Saturday, March 13, 2010

Customising Your Header

13 March 2010

While I was trolling the internet looking for themes I came across SimplyWP and was quite taken with their style. It’s not for everyone; I think you’ll either love it or hate it. They have a selection of free WP Themes that you can download or you can have them create a custom theme for [...]

Choosing a Theme

13 March 2010 6 comments

No word of a lie, I wasted a good part of 3 days looking for a new theme for my blog. I have the same problem when I go shopping; I have something in mind and never find exactly what I’m looking for. I trolled the internet and wordpress.org. All I wanted was a customisable [...]

Registering a Domain Name and Renting Server Space

13 March 2010 4 comments

Before exporting your blog you’ll need to register a domain name for your site and rent some server space. I was lucky enough to have a friend who offered to host my site on his servers so I didn’t have to fork out for this. I did, however, have to register my domain name. As [...]

My Journey from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

13 March 2010 1 comment

I’m still not 100% sure why I’ve moved my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org but apparently I’ll have more control, flexibility and if I decide to go down the route of monetising it it’s better to self host as WordPress.com doesn’t allow advertising. Do bear in mind that I’m not a techie geek so if [...]

Exporting Your Blog

13 March 2010 4 comments

Now that you have a domain name and some server space you can start importing your posts. For the most part this was fairly straight forward. This is assuming that you have already installed WordPress.org. If not, click on the link for a couple of options for doing this. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIapqCIpDA Exporting the posts from wordpress.com [...]