Wordpress Installation

Welcome back!

Installing wordpress on your own server is the way to go. This gives you more control to be able to add your own themes and plugins and own your own content. Some online blog services can shut you down without any reason apart from 1 complaint. Imagine that? losing however many months or years of content at the press of a button!!

If you have C panel with your web host you can usually install via fantastico clicking one or two buttons. This is fine but sometimes manual installation gives you a better understanding of the process..and it isn’t that difficult to do.

Step 1.
Go to wordpress.org and click ‘downloads’ from the horizontal menu and download the zip file. Extract this to your local folder.

For Initial Steps of setting up hosting and using winzip and ftp files please refer to these resources:

http://www.winzip.com
http://www.ftpplanet.com/ftpresources/basics.htm

Step 2.
Once uploaded, you’ll need to create a MySQL database. Find the MySQL in your host’s control panel.

Then create a new database:

· Fill out the name of the database
· Click to go back
· Create a user and password
· Again click to go back

Then select ‘all’ under Privileges and add user to the database.

Step 3.
Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php
And open in a text editor to fill out your database details

Step 4.
Upload the files to your server either onto the top root if you want the blog to be your main website or into a subfolder, usually named ‘blog’.

Or just drag the whole ‘wordpress’ folder to your root directory and rename it.

Step 5.
Run the install script by going to it in your browser.
* If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://yoursiteexample.com/wp-admin/install.php

* If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://yoursiteexample.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

Wordpress ecommerce affiliate program feeds

The world of internet commerce has created more opportunities for affiliate marketers than any other program ever has – the opportunity to have an entire ecommerce online storefront, full of products you can make commissions off of, all based in whatever niche you choose!

I remember manually building affiliate websites taking links and pictures and building the page for every category..I hear you cry ‘fool’ but this was quite a few years ago. Of course now many merchants supply updating feeds, but even then you will have quite a job building a store and outsourcing such a task would take a lot of cash!

Building Your Own eCommerce Online Store

Data feeds are similar to the RSS feeds used by blogs – an ecommerce store set up by a traditional offline business will place descriptions, pictures, and prices of their products into these feeds, and then affiliate marketers can incorporate these feeds into their own ecommerce store and make a commission off of each product sold.

Well I came across Datafeedr which streams ecommerce feeds into your wordpress blog in any niche you choose from merchants such as commission junction, clickbank, shareasale and linkshare.

If you’re looking for the easiest way possible to build multiple affiliate stores in any niche market then I urge you to have a look at this:

>> Wordpress affiliate ecommerce feeds

Wordpress New Media Course

Mike Stewart takes the best blogging software in the world, yes wordpress, and gives the low down on integrating video, podcasting, the whole new media shabang!

How to Set Up up your own WordPress Blogs…
How to create and upload your own video and audio…
How To “Podcast” Audio…
How To Video Blog…
The Software you need stream video in your blog…
Which commercial software & equipment you should use…

REAL Case studies of REAL business applications!

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