The other day, I was happily Stumbling along, looking at sites. Up came Blogging-ads, I read the article, got to the bottom of it and there was a box there sayin "Welcome Stumbler…" Essentially it was a call to action to give the post a thumbs up. Being lazy I contacted Mike and he said I could get it here.

This is a part of my WordPress series, in the last post, WordPress setup, Themes and Plugins, we created a local mirror of your blog. The only thing it was missing was the posts and comments, we shall fix that right now by showing you how to copy your database.

I’ve had a couple of emails and a blog comment on my previous post WordPress setup, Themes and Plugins about changing the Permalinks.

This is the second in a series on setting up WordPress on a local server. I shall be going over themes, plugins and some initial setup tasks.

To choose a WordPress theme for your blog is quite an important decision as it is the first thing that your visitors will see. A bad design will send visitors running despite the fact that you may have good content. A theme must satisfy several demands:

How do you test out different plugins or themes without messing up your wordpress installation. Or how do you develop a theme without messing your visitors about? Here I show you how to install a web server on a memory stick.