How to backup your WordPress Blog

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If you worry about your hosting co, or just want to backup your blog, here is a good method to backup your site regularly to dropbox.This method can help you save your hosting account disk space, by creating a backup of your site on a DropBox account instead.What is DropBox? Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox … [Read more...]

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE GENESIS FRAMEWORK

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A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO THE GENESIS FRAMEWORK If you’re building a website these days, you’re in luck.WordPress has revolutionized the ease and power of what a website (or blog) can do and be. Now, with the emergence of theme frameworks, you can take WordPress even further.As you'll see throughout this free guide, the Genesis Framework for Wordpress is much more than a mere Wordpress theme. It’s an underlying framework of immaculate code that’s been built to achieve three important … [Read more...]

WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release

WordPress released a maintenance and security update today.Please update asap! WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K. and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team.Download 3.3.1 or visit Dashboard → Updates in your site admin. … [Read more...]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

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RFE Hosting would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!May your days be merry and bright! … [Read more...]

WordPress Version 3.3, named for Sonny Stitts

WordPress announced a new upgade, we would suggest you upgrade ASAP.Here are the details: (taken from http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.3) On December 12, 2011, WordPress Version 3.3, named for Sonny Stitts, will be released to the public. For more information on this major release, read the WordPress Blog.For Version 3.3, the database version (db_version in wp_options) changed to 19470, and the Trac revision was 19592.HighlightsEasier UploadingFile Type Detection - A … [Read more...]

Google Friend Connect Retirement?

Wow this came to me as a big shocker, and quite a stupid update.  Not sure what Google is thinking with this move. It seems like just a way for them to build up Google+.Google Friend Connect—Friend Connect allows webmasters to add social features to their sites by embedding a few snippets of code. We're retiring the service for all non-Blogger sites on March 1, 2012. We encourage affected sites to create a Google+ page and place a Google+ badge on their site so they can bring their … [Read more...]

Scheduled Server Maintenance 11/16/2011

The following maintenance notification was received from our Data-center:****************************** DATE: 11/16/2011 WINDOW START TIME: 12:00 AM CST ESTIMATED END TIME: 4:00 AM CST PURPOSE OF WORK: Provider Maintenance IMPACT OF WORK: Possible Suboptimal routing during route re-convergence. … [Read more...]

Scheduled Server Maintenance 11/11/2011 [RESCHEDULED]

**RESCHEDULED** We are rescheduling this maintenance from 11/11/2011 to 11/18/2011. The new maintenance window is Friday, November 18, 2011.The following maintenance notification was received from Our Datacenter:****************************** DATE: 11/11/2011 WINDOW START TIME: 1:00 AM CST ESTIMATED END TIME: 5:00 AM CST PURPOSE OF WORK: Infrastructure Upgrade IMPACT OF WORK: Possible Suboptimal routingMaintenance Description:We will be moving existing connections from distribution … [Read more...]

How to upload & insert images to a post or page

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The past couple weeks i have been searching around the Interweb, and found many people have problems uploading and inserting images into their WordPress posts/pages.So I have put together this quick guide on how to do just that!There are 2 ways of doing this:In WordPress there is the "Media" Library that allows you to upload images to your blog, then use the link provided to add it to a page/post or anywhere else on your site. The second way is to upload/insert it directly from the post … [Read more...]

Google Friend Connect Install via WordPress

Here is a quick guide on how to install Google Friend Connect (GFC) to your WordPress Blog. Step 1: Visit The GFC account page and create an account if you do not have one already )Add New Site - http://screencast.com/t/S8f61uAi Enter your site info (Site Name, Site Url, Press Continue) - http://screencast.com/t/7ns8TxKGStep 2: Login to your WordPress Blog, and go to your widgets section and add a new text widgetLogin Go to Appearance > Widgets - … [Read more...]