Posts Tagged ‘FTP’
Flipping Wordpress Blogs
July 21st, 2008 | 
Author: Firstly I want to apologise for my not being around over the last month. After finally getting my kidney stone blasted I was in a lot of pain with an infection that kept me away from the computer. I am back on track now after wading through the mountain of 3000 odd e-mails that were waiting for me on my return 
I wanted to bring up the subject of flipping wordpress blogs today, as opposed to flipping html or php websites. From the many e-mails I get from you guys and gals there seems to be some confusion on how this would work and why they are worth more. AND they are worth more.
There are a few more technicalities in flipping wordpress blogs than an html or php website, but they are minor. I have broken the process down into small chunks below. If something doesn’t make sense ‘Google It’ as it is ouside the scope of this post. Obviously if the buyer is keeping the current hosting that you provide this is all irrelevant as it would be with another type of website, no moving involved.
FLIPPING A WORDPRESS BLOG PROCESS
1) Back up the database for the wordpress blog. This is the most important step. If you miss this and something goes wrong the blog is gone forever.
2) Back up (download using a ftp program) ALL FILES and FOLDERS for the wordpress blog. This is the easiest way to ensure that nothing is missed.
3) Make a note of any specific settings needed just incase they don’t get transferred.
4) Change the nameservers, upload ALL the files to the new server, create a database and import the backup from step 1, change the wp-config.php to reflect any changes in the database details should you need to.
5) Check everything is working ok, but you should be good to go.
NOTE: You can install wordpress through fantastico although it is not advised and harder to make certain changes.
The benefits of flipping wordpress blogs over other websites are that they can be updated more often, can include more info, are easier for you to create, are liked more by the search engines. There are also lots of things that can be done with simply with a wordpress blog that would need a lot more work and coding with an html or php website, like a membership site, affiliate/affiliate site or store site.
As you can see the possibilities are endless. So get going flipping those wordpress blogs
I have a new theme coming for you in a few weeks as well as some inside info on some great new plugins to help explode your traffic. I am going on holiday next week, but should have internet access over there to keep up to date. I tell you a few weeks out and you almost have to go back to square one. The one thing I learnt from this though is that you should only stay subscribed to people’s lists if they actually offer you something of value …
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Posted in SEO, Website Flipping, Wordpress | 
Tags: Affiliate, Blog, Blogging, Blogs, Coding, Computing, downloads, E-mail, Flipping Websites, FTP, Google, Help, Holidays, HTML, Kidney, PHP, Plugin, Plugins, Stones, Subscribers, Subscribing, Theme, Themes, Traffic, Updating, Website, Website Flipping, Wordpress | 
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What Is FTP AND How Do I Do It?
Image from Wikipedia
‘FTP‘ stands for ‘File Transfer Protocol’. This is the language used for file transfer from a computer to a computer across the ‘World Wide Web’ (’WWW’).
Your hosting company will usually supply you with FTP log ins, which will normally consist of; ftp.yoursite.com, your username and your password.
Then, all you need is a program like SmartFTP. You can download this software for free and the site also has videos on there to show you how to install and use it.
Once you have logged in you will see, it’s basically a folder, which looks like the window that you would see if you opened one of the folders have on your computer.
All you do is copy your website files from their folder on your computer and paste them into the ‘public_html’ folder through your chosen FTP program and then they are live.
NOTE: Normally you upload all your files into the ‘public_html’ folder, but your host will let you know if this is different.
The main page of your website should be named ‘index’ i.e. indx.html or index.php.
A term commonly used in ’script’ instruction manuals is something like this … CHMOD the folder blabla to XXX. CHMOD is a command that changes the mode of a file and the x’s (numbers) relate to the three modes a file can have turned on or off: read ability, write ability, and execute ability. Each mode can be set for either the owner, the members of the owner’s group, or all users.
To change the CHMOD in SmartFTP, you right click on the relevant folder, select CHMOD and type in the relevant numbers. (most FTP programs run on the same principal for this, but always refer to their help files if you are unsure)
Once you have uploaded all your pages … TEST, TEST, TEST and TEST again, because if something does not work it looks unprofessional. When was the last time you bookmarked or remembered a site where something was not working.
For more information on 404 pages please click here.
Posted in Tutorials |
Tags: File Transfer Protocol, FTP, Help, SmartFTP, Tutorial, Tutorials |
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