In my first tutorial on this subject I explained how easy it is to transfer you WordPress site to Amazon EC2 using Bitnami. However, there is one slight drawback if you want to go the do it yourself route. All of the Bitnami AMIs that use EBS (Elastic Block Store) are 10GB in size. What …
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Get phpMyAdmin Access to EC2 Bitnami WordPress Stack
Previously I described transferring wordpress to Amazon EC2 with bitnami. However one thing I didn’t mention was accessing phpmyadmin to your bitnami stack. With bitnami on EC2 phpmyadmin is setup to run if you were local to your instance. But you’re not, your where you are, and your instance is in the cloud, where you’re …
Add Youtube, Vimeo Videos and Thumbnails to WordPress
This tutorial is how I add YouTube and Vimeo videos to single posts in wordpress and how I automatically pull in their associated thumbnail preview images into my archive pages for cool video archives. As you probably know if you’re reading this, adding youtube and vimeo files to your wordpress website via the embed or …
How to Transfer WordPress to Amazon Web Services EC2 via Bitnami
I’ve been dealing with Mediatemple DV for a while and managing my own server that I thought it was about time I transfer my wordpress site(s) over to Amazon Web Services and EC2. This task can really be as tough and as easy as you need it to be. And, Although I don’t mind a …
Managing Multiple Writers with Role Manager
From time to time I’ve discussed on this blog managing multiple writers for my blog network, Blogtown Press. Mainly I’ve dealt with the odds and ends of finding, organizing, and paying bloggers to writer on one or many of my various blogs. Those articles are helpful but they haven’t really given tips on helping with …
WordPress User Video Upload Script as a PHP Consultant
As some of you may know or have read, I’ve dabbled in custom php coding for wordpress. I’ve created scripts to populate tables, and custom code to help save your YPN account from being banned. That got reviews on problogger and entrepreneurs journey. I’ve written a few ways to customize your adsense code for wordpress …
Multiple Adsense Between Paragraphs in WordPress Blog Posts
I’ve been a way for a while, trying to regain some focus in my life and thought I would return to this blog by providing some tips while using WordPress. My most recent jump into playing with php and WordPress is how to add Adsense code within blog posts in between paragraphs on every post. …
Saving Your Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) Account from being BANNED
OK, so digging around it seems like this is still a problem for some people. About 8 months ago there was a bit of buzz surrounding the BETA release of the Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN). Darren Rowse over at problogger.net posted a quote from an email some of the publishers being banned were recieving. It …
Top 5 List of WordPress Plug-ins
Setting up my blog network I have used quite a few wordpress plug-ins.
Add a Field to Your WordPress Comments
How to add a field to your Wordpress comments section.