Installing SSH server on Ubuntu. I use a program called Putty to access the Linux machine from my Windows machine. Secure Shell (SSH) runs on port 22 and is a widely accepted protocol. It allows remote access to a computer, but it is command line only. Unlike Remote Desktop (RDP) which is mostly graphical. All [...]

Hard drive fragmentation causes undue wear and tear on a hard drive. Defraggler by Piriform is free software that can cure this problem and make your computer run better. Fragmentation happens all the time. Torrenting is a very large cause of this. Since torrent software is constantly downloading and uploading data., the data becomes fragmented [...]

This is a video on how to backup and restore your WordPress website. In this video I use FileZilla, phpMyAdmin, and my HostGator cPanel to back up a sub domain and restore that website to a completely different sub domain. It is important to backup and restore your website. YOu want to back it up [...]

WordPress’s import and export tools enable you to backup and restore your wordpress web site. It saves the posts and pages as a XML document. It does not back up media such as images or video, but if those things are still on the internet, it will download them and put them on the internet. [...]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a way to design and run your website so you become more popular in search engines. Search engines are the main driver of traffic to your website so anyone that doesn’t take them into consideration will not do well. WordPress SEO options Posts Posts Underneath the post title, look at [...]

Akismet is a plugin installed on WordPress by default. It checks comments against a centralized server in an attempt to prevent spam comments. These comments are created by bots and serve no purpose but to clutter your website with advertisements for their website. (Much like a lot of YouTube comments) WordPress is a open source [...]

This is a video on how to insert images, videos, sound, and other media into your WordPress posts. WordPress allows for several functions such as cropping, image rotation, and flipping. You can manipulate the size, location, and border of the images inside WordPress. I would recommend not using sound at all because it is annoying [...]

This tutorial is how to create post tags for your WordPress website. Post tags are a way to group posts into categories of a common subject. It also helps with SEO (Search Engine Optimization). WordPress is a open source content management system (CMS) and popular blogging software. It typically requires Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I [...]

This is a tutorial on building categories in WordPress. Categories are a way to organize posts on your web site. They often appear in menu items. WordPress is a open source content management system (CMS) and popular blogging software. It typically requires Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It can run on other platforms as well such [...]

This tutorial is about managing comments on a WordPress web site. It shows how to moderate, approve and delete comments on your website. WordPress is a open source content management system (CMS) and popular blogging software. It typically requires Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I can run on other platforms as well such as IIS (Internet [...]

Posts are how you make a blog in WordPress. I show in this tutorial how to create, delete and manage posts. I also show how to add tags, categories, privacy settings and password protect posts. I also show how to restore deleted posts. WordPress is a open source content management system (CMS) and popular blogging [...]

This tutorial shows how to create pages on your static non-blog WordPress web site. It allows you to have a web site that doesn’t look like a blog, but still have the convenience of a WordPress Website. WordPress is a open source content management system (CMS) and popular blogging software. It typically requires Apache, MySQL, [...]