Wordpress on Shane Cunningham

Locked myself out of Wordpress

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:43:36 +0000

Another booboo I made while moving my Wordpress blog to another server was entirely my own fault, I forgot the administrator password I had setup, myep. Here’s a way to manually correct this without using something like phpMyAdmin. I’m assuming you have root access to your web server.

mysql -u root -p

sql

SHOW databases;

sql

USE wordpressdb;

sql

SELECT * FROM wp_users;

To get the md5 hash for your password you have a few options, visit this md5 Hash Generator or let MySQL do it for you…

Wordpress, Nginx and Pretty Permalinks

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:19:21 +0000

The only issue I had with moving my blog from Apache to Nginx was with pretty permalinks. Installation and setup was very easy. I used this guide from Rackspace Knowledge Center. Add in MySQL server after setting up Nginx, PHP-FPM and you’re all set. My server now uses much less RAM and is better suited for serving my static content.

When I first had everything setup, I could login to Wordpress dashboard and make edits to my site, but when I tried visiting any links I received 404 errors. After some Googling and trying a couple solutions it still was not working. I finally found the simple solution below, it’s on the Official Nginx Wiki (should have gone there first!).

Back to Wordpress

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:57:55 +0000

A few months ago I switched my blog over to Tumblr. I liked Tumblr for the most part, but the lack of control finally got to me. So, I am back to using Wordpress. I’m also using a VPS instead of shared hosting I used on my first Wordpress blog.

To import my Tumblr blog into Wordpress I used Tumblr Import 0.5. When I tried using it I kept receiving an error stating there was a connection problem with Tumblr. From what I found with a few Google searches this is a very generic error. I finally found something worth trying - turn my custom .com domain that I used with Tumblr, off. That fixed the problem and Tumblr Importer successfully imported my Tumblr blog into Wordpress.