Tag: wordpress

  • Fixing crashed WordPress comments

    I recently noticed that I had lost all my comments from the Enterpriseyness blog (this website, a WordPress site). I decided to look at the database table that stores my comments. By default, the comments are stored in wp_comments but you have the option to use any prefix other than ‘wp’ when you are setting […]

  • Fixing the GoDaddy WordPress FTP credentials issue

    Over the past few years, people have been writing about an intermittent issue with WordPress sites hosted on GoDaddy where upon trying to update the WordPress site, the user is prompted for FTP credentials but the credentials are not accepted.This issue doesn’t seem to occur on fresh installations and no one is quite sure what […]

  • A review of Themify’s Minshop theme

    Minshop is a responsive WooCommerce theme from the good people at themify.me. In building out the eCommerce solution for The Men’s Fashion, Minshop has allowed us to jump start the front end thus saving weeks of design effort and allowed us team to deliver a working product in minimal time. Responsive Layout Minshop is an HTML5 WordPress theme with […]

  • Source control strategy for WordPress sites

    My background is more in software and web application development, not website development. So when I started doing a few websites on the side, I wanted to translate some of the tools and processes that I use everyday as a developer to this new role. As I compared the different CMS options, WordPress was the […]

  • Migrating Multiple WordPress Sites to a single Multisite

    Until recently, I have been using WordPress solely for more this blog. With the release of version 3.0, I decided to read through the release notes and noticed some great features. With the addition of custom post types introduced in version 2.9, WordPress makes a dandy content management system. Discussing this with Morton (@mor10) at MIX 2011 […]

  • Manually Installing WordPress on GoDaddy Free Linux Shared Hosting

    Log in to your GoDaddy account and create a MySQL database Wait for the database to be created. Log in to the database, and note the server address Download the latest WordPress packager The latest version is available here: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip Unzip/decompress the package and upload the “wordpress” folder within to Run the WordPress installer When […]