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		<title>Add TOC (Table Of Contents) to Your WordPress Posts Or Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 06:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[toc] Introduction Here, in this post we are going to a see how we can add Table of Contents to our WordPress posts and pages. Here we are going to install a plugin to do this work, why I have chosen this plugin is, it is so simple and yet do the work very well. It doesn&#8217;t have more settings and features but the way it is created is 100% apt for what it meant to be. You can also give it a try. I hope you will like this. Now let&#8217;s begin. Background Today I was just trying to create [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<h3>Introduction</h3>
<p>Here, in this post we are going to a see how we can add Table of Contents to our <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/Wordpress" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WordPress</a> posts and pages. Here we are going to install a plugin to do this work, why I have chosen this plugin is, it is so simple and yet do the work very well. It doesn&#8217;t have more settings and features but the way it is created is 100% apt for what it meant to be. You can also give it a try. I hope you will like this. Now let&#8217;s begin.</p>
<h3>Background</h3>
<p>Today I was just trying to create a post, at that time I decided to include the Table of Contents to the post, then I searched for plugins which does the work well. I found many in the Add New plugin page when I search for the keyword &#8220;Table of Contents&#8221;, but most of them has too many functinalities and configurations in it. Then I found this plugin F(X)-TOC. I liked it as it is very simple and doesn&#8217;t have much configurations.</p>
<div id="attachment_12288" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-plugin-in-Wordpress.png"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12288" class="wp-image-12288 size-large" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-plugin-in-Wordpress-1024x730.png" alt="TOC plugin in WordPress" width="1024" height="730" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-plugin-in-Wordpress-1024x730.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-plugin-in-Wordpress-300x214.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-plugin-in-Wordpress-768x547.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-plugin-in-Wordpress-400x285.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-plugin-in-Wordpress-842x600.png 842w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-plugin-in-Wordpress.png 501w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-12288" class="wp-caption-text">TOC plugin in WordPress</p></div>
<h3>Steps to add TOC to your post or page</h3>
<p>Adding a TOC to your page or post with this plugin is so simple. You just need to add toc in square brackets to your post or pages when you need the table of contents to be displayed, then this plugin will take all the heading elements (h1-h6) and add those in to the table of contents. That&#8217;s pretty much simple right? Let&#8217;s see it in action now. As in the preceding image, I have set the table of contents and my heading elements.</p>
<div id="attachment_12289" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Editing.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12289" class="wp-image-12289" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Editing-300x133.png" alt="TOC Editing" width="634" height="282" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Editing-300x133.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Editing-768x342.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Editing-1024x455.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Editing-400x178.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Editing.png 634w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-12289" class="wp-caption-text">TOC Editing</p></div>
<p>Now if you run your page/post you can see the table of contents.</p>
<div id="attachment_12301" style="width: 1003px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Output.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12301" class="size-full wp-image-12301" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Output.png" alt="TOC Output" width="993" height="730" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Output.png 993w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Output-300x221.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Output-768x565.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Output-400x294.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOC-Output-816x600.png 816w" sizes="(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-12301" class="wp-caption-text">TOC Output</p></div>
<p>That&#8217;s all, too simple right?</p>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
<p>Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.</p>
<h3>Your turn. What do you think?</h3>
<p>A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I can.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
Sibeesh Venu</p>
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		<title>Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance Check back in a minute</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 05:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this post we will see how we can get rid of error &#8220;Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance Check back in a minute&#8221; in WordPress. If you are working with WordPress or if your blog or website is in WordPress, you may face this issue whenever you are updating any plugins or updating the WordPress core.But sometime what happens is, even if the update process is finished, your site will be under maintenance mode. Here I am going to share you a quick fix that you can do when you are facing this issue. I hope you will like this. [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this post we will see how we can get rid of error &#8220;Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance Check back in a minute&#8221; in <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/wordpress" target="_blank">WordPress</a>. If you are working with WordPress or if your blog or website is in WordPress, you may face this issue whenever you are updating any <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/tag/wordpress-plugins/" target="_blank">plugins </a>or updating the WordPress core.But sometime what happens is, even if the update process is finished, your site will be under maintenance mode. Here I am going to share you a quick fix that you can do when you are facing this issue. I hope you will like this. </p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>I always used to update my WordPress core and the plugins when ever there is an update. So I faced this issue &#8220;Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance Check back in a minute&#8221; so many times. So thought of sharing you a quick for the same. </p>
<div id="attachment_11762" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Briefly-Unavailable-Error-e1467352676598.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11762" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Briefly-Unavailable-Error-e1467352676598.png" alt="Briefly Unavailable Error" width="650" height="81" class="size-full wp-image-11762" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Briefly-Unavailable-Error-e1467352676598.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Briefly-Unavailable-Error-e1467352676598-300x37.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Briefly-Unavailable-Error-e1467352676598-400x50.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11762" class="wp-caption-text">Briefly Unavailable Error</p></div>
<p><strong>Steps to remove the error Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance Check back in a minute</strong></p>
<p><strong>Step 1: Go to your file explorer</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_11759" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/File-Explorer-e1467352402848.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11759" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/File-Explorer-e1467352402848.png" alt="File Explorer" width="650" height="90" class="size-full wp-image-11759" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/File-Explorer-e1467352402848.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/File-Explorer-e1467352402848-300x42.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/File-Explorer-e1467352402848-400x55.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11759" class="wp-caption-text">File Explorer</p></div>
<p><strong>Step 2: Go to your ftp folder</strong></p>
<p>You can either go to your ftp folder via file explorer or using ftp clients like FileZilla.</p>
<div id="attachment_11760" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ftp-Folder-e1467352522920.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11760" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ftp-Folder-e1467352522920.png" alt="Ftp Folder" width="650" height="72" class="size-full wp-image-11760" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ftp-Folder-e1467352522920.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ftp-Folder-e1467352522920-300x33.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ftp-Folder-e1467352522920-400x44.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11760" class="wp-caption-text">Ftp Folder</p></div>
<p><strong>Step 3: Find the .maintenance file and delete</strong></p>
<p>Check for .maintenance file in the root folder and delete that.</p>
<div id="attachment_11761" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Maintenence-File-e1467352597979.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11761" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Maintenence-File-e1467352597979.png" alt="Maintenence File" width="650" height="146" class="size-full wp-image-11761" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Maintenence-File-e1467352597979.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Maintenence-File-e1467352597979-300x67.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Maintenence-File-e1467352597979-400x90.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11761" class="wp-caption-text">Maintenence File</p></div>
<p>Now if you refresh your WordPress site, it will be running fine. Hope it helps.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.</p>
<p><strong>Your turn. What do you think?</strong></p>
<p>A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I can.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
Sibeesh Venu</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this post we will discuss about the most needed WordPress plugins for your wordpress site. I am using WordPress for my site sibeeshpassion, and I would say using Worpress is so simple and effective and easy to configure. When you start using that, I am sure you will love it. There are so many things you can do with WordPress. One of the interesting thing about WordPress is, everything is available there in the form of Plugins. So we don&#8217;t need to scratch our head to do anything. Just download and install those plugins will do remaining. Sounds cool? [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this post we will discuss about the most needed <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/wordpress/" target="_blank">WordPress </a>plugins for your wordpress site. I am using WordPress for my site <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com" target="_blank">sibeeshpassion</a>, and I would say using Worpress is so simple and effective and easy to configure. When you start using that, I am sure you will love it. There are so many things you can do with WordPress. One of the interesting thing about WordPress is, everything is available there in the form of Plugins. So we don&#8217;t need to scratch our head to do anything. </p>
