For those who have had to move wordpress you probably have found it a little tedious as there is no quick way to pick it up and move to another server. Well I have moved a bunch of sites from my development server to their respective production environments so I have the process down. Below is a checklist of how to move from server to server.
- Move all the files from the WordPress directory to the main server (I find it easier to zip everything the transfer that one file and then unzip on the server)
- Edit the wp-config.php file in the root folder to have the correct connection information on the new server
- Dump the database to a file using the mysqldump command (See Post)
- Re-import the dumped data file to the new server using the mysql command (See Post)
- Log into the production server and run the following two SQL lines:
- update wp_posts set post_content = replace(post_content,’DEVSERVERURL‘,’PRODSERVERURL‘);
- update wp_options set option_value = replace(option_value,’DEVSERVERURL‘,’PRODSERVERURL‘);
- Log into WordPress Admin and double check all the general settings (if you use nextgen you have to re-input everything manually)
- Turn off your Dev server (This one is key so you know that you can see if you have any image or anything references pointed back to your old server)
So last night I was bored and decided to redo my entire website (again). I just changed the theme about a week ago, but the more I dug into it the less I liked it and decided I would spend a little more time redoing my blog. After picking a theme I put it on a local copy of WordPress and started banging away. I started changing header images and fixing CSS issues with AJAX overlaps and image overlaps and fixing up a few other issues I noticed. This is usually pretty typical for themes I have found in the past. You get what you paid for and because all these themes are free I guess that would make sense.
For some reason some of my sites always freeze with the flash uploader, and chances are if I am bulk uploading I will just upload via FTP. I searched around for a long time for a plugin that would control the default uploader for WordPress and finally found it. You can change it via the plugin 
I just came across another site with some fancy WordPress Themes: 
Well in helping my sister with her new website she came across a theme that I haven’t really looked at too much. This theme basically has all the options that a premium paid theme does but doesn’t cost a single dollar. It is available on the WordPress theme directory at 
Yup….another day another wordpress theme site!
I wanted to wait until someone actually submitted a form using this plugin before I wrote about it. This plugin allows you to create contact forms, or any forms really, inside WordPress. It allows you to choose all the basic stuff like checkboxes, input fields, radio buttons and has a nice little CAPTCHA addon. To create the forms it is more or less drag and drop onto a new form. It also allows you to control the messages that come back when required fields are missing or if the form went through successfully. Then inside WordPress Admin you can view all submitted forms in a nice little table and export all form submissions. You also have the ability to push the submitted form to an email address and you can specify an SMTP server to use or you can just rely on sendMail function of PHP. I would suggest using the SMTP settings as this will insure that your email does not hit spam filters of the receiving email box. So far this plugin has worked out great for my ARP website as it has cut down on all spam by 100% and we are now getting more complete information thanks to the form validation features and it is all contained inside WordPress.
