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[How-To Guide] Edit WordPress .htaccess File

Already I have shared a post on how to create .htaccess file and now in this post I’m sharing how to edit .htaccess file.

Step1: Log-in into cPanel by typing URL (mentioned below) and click on “File Manager” as shown below:

http://www.domainame.com/cpanel (replace domain name with your domain name)

Step2: When you click on “File Manager” it open a new window (i.e. your root directory) as shown below:

Step3: Now select .htaccess file (in root directory) and click on “Edit” in navigation menu (as shown below):

Step4: Now start editing your .htaccess file according to your needs.

Remember

Before you start editing your .htaccess file, be sure to take a back up of your .htaccess file

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[How-To Guide] Create .htaccess File For WordPress Blog

WordPress no doubt best blogging platform and WebGuide4U making it easier to get started with WordPress. Already I have shared lots of basic and some advanced tutorials on WordPress. Here is a quick recap:

Beginner’s Guide to WordPress

How to Guide on Installing WordPress

How to Guide on Installing WordPress Theme from Dashboard

How to Guide on Installing WordPress Plugin from Dashboard

How to Guide on Hiding Posts From Some Users in WordPress

How to Guide on Changing Auto-Generated Password in WordPress

How to Guide on Recovering Lost WordPress Password

How to Guide on Disabling Visual Editor in WordPress

How to Guide on Enabling keyboard Shortcuts in WordPress

How to Guide on Scheduling Post in WordPress

How to Guide on Renaming “Uncategorized” Category in WordPress

How to Guide on Repair and Optimizing WordPress Database

How to Guide on Changing Nameserver in Godaddy

How to Change cPanel Password in Hostgator

How to Guide on Changing Primary Domain in Hostgator

Advanced User Guide to WordPress

How to Guide on Installing WordPress Manually

How to Guide on Adding Multiple Blogs in WordPress 3.0

How to Guide on Enabling WordPress MU in WordPress 3.0

How to Guide on Enabling Multi-Site Option in WordPress 3.0

How to Guide on Creating Add-on Domain in Hostgator

How to Guide on Creating Revenue Sharing Blog

How to Guide on Reset WordPress Password From PHPMyAdmin

How to View Hidden Secret Options in WordPress

How to Guide on Back-Up WordPress Database by Using PHPMyAdmin

How to Guide on Deleting MySQL Database

How to Guide on Creating New User in MySQL Database

How to Guide on Repairing WordPress Database Using PHPMyAdmin

How to Guide on Optimizing WordPress Database Using PHPMyAdmin

All these guides help you to get started with WordPress and offer you get most from it. Now in this post, I’m sharing how to create and upload .htaccess file on the server.

Step1: Open your favorite text editor (I’m using notepad) and create a new file, name this file .htaccess

Step2: Now you have created .htaccess file and you have to upload this file on server. Log-in into cPanel by typing URL http://www.domainname.com/cpanel (replace domain name with your own domain name) and click on “File Manager” as shown below:

Step3: When you click on “File Manager” (in step 2), it opens a new window (as shown below) and you will see your root directory.

Step4: In root directory, click on “Upload” to upload the .htaccess file in root directory.

Step5: If you follow all the steps as guided you will see .htaccess file in root directory as shown below:

Step6: Congratulations, you have successfully created and uploaded .htaccess file on server.

Remember

Don’t forget to rename .htaccess.txt to .htaccess

If you have any query do share in comment section or you can use Free WordPress Installation Service. Don’t forget to like on Facebook, so that you don’t miss any of .htaccess tutorials.

[How-To Guide] Install WordPress Manually On Hostgator

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Before getting started with installing WordPress, you need a little-bit knowledge of MySQL database, so that you will find no problem while installing WordPress Manually.

How to Guide on Creating New User in MySQL Database

Till now you have a domain name, hosting space and know how to create a new user in MySQL Database. Already I have shared a how-to guide on installing WordPress on Hostgator using Fantastico and now this guide also focus on installing WordPress on Hostgator but without using Fantastico. Here is a step-by-step guide on installing WordPress Manually in Hostgator.

