Many bloggers have reported the bugs for the recent released wordpress 2.5, but I cannot remember what they are. After I upgraded wordpress 2.5 for my gallery site named Wordpress Theme Store (WPThemeStore.com), I have faced some problem after added the custom field.

Look at the screenshoot below, when I create new post for my gallery post, I have added two custom fields for the key of “url” and “Thumbnail”, after put in the title and category of this post, and then I publish it.

Do you know what happen after the post is published? I found that my thumbnail for my gallery post didn’t showed, then I try to look back the post and check back all the data that I have inserted for this post.

I found that one of the custom fields is disappeared as per screenshoot below, that’s custom field for “Thumbnail” key is disappeared, no wonder the thumbnail cannot showed.

At first, I don’t believe this is a bug, within giving up then I try another time for the new posting. Yes, the same problem is occurred.

Do you face the same problem like me? I don’t know, but I will try to contact wordpress for this bug.

Don’t be bored with reading this post again! I just want to remind that how important of backup your Wordpress database.

Don’t Cry When You Lose Your Data, You Should Blame Yourself

I remembered during my school time, I ever saw a man cried because of losing all data in his computer, damn pity you know. I was thinking that if you lose your data, don’t cry, you should blame yourself because you didn’t backup your data regularly.

Most Easy Way to Backup Wordpress Database Using Wordpress Database Backup Plugin

First, you should use FTP Client to download all the site files (the Wordpress folder). Secondly, you also need to backup Wordpress Database, you might use Wordpress Database Backup plugin.

Although I’m graduated from Information Technology course, but I have spent few hours to understand and learn the Wordpress installation in order to create my own domain blog. In fact it is pretty simple and easy to setup Wordpress in your hosting, the following steps are showing you how.

How To Create Database And User Before Installing Wordpress?

Before upload Wordpress to your hosting, you need to create the database to store the data. I assumed your website’s URL is http://www.domain.com.

1. Login to your hosting control panel (http://www.domain.com/cpanel)
2. Click on MySQL Database
3. Create New Database (For example: wordpress)
4. Create New User and key in password (For example: blogger)
5. Finally, add the user to the database. Choose the database and user name from the combo box and click “Submit” button. That’s all.

How to Install Wordpress?

1. Download the latest version of Wordpress at wordpress.org.
2. Extract the zip file.
3. Open file called wp-config-sample.php
4. Change the database name (domain-user_wordpress), user name (domain-user_blogger) and password (1234).
5. Save and close this file, and then rename the files to wp-config.php
6. Finally, upload to your hosting directory under public_html

Every time when I install free Wordpress theme, I definitely will remove the META from the sidebar. I know some of you may be still kept it in your blog, but I strongly suggest you remove it.

Why Remove META from Your Sidebar?
The Meta section includes some admin links like “Login” or “XHTML Valid” and some other links. This “Login” link might be useful for the blog owner only, and it offers no value for the reader.Why not remove it?

How You Login Wordpress After Removing META
This is very simple! Just adding the /wp-admin at the end of your domain name. For example: http://www.domain.com/wp-admin