15.14
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How to install wordpress manually without fantastico


About the WordPress

WordPress is the very popular software which is used to manage the content and growing very fast all over the world. It is related with blogs and thus it allows its users to gain blog experience, as this is the main function of the WordPress. Basically it is used as a blogging tool but its developers all over the world increases its functions, created very typical and complicated websites and make it grew as a system used to manage the content. WordPress is easy to use because it has a very friendly interface. It contains various numbers of plugins for different purposes which allow its functions to be extended in different ways.

It is very easy and convenient to install the WordPress manually without fantastico in your hosting server…for this you have to follow few instructions one by one and you will see that your task is over within few minutes, which you have not think earlier..So have a look.

To install WordPress manually without fantastico in your hosting server, first of all you will need to open the link http://wordpress.org. In the right end corner of the home page ,”Download WordPress” button is available which you need to click to download the latest stable release and then click on the “Download WordPress” button to choose your download version ,which you can see on the top right corner of the home page. After pressing the button, you will see that a dialog box is displayed where you need to save the file to where it was downloaded and for this select the “Save file” option and click on “OK” button. In the next step, you are required to extract the file, thus open the WordPress folder given on the screen and in the next window you will upload the entire WordPress folder to your server using an FTP Manager like filezilla. Now once the WordPress folder or its all files have been uploaded, then you go to your website in your web browser. In the next window, click “Create a configuration file” button to create a configuration file and next click on “Let’s go!” button, available on the next window to continue the process. Now in the next window, you are required to enter your database connection details, so start with your username, enter my SQL Username in the “Username” box, enter my SQL password in the “Password” box and then click on “Submit” button to submit the database details. In the next step you will run the install and for this click on “Run the install” button to run the install and then enter the title for your blog in the “Site Title” box, password in the “Password twice” box if you don’t want a password generated for you and your e-mail address in the “Your E-mail” box and last click on “Install WordPress” button to complete the process. Now you will see the window which shows WordPress has been installed and then you click on “Log In” button. Next you will enter your username in the “Username” box, password in the “Password” box and if you want your password to remember by the blog or site so that it will automatically allow you to log in, select the checkbox” Remember Me” and then click on “Log In” button to end up this process of WordPress installation manually in your hosting server. In the last window which will display on your screen shows you your admin panel where you can manage your blog or website and its settings.

This is the end of the article and after going through this I am sure that you will understand or learn that how to install WordPress manually without fantastico in your hosting server by simply following the step by step instructions.

05.15.14
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Top Level Domains using WordPress


What is WordPress?

“WordPress” is a good option if we are looking for a free website provider for our new website. It is a system which is basically designed to manage the content and used all over the world. In fact, it is very popular on the web. If you’re hosting plan which offers the required disk space and bandwidth capacity then it can host a network of blogs and with one admin account all the blogs can be administrated. Thus, we can say it is the best option to run number of web sites on the same hosting account.

There are so many web users who are stay connected with their friends or family members by regularly updating their status through Facebook, Twitter, and Orkut. However, there are some limitations in using these social media channels. In order to use them properly, way of blogging is still the best choice. There are so many blogging platforms, and among them WordPress is definitely one of the most popular. There are two types of WordPress platforms: WordPress[dot]com and WordPress[dot]org.

What are the top level domains which are using WordPress?

Now as we here talking about the top level domains which are using WordPress, thus few domain names are as follow:.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .mobi, .asia, .tel, .in, .co.in, .net.in, .org.in, .firm.in, .gen.in, .ind.in, .co, .com.co, .net.co.

Other than above, there are some domains also available which are using WordPress but mostly the above domains are used.

The bloggers now having a choice to use .co domain when they are planning to obtain a custom made or modified name for their website, but this facility is available with only those bloggers who are using the hosted WordPress[dot]com service. Thus far, we have seen that the users who are planning to obtain WordPress[dot]com-branded domain then they are obtaining it by using their personalized URL i.e. (Uniform resource locator ) in which they have several options like COM, .ME, .NET or a .ORG. and they can choose from among these.

