Install WordPress on Your Computer In 4 Easy Steps [with WampServer]

WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today. And every one loves the WordPress too!

As its sounds great to use WordPress, even its easy to install.

Here we giving you guide to install WordPress with WampServer [What is WAMPserver? -->> WAMServer is Windows Apache MySQL PHP Server all bundled into one nice package.You don’t need to test your WordPress blogs theme Online.Instead try these offline with Wamp Server.]. By installing WampServer, you can be installing the following:

Apache 2.2.11 (the web server application)

PHP 5.3.0

MySQL 5.1.36

phpMyAdmin (a convenient web interface for managing our database) [Advantage].

To install it in your local computer, follow the steps.

1. Download The latest version of WordPress from The Official WordPress Site.

2. Download the Wamp Server  and Install it.It is recommended to Install It in the Default path “ C:Wamp”.

After Installing Wampserver

Start the Wamp server and Click on the Wamp Icon on System tray.Then Click On “Start all Services”

Creating new database.

Click on the System tray Icon and Click On “phpMyadmin”. A Page Will open in your Browser.(If you are Not familiar with the Php My Admin Interface Don’t panic!). Just Enter a database name in Create New database and Hit on Create.The database name can be anything ( Here i am Using “Test” as the database name).

Now that You have successfully created the database Open “SQLitemanager” by clicking the System tray  Icon. This Will open the SQLite page in your Browser. as shown here --->>>

Installing WordPress

1 Go to “C:\wamp\www” and Create a Folder. Name it something  i.e “test”.

2. Copy all the WordPress Files in that Directory. After You have copied the Files the directory will look like this..-->

3. 3.Fill in the database details: Now open wp-config-sample.php in any Text editor like Notepad .

In DB_NAME you will find "putyourdbnamehere".Replace it with the database name that you created earlier.(in this case its “test”).

In DB_USER replace “usernamehere” with “root”.

In DB_PASSWORD delete ‘yourpasswordhere’.Leave it blank.

Having done that save that file. Rename it to “wp-config.php”.The following screenshots will be more clear.

 

4. Install WordPress: Open http://localhost/test/wp-admin/install.php. Enter a Blog title and any email id.Then Hit “Install WordPress”. WordPress will be Successfully installed and you will see the Final screen.

Note the Username and password Given .After logging in Click On “users” and Change  the password to a more Convenient one. Thats it!! Easy!!

MultiSite, Plugins and Activation in Wordpress

Yes, its possible! WordPress offers for normal Plugins the hook register_activation_hook();. 

This is active right after the activation of a Plugin, so you can start small installation scripts. But if we are in a MultiSite environment (old: MultiUser) and put the Plugin in the folder wp-content/mu-plugins, then the hook doesn't do anything, because the Plugin is automatically activated. But there are few ways you can still have a kind of activation hook. 

One is this option:

• if ( ! class_exists( 'my_mu_plugin' ) ) {
• if ( function_exists( 'add_action' ) ) {
• add_action( 'plugins_loaded' , array( 'my_mu_plugin', 'get_object' ) );
• }
• class my_mu_plugin {
• static private $classobj = NULL;
• public function get_object () {
• if ( NULL === self :: $classobj ) {
• self :: $classobj = new self;
• }
• return self :: $classobj;
• }
• public function __construct () {
• // Fake-Activation-Hook
• $this->activation();
• }
• private function activation () {
• if ( 'activated' == get_blog_option( 1, 'my_mu_plugin_activated' ) ) {
• // Do Stuff during activation
• ...
• // Update Option
• update_blog_option( 1, 'my_mu_plugin_activated', 'activated' );
• }
• }
• }
• }

We are doing the following: We check whether a certain option is set in blog 1, if not, then run through an activation function, otherwise do nothing - Blog 1 simple so that the install script is only in blog 1 in use. If you want to use it in all the blogs then simply use the function get_option().

WordPress.com Servers Hit in Security Breach

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has announced that hackers have breached its security and broken in to several of its servers, putting any information on them at risk.

Automattic and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg says that Wednesday’s incident was a low-level root access breach. The company is reviewing its data logs to figure out what information may have been stolen and is working on patching any holes in its security. It seems unlikely that personally identifiable user information was taken during the attack, but Automattic has yet to complete its investigation.

“We presume our source code was exposed and copied,” Mullenweg stated on the company’s blog. “While much of our code is open source, there are sensitive bits of our and our partners’ code. Beyond that, however, it appears information disclosed was limited.”

WordPress was the target of a high-profile attack in 2009 that utilized a security exploit in its popular blogging software to create new “hidden” administrator accounts. Today’s security breach is much different than the 2009 incident. If you host a WordPress.org website on your own servers, you shouldn’t be affected, but Automattic suggests that you make sure your various online accounts utilize a variety of strong passwords.

Top 10 WordPress Plugins For More Traffic

Blogging is a good way to share information. We desided to share some useful plugins for one of the best blog softwares these days.

1) Sociable

Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites! WordPress 2.6 or above is required.

2) WP-Google Buzz

Automatically displays Google Buzz button for every post. Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends, so why not have a button for sharing blog posts/pages to the service? To make it work, you’ll need to make sure you’ve set up Google Reader and included that in your Connected Sites on Buzz. Try it now & enjoy. `Happy buzzing!

3) Simple Facebook Connect

Simple Facebook Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you’d like. Requires WordPress 2.9.2 and PHP 5.

4) Simple Twitter Connect

Following the same pattern as the Simple Facebook Connect plugin, this is a plugin to make connecting a WordPress blog to Twitter easy.
Unlike Twitter Tools and other systems, this plugin uses Twitter’s latest authentication mechanisms. No putting in Twitter names or passwords. Clicking the Connect with Twitter button will redirect a user to Twitter for approval, then bring them back to where they came from, only now with their Twitter credentials available for use. Sub-plugins can then make any use of this they like. Requires WordPress 2.9

5) Socialite

Socialite allows your WordPress posts to publish to Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. Each social networking site can be enabled or disabled for publishing, and each is configured separately with their own options. Support for Short URL services such as zz.gd and Tinyurl.com is also supported.

6) Gigya

Gigya’s WordPress plugin is a powerful addition to any WordPress blog or site, enabling a wide range of features that are fully configurable using the WordPress Administration Panels.

7) SexyBookmarks

Though the name may be a little “edgy” for some, SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

8 ) Mingle

The simplest way to turn your WordPress website into a Social Network comparable to Facebook or LinkedIn. Mingle makes it easy to create a social network for your family, church, business or even a premium membership site! Mingle uses your standard WordPress website and standard WordPress theme to create your Social Network instantly.

9) Light Social

This is a super lightweight plugin to insert a set of social share links at the bottom of each post, focused on technical blogs.

10) TweetMeme Button

The TweetMeme Retweet button is the defacto standard in retweeting – used by some of the biggest websites in the world including Techcrunch.com, PerezHilton.com, Break.com, CNET.com, Wired, Time Magazine and hundreds of other massive brands, in total it is installed on over 100,000 websites around the globe.

Thanks,

Vicky Sadhu