Sometimes it’s handy to be able to just send the contents of a page that you’re viewing to your inbox or to someone else you think might be interested. This plugin allows a visitor to send a post or page or just a snippet (the blog owner’s choice) from an email address of their choice [...]

Table of contents for Installing WordPressInstalling WordPress (part 1)Installing WordPress (part 2)Installing WordPress (part 3)Configuring WordPress In the previous two parts I shared my experiences with installing the components required before installing WordPress.  We’re finally ready to proceed with the main event. WordPress is like phpMyAdmin in that it is simply a bunch of files that [...]

Table of contents for Installing WordPressInstalling WordPress (part 1)Installing WordPress (part 2)Installing WordPress (part 3)Configuring WordPress In part 1 of this post, I talked about installing MySQL v4 and PHP v4 and was just about to get to phpMyAdmin.  Let’s start there. phpMyAdmin Managing databases can be pretty challenging and complex.  Some folks felt the same way [...]

Table of contents for Installing WordPressInstalling WordPress (part 1)Installing WordPress (part 2)Installing WordPress (part 3)Configuring WordPress I finally bit the bullet and figured out the issues I was having with PHP and MySQL on my home server so I could check out WordPress.  I’d had issues getting both free applications to be served properly on my server, [...]