To give the popularity to the domain names all over the world, Internet SAS, a venture formed in which Twitter is their default Uniform resource locator and it contain so many likes also and thus domain names become famous all over the world. Thus this venture formation introduces the first and top domain for WordPress. This represents the first new top-level domain for WordPress users. With this beginning, from 2010 to till date well over around millions of .CO domain names have been registered at the international level i.e. globally, a figure that could be set to leap considerably given WordPress is now on the scene.

How WordPress users can register for a .CO domain name?

The users which are using WordPress can register for a .CO domain name by following the following steps: First go to your dashboard then move to Store option and then move to Domains (Store >Domains in their dashboard).In the next step under the tab ‘Add a Domain’, enter the desired domain. After this the setting-up process is given which you have to follow for proper setup.

But the situation is different for new users as they will be asked to complete their details at the time of signing up for a WordPress account, and they are also required to enter the desired top level domain in the Blog Address field.

What happens when you are planning on running a WordPress Multisite with top-level domains and/or sub domains?

In that case, you are not required to use the domain mapping plug-in because WordPress allows you to change the domain from a sub-domain to a top level domain once you have added the site but here the most important thing is to set the COOKIE_DOMAIN to an empty string in your wp-config.php: otherwise WordPress will always set it to your network’s $current_site->domain and it will not allow you to login into any of the other sites.

05.15.14
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WordPress – Customized alternative better for bloggers


Why Users are looking for alternative to WordPress?

People are using WordPress to create their own web sites and their own WordPress blogs from last several years and in the past they are very happy with its performance but now the time has changed they are not very much satisfied with it as earlier they were, because now they are disappointed as they are getting the news that it is not adequate and bloggers are always required to update their system which is a time consuming task.

WordPress is extremely susceptible or we can say that it is physically or psychologically week as it is susceptible to cyber attacks. The people who have created websites and blogs with the help of WordPress can become the victim of hackers who can hack their sites any time. There is another limitation of WordPress that is, bloggers and webmasters need to constantly keep updating their sites. They are also required to use a variety of tools to keep the design of their websites up-to-date and in this process they are spending huge money.

There is another issue which is facing by WordPress users that it leads to issues with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of the site. Here bloggers can face a lot of web traffic if there is any issue with SEO of the site. Thus, without hassle we can say that bloggers look for alternatives to WordPress these days.

What is the alternative available which users prefer to WordPress?

But now these users are happy because there is an alternative available to WordPress which has been developed by The Agora Group. This can be said that this is another system which is used to manage the content like WordPress, has been created by Agora publishing.com which also provide better frond end and back end service and it is very user friendly also.

Agora publishing has a website i.e. AgoraCosmopolitan.com which is designed for non-for-profit outlet and it worked and removed one limitation of WordPress which most of its users have to face while using it i.e. bloggers are always required to update their system which is a time consuming task. The AgoraPublishing.com group offers a reliable alternative to WordPress and this alternative is liked by many of the bloggers.

On the basis of the need of the people and millions of users, AgoraPublishing.com provides an alternative to WordPress-system designed to manage the content and their system has been designed in such a way that it meets the needs of online newspapers and other websites or blogs. And now the same system has been offered by the Agora group to bloggers, online newspaper owners and webmasters who are looking for an alternative to WordPress.

05.15.14
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Setting WordPress for Better Results


‘Setting’ is the Control center of the WordPress self hosted site is given in the sidebar menu inside the Dashboard. You can control everything about website using it.

Setting -> General

You can control site title and tagline. With tagline, you can use top keyword on your home which you would like to be found in search. It tells the visitors about the relevance, how your site is going to help them.

With Timezone, you can set where you are currently located. Just type the region where you are located like Asia. Then search and click on the the city in your country.

Setting -> Writing

Size of the post box

If you are using the bigger screen, you can change it to 50 or 60 lines, as per your requirement.

Formatting – Uncheck this box which says “Convert emoticons like 🙂 and 😛 to graphics on display” to disable it. When enabled it converts the emotions like 🙂 into graphics.

