How to Upload a Video With a WordPress Plugin

Selecting a Plugin
1. Log into your WordPress administrative dashboard. Click 'Add New' in the 'Plugins' section on the left menu.
2. Type 'Video Player' and the type of format you use, such as 'FLV' or 'WMV' in the search field. Click 'Search Plugins.'

3. Scan the list of available plugins for the one that best suits your needs. Click 'Install Now.'
4. Click 'Activate' beneath the plugin title once it has been installed to your WordPress website. Then click the 'Visit Plugin Site' to read additional instructions for the plugin.
Using the Flash Video Player Plugin
5. Create a new folder on your website using any free FTP client called 'video.'
6. Upload an FLV video to that folder.
7. Create a new blog post or WordPress page from your administrative dashboard. Click the 'HTML' tab and insert the '[flashvideo file=video/video.flv /]' where you want the video to appear, using the name of your video in place of 'video.flv.'
Using the Stream Video Player Plugin
8. Click on 'Stream Video Player' located in your dashboard after the plugin has been activated.
9. Configure the appearance and behavior of the video player from the options provided. These include the size of the player, start-up volume, and whether or not the video should start by itself,
10. Create a new blog post by clicking 'Add New' in the 'Posts' section of the WordPress Dashboard. Add a new video by clicking the 'Video' icon. Then upload your video to the Media Library.
11. Click the 'Stream Video' button located above your post. Select your video from the media library. Review the configuration of the video and make any changes needed from the default values you specified in Step Two. Then click 'Generate.'
Using the VideoJS Video Player Plugin
12. Upload the video to your web server. Make a note of what folder you place the video.
13. Create a new blog post or WordPress page from your administrative dashboard.
14. Add the video short code to the post where you would like the video to appear on the blog post or page. For example, '[video mp4=http://mywebsite.com/video.mp4]' would be used for an mp4 video on your website's home directory. If you put the video in a folder called 'videos,' then the code would read 'http://mywebsite.com/videos/video.mp4.'
15. Add attributes to the video code as needed. For example width and height tags would specify the size of the video in pixels in the format, 'video width='640'.' Other attributes are explained on the plugin's details page, available from the link in your plugin directory after it has been installed.

How to Find and Replace the Domain URL for a WordPress Migration

1. Log into phpMyAdmin or a similar MySQL database editor. Click the name of the WordPress database from the list of databases on the left to display a list of tables in the database.
2. Click the 'browse' button next on the line with the 'wp_options' table to edit the WordPress options table in the database.

3. Click the edit icon next to record in the database whose 'option_name' is 'siteurl,' typically the first record displayed. Edit the 'option_value' field and enter the new domain URL for the blog. Click 'Go' to save your changes.
4. Click the arrow button above or below the list of fields to go to the next page. Find the record whose 'option_name' is 'home.' Click the edit icon on that line. Enter the new URL in the 'option_value' field and click 'Go' to save your changes.

How to Install a New WordPress Template

1. Download your new theme.
2. Unzip the new theme onto your harddrive

3. Start-up your favorite FTP client. If your lost at this point, simply search eHow for how to use an FTP client.
4. With your FTP client up, log-in to your WordPress blog site.
5. Create a directory on your Web server wp-content/themes/example. Example is your new theme name and the base file that you just created.
6. Upload the theme. This will be the unzipped version that you placed on your hard drive in step 2.
7. Now log-out of your FTP client and shut it down.
8. Log-in to your admin account on Wordpress and go to Presentations.
9. Click on the new theme.

How to Transfer WordPress to Bluehost

1. Export your existing WordPress blog to your hard drive. Log in to your WordPress account, scroll down to 'Tools.' Click 'Export.' Click 'Download Export File' to save the .XML file -- in other words, your entire blog -- to your hard drive.
2. Log in to the Bluehost Account Manager, using your domain name and password. Scroll down to the 'Software/Services' pane. Click 'WordPress.'

3. Click 'Install' to begin the process of installing WordPress on your Bluehost domain. Click the drop-down menu under 'Where Would You Like WordPress Installed?' and select the domain -- if you have more than one -- on which you wish to install WordPress, then tick the box to indicate you've read the terms and conditions. Click 'Complete.' Take note of the username and password the process assigns you upon its completion.
4. Log in to WordPress on your domain, which you access by entering your domain URL, then '/wp-admin/' after it. Enter the WordPress username and password with which the sign-up process provided you.
5. Import your blog's .XML file to your self-hosted WordPress. Scroll down to 'Tools.' Click 'Import,' and then click 'Browse' to locate the .XML file on your hard drive. Click 'Open.' Click 'Import' to upload your blog -- posts, pictures, tags, titles, comments and all -- to your own server. The blog will appear exactly as it did on your old site, unless you've installed a different theme.

How to Move Your WordPress Blog if You Use StartLogic Install Central

1. Sign in to your StartLogic account control panel and then click 'File Manager.'
2. Navigate to the directory where your WordPress site is installed and then check the box next to the installation directory.

3. Click the 'Actions' menu and then click 'Download.' Wait for the files to download to your computer. After the files are finished downloading, return to the control panel.
4. Click 'phpMyAdmin' and then sign in to your database using your WordPress database name and password. Select the database in the left column interface and then click 'Export.'
5. Select 'SQL' as the export file type and then check the box next to 'Save as File.' Click 'Go' to export your WordPress database.
6. Sign in to your new host's account portal, add the domain name to your account and then point the domain to the desired directory on the server. After adding the name your host provides you with the name servers.
7. Sign in to your StartLogic control panel and then click 'DomainCentral.' Select your WordPress site's domain name and then click 'Name Servers.'
8. Replace the existing name servers with the name servers provided by your new host.
9. Upload the files you downloaded from your StartLogic server into the appropriate directory on the new server.
10. Create a new database from your new host's control panel. Note the database name, user name and password, and then click 'Import.' Select the SQL file you exported from your Start Logic database.
11. Access the file manager on your new hosting account and then navigate to the 'Wp-config.php' file to find the database name, user name and password. Replace the values with the values for your newly created database.

How to Customize a New User Registration Email in WordPress

1. Log into your WordPress blog using your administrator account.
2. Click 'Plugins' from the left menu, then click 'Add New' from the sub-menu.

3. Type 'welcome email editor' in the search box, then press the 'Enter' button on your keyboard.
4. Click the 'Install Now' link under 'SB Welcome Email Editor,' then click the 'OK' button to confirm installation.
5. Click the 'Activate Plugin' link to launch the new plugin. You will see a new section appear at the bottom of the menu on the left side.
6. Click the 'SB Welcome Email Editor' link from the menu to view the current welcome email sent to newly registered users.
7. Type your new email message in the text boxes provided. You can change the email subject and body messages for the new user as well as the email that is sent to the administrator when a new user signs up.
8. Click the 'Update Settings' button to save your customizations to the new user registration email.

How to Convert a Weebly Theme to Wordpress

1. Log in to your Weebly account.
2. Click 'Theme Editor.'

3. Click on the 'Design' tab.
4. Select 'Edit CSS/HTML.'
5. Click 'Export Theme' on the upper right corner of the screen.
6. Save the file containing the Weebly theme to your computer.
7. Log in to your WordPress account.
8. Click 'Tools' on the dashboard.
9. Select 'Import' from the drop-down menu.
10. Select 'Weebly' from the platforms listed.
11. Select the file containing the theme you saved to your computer.
12. Click the 'OK' button to import it into WordPress.