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WordPress
-0.72

+1.0

Weblog / News Publishing Tool

Requirements - Installation - Template(s) - Query String Usage - XML-RPC (Blogging APIs) - Post Via Email - Notes

Requirements:

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The link will help promote WordPress and is its only mean of promotion.

WordPress is built from b2, which comes from Michel V. We wouldn't be here without him, so why don't you grab him something from his wishlist? You can also support the WordPress developers.

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This document is currently beta stage, we'll be updating it extensively as WordPress matures. There is also online documentation under development.

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This document is currently beta stage, we'll be updating it extensively as WordPress matures. There is also online documentation under development, as well as a wiki.

Installation:

New users: 5-minute install.

  1. Unzip the package in an empty directory.
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  2. Copy wp-config.sample.php to wp-config.php. Open wp-config.php in a text editor and modify the variables as explained in the comments. Comments are lines that start with /* or //
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  3. Upload everything. This release is designed to sit in your root folder, IE the folder where your WordPress-powered page will reside.
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  4. The weblogs.com cache file needs to be writable by the web server. CHMOD 666 the weblogs.com.changes.cache file.
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  5. Launch wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the MySQL database for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again. If it fails again, please go to the support forums and make a post with all the information about the failure (error messages, etc), and your setup (the PHP and MySQL versions on your server, and the browser you were using). Note the password given to you.
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  6. Go to wp-login.php and sign in with the login "admin" and the password given to you by the install script. Then click on the menu 'My Profile', and change the password. Note: you need javascript enabled to launch the profile popup window.
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  7. Open wp-config-sample.php in a text editor and insert your database name, username, password, and host name as indicated in the comments. (Comments are lines that start with /* or //.) Save this file as wp-config.php.
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  8. Upload everything. This release is designed to sit in your root folder; i.e, the folder where your WordPress-powered page will reside.
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  9. The weblogs.com cache file needs to be writable by the web server. CHMOD 666 the weblogs.com.changes.cache file.
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  10. Launch /wpfolder/wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the MySQL database for your blog. Note the password given to you. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again. If it fails again, please go to the support forums and make a post with all the information about the failure (error messages, etc), and your setup (the PHP and MySQL versions on your server, and the browser you were using).
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  11. During step 2 of the installation, make sure you enter a fully-qualified domain name for your blog url. For example: http://www.yoursite.com/wordpress . Make sure there is no trailing slash at the end of the url.
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  12. The install script should then send you to the login page. Sign in with the username "admin" and the password generated during the installation. Then click on the item 'My Profile', and change the password. The login page may also be accessed by going to /wpfolder/wp-login.php. Note: you need javascript enabled to launch the profile popup window.

Some notes:

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Upgrading from b2 v0.6.1 to WordPress v0.7:

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Preface for all upgrades:

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Upgrading from WordPress v0.7x to v1.0:

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Note on upgrading to v1.0:

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