<div id="attachment_11157" style="width: 236px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Scratching_Head.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11157" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Scratching_Head.jpg" alt="Scratching_Head" width="226" height="223" class="size-full wp-image-11157" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11157" class="wp-caption-text">Scratching_Head</p></div>
<p>Just download and install those plugins will do remaining. Sounds cool?</p>
<div id="attachment_11158" style="width: 254px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Happy-Done.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11158" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Happy-Done.jpg" alt="Happy Smiley" width="244" height="197" class="size-full wp-image-11158" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11158" class="wp-caption-text">Happy Smiley</p></div>
<p>In this post I am going to discuss about those kind of plugins that you must install in your WordPress site. I hope you will like this.</p>
<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<p>This part is for the people who have never tried or heard about WordPress yet (I know there won&#8217;t be many numbers). Basically WordPress is a web software which we can use to create websites, blogs, apps and many more. We can choose any themes which is available in the themes directory, or we can download and install the themes too. Worpress provides 100% customizing options, so that we can do everything what we want to do in our websites/blogs/apps. If you want to read more about WordPress, I strongly recommend you to look <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>WordPress Plugins You Must Install</strong></p>
<p>So far I have installed 16 plugins in my Website. I will list all of them here. </p>
<p><strong>1. All In One SEO Pack</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>All In One SEO Pack help us to optimize our website for SEO. As you all know SEO plays an important role in ranking our website. Your websites rank go lower if your website has low SEO. This plugin has the following features.</p>
<li>XML Sitemap support &#8211; submit your sitemap to Google and Bing and improve your SEO</li>
<li>Google Analytics support</li>
<li>Support for SEO on Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Advanced Canonical URLs</li>
<li>Fine tune Page Navigational Links</li>
<li>Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality</li>
<li>ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites</li>
<li>Nonce Security built into All in One SEO Pack</li>
<li>Support for CMS-style WordPress installations</li>
<li>Automatically optimizes your titles for Google and other search engines</li>
<li>Generates META tags automatically</li>
<li>Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs</li>
<li>For beginners, you don&#8217;t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.</li>
<li>For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything to optimize your SEO</li>
<li>You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.</li>
<li>Compatibility with many other plugins</li>
<p><strong>2. Autoptimize</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>Autoptimize plugin is taking care of optimizing your site in a very easy manner. It does the following things for us.</p>
<li>Concatenates all scripts and styles</li>
<li>Minifies and compresses</li>
<li>Adds expires headers</li>
<li>Caches files</li>
<li>Moves styles to the page head and move scripts to the footer</li>
<li>Minifies the HTML</li>
<p><strong>3. Content Views</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>We all know Grids are the perfect way to show our posts or data. Isn&#8217;t it? You must install this plugin if you need to show your posts in a responsive grid layout. I have installed this and, I loved to see my posts in a responsive grid. </p>
<p>Here I am listing the basic things we can do with this plugin.</p>
<li>Display posts by any category, tag, author, keyword</li>
<li>Order posts by title, date, ID</li>
<li>Display posts with beautiful pagination</li>
<li>Display featured image with various size (thumbnail, medium, large, full)</li>
<p>There are so many other options you can avail, to know more, please see the plugin page.</p>
<p><strong>4. Disqus Comment System</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>A blog isn&#8217;t a blog without comments. Right? So to make our visitors to express their feedback or for any discussion we need to build a commenting system in our site. I have installed this plugin which does the commenting much easier and effective. This plugin is an old one, still it does for what it is made for. There are many other commenting plugins available, you can try those. </p>
<p>Below are the key features of Disqus comment system. </p>
<li>It Uses the Disqus API</li>
<li>Comments indexable by search engines (SEO-friendly)</li>
<li>Support for importing existing comments</li>
<li>Auto-sync (backup) of comments with Disqus and WordPress database</li>
<li>Threaded comments and replies</li>
<li>Notifications and reply by email</li>
<li>Subscribe and RSS options</li>
<li>Aggregated comments and social mentions</li>
<li>Powerful moderation and admin tools</li>
<li>Full spam filtering, blacklists and whitelists</li>
<li>Support for Disqus community widgets</li>
<li>Connected with a large discussion community</li>
<li>Increased exposure and readership</li>
<p><strong>5. EWWW Image Optimizer</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>It is a great plugin that automatically optimize the images as you upload to your post. Sounds cool? The good thing is, it can optimize the images that you have already uploaded too in a timely manner. </p>
<p>These are the few things that you may need to know why you must install this plugin.</p>
<li>Your pages will load faster</li>
<li>Faster backups</li>
<li>Less bandwidth usage</li>
<li>Fast</li>
<li>Best JPG optimization</li>
<li>Best PNG optimization</li>
<li>Optimize everything With the wp_image_editor class extension</li>
<p><strong>6. Google Website Translator by Prisna.net</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-website-translator/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>There is no non English country visitors if you don&#8217;t have an option to translate your contents to other languages in your blog. So is is recommended to install a translator plugin. In that case you can use this plugin, since it is capable of translating your contents to 90 plus languages. It uses Google&#8217;s automatic translation service.</p>
<p>The other features are listed below.</p>
<li>Easy configuration and settings</li>
<li>Can use it as a widget and as a shortcode</li>
<li>Practically null impact on page loads</li>
<li>Import/Export settings to easily transfer configurations</li>
<p><strong>7. MailMunch</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailmunch/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>As the plugin author says you can increase your Email subscribers by over 500% by using this plugin. This is a very well needed plugin which helps you to collect the mail ids of the visitors of your site and collectively sends mails to them when you create new posts so that you you can increase the visitors rate of your site. This plugin makes email marketing much easier that we think. With this plugin you can place a stylish and responsive form in your site which will allow user to subscribe to your site. Once the user is subscribed, the emails will be sent to those users whenever you create a new post. </p>
<p>The features are given below (from the plugin home page).</p>
<li>Opt-in Form Types: Popup, Embedded, Top Bar, Scroll Box, and Sidebar</li>
<li>Integrations: MailChimp, Constant Contact, AWeber, Campaign Monitor, GetResponse, InfusionSoft or any other email marketing service</li>
<li>Themes: Beautiful and fully customizable themes to make your email optin popup look amazing</li>
<li>A/B Testing: Find which opt-in form gets more email subscribers</li>
<li>Targeting: Display rules will help you display optin forms only on specific pages, categories or posts</li>
<li>Exit-Intent: Choose whether to display the popover when a user enters your page, or when they&#8217;re about to exit.</li>
<li>Analytics: View email subscription analytics and statistics for all time</li>
<p><strong>8. Popups &#8211; WordPress Popup</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/popups/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>This plugin can be used if you want to create a pop up with some contents, it can be any informations, or if you want to show your social links so that you can increase your followers. You can customize your Facebook page link, Twitter link, Google plus links and many more. </p>
<p>You can find more information in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/popups/" target="_blank">plugin home page</a></p>
<p><strong>9. Post Views Counter</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-views-counter/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>We all are fascinated about the statistics about our site. We are quite happy if the visitors count increases. Am I right? In this case, you may needed an option to track the visitors count of each posts. Here you can use this plugin which really works great.</p>
<p>The features are given below (from the plugin home page).</p>
<li>Option to select post types for which post views will be counted and displayed.</li>
<li>2 methods of collecting post views data: PHP and Javascript, for greater flexibility</li>
<li>Possibility to manually set views count for each post</li>
<li>Capability to query posts according to its views count</li>
<li>Option to set time between counts</li>
<li>Excluding counts from visitors: bots, logged in users, selected user roles</li>
<li>Excluding users by IPs</li>
<li>Restricting display by user roles</li>
<li>Restricting post views editing to admins</li>
<li>One-click data import from WP-PostViews</li>
<li>Sortable admin column</li>
<li>Post views display position, automatic or manual via shortcode</li>
<li>W3 Cache/WP SuperCache compatible</li>
<li>Optional object cache support</li>
<li>WPML and Polylang compatible</li>
<li>.pot file for translations included</li>
<p><strong>10. Redirection</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-views-counter/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>Sometimes we may end up in a situation that there is no other way than migrating our site. In that situation this plugin will help you. I will say you what makes me to install this plugin. Previously my <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com" target="_blank">site</a> was static, and later I moved to dynamic one as I used <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/wordpress" target="_blank">WordPress</a>. Since I was using some static HTML pages with the extension of /html, for example <em>http://sibeeshpassion.com/achievements.html</em>, after migrating to WordPress the post URL was changed to <em>http://sibeeshpassion.com/achievements</em>, hence 404 error occurs. With this plugin we can redirect the pages which is not available now, to the actual pages after the migration. </p>
