Well, I finally did it.  I upgraded from WordPress 2.3.2 to 2.6.  I hadn’t planned on doing it today, but something happened to all my blogs that were being hosted on 2.3.2 (except for one - weird) that served up an HTTP 500 error page when navigating to the site. Of course, upgrading was not without [...]

I installed WordPress a little more than a week ago and already there is a new version with security fixes.  I’d like to install it, but before I do, I want to back everything up.  A WordPress web site has two repositories of data - a MySQL database and the files that make up the [...]

Table of contents for Installing WordPressInstalling WordPress (part 1)Installing WordPress (part 2)Installing WordPress (part 3)Configuring WordPress There are a number of things I do to just about every WordPress site I create.  You might ask how many do I create since I’ve just started with it.  Well, 6 so far and I’m seeing other uses [...]

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, [...]