Monthly Archives: November 2008

How to change your URL structure in Wordpress for SEO

Again, had a request for a ‘how to’ on using the Wordpress ’settings’ interface to change the Permalink structure of blog posts and pages. Its a bit trickier than previous subjects (and hence the video runs to nearly 9 minutes, as there’s lots of different eventualities to consider) but again, once you’ve done it and [...]
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How to update your old version of Wordpress for your gite

Someone in a forum mentioned they’d like to know how to upgrade Wordpress, and it just so happens I’m due an upgrade, so here’s a screencast of the process.  It’s always worth keeping up to date with the latest versions of Wordpress, they regularly fix security holes and some of the updates are critical. If you’re [...]
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How to manually install wordpress on your web server

Been asked a few questions by email and in forums recently about how to install Wordpress on your own server. If you have a server with permissions to create databases and which runs php, then you can install Wordpress very easily.  I’ve put together this 6 minute demo video (using Camtasia Studio for screen recording) which [...]
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New site launched for our apartment in Tignes

Just put the finishing touches to the website for our apartment to rent in Tignes. It’s built using Wordpress, and has a combination of pages and blog posts.  As well as being really easy to update, Wordpress is search engine friendly out of the box, although I’ve made several key customisations to it to boost it’s [...]
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