<p>The features are given below (from the plugin home page).</p>
<li>404 error monitoring &#8211; captures a log of 404 errors and allows you to easily map these to 301 redirects</li>
<li>Custom &#8216;pass-through&#8217; redirections allowing you to pass a URL through to another page, file, or website.</li>
<li>Full logs for all redirected URLs</li>
<li>All URLs can be redirected, not just ones that don&#8217;t exist</li>
<li>Redirection methods &#8211; redirect based upon login status, redirect to random pages, redirect based upon the referrer!</li>
<li>Automatically add a 301 redirection when a post&#8217;s URL changes</li>
<li>Manually add 301, 302, and 307 redirections for a WordPress post, or for any other file</li>
<li>Full regular expression support</li>
<li>Apache .htaccess is not required &#8211; works entirely inside WordPress</li>
<li>Redirect index.php, index.html, and index.htm access</li>
<li>Fully localized</li>
<p><strong>11. Relevanssi</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>As you all know search feature is an essential thing in every website or blog. This makes sure the visitors to get all the informations he/she is seeking for. If he/she founds the result, you will definitely get a returning user to your site. This plugin replaces the standard WordPress search which is not sufficient enough. </p>
<p>The features are given below (from the plugin home page).</p>
<li>Search results sorted in the order of relevance, not by date.</li>
<li>Fuzzy matching: match partial words, if complete words don&#8217;t match.</li>
<li>Find documents matching either just one search term (OR query) or require all words to appear (AND query).</li>
<li>Search for phrases with quotes, for example &#8220;search phrase&#8221;.</li>
<li>Create custom excerpts that show where the hit was made, with the search terms highlighted.</li>
<li>Highlight search terms in the documents when user clicks through search results.</li>
<li>Search comments, tags, categories and custom fields.</li>
<li>Adjust the weighting for titles, tags and comments.</li>
<li>Log queries, show most popular queries and recent queries with no hits.</li>
<li>Restrict searches to categories and tags using a hidden variable or plugin settings.</li>
<li>Index custom post types and custom taxonomies.</li>
<li>Index the contents of shortcodes.</li>
<li>Google-style &#8220;Did you mean?&#8221; suggestions based on successful user searches.</li>
<li>Automatic support for WPML multi-language plugin.</li>
<li>Automatic support for s2member membership plugin.</li>
<li>Advanced filtering to help hacking the search results the way you want.</li>
<li>Search result throttling to improve performance on large databases.</li>
<li>Disable indexing of post content and post titles with a simple filter hook.</li>
<p><strong>12. Smooth Scroll Up</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/smooth-scroll-up/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>This is a simple plugin with options to scroll back to top of your page. When a user clicks the given icon, the scroll will be moved to top so that user doesn&#8217;t need to scroll to top manually. </p>
<p>The features are given below (from the plugin home page).</p>
<li>Choose from different scroll up element types (text link, pill, tab, image)</li>
<li>Upload your custom image and set as scroll up element</li>
<li>Custom text in scroll up element</li>
<li>Choose scroll up element position (left, center, right)</li>
<li>Option to add an on-click event</li>
<li>Set distance from top before showing scroll up element</li>
<li>Scroll up element animations (fade, slide, none)</li>
<li>Enable/disable in mobile devices</li>
<li>Enable/disable in home page</li>
<li>Enable/disable in specific posts/pages</li>
<p><strong>13. Super Socializer</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-socializer/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>I would say this is a most needed plugin that you must install because as you all know social media plays a vital role in our life. It reflects in our site popularity too, If you are in a part of any social media, you are getting some chances to increase your websites visitors visits. If you have a new post, you can share that to any social media, that is all you are required to do. You followers will love those and visit your site, that makes your site popular. Simple!. Now we need a plugin to do make this easy. Here you can install Super Socializer.</p>
<p>There are so many features available. You can always see those in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-socializer/" target="_blank">plugin home page</a>.</p>
<p><strong>14. SyntaxHighlighter Evolved</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/super-socializer/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>If you are a developer, or any kind of coder, you may have situations to post some codes to your posts. The SyntaxHighlighter helps you to do that. It formats everything we are placing inside the tags. What we are required to do is, just place the codes inside the tags. </p>
<div id="attachment_11163" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SyntaxHighlighter-e1453729942328.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11163" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SyntaxHighlighter-e1453729942328.png" alt="SyntaxHighlighter Example" width="650" height="95" class="size-full wp-image-11163" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SyntaxHighlighter-e1453729942328.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SyntaxHighlighter-e1453729942328-300x44.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SyntaxHighlighter-e1453729942328-400x58.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11163" class="wp-caption-text">SyntaxHighlighter Example</p></div>
<p><strong>15. UpdraftPlus &#8211; Backup/Restore</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>We all are humans and we do mistakes. In fact mistakes are making us strong. Once Albert Einstein said &#8220;Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new&#8221;. So practically we need backups to do the mistakes. It is quite easy to take back ups of your WordPress files and database with the help of UpdraftPlus plugin. It helps you to back up the files and database to a safest place, that is cloud  (Amazon S3 (or compatible), Dropbox, Google Drive, Rackspace Cloud, DreamObjects, FTP, Openstack Swift, UpdraftPlus Vault and email). </p>
<p>Please see more features and informations from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/" target="_blank">plugin home page</a>.</p>
<p><strong>16. WP Super Cache</strong></p>
<p>You can install this plugin from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/" target="_blank">here. </a></p>
<p>We can simply says &#8220;Without caching, your site is just like a computer with 100 MB Ram&#8221;. I am not sure what are all we can do with 100 MB Ram, since I have never get a chance ( Not sure it exists too). What matters is, it becomes slow. What if a returning user keeps on waiting to see your site post. Will he/she waits more than a minute? I would say a big NO. All users needs the results quickly. As we know &#8220;Time and tide wait for none&#8221;. To get rid of this, you must install a cache plugin in your site. Then WP Super Cache would be the nice selection. The features available with this plugins are outstanding. You can check those in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/" target="_blank">plugin home page</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.</p>
<p><strong>Your turn. What do you think?</strong></p>
<p>A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I can.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
Sibeesh Venu</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this post we will see how can we use or work with wordpress without installing wamp server in our machine. Most of you might have used wordpress and you might have installed Wamp server too to work with wordpress. Because wampserver is effective tool which helps to work with wordpress. Here I am going to share you an alternative way, that is to use Web Platform Installer instead installing a Wamp server. I hope you will like this. Background I was using wamp server to work with wordpress. That is fine, but it will make some conflicts between our [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this post we will see how can we use or work with <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/wordpress/" target="_blank">wordpress </a>without installing <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/wamp-server/" target="_blank">wamp server </a>in our machine. Most of you might have used wordpress and you might have installed Wamp server too to work with wordpress. Because wampserver is effective tool which helps to work with wordpress. Here I am going to share you an alternative way, that is to use <em>Web Platform Installer</em> instead installing a Wamp server. I hope you will like this.</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>I was using wamp server to work with wordpress. That is fine, but it will make some conflicts between our IIS and Skype in our machines, since both apache server and IIS and Skype uses same port (port 80) for the operations. If you need some solutions for those issues, you can see here: </p>
<li><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/solutions-for-wamp-server-not-starting-issue/" target="_blank">Solutions For Wamp Server Not Starting Issue</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/resolve-port-conflicts-between-wamp-server-and-skype/" target="_blank">Resolve Port Conflicts Between Wamp Server And Skype</a></li>
<p><strong>WordPress Without Wamp Server</strong></p>
<p>First thing you need to do is, installing Web Platform Installer. You can download this from <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx" target="_blank">Microsoft Web Platform Installer</a>. Once you downloaded it, please go ahead and install. </p>
<p>Open Microsoft Web Platform Installer. And search for WordPress.</p>
<div id="attachment_11019" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11019" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer-1024x702.png" alt="Install WordPress Through Web Platform Installer" width="634" height="435" class="size-large wp-image-11019" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer-1024x702.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer-300x206.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer-768x526.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer-160x110.png 160w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer-400x274.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer-875x600.png 875w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Install-Wordpress-Through-Web-Platform-Installer.png 1116w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11019" class="wp-caption-text">Install WordPress Through Web Platform Installer</p></div>
<p>Now Select WordPress and click on Add and then click Install. Now you can see MySQL configuration page as follows. Give the password you need to set for root.</p>
