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Introducing the Magical Markdown Series

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on August 19, 2022 by abletecAugust 19, 2022

I just posted a 4-part Markdown tutorial series: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4

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Verify Domain Ownership Using DNS

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on September 30, 2019 by abletecSeptember 30, 2019

Sometimes, in the course of human events, particularly when you’re a website owner, you may be asked to verify ownership of your domain. This is sometimes done by posting a file to your website and having the verification requestor bot … Continue reading →

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Installing a Website Using Softaculous

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on July 11, 2018 by abletecAugust 29, 2018

Almost all purveyors of shared hosting provide one or more applications by which their clients can install 3rd-party software such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Magenta, & others. My personal preference, if your hosting provider has it, is a program called … Continue reading →

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Creating a Database User and Granting Privileges

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on July 9, 2018 by abletecAugust 29, 2018

There are times when it’s advantageous to create a new user for an existing database. This can be particularly helpful in a site compromise, where the database credentials should be changed in order to ensure that the criminals no longer … Continue reading →

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Create a New WordPress Admin Database User

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on July 1, 2018 by abletecNovember 14, 2021

If your website becomes compromised, one of the things the criminals may do in hopes of preventing you from fixing the hack is to block your administrative privileges on your site. If that happens, you will need to create a … Continue reading →

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Backing Up Your Database from the Command Line

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on June 29, 2018 by abletecAugust 29, 2018

As discussed in the post entitled Backing Up Your Database with PhpMyAdmin, there are times when using phpMyAdmin to back up your database will not work. This is especially true if the database is quite large, causing phpMyAdmin to time … Continue reading →

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Help! My Markdown Won’t Work in Jetpack

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on February 10, 2018 by abletecAugust 29, 2018

One of the many reasons I decided to use Jetpack was because of its support for using Markdown. Markdown, for those who don’t know, provides a way to make lists, headings, links, & other text formatting symbols, e.g., underlining, bold, … Continue reading →

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Deactivate Themes and plugins in WordPress

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on February 2, 2018 by abletecAugust 29, 2018

Hello, and welcome to #fixitFriday. As a hosting provider & volunteer on the WordPress support forum, I see a lot of the same problems repeatedly, ie, “I can’t log into my dashboard”, “My images/media library are gone”, “I can’t update … Continue reading →

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Backing Up Your Database with PhpMyAdmin

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on July 24, 2016 by Jackie McBrideAugust 29, 2018

If you power your website with a content management system, what really runs your website is a database. It stores your content, as well as other settings pertaining to your site. Backing up your database is one of the easiest … Continue reading →

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When You Can’t Log Into Your WordPress Dashboard

Welcome to Bright Stars Web Posted on March 15, 2015 by Jackie McBrideAugust 29, 2018

It’s Sunday afternoon. I probably shouldn’t be thinking about my website, but… So I went to log in and do some work on it, & here’s what I got. Not exactly what I had in mind. So now what? There … Continue reading →

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