1. Launch Terminal.
• Type sudo pico /etc/hosts and hit return.
• Type your admin password then hit return. (characters are not visible)
• Use your arrow keyboard to get to the right line. Type 127.0.0.1 localhost.donalyza (you can change “donalyza” to another name)
• Once you are done, hit the CTRL-X keys, then save changes by hitting the Y to indicate yes.
2. Download and Install MAMP.
3. Download WordPress.
4. Open Finder
• Go to /Users/[username]/Sites. Then drag the downloaded WordPress folder into the Sites folder.
5. Open MAMP.
• Click Open Start Page button, (default browser will automatically will run).
• Under MYSQL click the link phpMyAdmin.
• In the field Create new database, type wpdb then click Create button.
6. Go to Finder.
• go to path Sites>WordPress folder, open wp-config-sample.php file. There are several items here that we need to change.
• After /** The name of the database for WordPress */, change ‘database_name_here’ to ‘wpdb’.
• After /** MySQL database username */, change ‘username_here’ to’root’.
• After /** MySQL database password */, change ‘username_here’ to ‘root’.
• After /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */, add define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);.
• Save as file to wp-config.php.
7. Relaunch MAMP.
• Click Preferences > Ports tab then click Set to default Apache and MYSQL ports button.
• Click Preferences > Apache tab select the folder where you save the WordPress folder. eg. /Users/[username]/Sites/wordpress.
• Open Safari.
• Type http://localhost.donalyza
8. Install WordPress.
• Under WordPress Dashboard, Go to Tools > Network. Select Sub-Directories (Sub-domain will not work on localhost).
• Follow the instructions in Enabling the Network provided by WordPress.

Everything should be up and running by now. If something is not right on the steps I provided feel free to let me know. Cheers!

I just registered and very excited to attend the event. The place is very known to me because I graduated from that school. It’s been a long time since I last visited my alma mater. The 1st WordCamp Philippines will be held on September 6, 2008 at the Augusto-Rosario Gonzalez Theater in College of Saint Benilde along Taft Ave, Manila. Everyone is cordially invited whether you are a WordPress user or not. To those who are not familiar to blogging this is your chance to learn it. The following organizers are planning to discuss about the following topics:

• Blogging 102 – Basics & Beyond
• Other Ways to Use WordPress
• Video and Mobile Blogging
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Blog Monetization
• Migrating to WordPress
• Organizing / Optimizing Your WordPress Blog
• Advanced WordPress Management
• Developing WP Plugins / Best Practices in PHP Coding
• Designing WP Themes
• WordPress & SEO
• WordPress E-commerce Site
• Configuring & Deploying WordPress MU
• Developing WP Aggregator Sites
• WordPress Security / Anti-Hacking Techniques
• WP Development Ethics
• Microformats

Thanks to our sponsors.

• i.PH: the Domain for Individuals
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• Wazzup Manila Philippines
• Real Estate CRM
• Real Estate Website Designers
• Orange County Real Estate
• Auto Insurance Quotes
• Lane Systems Inc.
• RedMedia

The latest version just came out today. I like updates especially if there are a lot of new improvements from the past version. Read the blog about the release I guarantee that you’ll expect more features on WordPress 2.6 or “Tyner” named after McCoy Tyner, jazz pianist.

There’s a video below about the new version. Watch to know more about the added features on WordPress.

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* This varies depending on your theme, this is commonly used in a normal wordpress blog layout.

1. Go to admin dashoard > manage > categories. Look for the category you want to exclude and identify the category ID. e.g. we want to hide category ID: 8.
2. Still in the admin dashboard > go to Presentation > Theme Editor > open *index.php
3. Inside the *index.php file, look for the line that says “<?php if (have_posts()) : ?> ”
   then paste this code after that line:
   ! don’t forget to change the id to your chosen category id

   <?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("cat=-8&paged=$page"); ?>

   and before this code. “ <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> “

4. Then Update your *index.php file.

To start of, we are going to edit your comments.php and style.css. If you are a WordPress user definitely you know what I’m talking about. For newbies,Here’s an easy way to access your site. go to admin panel> presentation> theme editor> then just click the you want to change.

Let’s begin.

1. Open the comments.php within that file. Search for the code that read as

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<li class=”<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>” id=”comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>”

Remove the second line and change it using the code below. Don’t forget to modify the ones that are marked red.

<li class=”<?php if ($comment->comment_author == ‘TYPE AUTHOR’S NAME‘ &&
$comment->comment_author_email == ‘TYPE AUTHOR’S EMAIL ADDRESS‘) echo ‘authorcomment’;
else echo $oddcomment; ?>” id=”comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>”>

After you update your comments.php, we will add styles to it. Open your style.css, we are going to design the class for “authorcomment“. Look on comments section and add this code.