<div id="attachment_11020" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/My-SQL-Configuration-e1449562101711.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11020" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/My-SQL-Configuration-1024x707.png" alt="My SQL Configuration" width="634" height="438" class="size-large wp-image-11020" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11020" class="wp-caption-text">My SQL Configuration</p></div>
<p>Now click on Continue. Now you will be shown the perquisites to be downloaded. Just click I Accept to download MySQL and WordPress.</p>
<div id="attachment_11021" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11021" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded-1024x693.png" alt="Perquisites to be downloaded" width="634" height="429" class="size-large wp-image-11021" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded-1024x693.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded-300x203.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded-768x520.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded-320x218.png 320w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded-620x420.png 620w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded-400x271.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded-887x600.png 887w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prequisites-to-be-downloaded.png 1119w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11021" class="wp-caption-text">Perquisites to be downloaded</p></div>
<p>Now just wait for the process to be completed. This process will install WebMatrix which we are going to use as the platform to work with WordPress, MySQL, WordPress, IIS 8 which is compatible with WebMatrix.</p>
<div id="attachment_11022" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11022" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress-1024x703.png" alt="Installing MySQL and WordPress" width="634" height="435" class="size-large wp-image-11022" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress-1024x703.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress-300x206.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress-768x527.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress-160x110.png 160w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress-400x275.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress-874x600.png 874w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Installing-MySQL-and-Wordpress.png 1110w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11022" class="wp-caption-text">Installing MySQL and WordPress</p></div>
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Note: If you have installed IIS 10 in your machine, the WebMatrix won&#8217;t work. To make it work, you may need to uninstall IIS 10 and install IIS 8.</p></blockquote>
<p>Once you have installed everything. Go to your applications and open WebMatrix.</p>
<div id="attachment_11024" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WebMatrix-Login-e1449573178157.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11024" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WebMatrix-Login-1024x530.png" alt="WebMatrix Login" width="634" height="328" class="size-large wp-image-11024" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11024" class="wp-caption-text">WebMatrix Login</p></div>
<p>Once you logged in, you can see a home page as follows.</p>
<div id="attachment_11025" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WebMatrix-Homepage-e1449573501334.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11025" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WebMatrix-Homepage-1024x529.png" alt="WebMatrix Homepage" width="634" height="328" class="size-large wp-image-11025" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11025" class="wp-caption-text">WebMatrix Homepage</p></div>
<p>Click new&#8211;> App Gallery&#8211;> WordPress &#8211;> Click next.</p>
<div id="attachment_11026" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wordpress-in-WebMatrix-e1449573696653.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11026" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wordpress-in-WebMatrix-1024x532.png" alt="Wordpress in WebMatrix" width="634" height="329" class="size-large wp-image-11026" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11026" class="wp-caption-text">WordPress in WebMatrix</p></div>
<p>Type your site name and click next. Finally click OK. Now you can see your wordpress is installed and it will asked for initial set ups. If you are new to set up wordpress I suggest you to see here: <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/" target="_blank">Set up WordPress in Your Local </a></p>
<p>One you have done the initial set up, you will be able to login to your wordpress site. And you can see your files in your WebMatrix application.</p>
<div id="attachment_11029" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wordpress-Site-Home-In-WebMatrix-e1449578295685.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11029" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Wordpress-Site-Home-In-WebMatrix-1024x535.png" alt="Wordpress Site Home In WebMatrix" width="634" height="331" class="size-large wp-image-11029" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11029" class="wp-caption-text">WordPress Site Home In WebMatrix</p></div>
<p>You can run your wordpress site by clicking the button <em>Run</em>.</p>
<p>You can see your database under database section and also you can see the data and edit. </p>
<div id="attachment_11030" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Database-In-WebMatrix-e1449578549578.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11030" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Database-In-WebMatrix-1024x533.png" alt="Database In WebMatrix" width="634" height="330" class="size-large wp-image-11030" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11030" class="wp-caption-text">Database In WebMatrix</p></div>
<p><strong>Change Port In WebMatrix</strong></p>
<p>You can change the port to any number you wish in WebMatrix. For that go to Site tab&#8211;> Select your site &#8211;> Settings. In the localhost textbox you can edit the port.</p>
<div id="attachment_11031" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Changing-Port-In-WebMatrix-e1449579254741.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11031" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Changing-Port-In-WebMatrix-1024x535.png" alt="Changing Port In WebMatrix" width="634" height="331" class="size-large wp-image-11031" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11031" class="wp-caption-text">Changing Port In WebMatrix</p></div>
<p>Have a happy blogging!!!.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.</p>
<p><strong>Your turn. What do you think?</strong></p>
<p>A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I can.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
Sibeesh Venu</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This article explains how you can link your existing MySQL database to a Azure virtual machine and configure in wordpress. Once your database and wordpress website id ready you can go ahead and link your DB to wordpress and axure virtual machine. If you need to back up and restore your clear db MySQL database in a virtual machine in Azure, I suggest you to read Back Up your ClearDB and restore in Azure. If you are new to azure virtual machine, I strongly recommend you to read here: Create Virtual Machine In Azure. You can also find how to [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article explains how you can link your existing MySQL database to a Azure virtual machine and configure in wordpress. Once your database and wordpress website id ready you can go ahead and link your DB to wordpress and axure virtual machine.  If you need to back up and restore your clear db <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/mysql/" target="_blank">MySQL </a>database in a virtual machine in <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/tag/azure/" target="_blank">Azure</a>, I suggest you to read <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/back-up-your-cleardb-and-restore-in-azure-virtual-machine-mysql/" target="_blank">Back Up your ClearDB and restore in Azure</a>. If you are new to azure virtual machine, I strongly recommend you to read here: <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/create-virtual-machine-in-azure/" target="_blank">Create Virtual Machine In Azure</a>. You can also find how to install MySQL in Azure Virtual Machine here <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/install-mysql-in-azure-virtual-machine/" target="_blank">Install MySQL in Azure </a> . I hope you will like this.</p>
<p>If you are new to azure, I recommend you to read here: <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/azure/" target="_blank">Azure </a></p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>I hope you read my articles related to <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/virtual-machine/" target="_blank">Virtual Machines </a>in azure. If not, please read those. I was being limited to use only 20 MB size since one of the MSDN subscription was providing me ClearDB. So I thought of creating a virtual machine and install MySQL. Then I restored my previous Database to my new Database. Here in this article, I will share you the steps to link the database you created to azure virtual machine and wordpress.</p>
<p><strong>Steps to Back Up your ClearDB and restore</strong></p>
<p>Login to your azure portal <a href="https://manage.windowsazure.com" target="_blank">https://manage.windowsazure.com</a></p>
<p>Login to your Azure <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/create-virtual-machine-in-azure/" target="_blank">Virtual Machine</a></p>
<p>Hope you have already installed MySQL in your Virtual Machine. If so, we are ready to go.</p>
<p>First thing we need to do is to add the end points in our Azure virtual machine. To do so you need to follow the below steps.</p>
<p><strong>Add end points in Azure virtual machine</strong></p>
<p>Go to your virtual machine in azure management portal. </p>
<div id="attachment_10680" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL15.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10680" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL15-1024x486.png" alt="Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine" width="634" height="301" class="size-large wp-image-10680" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL15-1024x486.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL15-300x142.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL15-768x364.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL15-400x190.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL15.png 1160w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10680" class="wp-caption-text">Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine</p></div>
<p>Now click on the end points as shown in the preceding image.</p>
<div id="attachment_10681" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL16-e1443070554867.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10681" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL16-e1443070554867.png" alt="Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine" width="650" height="190" class="size-full wp-image-10681" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL16-e1443070554867.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL16-e1443070554867-300x88.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL16-e1443070554867-400x117.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10681" class="wp-caption-text">Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine</p></div>
