We’ve got a lot of friends using WordPress (WP) these days, and many have a question or two.
I’ve spoken with folks who wish they could sit down with their peers and see how they use WP, I’ve also talked with people who wish they could just run their site more smoothly.
Well I think it would be helpful to get a group together, have a website with links to all the best plugins and have answers to common questions and help a group out.
If this idea appeals to you, please fill out the survey below so I can work out a plan.
Make sure your domain name loads. If it doesn’t load your your email account won’t work.
Make sure you have setup your email accounts at yourdomain.com/cpanel .
Make sure that you already have an account setup
You are now ready to begin setting up advanced email account settings.
Open Outlook Express
Go to “Tools” and click on “Accounts“
A “Internet Accounts” window will pop up. High-lite you account and click on “Properties“
This will open a window with 4 or 5 tabs. Click on the “Servers“tab.
Verify your mail server in each box.
In the Incoming mail (POP3) field type mail.yourdomain.com
In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) field type mail.yourdomain.com
(so if your domain name is elitepolls.com, then you would put “mail.elitepolls.com” there). Click Next.
Now type in your username that you have setup from cpanel using the following format:”yourusername+yourdomain.com” rather than “yourusername@yourdomain.com”
Verify that “Outgoing Mail Server” has a check mark next to “My server requires authentication“
Next click on the “Advanced” tab. Set the “Outgoing mail (SMTP):” value to 26.
Just click “OK” and “Close” – send a test message. — Your done.
If you spend any time in your WordPress site, you may have noticed that version 3.2 is available for an update.
If your website uses a slideshow/slider, this update will probably break it. Right after testing the new version on our Focus Web Works site, I upgraded one of our clients. The first thing we noticed (after the cool new look for the dashboard) was that her slideshow stopped working.
I’ve since done quite a bit of research and discovered that most slideshow/slider plugins are not working.
One more thing… It turns out that the WordPress developers group has decided to sunset Internet Explorer 6.0. This means that you should avoid upgrading if a large portion of your clients use IE 6.
If either of these situations are a concern for you, we recommend that you wait on that upgrade or at least contact us about your options.
If you only back up to a hard drive, it WILL fail. One day when you really don’t have time to deal with it. If you aren’t already working with my friend Alex Liebeskind, you should look into this.
It’s especially nice if you use multiple computers, and ANY kind of smartphone. The Basic package is free.
I backup 30 GB constantly and they are synced between two computers as well. I pay $4.99 a month for peace of mind.
Best of all you can give someone a URL to a big file which they can download.
It’s good stuff.
I built this for a presentation last week, but I’ve had lots of requests to see it again. This is a demonstration of how a web site is built using WordPress.
WordPress has been updated again. This time with some interesting new features.
Really there are two keys that will make managing you site easier.
1. Vastly easier linking within a site
2. A handy administrator bar to speed navigation while updating a site
There are also hundreds of minor improvements under the hood, but item 1 and 2 above are the ones that will help you out every day.
New intra site link example
I found a nice explanation of how to use the new linking feature here. Basically when you are editing a page or a post, you can easily highlight a word or picture, click on link and then search your own site for a post or a page to link to. Click! and you’re done.
The other helpful addition is an administrator bar that stays at the top of the screen while working on your site. This is really handy when you are reviewing the pages of your site and you want to jump in and edit a page, or just straight to the dashboard, or even review comments left on your site.
I might note that the Admin bar seems to have redraw issues with Google chrome. It draws the bar on the screen multiple times.
We’ve got a lot of friends using WordPress (WP) these days, and many have a question or two.
If you only back up to a hard drive, it WILL fail. One day when you really don’t have time to deal with it. If you aren’t already working with my friend Alex Liebeskind, you should look into this.
