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Moving WordPress Installation to Another Location

February 4th, 2010

WordPress is a popular blog.  I did not know how much I would fall in love with developing on this platform. For my installation, I have it hosted on Bluehost.  Since I installed it in 2007, I was not aware of its capabilities at the time.  I had it in directories nested two levels deep and also had it pointing to a different subdomain, http://blog.designrjc.com.  This is not ideal for SEO and it kept organization chaotic. I had previously moved a WordPress installation to a different location on the server so I have had experience, but that one was a bit more straight forward. There are several methods to move or migrate your WordPress to different locations on your server but I believe this to be the easiest implementation. Backup your WordPress installation by downloading the entire... Continue Reading...

Tags: changing url, migration, moving directory, Wordpress
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WordPress Pagination Made Easy

February 4th, 2010

WordPress is a great platform to work with because of the structure, however, there are limitations to a default WordPress theme. One of the limiting factors of WordPress by default is that the included pagination for navigation is too simple. The default WordPress pagination allows for “previous” and “next” hyperlinks only.  As you can imagine, without using the search function, it may take you some time to jump several pages.  Bonus:  If your blog has many articles and posts, the number of pages displayed can show the visitor how much you’ve actually written on a certain subject. As a web designer focused on user interface and experience, I am not satisfied with the default.  Instead, I want better pagination for the website.  Thanks to WordPress’... Continue Reading...

Tags: page navigation, pagination, Wordpress, wp pagenavi plugin
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