How to Install a Chat Room in WordPress

BuddyPress AJAX Chat
1. Log into your self-hosted WordPress website.
2. Select “Plugins” from the navigational sidebar.

3. Select the “Add new” sub-menu.
4. Type “BuddyPress AJAX Chat” and click “Search Plugins.”
5. Click “Install Now” to add the BuddyPress AJAX Chat plug-in to your WordPress installation.
6. Click “Activate Plugin” to configure the chat room.
7. Select “BuddyPress AJAX Chat” to configure where your chat room is displayed.
WP Chat
8. Log into your self-hosted WordPress website.
9. Select “Plugins” from the navigational sidebar.
10. Select the “Add new” sub-menu.
11. Type “WP Chat” and click “Search Plugins.”
12. Click “Install Now” to add the WP Chat plug-in to your WordPress installation.
13. Click “Activate Plugin” to configure the chat room.
14. Select the “WP Chat” sub-menu from “Settings” in the navigational sidebar.
15. Register your chat room to finalize the set up of WP Chat.
Zopim Live Chat
16. Log into your self-hosted WordPress website.
17. Select “Plugins” from the navigational sidebar.
18. Select the “Add new” sub-menu found under “Plugins.”
19. Type “Zopim” and click “Search Plugins.”
20. Click “Install Now” to add the Zopim Live Chat plug-in to your WordPress installation.
21. Click “Activate Plugin” to configure the chat room.
22. Select “Zopim Live Chat” from the navigational sidebar.
23. Register your Zopim chat account and click “Activate Now.”
24. Retrieve your Zopim password from your email and enter it into the log-in screen to activate the plug-in.

How to Load an Artisteer Template to Wordpress

1. Click 'Start' and 'All Programs.' Click 'Artisteer' to open the program.
2. Click the 'WordPress' icon under 'Content Management System Themes' on the 'Getting Started with Artisteer' New Document screen.

3. Click the tabs across the top to choose the colors, layout and fonts for your website. Click the disk icon to save the website.
4. Click the 'Ideas' tab. Click 'Export' and then 'WordPress Theme' from the drop-down menu.
5. Type a name for the theme. Click the folder icon next to 'Path' and choose the location for the exported theme. Click 'Export.'
6. Log in to your Web hosting account. You are directed to the cPanel page.
7. Click 'File Manager' and open the Web root directory.
8. Click the 'wp-content' folder to open it. Click the 'themes' folder, then click 'Upload.' Select the Artisteer template. The template uploads to the WordPress themes folder.
9. Open a Web browser and go to your WordPress login page. Type your username and password and click 'Log In.'
10. Click 'Themes' under 'Appearance.' The Artisteer theme is listed under 'Available Themes.' Click 'Activate' to activate the theme.

How to Import Drupal Into WordPress

Import Drupal Content
1. Open your Web browser and start phpMyAdmin or the tool your website uses for database administration. These programs are typically found on your Web-hosting control panel.
2. Click on the 'Import' tab. Upload your Drupal database into the exact same database where WordPress 2.7 is now installed.

