Forbidden 403 Error You don’t have permission to access /~username/blahblahblah on this server. When you customise WordPress to have custom permalinks, WordPress needs to make rewrites to clean URLs and produce a ‘.htaccess‘ file in the root directory of the webserver installation, sometimes the “.htaccess” rewrite composition isn’t the best and produces a 403 Forbidden …
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How to Change the Footer Appearance in Thesis 1.8 WordPress Theme
To change the footer element in Thesis 1.8 theme for WordPress you need to take care of a couple of things, there are two links in the footer that need to be removed, custom CSS and HTML then need to be added to complete the process. (a) First up is to enable the custom directory …
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Set Clean URL Permalinks in WordPress
What are Permalinks in WordPress? How to you change them to be Search Engine Friendly? After you have made your blog visible to the world the next thing to do (or actually preferably before!) is to change the permalink structure in WordPress. Universal WordPress URL Setting Permalink is short for Permanent Links and this is …
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How to backup your WordPress mysql database
One of the crucial components of a WordPress site is the database and it should be backed up on a regular basis to avoid the misfortune of the database becoming corrupt, hacked or deleted. WordPress uses a mysql database, which can be managed by the mysql commands on a command line or by phpMyAdmin through …
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