Check the box which says “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically”

Update Services – the services which we want to automatically update, when we put new content. This way you are pushing your content more faster and let more people to see it. Fill this with full list:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://rpc.twingly.com

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://www.feedsubmitter.com

http://blo.gs/ping.php

http://www.pingerati.net

http://www.pingmyblog.com

http://geourl.org/ping

http://ipings.com

http://www.weblogalot.com/ping

Setting – Reading

For each article in a feed, show – Change it to summary.

05.15.14
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WordPress integration for communities like drop box


What is come with WordPress integration for communities that use WordPress?

Tapatalk 2 now comes with WordPress integration for communities that use WordPress as their primary or main systems for blogs and articles.

Tapatak 2 was discovered last January and around 50,000 communities present on the web presents their forums and discussions and its first edition, has just received its first major update which brings very important new features and several improvements which are notable. But one thing is to notice that in order to used these new features for the community, first of all official tapatalk 2 should be install from WordPress.org

Another important new feature in the new version of Tapatalk 2 is integration of DropBox.

Several months ago, DropBox introduced a new API which is basically designed for easy syncing of files across various applications and devices. The first application which takes advantage of the new API suite is none other than the DropBox-acquired Mailbox.

And now we are talking about Tapatalk 2, which allows you to upload photographs on forums and discussions from your DropBox.

The newly updated Tapatalk 2 also includes the following improvements:

Searching of items can be done easily: Users can now search for the required topics by filter them category wise and sub category wise (i.e. a sub-forum) or search for specific post in a thread by writing the topics in search bar which will be display in the topic listing or discussion view.

Supporting GIF Animation: Tapatalk 2 has another enhancement in which it support and display GIF animation

Page change: You can now change pages in a long discussion by moving left and right quickly.

Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements: Its new version is available as a free update in the application which is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 6.0 or later.

DropBox-

It is very important to access important files in just one go for those people who work on multiple computers and devices. DropBox allows us to store and share our files in an easy way and that is why it is known as the fastest-growing free services on the web. DropBox service-related plugins for WordPress are popping up everywhere and that is why the services of the DropBox play an important part of its user’s workflow. There are few creative ways by which we can integrate the WordPress site with our DropBox account. There are 9 DropBox plugins which can be used for WordPress.

What are the features of DropBox?

We can get all the stuff from our computers, phones, or tablets by putting all the stuff in DropBox. With this we can also edit documents, automatically add photos, and show off videos from anywhere.

DropBox states that you should work with your team but in that case privacy matters so it is necessary that you should control who sees what and after this you can share photos with friends and other members.

All the stuff is safe in DropBox or it can be restored in a snap and all the files with AES-256 bit encryption will be saved in a DropBox.

DropBox is very useful for business because millions of people use this at their work place. Thus they get the power and security of DropBox, robust admin controls, good support, and the required space.

05.15.14
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Importance of user Profiles


Admin user is by default created with the ‘WordPress’ installation. You can have as many users and each of them may have their own profile. The profiles can be attached to the posts, pages and comments on the website. These profiles are publicly available, to allow you to share information. You can edit the information given in the profile anytime and changes are immediately being reflected where your profile is being displayed. From the admin panel, profile can be created and edited by clicking on the “your profile” option. Profile is categorized as: ‘Personal options’, ‘Name’, ‘contact info’ and ‘About yourself’. In your profile you can enter your name, email-address, website name, AIM, yahoo or jabber id, name to be displayed publicly on posts and pages for which it provides you the list box from which you can choose. You can’t change the user name, if you have created the admin user and want to get rid of that, create another user with admin rights, login with that new user and delete the admin user.

CPWebHosting recommends that each user must create 2 more social profiles also:

Google+ profile at plus.google.com

It allows you to link your content with your google+ profile. If you already have a gmail id, open the site:

http://plus.google.com

login with your gmail id and password.

Open your Google+ profile by following this link:

http://plus.google.com/me

Copy your Profile-URL from the address bar to clipboard

Go to your WordPress Admin Panel and click Users » Your Profile. Paste the above mentioned URL to the field where it says „Google Plus Author Link“.