3. Visit the 'SQL' tab on your database administration tool to begin pasting your SQL queries. Each query will follow the exact same procedure for copying and pasting.
4. Highlight the text in quotes below.'TRUNCATE TABLE tempdb.wp_comments;TRUNCATE TABLE tempdb.wp_links;TRUNCATE TABLE tempdb.wp_postmeta;TRUNCATE TABLE tempdb.wp_posts;TRUNCATE TABLE tempdb.wp_term_relationships;TRUNCATE TABLE tempdb.wp_term_taxonomy;TRUNCATE TABLE tempdb.wp_terms;'Right-click on the highlighted text and select 'Copy.' Return to the SQL query box. Right-click in the box and select 'Paste' to enter your queries. Click the 'Go' button. Repeat this process for every SQL query.
5. Import all of the taxonomy terms by highlighting the quoted text below.'INSERT INTO tempdb.wp_terms (term_id, `name`, slug, term_group)SELECTd.tid, d.name, REPLACE(LOWER(d.name), ' ', '-'), 0FROM tempdb.term_data dINNER JOIN tempdb.term_hierarchy hUSING(tid);INSERT INTO tempdb.wp_term_taxonomy (term_id, taxonomy, description, parent)SELECTd.tid `term_id`,'category' `taxonomy`,d.description `description`,h.parent `parent`FROM tempdb.term_data dINNER JOIN tempdb.term_hierarchy hUSING(tid);'Paste all of the highlighted text into the query box in your browser.
6. Copy and paste the query below to import all of your Drupal posts directly into WordPress.'INSERT INTOtempdb.wp_posts (id, post_date, post_content, post_title,post_excerpt, post_name, post_modified)SELECT DISTINCTn.nid, FROM_UNIXTIME(created), body, n.title,teaser,REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(LOWER(n.title),' ', '-'),'.', '-'),',', '-'),' ', '-'),FROM_UNIXTIME(changed)FROM tempdb.node n, tempdb.node_revisions rWHERE n.vid = r.vid'
7. Copy and paste the query below into the query box to import each of your Drupal posts to the appropriate category.'INSERT INTO tempdb.wp_term_relationships (object_id, term_taxonomy_id)SELECT nid, tid FROM tempdb.term_node;'
8. Copy and paste the category count updating query below into the query box.'UPDATE wp_term_taxonomy ttSET `count` = (SELECT COUNT(tr.object_id)FROM wp_term_relationships trWHERE tr.term_taxonomy_id = tt.term_taxonomy_id);'
9. Keep unapproved comments hidden to visitors by copying and pasting the below query into the query box.'INSERT INTO tempdb.wp_comments (comment_post_ID, comment_date, comment_content, comment_parent, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_approved)SELECT nid, FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp), comment, thread, name, mail, homepage, status FROM tempdb.comments;'
10. Update the comment counts on individual posts by copying and pasting the below query into the query box.'UPDATE `wp_posts` SET `comment_count` = (SELECT COUNT(`comment_post_id`) FROM `wp_comments` WHERE `wp_posts`.`id` = `wp_comments`.`comment_post_id`);'
11. Correct any line breaks within your content by copying and pasting the query below into the query box.'UPDATE tempdb.wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, '', '');'
12. Correct the image paths for all of the images that will be imported from Drupal. Copy and paste the query below into the query box.'UPDATE tempdb.wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content, ''/sites/default/files/', ''/wp-content/uploads/');'
Import Images From Drupal
13. Open your favorite FTP program.
14. Log in to the website that has WordPress installed using the user name and password provided by your Web host.
15. Locate the directory where WordPress is installed. Click on the 'wp-content' folder and then on the 'uploads' folder. Leave this open.
16. Locate the path on your computer where you saved your Drupal website's files.
17. Navigate through your Drupal folders by clicking on the 'sites' folder. Then click on the 'default,' 'files' and 'content' folders.
18. Locate the 'images' folder inside of the 'content' folder.
19. Copy the entire 'images' folder directly into the WordPress 'uploads' folder. Your WordPress installation should now include all of your Drupal website's posts and images.

How to Set Up the Mochi Plugin for WordPress

Install the Plugin
1. Download the MyArcadePlugin from the WordPress directory.
2. Unzip the file into a folder on your computer using a zip utility like 7-zip, Winzip or IZAArc.