<p>Click on the add option in the footer area.</p>
<div id="attachment_10682" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL17.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10682" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL17-1024x59.png" alt="Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine" width="634" height="37" class="size-large wp-image-10682" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL17-1024x59.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL17-300x17.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL17-768x44.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL17-400x23.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL17.png 1157w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10682" class="wp-caption-text">Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine</p></div>
<p>Now you will be getting a pop up, in that please click on the <em>Add standalone end points</em>.</p>
<div id="attachment_10683" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL18-e1443070721887.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10683" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL18-e1443070721887.png" alt="Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine" width="650" height="532" class="size-full wp-image-10683" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL18-e1443070721887.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL18-e1443070721887-300x246.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL18-e1443070721887-400x327.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10683" class="wp-caption-text">Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine</p></div>
<p>In the given area, please select MySQL as name and TCP as protocol. Port should be the one we did it while configuring the MySQL. For example 3306. I suggest you to do not edit in that area.</p>
<div id="attachment_10684" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL19-e1443070904219.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10684" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL19-e1443070904219.png" alt="Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine" width="650" height="535" class="size-full wp-image-10684" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL19-e1443070904219.png 434w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL19-e1443070904219-300x247.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL19-e1443070904219-400x329.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10684" class="wp-caption-text">Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine</p></div>
<p>Click on the tick icon once you have made entry for the required fields. Then you can see the progression and once it is completed, you will get a message as follows.</p>
<div id="attachment_10685" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL20.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10685" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL20-1024x111.png" alt="Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine" width="634" height="69" class="size-large wp-image-10685" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL20-1024x111.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL20-300x32.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL20-768x83.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL20-400x43.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL20.png 1167w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10685" class="wp-caption-text">Adding end points in Azure Virtual Machine</p></div>
<p>So we have successfully created the end points for our virtual machine MySQL. The next step is, to change some settings in the firewall in our virtual machine. Please do this with some care. It is very much important. </p>
<p><strong>Setting the firewall configuration in Azure virtual machine</strong></p>
<p>Go to the start menu and type power shell. You will be given some search results.</p>
<div id="attachment_10686" style="width: 339px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL21.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10686" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL21.png" alt="Setting the firewall configuration in Azure virtual machine" width="329" height="539" class="size-full wp-image-10686" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL21.png 329w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL21-183x300.png 183w" sizes="(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10686" class="wp-caption-text">Setting the firewall configuration in Azure virtual machine</p></div>
<p>Now you can see a command window with the name of logged in user as shown in the preceding image.</p>
<div id="attachment_10687" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL22-e1443071556733.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10687" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL22-e1443071556733.png" alt="Setting the firewall configuration in Azure virtual machine" width="650" height="477" class="size-full wp-image-10687" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL22-e1443071556733.png 486w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL22-e1443071556733-300x220.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL22-e1443071556733-400x294.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10687" class="wp-caption-text">Setting the firewall configuration in Azure virtual machine</p></div>
<p>The next step is a bit complex one. You need to enter a complex command which is shown here.</p>
<div id="attachment_10688" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL23-e1443071662673.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10688" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL23-e1443071662673.png" alt="Setting the firewall configuration in Azure virtual machine" width="650" height="41" class="size-full wp-image-10688" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL23-e1443071662673.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL23-e1443071662673-300x19.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL23-e1443071662673-400x25.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10688" class="wp-caption-text">Setting the firewall configuration in Azure virtual machine</p></div>
<p>For your convenience I am giving the command as below.</p>
<p>[sql]<br />
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName &quot;MySQL56&quot; -Direction Indound -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 3306 -Action Allow -Profile Public<br />
[/sql]</p>
<p>You can type the command as shown below.</p>
<div id="attachment_10689" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL24-e1443071814487.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10689" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL24-e1443071814487.png" alt="Setting firewall in azure virtual machine" width="650" height="474" class="size-full wp-image-10689" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL24-e1443071814487.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL24-e1443071814487-300x219.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL24-e1443071814487-400x292.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10689" class="wp-caption-text">Setting firewall in azure virtual machine</p></div>
<p>And if you do the above step correctly, I am sure you will be given a result as follows.</p>
<div id="attachment_10690" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL25-e1443071893874.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10690" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL25-e1443071893874.png" alt="Setting firewall in azure virtual machine" width="650" height="307" class="size-full wp-image-10690" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL25-e1443071893874.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL25-e1443071893874-300x142.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL25-e1443071893874-400x189.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10690" class="wp-caption-text">Setting firewall in azure virtual machine</p></div>
<p>Wow, we have done the settings needed now.</p>
<p>Now we need to change some settings in our wordpress configuration. As you all know the wordpress configuration is in the file called wp-config.php. So we are going to change the configuration in that file.</p>
<p><strong>Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</strong></p>
<p>Again go to your manage azure page, click the web application you need to change the settings.</p>
<div id="attachment_10691" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL26.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10691" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL26-1024x505.png" alt="Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress" width="634" height="313" class="size-large wp-image-10691" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL26-1024x505.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL26-300x148.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL26-768x379.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL26-400x197.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL26.png 1062w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10691" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</p></div>
<p>Now go to the dashboard and click on edit in visual studio on-line.</p>
<div id="attachment_10692" style="width: 282px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL91.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10692" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL91.png" alt="Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress" width="272" height="379" class="size-full wp-image-10692" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL91.png 272w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL91-215x300.png 215w" sizes="(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10692" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</p></div>
<p>You can see your wordpress files now. Click on the wp-config.php. </p>
<div id="attachment_10693" style="width: 329px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL27.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10693" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL27.png" alt="Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress" width="319" height="632" class="size-full wp-image-10693" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL27.png 319w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL27-151x300.png 151w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL27-303x600.png 303w" sizes="(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10693" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</p></div>
<p>It is always better to take a back up or copy of the wp-config.php, so that you can revert back to your clearDB configuration whenever you want. I strongly recommend you to do this step.</p>
<div id="attachment_10694" style="width: 309px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL28.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10694" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL28.png" alt="Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress" width="299" height="225" class="size-full wp-image-10694" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10694" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</p></div>
