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WordPress<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WordPress performs well on Eskimo North because of fast computing facilities, adequate memory, and memcached support for object caching plugins.<\/span><\/p>\n

WordPress was originally designed primarily a blogging application, however, it has evolved into a full-fledged highly versatile content management system which can be used to implement entire websites as it has been used here. The availability of responsive themes such as Twenty Eleven allow the easy creation of mobile friendly web sites. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WordPress is customizable with thousands of themes and plugins. You can edit the Style Sheets of themes or create child themes to further customize the look and feel. It’s open sourced, so if you really want to dig in, there is absolutely nothing that you can’t modify.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Using WordPress gives you complete <\/span>control over your blogs look, <\/span>feel, and content. You don’t have to <\/span>worry about services being discontinued.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Installation<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We do not offer one-button installs presently. We are happy to install WordPress for you. E-mail support@eskimo.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will need the location<\/span> where you would like it installed, the password <\/span>for your MySQL database, and the password<\/span> you would like for WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 WordPress requires an SQL database. MySQL provides good performance and compatibility. If you do not have a MySQL database (they’re included with your shell account<\/em>), please e-mail support<\/a> or generate a ticket with the password you would like. The login will be the same as your shell login.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unpack WordPress into the location you desire. For example, say your login is “user” and you want your WordPress site to appear at \/~user\/site.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Login to shellx.eskimo.com. You need to have a shell terminal window. After you are logged in you will be in your home directory, (\/home\/login<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All of your web files go in a directory called “public_html” in your home directory unless it is an adult site in which case it goes in “adult_html”. If you haven’t already created a public_html directory, you will need to do so now. “$” is the system prompt but may be different depending upon what shell you are using and how you have it configured.<\/span><\/p>\n

$<\/span> mkdir public_html\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Change to that directory.<\/span><\/p>\n
$<\/span> cd public_html\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We keep a copy of WordPress in “\/misc\/wordpress.version.tar.gz”.\u00a0 In this example you want it to be in public_html\/blog.\u00a0 If instead you want it to be in your home directory, unpack it there, remove your existing public_html and move the resulting wordpress directory to public_html.<\/span><\/p>\n
$<\/span> umask 022\r\n$<\/span> tar -xvzf \/misc\/wordpress*.tar.gz\r\n$<\/span> mv wordpress blog\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After you do this, the rest of the setup is completed with your browser. Go to your WordPress site URL, \/~user\/blog in this case, and you will <\/span>see the following screen:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-1\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Web interface for creating a configuration file will work fine with our server setup. There is no need to create one by hand. Press the “Create A Configuration File” button and boldly press on.<\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-1\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The database name and database username will both be the same as your login here.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The password will be whatever you requested when you asked support <\/span>to setup a MySQL database for you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The database host will be “localhost” as the MySQL server is on the <\/span>same machine as the web server.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The table prefix will be “wp_” by default. I suggest you <\/span>give it a name that identifies your WordPress site so if you start multiple WordPress <\/span>you can easily tell what tables belong to what site. For example, for my <\/span>science blog, I use “science_wp_” as the table prefix.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Press the “Let’s Go” button.<\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-3\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fill these things in and press Submit! Do it! Now!<\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-4\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you made it this far now press “Run the install!”<\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-5\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fill in the blanks. The username and password need not be the same as <\/span>your database username and password. This username and password is used <\/span>to login to your blog to post, moderate comments, and other administrative <\/span>actions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The e-mail address will be used to send notifications of things like <\/span>comments waiting to be moderated and new user registrations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Check the Privacy box if you don’t want privacy, that is you want your blog to be found in search engines. I know it’s bass ackwards.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After you fill these in, press the “Install WordPress” <\/span>button.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-6\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You’ve finished the basic installation. Now you can login and <\/span>customize your new WordPress blog. Click on the “Log in” button <\/span>to continue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-7\"<\/a><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enter your WordPress username and password then click the turquoise <\/span>“Log in” button to really login to WordPress.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-8\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now that you’re logged in, if you see the yellow bar across the top, <\/span>that means the current version of WordPress is newer than the version we <\/span>have available here. If that happens, it is easy to fix.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See the little circular thing with two arrows chasing each other? That <\/span>is the update page. If it has a number, it means that there are updates <\/span>available.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Updates to WordPress are super-easy to apply. Click on that arrows <\/span>chasing each other thing and it will bring up the updates page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-9\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the top of the page, if there is an update available for WordPress, <\/span>it will have an “Update Now” button. Click on it and about a <\/span>second later WordPress will be updated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Updates to WordPress are much less frequent than updates to themes and <\/span>plugins which seem to be almost daily. These will show up below WordPress <\/span>updates. Select what you want to update and click on the appropriate <\/span>update button.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-10\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the page you will arrive at after an update. All of the <\/span>configuration tabs are still to the left.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\"wp-11\"<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is what the updates page looks like when WordPress is current and <\/span>there are plugins to update.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At this point spend some time exploring. WordPress seems a bit <\/span>daunting and overwhelming at first, but it is fairly intuitive and easy to <\/span>learn.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Optimizing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Object Cache<\/span><\/h4>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To make your blog go fast, go to the Plugins tab and select New <\/span>Plugins. In the search box, put “Object Cache memcached”, and hit the <\/span>search button. Select an object cache plugin that supports memcached.\u00a0 I recommend, “Memcached Is Your Friend”.
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After installation is complete, that will typically take about a <\/span>second, select activate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Zend PHP engine works by compiling PHP code into intermediate <\/span>pseudocode and then interpreting that code. The compilation phase is <\/span>actually the most CPU intensive and time consuming portion of PHP <\/span>execution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first time PHP code on one of WordPress’s pages is run, the\u00a0 <\/span>Object Cache plugin stores the compiled pseudocode in a memory cache <\/span>object. Then, the next time that code is encountered, it doesn’t have to <\/span>be compiled again, it can be executed right out of cache.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plugin is free, requires zero configuration, and does it’s job <\/span>well. It actually supports a number of different cache engines, it just <\/span>happens that memcached is the one we have and it knows how to use it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Cache Plugins<\/a><\/span>
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For most people I would recommend WP-Cache.Com, if you have only static or infrequently changing content.\u00a0 If you have dynamic content then I would recommend WP Fastest Cache for most people.\u00a0 It’s fast, reliable, and has a good functional exclusion setting so you can exclude dynamic content from being cached.\u00a0 For those who prefer more configurable caching, WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache both offer a greater deal of flexibility however, WP Super Cache does not have a way to exclude specific pages.\u00a0 Click on the above link for more details.
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AntiSpam<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Another very useful plugin is the Akismet anti-spam plugin. This is simply the most effective anti-spam software I have ever seen. It has kept spam from getting posted to my blog while at the same time having an extremely low false positive rate.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve only had one spam message make it through on any of my blogs and one false positive, using this plugin.<\/span><\/p>\n
WP Edit<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This plugin is an absolute must!\u00a0 What it does is replace the tinymce editor with a much more capable WYSIWYG editor which allows you to set font size, font, color, background color, do subscripts and superscripts, math formula, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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