Easy Wordpress Install

Some really great tips here:

Every blogger wants to see hundred thousands of numbers against their blog whether it’s about their daily blog traffic, Fans list on Facebook page, Twitter followers or subscribers to their blogs. In today’s post, I’m going to discuss some techniques blogger can use to increase the number of subscribers multiple times to their blogs.

12 Tips To Increase Subscribers To Your Blog.

How To Develop A Homepage Layout That Sells.

Virtualization is one of the newest and fastest growing segments of IT. It allows you to run a whole new operating system or server on your machine that is completely seperate from your workstation. It lives in its own little virtual world. If you plan on doing a decent amount of editing to your WordPress blog, having a dedicated development environment is a good idea and virtualization can help.

Note: do not under any circumstances use this tutorial to set up a live public facing server. These instructions do not set up the proper security and are for local development only!

With this dev area, you’re free to make changes or create a new blog, theme or just mess around with the inner workings of WordPress without having to worry about setting up a new site on your host account or screwing up your existing site. There are many tutorials out there that show you how to install and run WordPress locally on your Windows, Mac or Linux computer. My personal preference is to run a virtual linux server on my iMac. Why? Well there are a few reasons:

1) I don’t have to mess with my operating system and make changes that can possibly affect other software on my machine.

2) It’s closer to the real hosting environment that your blog lives on.

3) If I make a change to the virtual server to test something and screw it up, I can just delete my old virtual machine and run a clean backup that’s good as new in seconds.

There are quite a few programs out there that can run virtual machines on your workstation. My preference is VMware Fusion (not free), but there are other options you can use with any operating system that range from free to not free (here’s a couple).

VMware server edition – Windows – free

Virtualbox – Windows, Linux, Mac – free

Parallels – Windows, Linux, Mac – not free

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So here at Easy WordPress Install we don’t just install and fix blogs, we love to read em too. Here’s the first installment of our new monthly post where we give you a new favorite site to peruse.

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Nice quick guide to some basic settings you want for your WordPress blog:

After Installing: Change Your Administrator Password

The initial administrator password is generated randomly, so you might want to change it to something that you can easily remember.

Create Another User With Administrative Privilege

Though not required, it is always good to create a new user with your name and use that for all administrative purposes, again this is not a requirement, however I personally don’t like to write blog posts using the admin user.

Disable Option For Anyone To Register

Unless you want people to register and comment on your site, you do not require this feature, go to Settings –> General and uncheck the checkbox next to “Anyone Can Register” and save the settings.

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