Category: Wordpress

Installing WordPress on your ServerGrove shared hosting account

I have to admit, WordPress blogs run really well on our servers. For one, because each shared hosting account has it’s own apache user, we never run into those permissions issues that sometimes occur when installing WordPress on other hosting platforms. Most of the time, if you follow these instructions, you will be able to [...]

September 23 / 2010

Setting up sftp in Dreamweaver using a specific sftp port

SFTP stands for SSH File Transfer Protocol and it uses the SSH protocol to reliably and securely transfer files. While using sftp on Dreamweaver is not too complicated, setting it up to use a specific port is not well documented. SFTP uses the same port as SSH, the default port is 22 but it is [...]

November 29 / 2009
Author admin
Category Tutorials, Wordpress
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Fixing “XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity” in WordPress

This is one of the more annoying bugs in WordPress. WordPress is working fine, but when you check the RSS feed you get the following error: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: http://domain.com/feed/ Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> ^ The most common explanation for its cause [...]

November 25 / 2009
Author Kim
Category Wordpress
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WordPress: The uploaded file could not be moved

One of the most common errors after installing WordPress on your hosting account is the “The uploaded file could not be moved” error when trying to upload a file. Typically the error message looks like this: The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads. This is a common error due to permissions. I got [...]

September 22 / 2009
Author Kim
Category Tutorials, Wordpress
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May 12 / 2009