In this podcast I will show you how to use the MORE and NEXTPAGE features in WordPress. These are built-in tags that will make your posts look their best: MORE can break your post off on the front page, so instead of the entire post being displayed you can choose where WordPress inserts a “read … Read more
In this podcast I will show you how to disable user registrations on your WordPress website. If you don’t have a legitimate reason to invite users to register themselves you’re leaving your site open to spammers who may from time to time try to “get in” (and we want to make sure we keep them … Read more
In this podcast I will show you how to restore a WordPress site that we’ve backed up in the previous show. In particular, we will restore a remote website to our local system first, and because it’s a rather tricky process we’ll also install it on another remote host. For both examples the domain will … Read more
In this podcast I will show you how to backup a full WordPress installation. This includes your files and your database. It’s not a tough task, but you need to know how to do it. We will be using FileZilla and phpMyAdmin for this. Have your credentials ready (you’ll get those from your hosting provider). … Read more
In this new Podcast Season I will start things off by showing you how to run WordPress on your laptop. I will explain this on a Mac, but the process is very similar (if not identical) on a PC. All you need is an installer that gives you Apache, MySQL and PHP on your local … Read more
You can either manually add people to your individual lists (via Users – Add a User – select which list at the bottom) or use a signup option where users add themselves. For the latter option there are either the direct link in PHPlist to the subscriber page or for much slicker integration use one … Read more
In this workshop I will talk you through using the PHPlist Campaign Manager.
PHPlist is another Open Source venture which has grown tremendously over the years. Even though not anywhere near as elegant as WordPress it gets the job done and it’s free to use – so we can live with its intricacies.
Using the system isn’t as easy and straightforward as it could be so I thought it’s time for a screencast.
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Sometimes you want to leave a comment and post code to demonstrate what is or isn’t working. For security though, pure HTML and PHP is filtered out – otherwise evildoers could post malicious code wherever they can. In this screencast I will show you how to post code in comments so it can be displayed … Read more
