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How to Configure Your Email Account & Check Your Webmail Account at WP Blog Host

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:53:15 +0000

How to Configure Your WP Blog Host Email Account on Mozilla Thunderbird

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:49:58 +0000

Mozilla Thunderbird is my email client of choice to check my emails from home.

Here’s how to set up Thunderbird to check your email hosted with WP Blog Host.

How to Configure Your WP Blog Host Email Account with MS Outlook

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:42:57 +0000

How to Install WordPress on Your WP Blog Host Account

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:30:33 +0000

Installing WordPress need not be a pain. By using our simple easy installer, all you need to do is supply our wizard with your usernames and passwords and our script will automatically install WordPress for you.

The advantage to installing WordPress this way is A) it’s easy and B) if our installer does the work, then when WordPress upgrades are released, you can log back into your hosting account and use our auto upgrader. The advantage to upgrading WordPress this way is you’ll have an option through our hosting to roll back your upgrade in case an issue occurred after upgrading (sometimes plugins and other customizations are not compatible with future upgrades).

How to Move Your WordPress Blog from a Subdirectroy to Root

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:11:11 +0000

Always be sure to fully back up your blog before attempting a move.

Many times, new bloggers might put their blog in a subdirectory, like /blog or they did not realize that when you install WordPress manually, it will be installed in the /wordpress directory. If this is the case and you want to move your blog out of a subdirectory and into the root folder of your site (i.e. you domain name), then follow the instructions in the video below.

If you have any questions, please comment below.

How To Password Protect a Directory Using WP Blog Host Hosting

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:03:01 +0000

At times you may want to upload something to your hosting account but only allow a select group to view it, for example a family photo or backup file. Here’s how you can password protect a directory so that you can limit who can view anything contained within it.

How to Restore Your WordPress Database Using Bigdump – For Larger Databases

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:47:17 +0000

If you have a database sql file on your computer which you need to upload to your WordPress’ database on your hosting server, you could try uploading it through phpMyAdmin.

It’s easier doing it that way, however, if your database is upwards of 20 MB, then you may have troubles uploading it this way. The reason is that phpMyAdmin simply uploads the entire file all at once, but since the file is so big, it takes too long to upload and your web browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) will do what we call timeout. This means it was waiting too long for a task to happen, so it just stalled.

Big Dump is a way around that. Big Dump splits up your upload into smaller sizes so your web browser doesn’t timeout. Download Big Dump here.

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How to Restore Your WordPress Database Using phpMyAdmin

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:24:43 +0000

How to Set Up a FTP Account on WP Blog Host

WP Blog Host — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:18:35 +0000

How To Set Up Multiple Installs of WordPress To Share One Database

WP Blog Host — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:05:52 +0000

WordPress requires the use of a database and although this is not the case for WP Blog Host, some web hosts only allow their hosting customers one database in their hosting account.

This could pose a problem if you are trying to install more than one WordPress installation on your account.

Here’s how you can install multiple versions of WordPress on a hosting account and make them share one database.