Sometimes, we find error during upgrading wordpress automatically such can not write file to the server host or any other reason. In this way, upgrading wordpress manually is your choice, although this need your patient during uploading files to your file hosting.

In this post, I use the Byethost service as my hosting files, but generally upgrading wordpress manually is about the same. To start upgrading wordpress manually you can follow the step by step below:

Step 1: You should back up your database. To back up your database ussually this file in sql format, you should go to your phpmyadmin page, and export database to your local drive, to make it easier, ensure that you export in compressed file. This is very important just in case something goes wrong, so you can easily restore your database.

Step 2: Download the latest version of wordpress to replace your old wordpress files and folders.

Step 3 : Extract wordpress zip file, you will find the three main folder of wordpress (wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes), and the main root files such as index.php, wp-cron.php, wp-login.php and others, it is maybe about 23 files.

Step 4: Compress the main folder of wp-admin and wp-includes except wp-content, so you have wp-admin.zip and wp-includes.zip

Step 5: Login to your hosting Cpanel, and select file manager.

Step 6: Upload wp-admin.zip and wp-includes.zip to the your main root (public_html).

Step 7: Rename folder wp-admin and folder wp-includes, example: wp-adminold and wp-includesold. Renaming this folder is more easily instead of moving these folder to other location. Both renaming and moving these folder have same objective, to backup your folder. You can delete the old folder after you succeed upgrading to new version.

Step 8: Extract or unzip wp-admin.zip and wp-includes.zip to the main root folder (public_html). So you have new wp-admin and wp-includes folder.

Step 9: Overwrite files in your main root (public_html) with new wordpress files, about 23 files (as mentioned in the step 3). Don’t change or delete other files that have no related with upgrading wordpress, example: sitemap.xml, .htaccess, or any other files for verification ownership.

Step 10: Visit your main WordPress admin page at /wp-admin. You may be asked to login again. If a database upgrade is necessary at this point, WordPress will detect it and give you a link to a URL like http://www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php. Follow that link and follow the instructions. This will update your database to be compatible with the latest code.

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For people that is not familiar with internet, may have a question how to make a blog?. When start learning, it is not so bad for making a blog freely using free domain and free hosting. What is domain? domain is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS). Hosting is internet service where you store data files of your blog, so that your blog can be accessed thru the World Wide Web.

There are many services that offer domain and hosting freely, but at this time I want to use Free Domain Co.cc and Free hosting ByetHost. The reasons why I used this free hosting are that Byet provides free FTP, PHP 5, MySQL and our very popular feature: The Automatic Script Installer (Like Fantastico) You can install many popular scripts such as PHPbb2 and PHPbb3, Wordpress, Zen-Cart, osCommerce, MyBB, UseBB, MyLittle Forum, 4images, Coppermine, SMF, Joomla, e107, XOOPS, PHP Wind, CuteNews, Mambo, WikiWig and many more! No need to wait a long time uploading files, Byet Automatic Script Installer deploys your files in seconds! You can find Byet Automatic Script Installer in the Vistapanel.

Let’s begin with Sign Up for free domain Co.cc by going to www.co.cc then click Create Account Now link, or go here. Fill the form for Username and Password and form Account Information like the pictures above. After you complete all fields, check I accept the Terms of Service and press Create an Account Now button. If you entered correct data, your account page will now appear.

Once you succeed creating Co.cc account, you can now create Co.cc name for your domain by pressing Getting a New Domain link. in the Search for available domain names box, enter your free domain name, e.g: justexample then press Check Availability to ensure whether domain name you entered has not been used by other people. If your domain name is available you can continue registration by pressing Continue to Registration button.

Once your domain name successfully registered, you should set up domain by pressing Set up button, or Domain Settings -> Manage Domain -> Select your domain -> Set Up. If you don’t set up registered domain within 48 hours, Co.cc will cancel the registration. In set up domain page there are 3 methods: Name Server, Zone Record, URL Forwarding, this time I will choose Name Server method, later you will enter name server related to your hosting.

The Next step, you should register to free hosting service, Byethost. Fill the blank fields, and ensure you enter valid email address, this will use to activate your account. Check your email, and find activation email in your inbox, click activation link given by Byethost. Account information has been created, save this information, you will need these information to manage your account and setup a blog.

Ok, now you have free domain and free hosting account. To start making a blog you should login to your Control panel, url listed. Enter your username and password. Your control panel page appear now, start by setting up domain first. In Domain menu, click Addon Domains, enter your free domain you have created in Co.cc, in my example I created justexample.co.cc then press Add Domain button. You should back to your Co.cc account to setup Name Server. In the picture below Byethost has 5 name server, enter these name server when setup domain, you should add 3 more name server, press Setup button after entering all 5 name server of Byethost.

