Creating a travel blog using wordpress

I have been working for some time on creating my travel blog on word press. Here are some insights on my experiences on creating a travel blog on word press that you may find helpful -

Selecting a theme for travel blog

WordPress offers numerous free themes, but finding the right theme is always a challenge. I was looking was a 3 column type layout, where I could configure categories and…

Updating wordpress to new version

Recently, I updated my wordpress to latest version of wordpress 3.0.3. The latest version of wordpress (3.0 and above) provides support for multisite, so you could install multi blogs and manage this using a single wordpress database and install. Earlier this feature was provided with wordpress MU, but with 3.0, wordpress MU was merged with wordpress. This is pretty useful; as I have multiple blogs on my sub domains…

Creating your own wordpress blog

As part of creating my new blog site, I was evaluating various blog and content managements systems, namely WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.  I created a demo site using WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, but finally went with word press due to its simplicity, plug-in architecture and numerous freely available themes. WordPress is an open source plug-in based bogging and content management software.

Each of these content management systems can be setup…

Migrating wordpress blog acrosss domains

Recently, I migrated my word press domain from my earlier site (soaweb.co.in) to my new web site (naveenbalani.com).  Here are the steps, I followed

Exported my earlier wordpress database using phpAdmin Installed word press on my new website. Just copied the wordpress install files on new domain  web root. Created a new database for the new domain. Imported the database.zip from Step 1 to new database. Changed the following 2 records in wp_options table…