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Learn "How to use FTP to upload files to WordPress Site?" from this Complete step by step FTP Tutorial guide, that will show you how to use FTP.
How To Create A Database and User In The LunarPages Control Panel
How To Create A Database and User In The LunarPages Control Panel
New Lunar pages hosting accounts now come with the Lunarpages Control Panel(LPCP) instead of cPanel. This video is a step by step walk through of creating a database and and a database user in the LPCP. If there is interest I will show you how to use that info in the WordPress config file.
Originally posted on https://pintopsolutions.com/hosting/how-to-create-a-database-and-user-in-the-lunarpages-control-panel/
How To Customize The WordPress Dashboard
How To Customize The WordPress Dashboard
The WordPress Dashboard comes with a number of default modules that provide information about things such as Incoming Links, WordPress Plugins, and WordPress News. That is great if you want to see the latest info about WordPress. However, the average WordPress Website Owner sees the modules as clutter. In this video I will show you techniques for clearing or customizing your WordPress dashboard without touching any HTML or PHP.
Originally posted on https://pintopsolutions.com/wordpress-how-to/how-to-customize-the-wordpress-dashboard/
How To Safely Keep Spam Comments Off Your Blog
How To Safely Keep Spam Comments Off Your Blog
Spammers are looking to get backlinks to websites from your blog.
Real Examples of Spammy Comments
Spam comments are often generic and unrelated to the post. They often link to questionable and offensive content so it is important you remove it fast. Links from your blog to porn, gambling, prescription drugs, malware and other potentially dangerous websites can hurt your ranking with Google unless you work diligently remove the links from your blog. You don’t want Google labeling your blog as unsafe.
WordPress gives you the capability to moderate your comments before they are viewable on your blog. The discussion option allows you to set your account so comments don’t appear until approved by you. This is the most effective way to keep spam comments from appearing on your blog.
WordPress Discussion Settings
While moderating all comments is most effective it is not the best use of your time. To help save you time dealing with SPAM comments you can use a SPAM protection plug-in, such as Akismet. SPAM protection plug-ins check all comments against a database of past SPAM comments and delete spam comments or trackbacks so you don’t have to. Most SPAM protection plugins allow you to block email addresses, websites or IP addresses to improve SPAM prevention efforts.
Use a CAPTCHA plugin such as reCaptcha, Comments Captcha Box, or Si Captcha Anti-Spam to prevent the use of Automatic Blog Commenting software. Some automated software will show the user the captcha image and allow them to type in the letters but this is still a deterrent for spammers.
SPAM protection will be something you want to stay on top of and it is worth the effort. Spammers can be both creative and persistent in their attempts to get backlinks from your blog to the websites they are promoting. Not all links in comments or trackbacks are SPAM. Use a SPAM protection plugin, a Captcha plugin, and moderate your comments to be sure they are the type of comments and links you want associated with your website.
Originally posted on https://pintopsolutions.com/wordpress-how-to/how-to-safely-keep-spam-comments-off-your-blog/
How To Move Your WordPress Site To A New Host
How To Move Your WordPress Site To A New Host
In a previous post I showed you how to backup your site using BackupBuddy. Today I am going to show you how to move your WordPress site to a new host. On the “Restore & Backup” options page you should click on “Restore/Migrate”, which will prompt you to save the importbuddy.php file.
Save that file on your local computer, in the location where you saved the full backup. Now we are finished with the site on the current server.
Using the information provided by your current host log into your new cPanel. In the databases section click create a new MySQL database. In the section that says create new database type in the name of my new database. After you create your new database copy the database name and save it because you will need it again. Then you need to create a database user and password. What I recommend you do is use the password generator. Have it generate you a nice new password. Oh yeah don’t forget to paste your password into your text file for later. After you have created a database and a user you will have to add the user to your database.
Since you are already logged into your cPanel use the file manager to upload your full backup you created with BackupBuddy and the import.php file to the directory where you want your website installed.
After you have uploaded the zip file and import.php in the address bar type yourdomainname.com/importbuddy.php. You could also just type in your domain name and click on importbuddy.php to start the migration process. Just follow the onscreen instructions as the ImportBuddy script finds your backup and installs it on the new server. Once all the files have been extracted you will be prompted to enter in your database information, your new blog url, and your new table prefix.
