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How to Migrate From Drupal to WordPress

Jun 6th

Posted by charles in Wordpress

Are you a professional blogger? Then you must have understood the prominence of WordPress, overshadowing Drupal. Many professional bloggers are now converting their web pages from Drupal to WordPress. Reason? WordPress is easier, better, and user-friendlier. Many tech savvy people may argue that Drupal is the ideal place for technically sound ones; however, there are many, who cite for the struggle, they have faced during posting their blogs in Drupal. There are a couple of reasons, why many web users are switching from Drupal to WordPress. If you are interested to imbibe the process for a better blogging experience, here are some tips on how to migrate from Drupal to WordPress, mentioned below. Before landing on the topic, let’s take a look why you might need the switch.

Why WordPress is better than Drupal:

WordPress is quicker than Drupal. The tasks that you can perform on Drupal, can be executed much faster on WordPress.
WordPress has the autosave option, which takes care of your incomplete content, while on Drupal, there is no such option in the text editor.
WordPress offers more Plugins.
WordPress has the Thesis theme, which takes extra care to make your page rank higher in search engines.
There is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor on WordPress, with which you don’t have to take extra burdens to add HTML links.
Moderating comments is easier on WordPress.

How to switch to WordPress from Drupal:Migrating from Drupal to WordPress is not an easy task. You first need to work on the offline copies in the archive. Dump Drupal database from your system and import it into a fresh database. You can use MySQL for this conversion.

Install WordPress into your system, using the old database server, where the Drupal database is kept. You now have Drupal and WordPress running on the same server but in separate database. Don’t forget to give unique names to the databases.

You may need some programming knowledge with MySQL and PHP to work on Drupal. You can enable PHP on Drupal following the path:

/drupal/admin/settings/filters

You need to change the location; else Google will consider it as duplicate content. With slight coding, you can inform Google that the content is being shifted from Drupal to WordPress. After the switch, whenever, you need to post something, just enable ‘Input Format’.

This is the basic procedure of migrating from Drupal to WordPress. Now log in to WordPress site and you will supposedly find all your contents and posts along with the comments on your new WordPress site. If you find all your posts and comments in the migrated database, you can dump the WordPress database and import the archive into a new database on the server. Now a new WordPress should be installed and configured on the server so that you can use the new database properly.

Your wordPress site is ready. Happy blogging!

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WordPress Training – The Best Investment You Will Ever Make

Jun 6th

Posted by charles in Wordpress

In the good old days of Web sites, the Webmaster was the critical component to success on the Internet. You paid what he asked and hoped you got the site you wanted. It didn’t always turn out that way though.

If you needed changes made, it sometimes took several days to get minor changes made. Finally, the site was ready for the world to see.

The Webmaster probably told you that he also did search engine optimization, or would at least submit your site to the search engines. Months later, you’re nowhere to be found on the search engines. The reason for this is actually quite simple.

HTML, the language of Web sites, was invented by a gentleman named Tim Berners-Lee. It came into being well before search engines. That makes sense when you realize the purpose of search engines is to find Web sites for you.

Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to get a good search engine ranking with a standard HTML Web site because:

* HTML is NOT search-engine friendly. Optimizing an HTML Web site for the search engines is difficult, time-consuming and expensive.

* Google looks for relevant content, and lots of it. HTML was never designed to be a Content Management System, and adding lots of new content every day is extremely difficult and horrendously expensive.

WordPress To The Rescue!

WordPress was developed AFTER the rise of search engines and is an excellent Content Management System. That means that, even if you have your WordPress site developed for you, you will still be able to add content to it yourself.

WordPress Web sites are simple, easy and fast to design, once you know how. WordPress tools, called

“plugins” and “widgets” that you can download, extend WordPress and make it very powerful.

Developing and maintaining your own WordPress site is easily doable by the non-technical person, with the right training.

WordPress has many features, some of which you will use, and some you may not. Complete WordPress training covers ALL the elements of WordPress and allows you to go back and review sections that you might have missed or need refresher training on.

The most important training component is video. There is a lot of material to cover in WordPress training, and text documentation is not a good way to do that. People hate to read, especially pages of instructions.,WordPress video training is the best way. It involves multiple senses and makes learning both easier and faster.

Search engine optimization is built into WordPress. Google, for example, loves WordPress Web sites. In any page 1 Google listing, you are very likely to find that at least half, or more, of the sites listed on the page are WordPress sites.

How can you tell a WordPress site? Simple. Take the URL for the home page (the one usually ending in.com,.net or.org) and add “/feed” (without the quotes), and press Enter. If you get a page that looks like an article menu back, it’s a WordPress site.

That little identification trick also illustrates another powerful WordPress feature – a built-in RSS feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a way for people to get your site content without having to go to your site. If they subscribe to your RSS feed and use an RSS reader, like Google Reader, they can see anything that has been added to your site. Your new content is immediately sent to your RSS feed subscribers, automatically. This is another way to get traffic to your site.

If you are NOT using WordPress to promote your business on the Internet, you are missing out on a fantastic tool, and giving business away to your competition.

Take my advice and get some WordPress training today, and begin to dominate your market on the Internet.