<p>You can rename the pasted file, just right click on the file and click rename.</p>
<div id="attachment_10695" style="width: 293px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL29.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10695" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL29.png" alt="Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress" width="283" height="218" class="size-full wp-image-10695" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10695" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</p></div>
<p>As you can see in the below image, I have given the name as ClearDB-Wp-Config.php.</p>
<div id="attachment_10696" style="width: 271px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL30.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10696" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL30.png" alt="Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress" width="261" height="176" class="size-full wp-image-10696" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10696" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</p></div>
<p>Open your wp-config.php and change the MySQL host name.</p>
<div id="attachment_10697" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL31-e1443072600781.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10697" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL31-e1443072600781.png" alt="Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress" width="650" height="35" class="size-full wp-image-10697" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL31-e1443072600781.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL31-e1443072600781-300x16.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL31-e1443072600781-400x22.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10697" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</p></div>
<p>Now add the port number in the host name because it listen that port.</p>
<div id="attachment_10698" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL32-e1443072686568.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10698" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL32-e1443072686568.png" alt="Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress" width="650" height="42" class="size-full wp-image-10698" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL32-e1443072686568.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL32-e1443072686568-300x19.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Back_Up_your_ClearDB_and_restore_in_Azure_Virtual_Machine_MySQL32-e1443072686568-400x26.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10698" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the configuration to new settings in wordpress</p></div>
<p>Please do not forget to change the database name, user name , password too. </p>
<p>Now I am sure your blog with new MySQL database will be running . Keep blogging. Cheers!.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed?.Have you ever tried virtual machine in azure?. If not, I strongly recommend that. So we have successfully configured our new MySQL database to the Azure virtual machine and wordpress. We have also done the firewall changes needed in virtual machine. I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.</p>
<p><strong>Your turn. What do you think?</strong></p>
<p>A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I am able to.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
Sibeesh Venu</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Add related posts in wordpress without plugin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction In this article we will learn how we will add related posts to each posts in wordpress according to the tags given. Even though there are so many plugins available to do the same, here I am going to show you a demo of implementing the same without a plugin. I hope you will like it. Background Today I was writing some articles in my website, once I finished my writing, I was just thinking about showing the related posts to each posts according to the tags selected. Hereby I will show you how we can implement it. Before [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<p>In this article we will learn how we will add related posts to each posts in wordpress according to the tags given. Even though there are so many plugins available to do the same, here I am going to show you a demo of implementing the same without a plugin. I hope you will like it.</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>Today I was writing some articles in my website, once I finished my writing, I was just thinking about showing the related posts to each posts according to the tags selected. Hereby I will show you how we can implement it. </p>
<p>Before going through it, we can do this in two way.</p>
<li>With a plugin </li>
<li>Without a plugin</li>
<p>I will always recommend you to use normal PHP, WordPress implementation which does not require any plugin. Do you know why?</p>
<p><strong>Limitations if use plugins</strong></p>
<li>It may change your theme style</li>
<li>It may not be supported your framework version</li>
<li>It may slow down your website</li>
<li>If you include a plugin, you are giving credits to the plugin author</li>
<li>Some plugins may have some internal redirects, it may cause unwanted loads</li>
<li>Some plugins add ads without your knowledge</li>
<p>These all problems will be resolved if you use normal few lines of PHP codes.</p>
<p>If you still need to go for a plugin, you can see some plugins here: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=related+posts" target="_blank">Related Posts Plugins</a></p>
<p><strong>Using the code</strong></p>
<p>Since we need that related posts entry must be seen in each and every posts, we should make some changes in the file called single.php. You can either edit this file or create a widget.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/content/images/Add_Related_posts_in_wordpress_1.png" alt="Add a related posts in wordpress" /></p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/content/images/Add_Related_posts_in_wordpress_2.png" alt="Add a related posts in wordpress" /></p>
<p>Find out end of each posts, you can inspect one of your page elements in UI and find out the class name and search the same in the single.php file. For me it is class <em>post-excerpt</em>.</p>
<p>Now after that class ends, you need to paste the below lines of codes</p>
<p>[php]<br />
&lt;div class=&quot;relatedposts&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;h3&gt;Related posts&lt;/h3&gt;<br />
&lt;?php<br />
    $orig_post = $post;<br />
    global $post;<br />
    $tags = wp_get_post_tags($post-&gt;ID);</p>
<p>    if ($tags) {<br />
    $tag_ids = array();<br />
    foreach($tags as $individual_tag) $tag_ids[] = $individual_tag-&gt;term_id;<br />
    $args=array(<br />
    &#8216;tag__in&#8217; =&gt; $tag_ids,<br />
    &#8216;post__not_in&#8217; =&gt; array($post-&gt;ID),<br />
    &#8216;posts_per_page&#8217;=&gt;5, // Number of related posts to display.<br />
    &#8216;caller_get_posts&#8217;=&gt;1<br />
    );</p>
<p>    $my_query = new wp_query( $args );</p>
<p>    while( $my_query-&gt;have_posts() ) {<br />
    $my_query-&gt;the_post();<br />
    ?&gt;</p>
<p>    &lt;div class=&quot;relatedthumb&quot;&gt;<br />
        &lt;a rel=&quot;external&quot; href=&quot;&lt;? the_permalink()?&gt;&quot;&gt;&lt;?php the_post_thumbnail(array(150,100)); ?&gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br />
        &lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt;<br />
        &lt;/a&gt;<br />
    &lt;/div&gt;</p>
<p>    &lt;? }<br />
    }<br />
    $post = $orig_post;<br />
    wp_reset_query();<br />
    ?&gt;<br />
&lt;/div&gt;<br />
[/php]</p>
<p>You can set your posts count in the below line of code.</p>
<p>[php]<br />
&#8216;posts_per_page&#8217;=&gt;5<br />
[/php]</p>
<p>Our next step is to add some css styles to the links.</p>
<p>[css]<br />
&lt;style&gt;<br />
.relatedthumb a {<br />
  color: #7a7a7a;<br />
  text-decoration: none;<br />
}<br />
.relatedthumb a:hover {<br />
  color: #01a821;<br />
}<br />
&lt;/style&gt;<br />
[/css]</p>
<p>You can either paste this CSS in <em>single.php</em> file or in <em>style.css</em></p>
<p>Now update your file, and run your website. Click on any post and see the output.</p>
<p>I have selected a post which is related to JQuery, and got the related posts as follows. It works great.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/content/images/Add_Related_posts_in_wordpress_3.png" alt="Add a related posts in wordpress" /></p>
<p>Please be noted that you need to add tags in each posts, then only this mechanism works.</p>
<p>Reference: <a href="http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-related-posts-without-plugins/" target="_blank">Related Posts</a></p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>That is all. I hope you liked this article. Please share me your feedback.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
<a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/" target="_blank">Sibeesh Venu</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Azure CNAME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change Category URL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNAME]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this article we will learn how we can change our website URL which we have hosted in Azure. And here I am using WordPress as my CMS, so I will show you how you can set this in WordPress settings. I hope you will like it. Background If you are new to Azure please read here. Normally when we host our website in Azure, we need to create a web application where we need to select the application name and, so once you configured everything , your website URL will be something like sibeeshvenu.azurewebsites.net , we can change this [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this article we will learn how we can change our website URL which we have hosted in <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/Azure/" target="_blank">Azure</a>. And here I am using WordPress as my CMS, so I will show you how you can set this in <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/wordpress/" target="_blank">WordPress </a>settings. I hope you will like it.</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>If you are new to Azure please read <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/Azure/" target="_blank">here</a>. Normally when we host our website in Azure, we need to create a web application where we need to select the application name and, so once you configured everything , your website URL will be something like sibeeshvenu.azurewebsites.net , we can change this and point to our CNAME by some procedure, that we will discuss in our next post. So what will happen is when you go for the above URL, it will just redirect to our CNAME (sibeeshpassion.com) . We will discuss that. Now even if you configure those, you need to set some settings in your wordpress to make our categories and post contains our CNAME in URL.</p>
<p><strong>Steps</strong></p>
<p>Login to your WordPress</p>
