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Settings To Be Altered In Wp-Config.php File While Transferring Your Host

Rahul — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:17:45 +0000

I earlier wrote a post on the need and use for moving your website to a new host. I also gave a gist on the process of moving to a new host. In this post i will share a simple tutorial for transferring your wordpress blog from a existing host to a new host.

The main thing that is to be done for a website transfer to a new host is to copy your existing files, database and modifying the wp-config.php file in your main WordPress folder. In the wp-config.php following MySQL settings need to be altered:-

DB_NAME :- Here you should enter the name of the WordPress database, e.g define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘user_techvorm’);
DB_USER :- Here the desired username needs to be entered with privileges to access the above mentioned database, e.g define(‘DB_USER’, ‘user_techvorm’);
DB_PASSWORD :- Select the desired password for your database, e.g define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’);
DB_HOST :- Enter the MYSQL host, most of the times no alteration is required, e.g define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

P.S :- This is a simple and straight forward technique, if you need any more assistance feel free to ask.

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Moving Your Website To A New Host

Rahul — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:05:38 +0000

I earlier wrote about How To Get Free Hosting And A Domain Name to help you find free hosting and this post is about moving your website to a new hosting. Generally people tend to change their hosting in the case of dis-satisfaction or lack of services from the hosting company and sometimes when they take over an existing site and desire complete control.

So the main questions are :-

Do you really need to change your existing host ?

For the answer you just need to figure out the pros & cons of your existing host like firstly the expenditure you are likely to make ,then comes the uptime provided by the hosting,the bandwidth and storage provided to you ,the access rights provided to you and mainly technical support (its a basic thing for those with little or no knowledge of these things). Apart from these a lot of things need to be determined based on your preferences.

The Process

Now that you have opted to move to a new domain you need a detailed description of the process to make things work for you. The process includes the transfer of the ownership of the domain ,backing up the site and preparation to move your site ,uploading the site to the new host ,making changes in the configuration panel of your hosting to discover the optimal settings, changing name servers, etc.

Must Have Tools For New And Upcoming Bloggers

Rahul — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:30:42 +0000

I am not a professional blogger yet and in this post i present before you some tools that i use for blogging. These tools are very useful since they serve my every need. I think these are enough for people who are fairly new to the blogging world and have little or no knowledge about the concept. Now you just need to add a innovative idea and you are done.

A Good Domain Name And Hosting :

According to me a good domain name and a good hosting is one of the basic necessities for a futuristic blogger. By a good domain name i mean that the name should not be too big ,easy to read ,easy to speak ,not too much common and last of all should be available. And by a Good hosting i mean one that is easy on the pocket ,providing maximum uptime ,providing good storage ,good bandwidth ,24×7 tech support and other things as per your requirement. These are the most important part of self hosted blogs so proper care should be taken while choosing them.

Windows Live Writer :

I have just now started using Windows Live Writer and to my amazement i find it really useful and a must-have thing. All you need to do is synchronize your blog with it ,give it adequate permissions and you are done. Now all you need to do is write whether online or offline and the rest will be handed by this software itself. It is also a handy tool to upload images and videos. No matter you are on Blogger or WordPress as it has no conflict with any of them and the best thing it is not only for professionals but for new and emerging bloggers also because of its easy to use interface .

Few features i like the most about this software are :-

Insert multiple photos Hassle free
Insert and publish video to YouTube (then to your blog )
Support for bidirectional languages (motivates variation)
Tabbed view switching (easy to use interface)
Auto Linking (eases work)
Not to mention mostly all other things offered by your dashboard

Last but not the least it provides support for additional plug-ins like :

Flickr Upload – Uploads an image to your Flickr account and inserts an inline picture into your post.
Digg This – Automatically adds a DiggThis badge to your blog post after you publish it from Writer.
Twitter Notify – Automatically generates a TinyURL and sends a Tweet about your blog post after you publish it from Writer.
And Many More !

SnagIt (Screen Capturing Software) :

I post a lot of tutorials,tweaks and how-to-do kind of stuff. And to be true i firstly test all the tweaking and stuff on my desktop and then publish it into posts. For doing tutorial posts and these how-to-do posts ,a screen capturing software is a must and i use Snagit for the same.

Few features that are needed in a good screen-capturing software are:-

Easy screen capture (one-click)
Good editing interface (for cropping ,etc)
Easy to use interface (all bloggers are not professionals)
In-built image format converter(for various sizes)
Watermark/Copyright option (for those who need )
Print in multiple page layouts
Email screenshots
Virtual marker
Other tools for professional touch (as per requirements)

Apart from these features associated with blogging i would like to say that SnagIt also provides running video capture facility which at-times is very useful.

WordPress (Blogger ,BlogEngine.NET ,Typo ,etc) :

Writing about this may take my whole writing space and time so to be intact i would like to say (about WordPress) that this is what has changed the blogging world completely. This has made blogging a lot of fun and easy for people to share their interests with just little bit of technical knowledge. WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. Some other features are :-

Integrated link management,
Search engine-friendly,
Basic SEO provided,
Clean permalink structure,
Multiple author capability,
WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article,
Rich Plug-in architecture,
And much more…..

I was firstly blogging through blogger but it was a bit complex, so i shifted to wordpress and needless to say i am enjoying it specially the widgets (they make everything so easy).
Stock.xchng (Any other Copyright free image) :

Well to create enthusiasm and to support your content you always need good images ,and i would like to mention here that just googling the image and pasting it is not the right thing to do as you may end up using some copyrighted material and being caught in international laws. So the best thing to do is use image sharing services like these which host copyright free images. And you would become free of the risk of putting some copyright stuff accidentally.

P.S:- The tools i had mentioned here are a part of my preferences . And I know that a whole lot of other tools are available. So i request our readers to share their views and experiences with us.