Category: wordpress

Wordpress Basics for Newbies

It can be difficult for beginners to learn wordpress basics. Newbies have all the information at their disposal, but get overwhelmed. I was thinking about some things I really wish I knew when I first started using wordpress. When you’re just starting, it’s not easy to know what’s important and what isn’t, so here we [...]

Wordpress Backups - Importing Files Larger Than 2MB

When doing wordpress backups, there are different ways to do it. You can do database backups in your hosting account c-panel or PhpMyAdmin, but that might not be enough to guarantee your safety. In the wordpress control panel, under manage, you can export an xml file which contains your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, [...]

Blue Host Nightmare: How I Fixed My Blog

Five days ago, I began having extremely bad problems with my hosting account, which was box 350 (server). I feel sorry for the poor souls on that box. As described in my previous post, I started getting cpu quota exceeded errors 20-30 times per day. I called my host over 70 times this week, and [...]

How To Clean WP Options - Slow MySQL Queries

When your self hosted wordpress site is getting slow, or lots of cpu quota exceeded errors, how do you fix it? One place you need to look is in your main directory (using c-panel’s file manager) - find a file called tmp. Inside it, you’ll see several folders, one of them is “slow mysql queries”. [...]

Garry Conn Helped Me Save my Blog

Wow…today is an amazing day here at Revellian Dot Com - I could never express just how great a day it is! Earlier, well actually yesterday on July 07 at around 9:30 PM, my site disappeared. It was replaced with a site comprised of Indian Writing. I was shocked to say the least as I [...]

Wordpress Ping Warning

I noticed MaxBlogPress has a plugin called the ping optimizer which I wish I’d been using all along. This plugin is a necessity for anyone running a self hosted wordpress blog, and therefore deserves mention to those of you who might have missed it.
A few months ago I edited tons of old posts, fixing the [...]

My New Site Launching Soon

First, I want to say that many of you have participated in the Blogging For Friendship Project recently and I am working on the posts now. I have some surprises for all of you. Also, my good friend Christy and I are definetly still friends I don’t like to have a woman upset with [...]

Ethical Commenting- Comment Luv

Beyond Ethical Commenting
Having a do-follow comment policy is very cool and really nice for your readers. While many of you might think this has nothing to do with blogging ethics, in the land of Revellian, it does. Does it mean you are unethical by not being do-follow? Of course not.
I look at it as being [...]