You created an AWS virtual server instance and installed WordPress on it. Your WordPress site is public on the internet. You still need to manage your server such as adding a free SSL certificate to your website.
In this article, I show you how you can access to your server to manage it using a SSH client. We are going to use PuTTY.
Step 1: Download PuTTY
Step 2: Install and Open PuTTY program.
[Continue Reading…]By default, any links you have in your WordPress comment section have nofollow attribute. Removing nofollow attribute from links in comment section would encourage your visitors to post comments. That is because it provides backlinks to their websites. Would you remove nofollow attribute from links in comments? If the answer is yes, this tutorial is for you. This tutorial will show you how to do this without install a WordPress plugin.
What is WordPress Plugin? A WordPress plugin is a piece of software that contains functions that can be added to your WordPress easily to enhance and customize your WordPress site.
After you installed your WordPress, you can search for a WordPress plugin to add to your website. There are thousands WordPress plugin available in the official WordPress Plugin directory. You can search for the one that you want to add. This instruction will show you 2 ways to add those plugin to your WordPress site.
It’s important to ensure that all links on your website are accessible and functional. However, there’s always a possibility that your visitors may click on a non-existent link and end up on the 404 Error page.
When this happens, your visitors may become disoriented and leave your website, resulting in a loss of traffic. To prevent this, it’s a good idea to customize your 404 Error page with helpful information instead of relying on the default page or not having one at all.
[Continue Reading…]For any reason, you can’t access to your WordPress admin dashboard and you can’t reset your password using the WordPress UI interface. You lose control your WordPress site.
In this article, we will show you, how you can reset your WordPress password using phpMyAdmin interface. The steps are quick and easy to follow:
Step 1: Login to your phpMyAdmin dashboard
Step 2: Click on your WordPress database -> wp_users ->click on edit (the row with your WordPress username)
Step 3: In the user_pass, change the function to MD5 and the value to your new password, then click Go
Now you should be able to login to your WordPress using your new password.
Adding a Facebook Like button to your WordPress website will allow your visitors to like and share your content on Facebook. You can add this Facebook Like button with this plugin or manually modify your template. In this article, we will show you how to do it by adding it to your WordPress template manually.
Step 1: Open the Facebook Like button configuration page
Step 2: Scroll down to “Like Button Configurator” to configure your Facebook Like button layout and size. You can leave the “URL to Like” box empty. The URL will be dynamically generated when a user click like
[Continue Reading…]When you are designing your mobile compatible website on your local environment, you may want to test your website on your mobile device. This is to make sure it works on mobile devices before you deploy it to a live or production environment.
Many time, you just have to enter the IP address of your machine into your mobile browser and it works. But sometimes, you may have to configure your Windows Firewall, or Apache Server to make it work.
The following instruction will make sure you can access to your localhost on Windows from your mobile devices.
[Continue Reading…]After you installed phpMyAdmin, you logged into your phpMyAdmin for the first time and see the following error at the bottom:
The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret)To correct this error, you need to add a blowfish secret to the phpMyAdmin’s config file
Step 1: Open phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
[Continue Reading…]By default, your WordPress upload folder is located at wp-content/uploads. Every time, you upload an image, your image will be uploaded to wp-content/uploads. You can change this default location by modifying your wp-config.php file:
Find:
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');
Add the following code before the above line:
define('UPLOADS', 'yourNewImagesPath');
Now, every time you upload an image within your WordPress admin dashboard, your image will be saved at your new location.
Adding SSL certificates to your website is now important. This will enable your visitors to communicate with your website securely. Since Google now consider SSL as one of its ranking factors, this implementation will help improve your SEO ranking.
The following instruction is for WordPress site on AWS that was deployed using Bitnami stack.
Step 1: Login to your AWS server using a SSH client
Step 2: Install Git
sudo apt-get install git