Once the installation is complete you will receive a message that the installation was complete. Now you can log into your site on your new host using the same username and password. Congratulations, you just moved your site to a new host using backupbuddy.
Originally posted on https://pintopsolutions.com/wordpress-how-to/how-to-move-your-wordpress-site-to-a-new-host/
How to Set Up WordPress Custom Menus
How to Set Up WordPress Custom Menus
Being able to add to and remove pages from your navigation is a must if you are going to manage your own website content. So here are some pointers for setting up and changing your WordPress Custom Menus.
Not all themes are created equal! Check Your theme for the number of custom menu locations.
Check Which Custom Menus Your Theme Supports
The default WordPress theme supports only a single menu near the top of the screen. This default menu will initially only include the pages (not posts, but static pages) you have set up on your website. Other WordPress themes may support multiple menus in different locations on your web pages. A common design is to have a main navigation menu at the top of the page (as with the default WordPress theme), and a second menu at the bottom of the page (or perhaps in a sidebar). Check to see what your theme supports.
Change Your Menus
After you log into WordPress, click the “Appearance” selection from the dashboard menu, then click “Menus.” (You may also be able to reach this screen by clicking the “Menus” selection displayed under your currently installed theme, within the “Themes” selection of your dashboard.) After you’ve identified how many menus can be used within your theme, it’s time to decide which of those possibilities you want to use, and what you want to go into each menu.
Set Up Custom Menu Items
On the right side of the menu screen, you’ll notice a named tab (usually some type of “Main menu”), and a tab with a “+” sign. If you want to change the items that are listed in the main menu, simply drag and drop the custom links, pages, categories and tags (if you’re using them) from the left side of the menu screen into the tabbed box on the right side. You can specify as many of these items as you want within each menu, but make sure to check your website to make sure it still looks the way you want it to if you have a large number of items. Click “save menu” when you’re done making your changes.
Set Up Multiple Menus
By clicking the”+” sign, you can set up additional menus to be used throughout your website. Type in a name for the new menu and click the “create menu” button. By breaking up links into multiple menus – rather than simply having everything in a large and potentially unwieldy menu – you make it easier for visitors to find what they’re looking for on your website. A common technique is to put links to other pages of your website (such as the “about us” and “contact us” pages) in the top menu, and put outbound links and category links on a sidebar or footer menu.
Add A Vertical Menu
Once you have setup a custom menu you can add that menu to any widget area on your website. After you log into WordPress, click the “Appearance” selection from the dashboard menu, then click “Widgets.” You should see the “Available Widgets” meta box and meta boxes for your themes defined widget areas or sidebars. Drag the Custom Menu widget to the desired widget area. Click the Down arrow to expand the widget meta box. Enter a title and select your custom menu. Make sure you save the widget settings.
Keep in mind that you can set up more menus then you can display on your website at any one time. Why would you want to do this? You might have additional menus set up so that you can easily switch back and forth between them and test how different menus affect the way in which your visitors navigate your website.
Originally posted on https://pintopsolutions.com/wordpress-how-to/how-to-set-up-wordpress-custom-menus/
How to Setup Google Analytics For Your WordPress Site
How to Setup Google Analytics For Your WordPress Site
Using a website analytics service or software package can be a great help in improving the quality and effectiveness of your website. Google’s Analytics is a leading analytics service, and it’s available at no cost. The data provided by Google Analytics will give you insight into how each visitor came to your WordPress website (whether through a link or a search engine), how long they stayed and what pages they viewed on your website, as well as a number of other goals that you can set. Learn which social sites bring you the most traffic and which social network converts the best.
Here are the basics for setting up Google Analytics on your WordPress website.
Step One – Sign Up For a Google Analytics Account
You’ll need a Google Analytics account before you can start using the service. If you already have some other type of Google account (such as a Gmail or YouTube account), you can set up your Analytics account using this information. If you’d prefer to set up an entirely new account, then go to www.google.com/analytics in order to begin the process.
Step Two – Add a Website
Once you’ve logged in to your Analytics account you need to set up a new website tracking account. This might seem confusing, but Google analytics allows you to set up multiple sub-accounts, and track multiple websites within each of these sub-accounts.
Next click the “Admin” button in the upper right-hand corner of your screen.
Click the “+New Account” button if you’re setting up your first account, or click the name of one of the accounts then click the “+New Property” button if you’d like to add your WordPress site to an existing sub-account.
