Feb 2009
13
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.7.1 Problems
Categories: Blogging
I tried to upgrade using the automatic upgrade feature of Wordpress 2.7 but I always go this error message.
Could not copy file: /public_html/wp-content/upgrade/core/wordpress/wp-trackback.php
Installation Failed
After searching the internet, I found other bloggers were having the same problem (like this). I tried doing the stuff in lvsonline but still, I encounter problems.
I’ve changed permissions in directories to 777, used both firefox and IE but still the same problem.
I ended up upgrading the old way. I downloaded the wordpress 2.71 tgz and uploaded to my host and just tar zxvpf wordpress-2.7.1.tgz to overwrite my installation.
That finally worked out properly.
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Sep 2008
22
In starting your own income generating blog, you have to do it right the first time. There’s nothing wrong with using free blog services out there but the problem is that eventually, if you want a long term blogging income, you WILL host your own blog in your own domain name anyway. Once this happens, it would be hard to transfer your content to your new blog and moreover, your blog is already ranking on some keywords in the search engines and it is very hard to transfer this ranking to your new domain if you are not an SEO.
So here’s what you need.
1. Buy domain
2. Buy hosting
3. Install a CMS/blog software (I highly suggest wordpress)
4. Learn how to install the latest wordpress. Some hosting services has fantastico but 98% of the time, it will not setup the latest wordpress version. You need to learn how to manually install wordpress.
5. Learn how to transfer files to your hosting.
6. Learn about how to setup a MySQL database.
7. Learn how to create a MySQL user.
8. Learn how to assign a Mysql user to a mysql database
9. Learn how to edit wp-config.php
10. Learn how to install plugins
11. Learn how to Optimize your blog for the search engines
A lot of people already know how to do this, however, I know for a fact that there are still a huge number of people who are still newbies in terms of making their own blog. Some perhaps are afraid to even try because they think they are not techie enough to do it. Some even pay $20 to $50 to have somebody install these for them.
Now what if there is a way to “see” exactly how it is being done? What if you can be a fly on my shoulder and observe exactly how to do all these things? What if there is a set of videos which you can use to LEARN all these.
They say it is easier to learn if you can “see and hear” rather than just “read” about it. If a picture has a 1000 words, what more if its a video?
I highly suggest you checkout this material “How to Install and SEO wordpress“. The Best part about it is that you will also get a copy of the “Killer Backlink Strategy” which I personally use to have my sites rank in my chosen keywords.
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