I was reading an article by Lee, over at the earner’s forum, discussing some tips to become a better webmaster. It was an informative article, and introduced me to some new tools. In the article, Lee advises that every webmaster should have a blog. In fact, it is his number one tip. Lee doesn’t really go into details about why this is important, but it pretty self explanatory. I figure, you are likely to learn more, if you read more and maintaining a blog forces you to be on the lookout for fresh new ideas and content to write about. Plus, it can also be a good promotional tool.
So, here we are, another wordpress install on elvinfish.com.
This time I actually followed the 5 minute wordpress install tutorial and timed myself. I managed to download, uncompress and setup my blog in 4 minutes. I am impressed, at myself, as well as the blogging software. Wordpress is pretty amazing, and any new blogger looking to migrate from free blog hosting sites, should seriously consider using Wordpress. In fact, I am confident that it is the only logical option.
Anyhow, I always manage to lose the default admin password that Wordpress issues after a fresh install and lock myself out of my blog. It has happened on several occasions. You could always try to get it to email you a password reset; however, I could never get this to work right, probably due to some form of mail server misconfiguration on my server. But, it’s pretty easy to change the default password if you have access to the database and something like phpmyadmin. There is a whole tutorial here on how to reset your Wordpress password. Just remember, that any changes to the password field should use MD5 encryption.
Before my first post, I formatted my permalink structure in Wordpress. This is probably a good idea, since many people say that it helps your articles get indexed better in search engines. I like it, since it looks nicer, and makes more sense. After some googling I found a discussion on the best way to structure permalinks on Wordpress here. Check it out; At the moment I have my permalink structured as the following:
%category%/%postname%.html
Such a change as I have suggested above will result in your post urls looking like this, “http://www.website.com/category/this-is-my-post.html,” instead of this, “http://www.website.com/category/p?=1.”
My next post, will be much more concise. I promise.
