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Both Youtube and Google will let you share it or embed the code which gives you a link like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xb8ILonoI

If you do not want it to start at the beginning, you can add #t=XmYs to the end.  Where X = minutes and Y = seconds.  If I wanted to start the above video 1 minute and 2 seconds into it, the link would look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xb8ILonoI#t=1m2s

The links are active if you want to see what it does just click them.  This is handy for skipping unwanted parts of a video.

After making a slight change under GENERAL – SETTINGS, my site crashed.

I removed the “wp” from WordPress Address (URL) and after updating, the site crashed.  Not cool.  There are a few ways to fix it, but the easiest way if you have FTP access to the site is:
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After creating a static page called “Home,” I ended up with 2 tabs with the same name because one is hard coded into the header.php file.  Each theme may be slightly different, but for mine I went to APPEARANCE, then EDITOR while logged into WordPress as Admin.

On the right side I clicked header.php and scrolled until I found some code that I could comment out then test it.  For my theme (currently Elegant Grunge) it looked like this:

<ul>
<li><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Home’, ‘elegant-grunge’) ?></a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1’); ?>
</ul>

So I remarked  some of the code so it would not be read. This is done with <!– before the start of the code and –> at the end. Now mine looks like this:

<ul>
<!–        <li><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Home’, ‘elegant-grunge’) ?></a></li>
–>
<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&depth=1’); ?>
</ul>

One last problem after I corrected this was my tabs were not in the order I wanted. You have to go back into PAGES and click EDIT under your page you want to be first.  Over on the right side is an ORDER box with a number.  This is the order you want the page to appear in the tabs, starting with zero showing first.  I put 0 in my page I want first then 1 in the next pages ORDER box and so on.

This was by far the most useful page I found for transferring WordPress to a new host.

Originally posted here.

I have seen many requests online on how to move a WordPress blog to a new server or host- including requests from some of my readers.

It seems as though the easy part is transferring the files. What most people find difficulty with is moving their WordPress database to the new server or hosting company.

While there are other tutorials available online, many seem to lack clear instructions on how to move your blog. In this tutorial, I’m going to take you step-by-step and show you exactly how to move your WordPress blog to a new server or host.
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If you get: “Could not create directory. /public_html” in WordPress then FTP to wp-content -> upgrades folder.

Delete it and then recreate it. Properties should be set to 777   (chmod 777).

Only about half my updates work automatically. I blame my shared hosting service more than WordPress. Sometimes it gets stuck in maintenance mode. It does take  a few minutes sometimes to get out of that mosde for some reason. Im usually in a hurry too.

Simple fix is FTP to your WordPress directory and a file has been created during  maintenance called .maintenance (pretty creative huh?).  Delete the file and you’ll get back in.