Download and UnZip WordPress

This is the basic step and pretty obvious. Remember that do not download WordPress from any other third-party site. At WordPress.org site you can be assured that you’re getting the latest stable version direct from the official website.

Step1: Go to wordpress.org and download wordpress from there to your PC.

Step2: This download will be in the form of .zip file and now you have to unzip it. After unzipping, it contains a folder named WordPress (if you see there are many files after opening WordPress folder).

Create a Database and User

How-To Guide to Create a Database

This is where you need some technical skill. I’m using Hostgator which comes with inbuilt cPanel.

Step3: Now, you have to create a database. Log-in into your cPanel and click on “MySQL Databases” (as shown below):

Step4: When you click on “MySQL Databases”, it open a new window (as show below). Now you have to create a new database (as shown below):

Step5: When you hit the “Create Database” button, you will see a message like this (as shown below) which means that database has been created.

How-to Guide on Creating New User in MySQL Database

Step6: Now, database is being already created, only you have to create a new user in it. Fill-up all the details as shown below and hit “Create User” button to create a new user.

Step7: Now you have created a user (step6) and have to add this user to the database you have created in step4, click on “Add” button (as shown below) to add a new user:

Step8: When you click on “Add” button (in step 7), it open a window (as shown below) where you have to assign “All Privileges” to this user (the user that you have added in step7). Check out the box “All Privileges” and click on “Make Changes” as shown below:

Step9: When you click on “Make Changes” it open a new window like this (as shown below) which shows that a new user has been added to database.

Set-Up wp-config.php File

Now you have to edit wp-config.php file

Step10: Already you have created MySQL database and added new user. Now (go back to step2) select “wp-config-sample.php” file and rename this file (wp-config-sample.php) to wp-config.php as shown below:

Step11: In step 10 you have renamed the required files. Now open wp-config.php” file in notepad (or on your favorite text editor) as shown below:

Step12: Now (in step11) you have to do following things as listed below:

All you need to do in this step is to enter the database information only:

DB_NAME The name of the database you created for WordPress (as created in step4).

DB_USER The username you created for WordPress (as created in step6).

DB_PASSWORD The password you chose for the WordPress username (as created in step6).

DB_HOST The hostname usually localhost

DB_CHARSET The database character set, normally should not be changed DB_COLLATE The database collation should normally be left blank

In this post (I’m using the respective names that I have already created in previous step)

DB_NAME is “wrdp” (step no.4)

DB_USER is “vikas” (step no.6)

DB_Password is “mydomainname” (step no.6)

Warning: Don’t select so easy to guess username and password, here I am taking easy username and password just for illustration.

To make it easy, I’m showing what changes I have done in this step in wp-config.php file, you can compared it to step 11

Upload the File

Step13: Now you have to upload the files to server. For uploading files to server you need FTP client (for me I’m using FileZilla to transfer my files to server) and you have to fill-up all the required fields and click on “quickconnect” button to connect it to server.

Step14: After filling all the details (in step13) you will see that your FTP client connected to server (as shown below):

Step15: Now (in step14) you will see a folder with “/” symbol. Click on “+” sign and you see the folder “public_html” folder (as shown below). Click on “public_html” folder, this is the folder where you have to upload the WordPress folder (which you have already downloaded and unzipped on your PC – step1 and step 2)

Step16: Now you have to upload the WordPress files to server. From (in step15) left select wordpress 3.0.4 (for me that’s the name of folder I have to upload) and start uploading this folder to server. You have to drag and drop the WordPress folder in root directory only (public_html folder). As soon as you drag and drop the folder, uploading of files will be started and it take couple of minutes to upload all the files to server.

Run the Script

Till now you have uploaded all files to server in root directory, to complete the installation process you have to run this script

Step17: Open your browser and type the following URL in your browser http://infoedutech.com/wp-admin/install.php (Replace infoedutech.com with your own domain name) and fill all the details (as shown below). After filling all the details click on “Install WordPress” button to install the WordPress.

