Tag: WordPress

  • I Enjoy Newtek and WordPress

    My WordPress upgrade was flawless and fast. Can’t ask for more. Today I finally decided to upgrade to WordPress 4.0. I didn’t want to get sloppy and not backup my data. But I don’t do it very often so I didn’t know how. With support from Newtek I was able to backup my data in…

  • The blog theme could not be downloaded.

    I, like many, use Windows Live Writer for blogging. I have a new machine and was having to move everything over. But I couldn’t get the theme to refresh. I kept getting a message, “The blog theme could not be downloaded.”. This this post on Windows Live Writer Fails to Download and Update Theme by…

  • Champa Cam

    This is what I had to do to get images from my home to the web… Motivation I travel from time to time and would like to see what’s going on at my home. At least what the weather is like. So I asked a friend (a web cam guru) what I should do. The…

  • Configuring SMTP Mail for WordPress

    Headline: I put in all the e-mail information for my WordPress site, but I’m not getting the notifications for new users or comments. You need to configure the SMTP and the best way is to install a plugin to do that. I chose Configure SMTP. Sometime back I moved my blog and recently I see…

  • Blog Moved to Newtek

    I’ve been struggling with poor performance and various other issues when I had my blog on GoDaddy. Some support people tried to be helpful, but most just accused me of doing something. I am not a WordPress developer… I know little to nothing about it. I had just heard that “it works”. And I don’t…

  • LiveWriter will not post pictures to my WordPress blog

    Headline: Change the LiveWriter Picture settings to use the Blog service rather than the FTP site. I mentioned about a month ago that my upgrade from WordPress 2.7.1 to WordPress 3.0.1 went very smoothly. I use LiveWriter for my blogging. I find it very easy to use. The only challenge in the past was that…

  • Smooth Upgrade to WordPress 3.0.1 on GoDaddy

    I went through the 3 step (2 really) wizard on GoDaddy to register to have my WordPress upgraded… I was still on 2.7.1. Since I started to use it I was concerned about upgrading. WordPress has moved pretty fast in the past and I wasn’t sure I wanted to try to keep up. I tried…