Click Update Profile.

Add a reciprocal link back from your profile to the site you just updated

Follow this link to edit the Contributor To section: http://plus.google.com/me/about/edit/co

In the dialog that appears, click Add custom link, and then enter your website URL.

If you want, click the drop-down list to specify who can see the link.

Click Save.

Gravatar User Profile at Gravatar.com

Gravatar stands for ‘Globally recognized avatar’. It allows you to display your image across the web. Click on the signup button on the site and enter the email address you want to use. Gravatar will send a email for confirmation, click on the activate link there. After that provide the user name and password twice and then click on the signup. Add a image to your gravatar account and then select that image to be associated with your email address. Edit your profile, enter your contact information

05.15.14
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WordPress Security


  • Upload the wordpress files and folders in directory with some other name hard to predict like cpweb or here or anything else. A trick can be done to hide this directory, to make it appear as it is installed in home directory. Go to Settings-> General and delete the sub-directory name from the field site address(URL). Site address is the perceived address and WordPress address(URL) is the physical address. Copy the .htaccess and index file on the root of the domain, edit them and change the last line showing:
    require(./wp-blog-header.php)
    to
    require(./<directory-name>/wp-blog-header.php)
  • Change the table prefix while creating the configuration file, as it makes tougher for hackers.
  • Put unique phrases in the salts of wp-config.php file. It can be generated using wordpress
    http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
  • Don’t use admin as user name, while setting up your site, as admin is the default user, so every hacker might like to attack this user. So choose other name apart from admin.

  • It is very important to secure wp-config.php file and wp-content directory, rest of the files you can delete and upload them again. All the uploaded files are stored in the wp-content folder and database connectivity is saved in wp-config.php file.

05.15.14
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Installing WordPress with CPWebHosting


For Self Hosting Worpdress on your domain, you need access to your website and also to the MySQL database, which is being provided on your mail from CPWebHosting. You are being provided with cPanel Hosting Panel, from where you can create a FTP account for your website and also you can create MySQL database.

Once you are done with you will be having the following:

FTP – Username, password, URL of the website. It is always recommended to create the FTP account and not to use the master ftp account. If the FTP account gets compromised, you can always delete it and create new one using the hosting control panel cPanel. Also, the custom FTP account can be targeted to the specific folder also, if you choose not to install WordPress on website root. In cPanel, the FTP user name would be in a format

<user-name>@<website-name>

MySQL Database – Database name, Database user name, Database User password & host address, which is normally localhost in most of cases. User created must be having all the privileges.

Download New Version of WordPress from the website WordPress [dot] org. You will find all the latest updates on WordPress on the site very frequently. You can click on the blue download button or the top menu download option, a zip file will be downloaded on local PC. Unzip the file and move wordpress directory to a location, from where it can be uploaded to the server using FTP client like core FTP or FileZilla.

For better security you can upload the files of the wordpress directory in some folder with some other name not related to wordpress like cpweb.

Next, step is to open the browser and open your site with the directory in which you have uploaded the wordpress directory files and folders.

http://www.cpwebhosting.com/

If everything is uploaded properly, on your browser you will be show with the message that “There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file, I need it before we can get started”

If you are viewing this screen, it means everything is properly uploaded and now it is ready to set. The message is coming; as yet configuration is not being given. 5 minute install screen is there which also shows the button “Create Configuration File” click on it. The next step asks for the database details and also table prefix. It is always a good idea to change it to make the site more secure. Once everything entered by you is correct you will be taken to page which will show the button “Run Install”. Next step will ask you to enter the Title of the site, username, password twice and email. If you forget the password, you can use the forget password facility provided by wordpress to email your password.

