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It was 6 months ago since my last wordpress theme upgrade. As you can see here, I have upgraded my wordpress theme. This new 3 Columns Cool Water Theme customized by myself based on two columns Cool Water theme designed by Arpit Jacob.

The reason why I choose this Cool Water theme because it give sense of simple, easy to use and fresh like a cup of cool water.

What To Customize ?

Basically, there are few things I have customized. I removed the top menu bar. Added in one more sidebar on right. Lastly, fine tune some color series that match my blog in CSS.

This seems to be an easy job. But for a non-CSS guy like me, it is very painful, need a lot of hard work. Especially on how to customize it to 3 columns. I have to study the wordpress theme tutorial, do a lot testing (because there is a lot methods of doing things) and find the easiest and most suitable for me. (more…)

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After I found the feed error since 3 days ago, I have decided to upgrade my wordpress to the latest version Wordpress 2.5. Although I hate to upgrade (the most tedious job), but I have no choice to do so. I suspect my blog has been infected by some spyware. I even cannot enter to the main page when I try to access today’s afternoon.

The only way I think the virus can infect my blog is via ftp client. I always like to let my ftp client open. I suspect the spyware might upload itself or perhaps change some coding in my php? I know IE still able to browse my blog but Firefox banned to enter.

The Fastest Way Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5

After some research and my experience, I some out a method to upgrade my wordpress within 5 minutes. Because I can’t afford to down my blog or use hours to reinstall the whole wordpress engine. If you are in my same state, I believe the methods below can help you upgrade successfully within minutes.

I have upgraded mine in 5 easy steps below, how about you? (more…)

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After long wait for 3 months since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.1, Wordpress 2.5 is now final released! This latest wordpress has improved so much compared to the previous version. Fortunately, I did not upgrade mine so fast.

What’s New?

There are many good new features in Wordpress 2.5. These are features that I think benefit blogger the most.

• Dashboard - The latest dashboard design is cleaner, faster, and less cluttered. Its not just an ordinary dashboard, but a series of widgets. You can customized dashboard widget to show fun stats about your posting, latest comments, incoming links and etc.

• Password strength meter - It will tell you how strong is your password to improve your blog’s security.

• Friendlier visual post editor - Its integration with TinyMCE version 3.0, provide better compatibility with Safari and interaction with complex HTML.

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I have setup testing wordpress environment for my new blog. I like to customized wordpress theme on my computer rather than upload the whole thing to web host. Because it is faster and easier to customized.

As you know, wordpress supplied random admin password once setup finish. I copy and paste the password to login. But after that, I forgot to change to my own password. I have tried a lot common password to enter admin panel but failed.

Reset Wordpress Admin Password

Since I have access to the local mysql database, I decide to reset the wordpress admin password manually. I used phpmyadmin to edit mysql database in graphic mode instead of command line.

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