1. http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
2. Logon to your server, and cd document_root_name
3. wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
4. tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
5. cd wordpress
6. cp -r * ../
7. cd ..
8. rm -r wordpress
9. rm latest.tar.gz
10. http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Using_phpMyAdmin
11. sudo chown www-data document_root_name/
12. http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php
13. http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL. This is followed if you want to change the WordPress site name from example.com to www.example.com. You may need to add update_option(‘siteurl’,'http://example.com/blog’); and update_option(‘home’,'http://example.com/blog’); to the theme functions.php file. Then reload site, then DELETE these two lines from theme functions.php file.
14. Change default theme to custom theme, so future updates don’t wipe your changes: cp -r twentyten/ customtheme
15. Run script as defined on http://www.pokeroconnor.com/recursive-sed-script/ to change all previous theme name mentions

In WordPress, for example in the TwentyTen theme, you may want to add a new header image to the default options available. This is useful for example if you are copying this theme, to use as the basis for a new theme.

To do so, first upload the image you want to use, and a thumbnail of it to the wp-content/themes/NEW_THEME_NAME/images/headers directory.

Then, in wp-content/themes/NEW_THEME_NAME/functions.php edit the register_default_headers function, to replace ‘sunset’ below with your new image details:

'sunset' => array(
'url' => '%s/images/headers/sunset.jpg',
'thumbnail_url' => '%s/images/headers/sunset-thumbnail.jpg',
/* translators: header image description */
'description' => __( 'Sunset', 'copied_twenty_theme' )
),


Then go to Appearance -> Theme -> Headers in your Admin panel, and you should be able to select the new image as header.

This is an annoying issue that happened to me lately, whereby the WordPress visual editor had its buttons and icons missing.

I trawled various forums, and got the usual “do a full re-install” etc, or disable and re-enable all plugins blah blah blah.

The solution is here – its elegant, simple and a one-liner: add the below line to your wp-config.php file.

define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false );

I had the following problem lately: I added the typical rules to htaccess to redirect example.com/anything to www.example.com/anything, e.g.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,NC,R=301]

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

But when I went to example.com I got infinite redirects…reason being I had the siteurl field in the wp_options table of the database set to http://example.com.

So, you need to change that to http://www.example.com, and also edit wp-config.php as follows:

define('WP_HOME','http://www.example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://www.example.com');

That should be it - see here if not.

Here’s some useful WordPress stuff – let’s get the ball rolling:

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