05.15.14
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Free WordPress Hosting Vs. Self Hosting


WordPress Free Hosting

Most of the Blogger choose WordPress[dot]com for their blogging, as it is free. The site is managed, maintained & updated by the company “Automatic”, they are the creators of the WordPress. They do provide Zero hassle environment, it means that bloggers can work on the quality of their content and rest is all handled by the company itself. Although there are few restrictions laid by the company on the content like they don’t allow you to put adult content or google ads, but working on WordPress[dot]com is really amazing. They do provide theme library with inbuilt functionality. You can choose from thousands of the themes available to bring the best look for your website. You cannot install your own theme or re-design the theme, you can only choose from the available themes, but still that library is quite huge. WordPress[dot] provides the cloud hosting environment. Cloud means that there is distributed network of multiple servers which means that the site is fast and secured, if any server goes down, the site comes from the other server; it never goes down of the Internet. Most of the bloggers do complain, that the WordPress[dot]com don’t allow them to install plugins of their choice to add new functionality to their blogs, they are allowed to enjoy the functionality did provided by the company itself. Most of the people who are looking for free hosting or want to switch to it; the creator company does provide import facility from self hosted environment. Many of the them are moved to the WordPress[dot]com, as it is very rapidly growing platform. Not only import, the site do offers export functionality also, if you are thinking of moving your site to the self-hosted environment.

WordPress Self Hosted

You have a domain and you want to manage your site by yourself. You have already purchased the hosting services from CPWebHosting.com. From the Fantastico available in the Cpanel, you have installed the WordPress on your site and now you want to manage it by your own choice. Although there is no content restrictions laid by CPWebHosting, but most of time it is seen they point on adult content or sometime they don’t allow you. But, you can find the listing of the adult hosting providers on them also, if they don’t allow, you can choose hosting services of those companies. So, if they don’t allow, they provide you choices which allows it.

If the wordpress is on the self-hosted environment, you can put the Google ad sense which is not allowed in a free hosting environment. You can put any custom theme of your choice and also re-design it with the way you like. You can always add new functionality to your website using the plugins. So, you can add fancy of features on your website. All the controls are in your hand you can make the site setup exactly the way you want it to be. You can any linking and manage any of the hassles that comes to you. As with the feature available in free hosting environment, Import-Export features is also available. You can anytime switch to the free environment or vice-versa.

Both the free hosting and self hosting environments have advantages and disadvantages, but all depends on the assessment what you need and what is available and where you want to take your site in the near future. WordPress is same in both self hosted and free environment. WordPress is flexible you can switch to any of the environment at any time.

05.15.14
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WordPress data leakage risk flagged by security researcher


What happens if there is a flaw in the WordPress?

As we all know that all the web hosting providers possess some limitations also due to which it is possible that users have to compromise their data in the form of text, audio, video, images, quotes, links and other type of content and same thing happens with the WordPress also. Our Researchers are saying that on the basis of their findings they have find that there is a flaw in the WordPress which could put millions of user’s data at the risk of leakage and could affect thousands of websites and blogs.

WordPress data leakage risk flagged by security researcher-a company known as White hat

There is a security firm known as White hat which prepared a report on WordPress after going through it and with the proper analysis and according to that , the blogging platform ,we can say WordPress will not completely protect multimedia files i.e. audio, video, links, quotes and other content which are uploaded to sites in the same manner as it safeguards text, which could potentially leave a listed company to face the risk of insider trading or a design firm to copyright theft. This will allow the hackers or attackers to easily guess which files and attachments are available for postings that have not been approved yet or gone live .

For example, let’s say you are running a private traded company and you are planning to release your earnings report on your blog and for this you may upload a PDF file of the earnings report in a day or multiple days i.e. in weeks or in months in advance to make sure you’re your preparations are on full hand and as per your plans everything is ready and perfect and ready to go as soon as you announce.”

This is possible that an attacker could download the URL of the PDF of the earnings report in advance if he will be able to guess the (uniform resource locator) URL of the PDF of the earnings report and with this earning report attacker can do the trade of it also.

Despite above all of this, he claimed that there are less chances of flaw occurring in WordPress its severity is low, and apart from data leakage, it will not be used to increase attacks such as code injection or cross-site scripting.

It has been seen in the beginning of this year, that hackers were using brute force against thousands of WordPress sites’ administration accounts so that they can compromise or affect sites and spread malicious material , as reported by IT PRO’s.