<div id="attachment_11879" style="width: 467px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-login.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11879" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-login.png" alt="WordPress login" width="457" height="484" class="size-full wp-image-11879" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-login.png 457w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-login-283x300.png 283w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-login-400x424.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11879" class="wp-caption-text">WordPress login</p></div>
<p>Go to settings-> General.</p>
<div id="attachment_11880" style="width: 455px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Settings.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11880" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Settings.png" alt="WordPress Settings" width="445" height="617" class="size-full wp-image-11880" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Settings.png 445w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Settings-216x300.png 216w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Settings-400x555.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Settings-433x600.png 433w" sizes="(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11880" class="wp-caption-text">WordPress Settings</p></div>
<p>Change the WordPress Address and Site Address.</p>
<div id="attachment_11881" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Address.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11881" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Address-1024x278.png" alt="WordPress Address" width="634" height="172" class="size-large wp-image-11881" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Address-1024x278.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Address-300x81.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Address-768x209.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Address-400x109.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WordPress-Address.png 634w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11881" class="wp-caption-text">WordPress Address</p></div>
<p>You can change it to your CNAME.</p>
<div id="attachment_11882" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Change-Your-CNAME.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11882" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Change-Your-CNAME-1024x317.png" alt="Change Your CNAME" width="634" height="196" class="size-large wp-image-11882" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Change-Your-CNAME-1024x317.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Change-Your-CNAME-300x93.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Change-Your-CNAME-768x238.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Change-Your-CNAME-400x124.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Change-Your-CNAME.png 634w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11882" class="wp-caption-text">Change Your CNAME</p></div>
<p>Now if you see those category URL’s you will see it is pointing to your CNAME URL.</p>
<div id="attachment_11883" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Category-Pointing-CNAME.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11883" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Category-Pointing-CNAME-1024x481.png" alt="Category Pointing CNAME" width="634" height="298" class="size-large wp-image-11883" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Category-Pointing-CNAME-1024x481.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Category-Pointing-CNAME-300x141.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Category-Pointing-CNAME-768x361.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Category-Pointing-CNAME-400x188.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Category-Pointing-CNAME.png 634w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11883" class="wp-caption-text">Category Pointing CNAME</p></div>
<p>That’s all folks . I will come with another set of Azure and WordPress article soon.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.<br />
<strong><br />
Your turn. What do you think?</strong></p>
<p>A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I can.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
Sibeesh Venu</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2015 20:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wamp Server]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wamp Server Issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wamp Server Not Starting]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the title says we are going to look at the solutions we can use if our wamp server is not starting. Some of you might have worked with wamp server especially if you work with wordpress . What if your wamp server is not getting started? What you will do in that situation? There might be so many reasons for it, here we will discuss those. I hope you will like this. Background Yesterday I downloaded and installed WampServer in my local machine. Unfortunately, when I tried to start WampServer, it was not starting at all. I tried all [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the title says we are going to look at the solutions we can use if our wamp server is not starting. Some of you might have worked with <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/wamp-server/" target="_blank">wamp server</a> especially if you work with <a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/category/wordpress/" target="_blank">wordpress </a>. What if your wamp server is not getting started? What you will do in that situation? There might be so many reasons for it, here we will discuss those. I hope you will like this.</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>Yesterday I downloaded and installed WampServer in my local machine.  Unfortunately, when I tried to start WampServer, it was not starting at all. I tried all the feasible solutions. I restarted my machine, I closed and re-opened the machine. I did all the options. But the result was always the same. Finally I discovered the solution to resolve this issue. Basically I am a Software Engineer with hands-off experience in Microsoft technologies, so I installed Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and 2013 in my system. As you all know, to work with Visual Studio we all must install IIS in our system. Am I right? So I installed that too. The software was in my system for a long period of time.<br />
Now I installed WampServer in my system. Any server needs a separate port to listen with. And if any of other is using the same port, it won’t work correctly.</p>
<div id="attachment_11003" style="width: 248px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Wamp-Server-And-IIS.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11003" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Wamp-Server-And-IIS.jpg" alt="Wamp Server And IIS" width="238" height="160" class="size-full wp-image-11003" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11003" class="wp-caption-text">Wamp Server And IIS</p></div>
<p>What a selfish character, right? We are all in a world where we share everything (including knowledge, money, food and so on) but the software does not have this character. They are selfish.</p>
<div id="attachment_11004" style="width: 301px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Selfish.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11004" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Selfish.jpg" alt="Selfish" width="291" height="160" class="size-full wp-image-11004" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11004" class="wp-caption-text">Selfish</p></div>
<p>So we can’t change their character. Let it be! We will try for an another solution. Here I will share two solutions.</p>
<p><strong>Solution 1: Changing the port</strong></p>
<p>In this solution, we will change the port assigned for WampServer. Let us see how to do that. If you installed WampServer in your machine, you can find an icon in your tool bar. Just click on that icon.</p>
<div id="attachment_11005" style="width: 369px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Changing-the-port-in-Wamp-Server.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11005" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Changing-the-port-in-Wamp-Server.png" alt="Changing the port in Wamp Server" width="359" height="297" class="size-full wp-image-11005" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Changing-the-port-in-Wamp-Server.png 359w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Changing-the-port-in-Wamp-Server-300x248.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11005" class="wp-caption-text">Changing the port in Wamp Server</p></div>
<p>Click on the httpd.conf under the Apache server section. Now you will get a file opened as follows.</p>
<div id="attachment_11006" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Edit-httpd.conf-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552532683.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11006" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Edit-httpd.conf-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552532683.png" alt="Edit httpd.conf In Wamp Server" width="650" height="423" class="size-full wp-image-11006" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Edit-httpd.conf-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552532683.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Edit-httpd.conf-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552532683-300x195.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Edit-httpd.conf-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552532683-400x260.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11006" class="wp-caption-text">Edit httpd.conf In Wamp Server</p></div>
<p>From the file, please search for 80Listen and replace 80 with 8080. That’s all. Now if you restart your WampServer, everything will work fine.</p>
<p><strong>Solution 2: Stopping the IIS</strong></p>
<p>If the preceding solution does not work in your case, you can stop IIS in your system. To do so you need to use the preceding procedures.<br />
Go to the command window (you can use  Window+R as a shortcut) and type cmd and press Enter.</p>
<div id="attachment_11007" style="width: 432px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Command-Window.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11007" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Command-Window.png" alt="Command Window" width="422" height="229" class="size-full wp-image-11007" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Command-Window.png 422w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Command-Window-300x163.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Command-Window-400x217.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11007" class="wp-caption-text">Command Window</p></div>
<p>After pressing Enter, you will get a window as in the following.</p>
<div id="attachment_11008" style="width: 523px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Reset-IIS-In-Windows.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11008" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Reset-IIS-In-Windows.png" alt="Reset IIS In Windows" width="513" height="171" class="size-full wp-image-11008" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Reset-IIS-In-Windows.png 513w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Reset-IIS-In-Windows-300x100.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Reset-IIS-In-Windows-400x133.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11008" class="wp-caption-text">Reset IIS In Windows</p></div>
