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[How-to Guide] Multi-Site Option in WordPress 3.0

Finally after a lot of buzz on the web wordpress 3.0 is out there and it comes with wordpress WPMU which is being incorporated in wordpress 3.0, that means now you can run multiple blogs/websites from one single installation of wordpress. This will indirectly empower wordpress users to run multiple websites from one blog. As already I had provided you the tutorial on how to upgrade your wordpress blog to wordpress 3.0 and wordpress URL Shortener feature, continuing in the same series of posts, in this article I will highlight the new feature of wordpress 3.0 which is being known as Network or Multi-Site option and by default this feature is being disabled in wordpress 3.0.

This article will provide you the step by step guide on how you can enable the Network settings options in wordpress 3.0? So for what you are waiting for just get started and experience the joy of working on wordpress 3.0.

To enable this multi-site feature on your wordpress blog, you have to simply edit your wp-config.php file which is being located in wordpress installation directory. Open this file by using the FTP and add the following one line code in it.

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

After adding that piece of code in wp-config.php file, refresh your wordpress dashboard and you will see the page like this:

Now simply deactivate the plugins to remove this error message.

Now go to Network Settings Option under Tools section and click on the network settings option, after clicking on network options you will see the page like this:

Although it is simple, but requires a lot of attention in doing all this work because I know many of them are facing this problem and still you are unable to do this then you can Hire Me. Will be coming with lots of posts on wordpress 3.0 and how to merge your blogs into one blog.

Caution

Disable all the plugins first because some of them are not compatible with wordpress 3.0.

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[WordPress 3.0 Features] URL Shortener Under Your Domain Name

We all know that WordPress 3.0 is out and everyone will be working on to upgrade it and experiencing out the new features and functions in wordpress 3.0. We had already provided you the tutorial on how to upgrade wordpress to wordpress 3.0. Now, in this article I’m sharing you with one amazing feature of wordpress 3.0 is URL shortening.

WordPress 3.0 comes with a URL shortner under you domain name and it will helps you in branding your wordpress blog. While shortening URL we use third party applications like bit.ly, su.pr, etc. or other plugins, but default option would be very handy for anyone out there.

After writing an article you can click on edit article to get the option of shortlink as you can see in the image below:

Meanwhile in the end do let us know what you think about this URL shortener feature under your domain name in wordpress 3.0?

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[How To Guide] Upgrade WordPress To WordPress 3.0

All of you know wordpress 3.0 is released and is available for download. Now it’s the time to upgrade your wordpress blog to the latest version but before this you make a complete backup of your wordpress blog before up-gradation because if something goes wrong then you can easily backup all the data.

Now, here comes the step by step guide on upgrading your wordpress blog.

Login to wordpress admin panel, at the top you will see a notification which says “WordPress 3.0 is available! Please update now”.

Click on the “Please update now” and you will see the upgrade option like this:

Click on the upgrade automatically button and if everything goes good you will see successfully upgraded to wordpress 3.0 like this:

Now go back to your wordpress admin panel and you will see that it is running on wordpress 3.0

WordPress automatic upgrade made upgrading wordpress very much easy even a newbie will easily upgrade it.

Caution

I recommend you to take complete backup of your wordpress blog before upgrading to wordpress 3.0. If you think that you can’t upgrade to wordpress 3.0, then take a help from me in upgrading your wordpress blog.

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In the meanwhile do let us know that you upgraded your wordpress blog to 3.0 or not?

WordPress 3.0 Thelonious Available for Download

Finally, much awaited release of the year, i.e., wordpress 3.0 is out there for download and I know that most of the bloggers will be waiting for this one for a quite long time. WordPress 3.0 got a nick name “Thelonious” and lots of new features.

According to the official announcement

“Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click”

Wordpress 3.0 comes with lots of great features and one more important thing is that the merger of wordpress MU in it, we will provide you all the necessary tutorials regarding upgrading and other things.

Note

Some of the themes are not working with wordpress 3.0, so its a request to all of you kindly change your theme which is compatible with wordpress 3.0. As i’m using thesis theme, i don’t have such type of problem

Now it’s over to you what you think about the release of wordpress 3.0?

Download FIFA World CUP WordPress Themes

Finally after a long wait, the much awaited day has been arrived which is being waited by millions of people, i.e., FIFA Soccer World Cup – 2010, one of the most awaiting and favorite sport event of the year. Football World CUP is an extreme height of excitement and if you are having a blog you will want to experience it.

Well we have collected some of the best wordpress themes for football lovers which will be used by bloggers (especially sports blog) on their blogs. Hope you will like it and will use any of them on your blog.