We almost finish creating a blog, now you will install software for blog. In Software & Services, click i-Vista Easy Script Installation link. Select your destination in drop-down menu, then press Proceed button. In the next step you should select software, Byethost serves several software such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Zen Cart, etc. At this time you select wordpress 2.8 as your software, press Install Now button.

when selecting path, leave the field blank because we plan to install in root directory of justmyexample.co.cc, then press Complete Install button. Congratulation, you just successful created a blog with url justmyexample.co.cc, this is type non-www, if you want to change this blog become www.justmyexample.co.cc, simply go to admin page and change your blog url in setting page.

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Some people blogwalking just leave message in shoutbox in hoping the owner visit back to their blog, maybe like me, this is the easiest way instead giving comment on post because we should read the article first, but when we read any article we get something useful and add our knowledge.

There are some service that offer us free chat box or shout box such as Cbox, Shoutmix, Meebome, Oggix, Sbox, and others. The most famous shoutbox or chat box I know is Shoutmix. During blogwalking I found many shoutmix chat widget than other services. As I know that shoutmix is very simple, easy but very interesting. We can customize our chat widget so looks different than others.

To get your shoutmix chat widget just go to official shoutmix website and follow the instruction there. I have owned shoutmix chat widget two months ago. Everyday I blogwalking in order to promote and increase my Alexa rank. My Alexa rank reduce significantly about two months from over #2,509,787 to #105,899, I’m very happy with it.

But after one month since I owned shoutmix chat widget, I had a problem, my shoutmix chat widget couldn’t be loaded in my browser, I was very panic with this, then I tried to find out why this happenned?, finally I got the answer, that my IP address was supposed as post spammer, so shoutmix blocked/banned my IP address.

Why did shoutmix suppose that our IP address as post spammer?. Shoutmix will suppose us as spammer if you post very often in other shoutmix chat with the same post or you use program auto blogwalking or crawler to post messages. Auto blogwalking or crawler will start posting a message with initial shoutmix chat url widget, like mine is http://www4.shoutmix.com/?hasanchat then go to other link blog who has posted in that widget to find other shoutmix url.

I was very sad when my IP address get banned/blocked, my browser couldn’t load shoutmix chat widget even worst my blog url also blocked, so I couldn’t leave or post message in other blogs. Eventually, to avoid using my IP address I tried blogwalking with IP proxy and of course it worked, I could load again shoutmix chat widget, you can get IP proxy from http://aliveproxy.com/, find Anonymous proxy, then set your browser with this proxy.

The last problem one, I still couldn’t leave/post message in other shoutmix chat widget with my blog url, so I tried to find out url redirection like tiny url or short url service but sometime with these url redirection we still cannot post. Finally I tried to make my old blog irfannafiskid.co.cc which hosted in byethost to redirect to this blog with this code in header tag.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.hasannudin.com/"> 

I’m very happy because a few days ago I could access shoutmix chat widget without proxy, also I could post with this blog again without url redirection. Thanks to shoutmix who has brough my account back on track.

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There are many service that offer us themes that has already featured, but of course it is not free, sometimes we must spend more than $70 to get great themes, so for you and me who don’t have budget for that, free themes is the right choice.

Many website has offered themes freely for us, the themes is nearly as good as charged themes. You just go there and choose the themes that you feel right. To get free wordpress themes you can go to the following address:

Wordpress.org
here are 3 the most popular downloaded from this service :

Atahualpa Version 3.4.1
Atahualpa is a WordPress/PHP/CSS Framework that lets you build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress theme: 1-5 columns, fluid or fixed width, rotating header images and over 200 theme options. Tutorials, downloads and support at the BFA WP Forum

Pixel
Dark WP theme with 2-3 column layout, dropdown categories menu, multiple widget-ready placement and feedburner email form integrated, easy to customize. Enjoy!

Cordobo Green Park 2
Lightweight fast-rendering theme with 2-3 column layout and right sidebar, Widget-ready (4 slots), built-in support for plugins (e.g. twitter), support for nested comments, fully localized, easy to customize via settings-page. By Artis Cordobo.

Freewpthemes.net
here are 3 the most popular downloaded from this service :

Nimbuslike

Implied

Majestic

Themes2wp.com
here are 3 the most popular downloaded from this service :

Sports 4
Sports 4 is a fixed width wordpress theme with left and right sidebars, and has a cool header. The theme is 100% widget ready and can be used on all the versions of Wordpress, and has been tested on most of the browsers

Marangal Purple
Marangal Purple is a featured-packed, multi-colored and 3 columns free WordPress theme. It has an easy Options page to customize your theme. It is loaded with Feedburner Email Subscription, Twitter Account integration, YouTube Video integration, Flickr Thumbnails, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks.

