I figured it was about time I started pumping energy back into my sip of water blog.
I noticed a couple of weeks back that there was a HUGE drop in traffic to my site and when you clicked on a link to go to a post, it was not redirecting properly.  It was around that time that I had upgraded all of my WordPress sites and installed plugins.  For some reason, there were duplicate rewrite rules in my .htaccess file I am assuming because I had added one and WordPress …

WordPress is a great content management system to maintain a website with whether you use it for web pages or blog posts. There are three plugins I strongly recommend to help maintain your WordPress based websites.
Akismet
The “social web” is meant to facilitate user participation and promote user generated content. This can be accomplished in WordPress by enabling commenting and then encouraging readers to participate in discussions by leaving comments and optionally providing a URL to be linked from their name. The unfortunate part is comments attract spam.
Akismet checks …

Installing WordPress with a hosted account is very quick and easy. The first step was covered with my post on Setting up a MySQL database from CPanel which is required to house the WordPress data.
This video shows you where to get the WordPress installation files and walks you through the installation process:

*For higher quality, click video to go to YouTube and click “watch in high quality”
Quick notes for Installing WordPress with a Hosted Account Video Tutorial:
1. Download WordPress files from wordpress.org
2. Upload WordPress files to web hosting …