After submitting all the requested information, you’ll be provided with a short snippet of HTML code. Now it’s time to add this code to your WordPress site so that Google Analytics can begin tracking your visitor behavior.
Step Three – Add the Google Analytics Code to Your WordPress Site
There are two basic ways to add the Google Analytics tracking code. The first is to locate the header file of your current theme, then manually edit it to add to the Google Analytics code after all other scripts within the “” block of code. This method can be confusing, it’s easy to do it incorrectly, and it’s something you’ll have to do again if you decide to switch to a different WordPress theme.
Some WordPress Themes allow you to add your Google Analytics code on the theme’s options page. BUT I don’t recommend you add the code there because if you change themes it is too easy to forget to re-add the code.
A better approach is to use a Google Analytics plug-in. Once you install this plug-in and configure it with your Google Analytics tracking number, it will automatically add the appropriate code to every page of your WordPress website. You can search the WordPress plug-in directory to review your various options.Below are two plugins I recommend.
Google Analytics Plug-ins For WordPress
Google Analytics for WordPress by Yoast
Google Analyticator by Ronald Heft
Congratulations, you’ve set up Google Analytics on your website! Now you’ll be able to learn exactly what your website visitors do, where they are from, if they are on a mobile device, and much more. Viewing your analytics data can also help you discover what content your visitors like and ways to make your website better.
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Originally posted on https://pintopsolutions.com/wordpress-how-to/setup-google-analytics-for-your-wordpress-site/
How to Set Up WordPress Custom Menus
How to Set Up WordPress Custom Menus
Being able to add to and remove pages from your navigation is a must if you are going to manage your own website content. So here are some pointers for setting up and changing your WordPress Custom Menus.
Not all themes are created equal! Check Your theme for the number of custom menu locations.
Check Which Custom Menus Your Theme Supports
The default WordPress theme supports only a single menu near the top of the screen. This default menu will initially only include the pages (not posts, but static pages) you have set up on your website. Other WordPress themes may support multiple menus in different locations on your web pages. A common design is to have a main navigation menu at the top of the page (as with the default WordPress theme), and a second menu at the bottom of the page (or perhaps in a sidebar). Check to see what your theme supports.
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Change Your Menus
After you log into WordPress, click the “Appearance” selection from the dashboard menu, then click “Menus.” (You may also be able to reach this screen by clicking the “Menus” selection displayed under your currently installed theme, within the “Themes” selection of your dashboard.) After you’ve identified how many menus can be used within your theme, it’s time to decide which of those possibilities you want to use, and what you want to go into each menu.
Set Up Custom Menu Items
On the right side of the menu screen, you’ll notice a named tab (usually some type of “Main menu”), and a tab with a “+” sign. If you want to change the items that are listed in the main menu, simply drag and drop the custom links, pages, categories and tags (if you’re using them) from the left side of the menu screen into the tabbed box on the right side. You can specify as many of these items as you want within each menu, but make sure to check your website to make sure it still looks the way you want it to if you have a large number of items. Click “save menu” when you’re done making your changes.
Set Up Multiple Menus
By clicking the”+” sign, you can set up additional menus to be used throughout your website. Type in a name for the new menu and click the “create menu” button. By breaking up links into multiple menus – rather than simply having everything in a large and potentially unwieldy menu – you make it easier for visitors to find what they’re looking for on your website. A common technique is to put links to other pages of your website (such as the “about us” and “contact us” pages) in the top menu, and put outbound links and category links on a sidebar or footer menu.
Add A Vertical Menu
Once you have setup a custom menu you can add that menu to any widget area on your website. After you log into WordPress, click the “Appearance” selection from the dashboard menu, then click “Widgets.” You should see the “Available Widgets” meta box and meta boxes for your themes defined widget areas or sidebars. Drag the Custom Menu widget to the desired widget area. Click the Down arrow to expand the widget meta box. Enter a title and select your custom menu. Make sure you save the widget settings.
Keep in mind that you can set up more menus then you can display on your website at any one time. Why would you want to do this? You might have additional menus set up so that you can easily switch back and forth between them and test how different menus affect the way in which your visitors navigate your website.
Originally posted on https://pintopsolutions.com/wordpress-how-to/how-to-set-up-wordpress-custom-menus/