I just upgraded to WordPress 2.3. Usually, upgrading wordpress is easy task but not this time. I met a lot of problems while upgrading to 2.3. I disabled some of plugins that use wordpress category table which removed in 2.3. Thanks for Tags, update notification, improved Tiny MCE editor and Pending review features implemented in WordPress 2.3. I disabled Sitemap generator, Ultimate Tag Warrior, Add META Tag plugin as a result.

p.s : I’m going to make two WordPress themes available for download soon.

In my last post, I explained how to install Apache, php and mysql on windows using Appserv. Now I’ll explain how to install wordpress.

Download WordPress

First, download the zip from wordpress Download page. http://www.wordpress.org/download/

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Thoughts just come up in my mind in during these days that I’m having guts to write WordPress tutorials especially for bloggers who want to start blogging using WordPress.org in their own host. I’ve been spending most of my spare time in blogging in blogger (blogspot) for a year though I created account in December 2005.

I’ve learned that some of blogs in blogsophere wrote up wordpress tutorials lately. But I want to have my own reference about the things which I’m using and of course I also want to focus on one topic I’m currently interested. And I also have a feeling that writing tutorials and tips/tricks are the best way to improve one’s curiosity to try out his current niche of interest and those makes easier to remember when forgot. Anyway, I’ll try to post as much as I can.

A normal HTML document that includes META tags which is inside in header tag elements. Meta tags elements are used to provide the information of your document. And also it is also used to provide the information for search engines like describing your document. In SEO world, keywords (is not sure) and description meta elements are probably effective tools to boost in search engine for your web pages.

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You will probably meet this problem after you changed your database username and password in mysql or PhpMyAdmin in your hosting server or uploaded your wordpress folder from your local computer to your hosting server. This problem always happened while we’re restoring wordpress data including mysql data between local and your server. To solve this problem, open the wp-config.php located in wordpress folder and check whether the database name, username, password and mysql server host are correctly or not.

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Basically, WordPress outputs the blog’s post title as “Blog Title >> Blog Archive >> Blog Post Title”.

For example :

Myo Kyaw Htun . com >> Blog Archive >> Hello World !

But most of the bloggers , they want to get the highest rank in Search Engine. This following code will boost in search engine ranking of your blog. So, if you want to change the way that I made, fine the <title> tag in header.php located in your default template. (Presentation >> Theme Editor). Replace the following codes between <title> and </title> tag.

<?php if ( is_single() ) { wp_title(' '); ?> » Blog Archive - <?php } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

So it will look something like that :

Hello World ! » Blog Archive » Myo Kyaw Htun . com