A How-to Guide to Migrating a Website to WordPress

Over the past few months, I have been working with a client converting his existing Website into a site built on WordPress.

I am writing this post to document the steps I took in this process, both to record for myself (something I can refer to on future projects) and to help other people who want to migrate a site onto WordPress.

I also hope that people with more experience in this will comment on this post to help make it more comprehensive.

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Install Wordpress Multiuser (WPMU) On FreeBSD 7

Wordpress is one of my favourite blog engines because it's easy and supports many plugins. Wordpress also available in multi-user mode which means a single Wordpress installation will cover many users with their own subdomain. This howto will show the steps taken to install Wordpress wpmu on a server running FreeBSD 7 stable.

Step by step install wpmu in FreeBSD

Here’s step by step install wpmu in FreeBSD, might be useful for someone.

No Ping Wait Wordpress Plugin

You may have noticed that when you actually “publish” a post there can be a delay as long as a minute or more. This plugin solves that problem by moving generic pings to execute-pings.php.

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