Using .htaccess configuration file you can override certain server level configuration settings on your website. Usually this file does not exist on your website unless you make certain changes in your site permalink structure. Apart from handling permalinks, you can also use this file to set up 301 permanent redirects, enable/disable directory browsing, enhance security of your website, protect admin area etc. Basically this file contains various rules for your website directory. This article covers how to find your site’s .htaccess file in cPanel.
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How to Install a WordPress Plugin
WordPress comes with many handy free and paid plugins that can help bloggers to customize their blogs easily and get discovered by search engines. Plugins help to increase blog functionality and also plugins like Yoast SEO help us make our blog posts search engine friendly (this is why I reluctantly migrated my blogspot blog to WP). If you’re new to WP then you might not know how to install a WordPress plugin and also how to uninstall one that is unnecessary. Here we’ll see step by step how can we install and uninstall WordPress plugins. Here I would like mention that plugins are only available for self-hosted wordpress.org blogs not for wordpress.com.
3 Simple Ways to Backup WordPress Site Manually
It’s recommended that use a best WordPress backup plugin to save backup of your WordPress site. You can find a plenty of renowned WordPress backup plugins that can save regular backup of your sites. Apart from that you should also backup WordPress site manually because in case your backup plugin fails to restore your website then you can do the job on your own. Let’s assume that your websites have been hacked (I know it’s scary but just assume) and you don’t have access to your websites and unfortunately, your backup plugin fails to restore your sites. Then what would you do? You wouldn’t have any choice left other than starting everything from the very beginning. But if you have a manual WordPress backup file then you can readily restore everything by accessing your website hosting cPanel. So, in this tutorial, I will tell you how to backup WordPress site manually. [Read more…] about 3 Simple Ways to Backup WordPress Site Manually
How to Install WordPress on Bluehost using WordPress Tools
WordPress is a renowned open source blogging platform and more than 25% websites that exist on internet run on this platform. This is enough to prove its popularity. It’s one the user friendly blogging platform and you can easily find tons of tutorial if you’re facing any difficulty. WordPress supports Bluehost hosting and you can easily install WordPress on Bluehost. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to install WordPress on Bluehost. As you may know there are many methods available to do so like you can install WP using your hosting cpanel, Mojo MarketPlace etc. But here in this tutorial I’m going to show you the easiest one and that is WordPress tools. You can find WordPress tools tab on your hosting cpanel and that tab can be used to install WordPress on Bluehost. Let me quickly show you how to do that. [Read more…] about How to Install WordPress on Bluehost using WordPress Tools
How to Change WordPress Login Password
We’d change our WordPress login password periodically because our blogs are vulnerable to many cyber attacks. Many, actually almost all, companies suggest that we’d change our login password once in three months to safeguard our admin areas from cyber attacks. In this short but valuable tutorial, I’m going to show you how to change WordPress Login password. It’s a very easy process. You just need to access your WordPress admin area to change your WP password. Here I would like to mention that if you’ve forgotten your WordPress password then kindly read this tutorial how to reset WordPress login password. Otherwise, if you already know your WordPress password and you just want to change it because of above mentioned reason then continue to read. [Read more…] about How to Change WordPress Login Password
How to Point Your Domain From Godaddy to Bluehost
Many web experts suggest that we shouldn’t register our domain name with our web host because if hosting company disappears (very rare chances) then you can rebuild your website easily through another hosting provider. However, some web hosting providers give free domain with hosting service, in that case, you should register a new domain name. In this article, we’ll be discussing on how to point domain from Godaddy to Bluehost. It’s a very easy process, all you’ve to do is just change Godaddy Nameservers with Bluehost Nameservers. [Read more…] about How to Point Your Domain From Godaddy to Bluehost