Is there a way of winning on the Pokies?

This article is written especially for regular players of Poker machines, or “Pokies” as they are known in Australia. Read more »

Wordpress Plugins recommended for Wordpress 2.6.2

 Wordpress is an easy to use Web framework. Free websites or blogs can be setup at Wordpress.org and all information on how to do so, is found there. Wordpress can also be highly customised with a little technical knowledge, some html or php experience, and these plugins assist greatly. Read more »

Restore Wordpress Database

How to Restore your Wordpress Database

The easy and secure way, using phpMyAdmin. A good backup copy of your database can be Restored simply, even if your current database has been corrupted! Read more »

Backup Database Wordpress

How to Backup your Wordpress Database

The easy and secure way, using phpMyAdmin. Backup of your database should be done regularly, especially before installing a Plugin or Upgrading Wordpress. Then, when and if trouble arises, you have an entire copy of your data including users, pages, posts, comments, plugin variables, settings, etc. The only things not backed up are your files on server, photos, modified files, and the like - see below about FTP backup. Read more »

Free FTP - upload files, backup and restore

FTP - File Transfer Protocol allows easy upload of files to a hosting server. Download is easy too. The files of an entire website can be backed up and restored using FTP. If you run a database, as Wordpress does, its a must to backup the database too. Read more »

How To Backup Your Wordpress Blog?

Before you upgrade WordPress, you need to back it up so you
don’t lose your blog posts, pages and anything else that can be lost on your
blog. This has happened to me on more than one occasion and it’s really not
worth the agro of having to go back to your hosting provider to ask them to
restore your blog. In some cases, this may not be possible. Read more »

WordPress Tutorial - How to Make a New WordPress Post

Beginner-level WordPress tutorial by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications shows how to make a new WordPress blog Post. Posts are chronological WordPress blog entries that have a date and time. (Creating a Post is different than creating a WordPress Page.) Read more »

WordPress Tutorial - How to Upload & Link to PDF or Word Doc

Beginner-level WordPress tutorial shows how to upload a PDF, Microsoft Word document, Excel, PowerPoint, or other document using WordPress, and then make a link to that file in a Post or Page. When finished, you will have a link that site visitors can click on to download the file or open it in a Web browser - by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications. Read more »

WordPress Tutorial - Make Menus of Links With the Blogroll 2

This Beginner-level WordPress Tutorial is the second of two parts about how to create lists or menus of links using the Blogroll. These menus usually appear in the sidebar of a WordPress page or post. In this second part of this tutorial, I show how you can make lists of links to pages or posts within your own website or blog. This is a handy way to create additional navigation within your site given that WordPress themes often have a limited amount of space for main page navigation (About Us, Contact Us, etc.) -by Mark McLaren of McBuzz Communications Read more »