Step18: When you hit the “Install WordPress” button you see a new window (as shown below) which show that “WordPress has been installed”.

Step19: Congratulations, you have successfully install wordpress manually on your hosting server. Now log-in and get started with WordPress.

You may be interested in reading out these WordPress tutorial also.

How to Guide on Installing WordPress Theme

How to Guide on Installing WordPress Plugin

How to Guide on Enabling Search Engine in WordPress

How to Guide on Scheduling Post in WordPress

How to Guide on Disabling Visual Editor in WordPress

How to Guide on Hiding Post From Some Users in WordPress

How to Guide on Renaming Uncategorized Category Name in WordPress

How to Guide on Adding Multiple Blogs in WordPress

How to Guide on Enabling WordPress MU in WordPress

How to Guide on Enabling Multi-Site Option in WordPress

How to Guide on Enabling keyboard Shortcut for Comment Moderation in WordPress

Do you find these tutorials useful, then share it with your friends also. If you face any problem regarding installation do let me know in comment section or you can also use Free WordPress Installation Service.

Don’t forget to like on Facebook so that you get more tutorials on WordPress.

[How-To Guide] Install Headway WordPress Theme From WordPress Dashboard

Headway one of the best Premium WordPress theme for self-hosted WordPress blog because it is more than a theme, as it offers visual editor with drag and drop capabilities and lots of option. In other words, it is a design software which offers you total control over how your blog looks without any coding.

Installing Headway Premium WordPress Theme is simple but before that those who are new to WordPress may find these article useful

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress Plugin From WordPress Dashboard

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress Theme From WordPress Dashboard

Once you get the basic knowledge of WordPress, you may easily install Headway Premium Theme. Here’s a step-by-step guide on installing Headway Premium Theme.

Step1: Log-in into wp-admin panel (by typing URL http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin) and go to “Appearance” and click on “Themes” as shown below:

Step2: When you click on “Themes” (in above step) it open a new window (as shown below) and click on “Install Themes”.

Step3: When you click on “Install Themes”, it open a new window (as shown below) and now click on “Upload” to install headway theme.

Step4: When you click on “Upload” option it will open a new window (as shown below). Now click on “browse” button to find the theme in PC and after it click on “Install” button to install it.

Step5: When you click on “Install Now” button you see a window like this (shown below). Now simply click on “Activate” to activate the theme.

Step6: Congratulations, you have successfully install Headway Theme.

If you haven’t grab your copy of Headway theme yet, get it now

Download Link for Headway Theme

If you face any problem do let me know in comments section and don’t forget to like on Facebook so that you can’t miss any tutorials on “Headway Theme”.

[WordPress News] WordPress 3.1 Released Candidate 2

WordPress team released WordPress 3.1 RC2 (Release Candidate 2) as a New Year present and it is available for download to all users and developers. RC stands for “Rlease Candidate” which means it is an indication that product is ready for final launch. WordPress team is in no mood of celebrating holidays because on Christmas they released WordPress 3.1 RC1 and on before New Year they released a major security update and those who are unable to update to latest version got hacked and many blogs already hacked due to this upgrade.

According to WordPress team changes made in RC1 are:

The security fixes included in WordPress 3.0.4
Fix issues related to handling a static front page
Fixes and enhancements for the pagination buttons
Fix searching for partial usernames
Properly reactivate plugins after editing them
Always show the current author in the author dropdown when editing a post
Fixes for attachment taxonomies
Fix node removal for the admin bar
Fix the custom post type show_in_menu argument
Various fixes for right-to-left languages
and a few dozen more changes

Thinking of giving it a try then download it now but remember that it is not ready to use on live site. You can still use it for testing purposes and if you find some bug, then there are few ways to inform WordPress team:

Post it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums
Report it to the wp-testers mailing list
Join the development IRC channel and tell us live at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-dev
File a bug ticket on the WordPress Trac

So, give WordPress 3.1 RC2 a try and do me know your feedback.

Download Link for WordPress 3.1 RC2