<p>Now if you follow the command as shown in the image, your IIS will be stopped.</p>
<div id="attachment_11009" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Stop-IIS-In-Windows-e1449552723460.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11009" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Stop-IIS-In-Windows-e1449552723460.png" alt="Stop IIS In Windows" width="650" height="327" class="size-full wp-image-11009" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Stop-IIS-In-Windows-e1449552723460.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Stop-IIS-In-Windows-e1449552723460-300x151.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Stop-IIS-In-Windows-e1449552723460-400x201.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11009" class="wp-caption-text">Stop IIS In Windows</p></div>
<p>What you need to do next is, check which one is using port 80. To check, please click on the Apache -> Service -> Test Port 80.</p>
<div id="attachment_11010" style="width: 366px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Test-Port-80-In-Wamp-Server.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11010" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Test-Port-80-In-Wamp-Server.png" alt="Test Port 80 In Wamp Server" width="356" height="291" class="size-full wp-image-11010" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Test-Port-80-In-Wamp-Server.png 356w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Test-Port-80-In-Wamp-Server-300x245.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11010" class="wp-caption-text">Test Port 80 In Wamp Server</p></div>
<p>Now  you will get output as follows, if everything is fine.</p>
<div id="attachment_11011" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Port-80-Test-Result-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552871532.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11011" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Port-80-Test-Result-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552871532.png" alt="Port 80 Test Result In Wamp Server" width="650" height="324" class="size-full wp-image-11011" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Port-80-Test-Result-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552871532.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Port-80-Test-Result-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552871532-300x150.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Port-80-Test-Result-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552871532-400x199.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11011" class="wp-caption-text">Port 80 Test Result In Wamp Server</p></div>
<p>Then it is time to run your local host.</p>
<div id="attachment_11012" style="width: 660px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Localhost-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552942656.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11012" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Localhost-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552942656.png" alt="Localhost In Wamp Server" width="650" height="369" class="size-full wp-image-11012" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Localhost-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552942656.png 650w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Localhost-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552942656-300x170.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Localhost-In-Wamp-Server-e1449552942656-400x227.png 400w" sizes="(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11012" class="wp-caption-text">Localhost In Wamp Server</p></div>
<p>Click on the phpinfo(), so that you can confirm there are no errors.</p>
<div id="attachment_11013" style="width: 644px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Phpinfo-Errors.png"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11013" src="http://sibeeshpassion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Phpinfo-Errors-1024x732.png" alt="Phpinfo Errors" width="634" height="453" class="size-large wp-image-11013" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Phpinfo-Errors.png 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Phpinfo-Errors-300x214.png 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Phpinfo-Errors-768x549.png 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Phpinfo-Errors-400x286.png 400w, /wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Phpinfo-Errors-839x600.png 839w" sizes="(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-11013" class="wp-caption-text">Phpinfo Errors</p></div>
<p>That is all, we have done it.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.</p>
<p><strong>Your turn. What do you think?</strong></p>
<p>A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I can.</p>
<p><strong>Point of interest</strong></p>
<p>Solutions if your WampServer is not starting, WampServer and IIS conflicts, WampServer and IIS, Windows IIS.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
Sibeesh Venu</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[This article explains how to configure WordPress in your local Wamp Server. You may have a live website which you hosted in a server. what if you need to try a new theme and test it? In that situation you can always set up a local wordpress and test your development works, if everything is fine, you can move those changes to live. So that you can avoid the errors in your live website. Here, I will share the procedure for that. Background A Few days ago, my friend Gaurav Arora suggested that I change my static website (www.sibeeshpassion.com) to [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article explains how to configure WordPress in your local Wamp Server. You may have a live website which you hosted in a server. what if you need to try a new theme and test it? In that situation you can always set up a local wordpress and test your development works, if everything is fine, you can move those changes to live. So that you can avoid the errors in your live website.  Here, I will share the procedure for that. </p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p>A Few days ago, my friend Gaurav Arora suggested that I change my static website (www.sibeeshpassion.com) to a dynamic one. Thank you so much for giving me the idea, Gaurav. Therefore, I thought of changing my normal HTML pages to WordPress posts. Since I am completely new to the term PHP and WordPress, I thought to give it a try locally. Hence, I began configuring everything on localhost.</p>
<p><strong>Configuring  WordPress</strong></p>
<p>Before we start, please ensure that you have downloaded and installed the Wamp Server and WordPress. You can download them from the following links. </p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/download/" target="_blank">Download wordpress</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.wampserver.com/en/" target="_blank">Download wamp server</a></p>
<p>Now, you can follow the preceding procedure. Let us categorize the procedure into the following three points.</p>
<li>Setting up Database</li>
<li>Creating User</li>
<li>Configuring WordPress </li>
<p><strong>Setting Up Database</strong></p>
<p>To configure a database in your Wamp Server, please use the preceding procedure.</p>
<p><em>Step 1</em></p>
<p>After installing the Wamp Server, you can find a new icon on your Toolbar. Just click on it and now click localhost.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw1.png" alt="" /> </p>
<p><em>Step 2</em></p>
<p>Now, you will get a new window as shown below.</p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw2.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Next, click on phpmyadmin.</p>
<p><em>Step 3</em></p>
<p>Now, you will get the phpMyAdmin section as shown in the following screenshot.</p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw3.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Now, click on the database tab and type your database name and click on Create. That&#8217;s all we need to do to create a database successfully.</p>
<p><strong>Creating user</strong></p>
<p>Here is the procedure for creating a user.</p>
<p><em>Step 1</em></p>
<p>Start with clicking on the user tab.</p>
<p><em>Step 2</em></p>
<p>Fill in the required details.</p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw5.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Once you have filled it in, please click on the Go button. Now, using this, we have created a user for our WordPress. </p>
<p><strong>Configure WordPress</strong></p>
<p>Now we have done all the required settings to configure WordPress. So, let&#8217;s start with configuring WordPress.</p>
<p>Type your WordPress folder name that you have pasted in the www root of the Wamp Server.</p>
<p>Your URL looks as follows:  http://localhost:80/wordpress/wp-admin</p>
<p>Here, WordPress is my folder where I have the WordPress files. When you follow that link you will get a window as follows.</p>
<p><em>Step 1</em></p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw6.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Now select your language and click on continue.</p>
<p><em>Step 2</em></p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw7.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Now we will provide the database and user details. To continue, please click the &#8220;Let&#8217;s go!&#8221; button.</p>
<p><em>Step 3</em></p>
<p>Now, the next step is to edit our wp-config file.</p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw9.png" alt="" /> </p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw10.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Once you edit that file, move to the next step.</p>
<p><em>Step 4 </em></p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw8.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Now, please fill the form.</p>
<blockquote><p>Note: You need to use the database and user that we already created in the first step.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Step 5</em></p>
<p>If you submit the preceding form, you can see a message as follows.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw11.png" alt="" /> </p>
<p>Now click &#8220;Run the install&#8221;.</p>
<p><em>Step 6</em></p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw12.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Now, provide the password and other necessary details. Once completing that, you will get a message as follows.</p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw13.png" alt="" /></p>
<p><em>Step 7</em></p>
<p>Now, to check whether our installation is correct or not.</p>
<p> <img decoding="async" src="http://csharpcorner.mindcrackerinc.netdna-cdn.com/UploadFile/65794e/set-up-wordpress-in-your-local-wamp-server/Images/cw14.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>If the things are fine, you will get a login page. Now you can login and start using your WordPress and enjoy.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.</p>
<p><strong>Your turn. What do you think?</strong></p>
<p>A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I can.</p>
<p>Kindest Regards<br />
Sibeesh Venu</p>
<p><strong>Points of interest</strong></p>
<p><em>Set up WordPress in your local Wamp Server.</em><br />
<em>Wamp server.</em><br />
<em>Localhost.</em><br />
<em>WordPress set up.</em><br />
<em>Installing WordPress in Wamp Server.</em></p>
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