.authorcomment {
background: #666666;
}

This code varies on how your theme was made. Analyze the code but once you understand the principle you can apply it in your theme.

If you don’t want to use his theme, I’ll just show you how you can also add his script on your blog.

1. Download this Page Peel Script File and unzip it.
2. Open the PagePeel folder and edit the PagePeel.js file.
   - Edit your preferred url on the one that says ‘Type your link here’.
3. Create 2 image files, 1 small (75×75) and 1 big (500×500),
   Look at the sample images for an idea inside the images folder. a psd file for big image is included to edit it in Photoshop.
4. Add a script tag in the body of your html page that points to pagepeel.js.
   - Ex. <script src=”./pagepeel/PagePeel.js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
   - Most of the time you add this code after the <body>.
5. Upload the PagePeel folder to the root of your server.

There are several ways to use this script.

• Boosting your feed subscriptions.
• A featured article on your blog that you want your readers to get notice.
• You can suggest this to your advertisers to use this to promote on your blog.
• A product you are endorsing and more…

Are you going to use this on your blog? If so, how will you use this PagePeel script?

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Is it necessary to upgrade your to WordPress 2.3.3? No, it is not the end of the if you do not update your WordPress. However, you are putting your site at an increased risk of being exploited. A bug was found on WP-Forum plugin so if you are using the plugin they suggest to remove it until the author updates its version.

More on WordPress News

• If you are using WordPress MU, there’s a recent version as well. WordPress MU 1.3.3, is a must-have upgrade for all it’s users.
• WordPress Podcast, released a new episode a very long overdue. Episode 33: WordPress 2.3.2 released, WordPress 2.4 missed and changes to the podcast.
  • » Charles Strickland with Jonathan Bailey as co-host.
  • » As Charles promised that he’ll make a weekly podcast about the lastest WordPress. He will soon be accepting advertisements, so watch out for it.
  • » Download the Episode 33 Podcast

Below are some samples I found in the blogosphere.

- used to be from carlocab.com. It changed after replacing a new theme.

- from shoemoney.com

- from johncow.com

You want to learn how they did it?

With these 3 easy steps you can come-up with your own style.

1. Open your index.php and/or single.php.

2. Edit each page and look for the lines that read.

< ?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>

3. Change the way you want them to appear in your page. Style your own comments by changing only the one on red marks.

< ?php comments_popup_link('Leave a comment »', '1 Comment - Want to Join Him? »', '% Comments - Want to Join Them? »'); ?>

How about you? What’s your style? Care to share?

Go to your address bar and type this, http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/ or http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/plugins/. Ofcourse just change the word “yourdomain.com” to your domain address and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Eureka! you are exposing yoursite to everyone. You don’t want others to snoop over your folders and find something interesting right? What if someone is stalking you? Will you allow them to hack your website? We all don’t want that to happen. Here’s a very easy way to prevent them from checking your website.

1. Open your file, .htaccess
* find it in your root directory.

2. Just add this line
Options -Indexes

and you are good to go!

Very simple right?

*** since we are editing a very sensitive file (.htaccess) make sure you back-up your files.

Things you need before the WordPress Installation:

• Make sure you already have Webhosting account.
• Download the latest stable version of WordPress.
• If you don’t use Firefox as your browser, I strongly recommend to download and install the program.
• Download FireFTP, it will serve as your FTP Client.

Steps in installing WordPress

1. Setup Database
   • Login to cPanel.
     • e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel

   

   • Click on MySQL Databases.

   

   • Create New Database.

   

   • Create New User.

   

   • Connect your created new user to your new database.

   

   • Allow All Privileges to your newly setup database account

   

   • Your current Database should look like this.

   

2. Edit wp-config.php.
   • Look for the file were you save your latest version of WordPress. Extract the zip file.

   

   • Inside the extracted folder (wordpress) open the filename wp-config-sample.php. Change the Highlighted keywords based on how you setup your database. *Once you are done save as.. the file to wp-config.php.

   

3. Uploading WordPress files into your Web Server.
   • Open FireFox browser. Choose Tools > Click FireFTP.
   • 
   • Click Manage Account. Choose New… Account Manager window opens.
     Account Name: – any name will do.
     Host: – yoursite.com
     Login: – ** FTP Username
     Password: – ** FTP Password
     ** ask your web host if you don’t know your FTP login account.

   

   • Select the account name > then click Connect.

   

   • On the left pane look for the path in your computer where you save the WP files, then hightlight all the files. On the right pane, click on the folder where you want to upload the files, most of the time select public_html folder. Then click the arrow point to right to transfer files. It usually take around 5-10mins.
   • 
4. Final Installation of WordPress.
   • Open your Firefox. Type on the address bar, http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php

   

   • Type your WordPress blog name and email address.

   

   Good job! You were able to Install your own WordPress Blog.

*** If you can’t follow and still need my help I can Create and Install WordPress Blog for Free.