This video demonstration shows you how to install WordPress. I perform a demo installation using Windows 7, Firefox and Filezilla FTP client. My website is hosted on CPanel which is used to create the database.

This article provides a list of 4 core features you should look for in a WordPress backup plugin and recommends two plugins to try out.

Have you ever heard people who upgrade to the latest version of Windows complain about the experience? WordPress isn’t so different. When you update WordPress you can run into incompatibilities in plug-ins, themes, and even your own customizations. WordPress updates are usually trouble-free and will only break very complex or poorly maintained sites. I recommend you wait before updating WordPress.

There are fewer things more annoying about the WordPress platform than watching your carefully-crafted markup go straight to Hell.  If you’ve used WordPress for more than 10 minutes you probably know what I’m talking about. The primary culprit is a filter called wpautop that automatically applies to post and page content. The wpautop filter converts double line breaks to sets of opening and closing paragraph tags.  It works fine if your posts are text only, [...]

Using a whole lot of WordPress and a little bit of SQL, I’ll teach you how to move all of the posts in one category to another.