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Three Different Ways Of Getting A WordPress Blog Up And Running

Jun 5th

Posted by charles in Wordpress

The purpose of this article is to outline three different ways of getting a WordPress blog up and running. WordPress is a free blogging software, has many benefits and is supported by a large community of users and developers.

A “blog” is abbreviated from the term, “web log” which is a form of online diary or journal.

Since its advent a few short years ago, blogs have found numerous uses. Just to name a few, these include:

- teenagers putting their thoughts and ramblings online

- hobbyists giving updates about their interests and passion

- people staying updated with friends overseas

- professional bloggers updating specific niche products

- multinational corporations (MNC’s) such as Microsoft & General Motors using blogs as marketing tool

Like a web site, a blog has global reach. However, it’s far cheaper, quicker and definitely easier to maintain a blog than a traditional web site. A blog’s contents can be easily updated by submitting short or long articles (commonly known as blog posts) through an easy-to-use graphical interface. As a blog’s content is updated regularly, they naturally attract both human readers as well as search engines hungry for fresh content.

To set up a blog, we need some form of blogging software or platform. There are free software like Blogger and WordPress and there are paid platforms like Moveable Type and Typepad.

Blogger is owned by Google. It’s free and perhaps the easiest way to create a blog and your first post, literally within minutes! Howeer, its features are somewhat limited.

Thus, WordPress is a good alternative if you are looking for free blogging software. As it is an open source software, it is literally supported by a huge community of users and developers that assists both new and experienced bloggers. Not only feature rich – it supports categories, pages and trackbacks, just to name a few – it is constantly being updated through its core software as well as through software plugin’s which are bonus software components that extend the basic functionality of WordPress. For more information, visit WordPress.org

Here are 3 different ways to get a WordPress blog up and running:

1) Via WordPress.com

2) Via WordPress.org

3) Via CPANEL’s Fantastico

VIA WORDPRESS.COM

Like Blogger, you can get your WordPress blog and first post up and running within several minutes through WordPress.com! This site is meant for people to get a taste of WordPress without having to go through the somewhat involved procedure via WordPress.org (see the section below). If this is the first time you are getting your WordPress blog up and running, you should definitely give this a shot.

It’s as easy as going to WordPress.com, clicking the button that says “Get a WordPress Blog Now>>” or something like that and following the directions there. And then, you start posting!

In this case, your WordPress blog will be hosted on WordPress.com totally free. Therefore, you do not need your own web host. The only drawback is that there are limitations such as you can’t install your own themes or plugin’s.

VIA WORDPRESS.ORG

Instead of having your blog hosted on WordPress.com, you can install WordPress on your own web host. (Of course, in this case, you need to have your own web hosting account which preferably comes with a version of “CPANEL” – a an easy-to-use graphical control panel to manage your web host.)

Setting up of the WordPress blog comprises the 3 main steps below.

Step 1: Visit WordPress.org and download the WordPress installation files which are free (since it is open source software as mentioned before). As the files are in a compressed format, run your compression utility (such as Winzip) to expand the files to your hard disk..

Step 2: Run your File Transfer Protocol (FTP) program and connect to your web hosting account. Then upload the installation files to the domain (if you have multiple domains hosted) and folder that you want your WordPress blog installed.

Step 3: This step is going to be challenging for the non-techie type if they managed to survive Step 2! You log into the CPANEL of your web host and create and configure your MYSQL database. After this is done, you need to configure some files to complete your installation.

Next, launch your browser to access your blog and start making your 1st post by running the “wp-admin.php” script that has been installed.

As you can see, this is the “normal” but very tedious way of setting up of your WordPress blog.

However, the effort you expend is worthwhile as you can configure all aspects of WordPress like installing the theme you like and adding HTML codes to include Google AdSense on your blog to earn some profit, etc.

VIA FANTASTICO

Again, you install WordPress on your own web host but this time through FANTASTICO. In this case, not only would you need to have your own web hosting account, it MUST come with a version of “CPANEL” that includes “FANTASTICO” – an advanced script installer that automates a 1-click WordPress installation! (Actually a few clicks are needed.)

With FANTASTICO, all the 3 steps above are automated for you. All you need to do is to log into the CPANEL of your web host and then click the FANTASTICO icon, which is a smiley face.

In the next screen, click on “WordPress” and then click on “New Installation”. FANTASTICO will open a form and you fill in a few things like which domain (if you have multiple domains hosted) and which folder to install to. Once you have typed in the information and pushed a button, FANTASTICO will install WordPress in a few seconds!

How is that possible? That’s because the installation files are already at your web host. This saves you time as you don’t have to download them from WordPress.org, expand them and upload to your web host. Likewise, the databas is also automatically created and configured for you.

Next, launch your browser to access your blog and start making your 1st post by running the “wp-admin.php” script that has been installed.

As you can see, this is the “preferred” method of getting a WordPress blog up and running, also within minutes.and yet you can have all the benefits of configuring all aspects of WordPress, such as adding Affiliate Programs easily (including Amazon.com) and Google AdSense to make a handsome profit month after month!

Copyright 2006 Roger Loh

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