I’ve written a tutorial on installing WordPress onto a shared hosting account. The tutorial takes you step-by-step through the entire process with a screen shot for every step. The account I used was a Windows/IIS hosting account with the Helm control panel, but the steps should translate to most other hosts as well.
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Archive for March, 2009
Tutorial: How to Install WordPress onto Shared Hosting
March 23rd, 2009
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Tip: Skip all RewriteRules on a sub-request in Apache
March 18th, 2009
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To have Apache mod_rewrite skip processing all rules during a sub-request you could add a NS (no sub-request) flag to each rule. Or, you could just make this the first rule:
RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} true
RewriteRule .* – [L]
Easy Mortgage Calculator
March 16th, 2009
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This is a mortgage payment calculator that I created because I was unsatisfied with the ones I have found elsewhere, which were slow and plain—why do an entire round-trip to the server for a simple calculation that can be done with javascript? With that in mind I developed the site using jQuery
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Tip: Don’t use spaces or dashes in WordPress theme folders
March 16th, 2009
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Ever wonder why the theme preview for some themes shows up blank in WordPress even though upon activation the theme works as just fine? This is because using spaces and/or dashes in WordPress theme folder names breaks WordPress’ theme preview functionality, so you should only use underscores.
Photo Blog Converted to WordPress
March 8th, 2009
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I finally got around to converting my photo blog to WordPress. I decided to go with the Yet Another Photo Blog plugin and a customized version of the Grain theme. Take a look:
Credit Card Validation in C#
March 7th, 2009
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This code validates credit card numbers based on prefix, length, and the Luhn Algorithm.
