WordPress Blog Hosting

Those who are thinking to start own self hosted blog, this article might telp to understand from where to start thinking about self hosted WordPress blog.

Hosting service

It is important to choose a good hosting service where your site can always be found, the server is quick to make your pages load faster, so that when the search engine robot comes to your site always available.

Choosing the domain name

Selecting a domain name is a real problem. For starters, domain name is actually the url, like this website’s domain name is thecustomizewindows.com .
We wrote ago how to choose your domain name. You can use Bust a name free online tool to find which domain names are not taken. It will create combination of the keywords you will enter in to domain names. You can note down the domain names generated and buy from the company you want.

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14 essential tips for securing your WordPress site

The security of a WordPress site is not to be taken lightly. Hacking of WordPress site can happen to anyone and with these 14 tips will help limit potential damage. This is when everything works correctly we should take action for prevention beforehand.

Backup your site fully and regularly WordPress

Before any work, do a regular backup of your WordPress site. You must save the following items:

• Your MySQL database;
• Your FTP account;

It may be that your host has a full backup directly accessible via cPanel for example. Take this opportunity to get a ZIP full backup of your site!
The management platform your host may have a backup tool
You can also use the backup system in the cloud proposed by Automattic – the organization behind WordPress, which is named VaultPress. It can downloaded as a full backup or partial (plugins, themes, MySQL) at regular intervals (several daily backups). This is paid option.

Online backup has good free alternative.
Remember to put in place a system of automatic backup of your MySQL database.

Keep your WordPress site updated

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How to install WordPress on Windows 7 to test themes and plugins offline

Testing a new theme or plugin for developing them or just for normal usage in server is risky. Just imagine the risk when we try a new plugin or modify the theme’s CSS file : there are always many visitors are surfing the website; it happens the plugin or the modification in CSS file was not done rightly and, as the WordPress guy says “sky will fall on your head” : it really happens. We upgraded to WordPress 3.1 without thinking, unfortunately, it has some compatibility issues (which is rare for WordPress) with older plugins. The total website was a mess for few hours.

Here are the steps to install WordPress on Windows 7 locally on the hard disk