Monster Gadgets
Monster Gadgets Wordpress Theme has a 2 column layout, web 2.0 feel, right sidebar position, widgetized, adsense ready, video embedded with enabled twitter icon. This theme is perfectly designed for technology blog and some gadgets related web blogs, it is also tested in some major browsers like Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera and Chrome.

For downloading themes, please go to official website above, you can also find more themes by searching on google search engine with keyword wordpress themes, or free wordpress themes.

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There are many services that offer you shorten URL, but right now, I just explain mostly with TinyURL service. Basically, TinyUrl is a URL forwarding service, or people well known as URL Cloaking, URL Masking, that mean the techniques on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs.

To get your shorten or tiny URL, simply go to TinyURL, then fill the blank field with your long URL, example: http://www.hasannudin.com/tips-and-tricks/using-seo-friendly-urls-for-better-search-results/, then press Make TinyURL!, a tinyURL will be created for you.

We can see that original URL has a length of 92 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters.

If you have many file in your category, you can also make it smaller just add slash and filename. For example: you have category google and seo tips like this URL http://www.hasannudin.com/google-and-seo-tips, by entering to tinyURL you get this URL http://tinyurl.com/mtxhhk. So if you have file under this category, you just add slash and filename. http://www.hasannudin.com/google-and-seo-tips/myfile.php, you can use http://tinyurl.com/mtxhhk/myfile.php

Generally most people sometimes not respect when they know that the URL has affiliate code, Hiding your affilate URL can also be done with this service. Your visitors will not realize that the URL has affiliate code.

Warning: Don’t use this service for spamming or any ilegal purpose that will make TinyURL get disabled.

Another services that work as well as TinyURL are lo.ly, bit.ly, is.gd, tiny.cc, doiop, w3t, alturl, blog-w, and many others or you can find by yourself via google search engine with keyword tiny url or shorten url.

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People spend a lot of time to get higher page rank due to page rank effect to search engine result, if you have higher page rank, your page will be very posible appear in search result, of course it is supported by the other factor, you can learn about SEO for more.

Blogger who offers link exchange ussually place their link exchange code on their blog. Generally, link exchange can be done by banner or just text link. People will send link exchange request by email or shoutbox, to make link exchange process run faster, people who request link exchange will add link first.

You can see my Link Exchange code that offering via banner or just text link, you can make your own banner using sofware like adobe photoshop, and if you are not familiar with, you can use online service like button maker, it is very easy service, you just fill properties for your banner and press generate button in bottom right side, then save your banner to be uploaded to your image hosting. Ensure you have included your keyword in alt image tag when you use banner link, or in anchor text of text link. Here are my link exchange code…

So feel free to get connection with my blog by link exchange with , if you want to check the page rank of any site before performing link exchange, page rank checker has already installed in my widget.

Get free backlink from Counter4u and also from Patromax.com

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By default, Wordpress names its URL with a dynamically generated sequential number. The number is placed after the domain name and looks something like http://www.hasannudin.com/?p=158. To Google, this doesn’t mean anything. Google will have to spider my content to figure out what the article is about. Contrast this with http://www.hasannudin.com/tips-and-tricks/making-indonesian-fake-earning/. With this SEO friendly URL, Google can figure out immediately what the article is about. I have a much better chance of showing up in the search engine results page using a SEO friendly URL than a dynamic one.

Turning On SEO Friendly URL

To turn on SEO friendly URL, go to Options setting in your Wordpress control panel and choose Permalinks. From there you have four choices for displaying your URL: Default, Date and name based, Numeric, and Custom. You will want to use Date and name based or custom because they are the most search engine friendly. I use the custom setting for my URLs – it shows my domain name followed by the post name. The custom structure to do it this is /%category%/%postname%/ or /%postname%/ if you want to omit its category tips-and-tricks.

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There are steps that you must follow to add Your YM Online Status to your blog.

1. Download plugin YM status widget here.
2. Upload plugin you have downloaded to your plugin folder.
3. Activate your plugin from Admin Panel.
4. After YM status plugin actived, go to Appearance and choose Widgets.
5. New widget named YM Status is available now, add to your sidebar or footer.
6. Fill the Title and Your YM Username.
7. Choose style from option style.
8. Save your setting.
9. Congratulation you have made your YM online status now.

To ensure your widget working properly, you should login first to yahoo messenger, then refresh your page, your status should change to online now.

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