In recent months I have been asked by a number of clients to migrate them from hosted WordPress.com sites to their own self hosted versions. This post is designed to talk you through that process and to point out any pitfalls. Why Move? Good questions, hosted WordPress takes all of the burden of supporting your site, applying updates, fighting with miss behaving plugins and the whole shebang. If you want a low overhead, no trouble site where you create content and publish I suggest you stay with wp.com. You only need to move to wordpress.org if you want the flexibility […]

I get the odd email from anxious people wanting to hire me because they have changed the domain name of their site and suddenly they cannot login in any more. Here’s What They Do They think that by changing the site URL and leaving the files where they are, they can change the URL structure of their site, this is wrong, you need to copy your files to the new location before you make the changes.  If you don’t WordPress redirects requests to fields that do not exist and your site will crash. These are the options under settings->general Here’s The […]

When I am called in by clients using my WordPress technical support services for a crashed site, I have a particular troubleshooting methodology I use which incrementally removes layers from a WordPress site so I can pin point the root cause. I want to tell you about my methodology and give you a chance to learn more about it my my new mini course WP Troubleshooting How My Methodology Works WordPress is built up of many layers, core WordPress files, plugins and themes.  I like to strip away and isolate the various layers of WordPress so I can find which […]

This is something I am asked to do all the time by clients, I thought I would write this up for the more DIY orientated amongst you.

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