Recently we had a blogger using his Weblogs.us blog as a full featured temp site before pushing the finished product out to a client’s GoDaddy CPanel hosted site. He asked me to assist with the process and I was happy to help 🙂 Since I was doing these steps anyway I thought I would write up… Continue reading Basic process for moving a Weblogs.us WordPress hosted blog to -> CPanel
Category: Resources
Backup all CPanel files
Here is a quick illustrated guide to generating a complete backup of all CPanel files:
Using your own Domain Name with Weblogs.us
NOTE: Thank you to Kate at KateReads.com for submitting this updated domain name setup FAQ entry to us 🙂 She has been blogging with us since 2005! Setting up a custom domain name for your Weblogs.us blog Option 1. Setting up GoDaddy using GoDaddy’s DNS manager Follow the instructions here: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/7920/adding-or-editing-arecords?locale=en For your A record, use… Continue reading Using your own Domain Name with Weblogs.us
Receiving email notifications from WordPress
One of the limitations of Weblogs.us is that we don’t run an SMTP server. This means that by default, WordPress blog notifications (such as comment notification, or password reset) are NOT sent out. The reason that emails don’t get sent out is because WordPress defaults to using the php mail() function, and since we don’t… Continue reading Receiving email notifications from WordPress
Setup up a domain name for a Weblogs.us blog
One of the my favorite features of Weblogs.us is our free domain name support. If you register your own cool domain name then you can use it with your Weblogs.us blog for free :-). If you haven’t messed with DNS records before then it can be a bit scary to setup. So we have a… Continue reading Setup up a domain name for a Weblogs.us blog
Apache log files now available for Weblogs.us blogs
For any bloggers that would like to have access to their Apache log files: we can make them accessible for you :-). We are using the standard Apache “combined” format: LogFormat “%h %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\”” combined a live sample. Once enabled, your log files can be downloaded via your favorite… Continue reading Apache log files now available for Weblogs.us blogs