But wait help is at hand.

Option 1: Steven has written a couple of scripts that as long as you have ftp access to your blog then you can upload his scripts and use it to reset the password or user name.  BUT read carefully his disclaimer below and remember buyer beware

Steven’s comment

Hey Urshula, here’s those 2 scripts I was telling you about:
change_wp_username.zip.
reset_wp_password.zip.

As advertised it’s not a good idea to leave them up on a server!
I’ve made sure the textboxes are protected against MySQL injections and stuff like that, though if your password has a single or double quotes in it, or any backslashes you may have some problems. Though who uses those characters in a password… honestly!

Option 2: This is another one from Village-idiot.org which does the same thing and works well. Luckily haven’t used it lately But last time I used it worked a treat.

Option 3: Now I’m going to seem like the silly one but I’ve also reset me password directly through the database so if you have access to your database this to can be an option. This site has print screens to help you through this option

Even though most of you don’t read the readme or all install instructions!! -Smart people know to read the readme properly first. But having said that many readme’s have a real expection of assumed knowledge so this is based on my what I know about my students assumed knowledge

The install instructions on wordpress are great but below is a short version of that and a better version of the readme that comes with the down load of wordpress 2.7

Updated WordPress: Famous 5-minute install

1. Down load the latest version of WordPress from www.wordpress.org
2. Unzip the package into an empty directory. (for my student this will be our local Dreamweaver folder so this about how you are going to work with it!!)
3. Login into your control panel and create a new database and user for this wordpress installation (if you don’t understand this step check with your hosting provider about creating a mysql database and user with full privileges)
4. Once you have these details
   -Open up wp-config-sample.php on your local machine with a text editor like notepad or similar and fill in your database connection details. (my student know I will have define a site within Dreamweaver and will open wp-config-sample.php within Dreamweaver because I am about to customise wordpress to the max but any text editor will be fine)
5. Save the file you have edited as wp-config.php
6. Upload everything!!!!! – this begs the question to where??- do you want your domain to be the blog or do you want this blog to be a subsection of your site- think ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT- then either upload everything to the root of your domain if you want your whole site to be the blog or to a specific folder if you want your blog to be a subsection of your domain. (If that made no sense don’t hesitate to comment me – student or otherwise)
7. Open http://yourdomainname/installfolder/wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, look at the error properly – most of the time it what you entered into wp-config.php file, and try again. Note the password given to you. And comment me with full details and I’ll have a look and let you know if it was your config or upload that is wrong
8. The install script should then send you to the login page. If you get this far WOOHOO.
9. Sign in with the username admin and the password generated during the installation. You can then click on ‘Profile’ to change the password.

The next post next week is how to test your wordpress install.

If this post was helpful please let me know- I love wordpress so will happily have a look and write a post about your install.

]]> http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/adobe-cs4/dreamweaver/wordpress-install-instructions/feed/ 8 http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/my-stuff/wordpress-vs-blogger-blogspot/ http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/my-stuff/wordpress-vs-blogger-blogspot/#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:47:51 +0000 admin1 http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/?p=163 In the last week I have been setting up blogs for clients so I thought I’d share with you my views on WordPress vs Blogger based on my experiences this week. I must state these are just my opinions and I do have some previous experience with WordPress as this blog is my own self hosted WordPress blog-but until this week I had no experience with a blog hosted on wordpress or blogspot.
The basic requirements for the blogs were:

• very easy for the clients to use with the image upload built in and a wysiwyg editor for formatting and adding hyperlinks
• Quick for me to customise and brand including turning on and off options like blog rolls, comments etc
• For one client the ability to create pages as well as posts was a definate requirement

So you can see nothing fancy was required.

My first instinct was to go for WordPress but for the clients are on Windows servers and I didn’t feel like risking it turning into a drama trying to get php/MYSQL based WordPress installed on the Windows server so I wimped out of tht option and decided to research some Windows based blog software for these ones that could be installed within the clients hosting accounts. But again I wimped out and decided to take the quick and dirty option of externally hosted blogs.

Hence the WordPress vs Blogger options, my first option was to signup at WordPress.com but once I was in after being used to being able to change everything in my self hosted WordPress blog I suddenly felt very restricted. Also because I tend to modify my WordPress files on my own machine and then publish them up to the public server I didn’t like the new work flow so after an hour here I thought I’d give blogger (blogspot.com) a go.

Quicker than any of the the other options I had the first customer blog ready for the client to take over – this is probably because even though blogger has only a few templates to choose from one was a good match for the client site so I only need to upload the banner and turn off a few of the side options and we were in business.

Deal Direct Fashion Club web site

DealDirectFashionClub blog on blogger

The next 2 were relatively painless as well so for these clients blogger was definately the go.

foxybabes website

Foxybabes blog on blogger

For the client who definately needed “pages” as well as posts well blogger wasn’t the go and nor was using WordPress at WordPress.com for that matter but this is probably because I want to use the blog more as a CMS than a blog so a self hosted WordPress was definately the go here.

So what is the conclusion.

Well for the quick and dirty option where not alot of customisation is actually required then blogspot is the go but one problem I foresee is if the client ever wants to move their blog elsewhere then this is definately going to be a problem and if they decide they want alot more visual customisations then it is going to be a problem. I also tried the blogspot option of hosting some of the files on our own FTP server but even after following all the instructions and all the help documentation I couldn’t get it to work properly so these aspects could become “issues” in the future.

self hosted blog being used as a CMS

For blogs where complete visual control is required, the option to customise absolutely everything is neccessary and you want to use it as a quick and dirty Content Managment System then I can’t go past WordPress sure you need to use alot of plugins to get it the way you want but the fact that there are so many plugins avialable is a definate strength not to mention the available themes and support community.