3. Upload the '/myarcadeblog/' folder to the '/wp-content/plugins/' folder on your WordPress site using your FTP. Exactly how you do this depends upon what FTP you use; in general, sign into your FTP, select the '/myarcadeblog/' folder from the local drive window and then drag the file to the '/wp-content/plugins/' folder in the WordPress window.
4. Log into your WordPress admin panel. Your WordPress admin panel can be found at 'yourwebsitename/wp-admin' where 'yourwebsitename' is the name of your actual website.
5. Click 'Plugins' and then click 'Activate' next to 'MyArcadePlugin.'
6. Click 'MyArcade' and then click 'Settings.'
Set Up The Plugin
7. Click 'Appearance' and then click 'Activate' under Fungames 1.20.
8. Click 'Manage Themes,' then click 'MyArcade' and then click 'Settings.'
9. Click 'MyArcade' and then click 'Settings.' Type your Mochi Publisher ID into the 'Publisher ID' text box. Your Mochi Publisher ID can be found in the 'Publisher Bridge' section of your Mochi account.
10. Type a number of games to feed into the 'Feed Games' text box and the 'Publish Games' text box. For example, type '100' into each box. Click any boxes in the 'Games Categories to Feed' section, then click the 'Create Categories' and 'Enable Leaderboards' check boxes.
11. Type your Mochi Publisher Secret Key into the 'Publisher Secret Key' text box and then click 'Save Settings.' Your Plugin is now set up and ready to use.

How to Change a Sidebar Background Color With a WordPress Theme

1. Log in to the WordPress dashboard from the wp-admin directory of your website. Navigate to the 'Appearance' screen and click the 'Editor' link under 'Appearance' on the left-hand menu. Click the link to your sidebar file under the 'Templates' heading.
2. Find the div or section tags that wrap around your sidebar in the code. Add a pair of wrapping div tags if you see none, and give them an ID name. Here is a sample of sidebar code:



In the above example, you would need the ID name 'primary' from the first div tag. Save the file if you changed it.

3. Open the style.css file in your themes editor by clicking on its link under 'Templates.' Look for a selector such as '#idname' where 'idname' is the ID name of your wrapping div or section tags. If you do not see this selector, add it to the bottom of the file. Edit your CSS code so it looks like this:#idname {background-color: #cecece;}The above code shows how the background color is set for the div or section with an ID name of 'idname.' Your selector may include other property-value pairs.
4. Change the value of 'background-color' to the code for the color you want to use. You can use named colors like 'red' or 'purple,' hexadecimal color codes like '#ff0000' or RGBa (Red, Green, Blue and Alpha) codes like 'rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.5)' to specify semi-transparent colors. Save the file after you finish.

How to Install Wordpress on Yahoo Hosting

1. Log into your Yahoo! web hosting control panel. Navigate to 'Create Update' and then click 'WordPress'. Fill in the form with a username and password of your choosing. Use an active e-mail address for the e-mail field so you can retrieve your password if you ever forget it. If you want to make the blog your home page, click the checkbox before submitting the form.
2. Continue moving through the install prompts. Click the radio button next to the folder where you wish to install WordPress. You can create a new folder at this step. Do not install WordPress to a folder where there is already another system or tool installed, such as a message board or your phpMyAdmin folder. When prompted, agree to the license and then activate WordPress.

3. Log into the WordPress dashboard atyourdomain.com/folder/wp-admin/ Click 'Appearance' and then 'Themes' to look at the themes Yahoo! installed to your WordPress blog. Yahoo! pre-installs some themes, but they add advertisements to them, including the default 'Twenty-Ten' theme. Click 'Add Theme' and search through available themes. Click on the theme you want and click 'install' to add a theme without ads to your WordPress blog.

How to Insert Banners in Between WordPress Posts

1. Open the 'Appearance' menu on the left side of the WordPress dashboard, and then click 'Editor.'
2. Click the 'Main Index Template' link on the right side of the page to edit the index.php file for your WordPress theme.

3. Locate the code '
' or '
' in the main area of the page. If you do not see either of these, click 'loop.php' on the right side of the page to edit that file instead of index.php. Place the cursor at the beginning of the line, and then press 'Enter' to create a new blank line above the code. Move the cursor to the blank line.
4. Enter the code
in the blank line. Copy the code from this article to avoid a typing error. Edit the number after 'showads' to change where the banner advertisement is shown on your website. To display the advertisement after the third post, for example, change the code to 'showads = 3.'
5. Locate the code '
' or '
' in the file, and place the cursor at the start of a blank line immediately above the code.
6. Type
(ad code)
in the blank line. Change '(ad code)' to the code received from your advertising partner to display the banner, removing the parentheses and words 'ad code.'
7. Click the 'Update File' button at the bottom of the page.