All of us know the login URL of a Wordpress blog is something like “http://www.domainname.com/wp-login.php” and that is the strong point for the hackers to gain unauthorized access on your site.

As far as I know whenever hackers get an internal URL of your site like “http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=…”, they can try to gain access of your site by injecting some SQL queries and sometimes they become successful.

But you can easily secure your site from Wordpres hacking by changing root directory’s location so that none can guess your Wordpress login page. Here I am also talking about this topic.

I am now going to move your Wordpress files to “file1” named directory and hence the Wordpress login page will move to “http://www.domainname.com/file1/wp-login.php”

To work out the job, you need to pass through 3 steps: FTP Transfer, Wordpress Edit, index.php editing.

FTP Transfer:

1. First reach to your FTP server by any FTP client like Filezilla and take a backup of all Wordpress files (wp-admin, wp-upload, wp-content, .htaccess, robots.txt,wp-config, wp-search.php, wp-singlepost.php and so on). Also backup the important files that you have put externally.

Create a directory namely “file1”in local PC and put all the above files except wp-upload into that directory.

2. Upload the “file1” directory to server where the Wordpress files were previously. Do not delete any files out of that directory.

Wordpress Edit:

As I said earlier don’t delete the previous Wordpress files because of this step. In this step you will have to login to your Wordpress dashboard. The login page is same as it was before. Once after successfully logged-in, click on “Settings” and then “General” at left sidebar. Now put “http://www.domainname.com/file1” in the WordPress address(URL) tab and “http://www.domainname.com” in the Site address tab. Save the changes.

But now if you try to open your site’s home page, it will show broken because index.php is not configured yet.

index.php editing:

Select index.php from “file1” directory that you have just uploaded and open in Notepad or your preferred code editor. Now search for the following tag

(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);

Once found, replace it with

(‘./file1/wp-blog-header.php’);

Save and upload index.php to “file1” directory.

Thus you have all done, now try to login in previous login page and see that it shows ”Not Found”. Use “http://www.domainname.com/file1/wp-login.php” as login page.

Note: Do not change the location of wp-upload if the post images are inside of it.

Let me know did you move your Wordpress yet?

No doubt Windows 7 themes are more beautiful and gorgeous than the themes of XP. Especially Windows 7 default, Bluewater, Avatar, EA Sports are really awesome collections for the Windows 7 users. If you are running on Windows7 then no issue, but the XP users might feel the crisis of such an exclusive theme.

XP users can’t install these themes because the theme file extension “.themepack” is not supported by XP. So if you can change the extension to the XP supported extension “.CAB”, you have all done.

First if you have any Windows 7 theme, open it in XP and look the file extension is .themepack that is absolutely unrecognized to XP. You can download some awesome Windows 7 themes from Microsoft site.

Now to change the extension, right click on the file and set the extension as .CAB, then click on “OK”. Now it will get recognized by your installed XP. Extract the .CAB file and double click on the .theme file to start to install. Activate the installed themes from “Properties” option.

Sometimes it may create problems during the extraction, then download and install WinRAR in your PC. Now the .CAB file should look like a RAR archive. So you can easily do the job by extracting it.

Once after extracting, you can further use the images as your desktop background as well.

Well have you ever imagined that you can install a forum in a single click without database configuration. Even I have never imagined before that instead of a sub-domain I can install a forum in a page of my existing site. Mingle forum comes with this impossibility.

In an earlier article I have already talked about installing a phpBB forum but it was a lengthy procedure and quite tough too.

No need to database create or configure, it will use your existing site’s database and work just like a published page. I personally think it will be very useful to those bloggers who want to launch an extra communication over the comment box.

Recommended Reading: How to get more themes for Mingle Forum

Web geeks can install the forum by just installing the plugin but I am writing here the step details for the beginners in Wordpress.

How to Install the Mingle Forum:

1. Download Mingle forum files from here. It’s a Wordpress plugin.

2. Login to your Wordpress dashboard and upload this plugin files by “Add New” option under plugin tab. You can do it by uploading with any FTP client like Filezilla. Install the plugin.

3. Click on the “Mingle Forum” option under “Settings” tab at left sidebar of your wordpress backend.

4. Now you can handle the settings such as private message, registration, captcha for new user, thread, login option from here. So once you have checked the options, hit the “Save options” button at bottom.

5. We will now launch this forum in a page of your existing site. So click on “Add New Pages” option at left sidebar. It will definitely open up a new pre-publish page.

6. Put the desired forum name in the title tab and click on the “HTML” option at right-top corner of description section. Type mingleforum with third bracket at both ends in the page description and publish the page.

7. Thus you have all done and your forum has been published as a page of your existing page. Check out a screenshot of mingle forum I have created today.

I hope you are already familiar with Windows XP installation but do you know that you can perform a complete XP installation in only 9 minutes instead of 39 minutes. Generally all the versions of XP take 35-39 minutes to install but now it can be done by only 9 minutes. Just you have to apply a simple Windows tweak.

I have tested this trick while installing XP (Service Pack3) on my laptop and it worked perfectly. So do not waste time and try it yourself following the steps below.

How to Reduce the Installation Time:

1. Insert a fresh copy of Windows XP installation CD/DVD and restart your computer.

2. Make sure your computer can boot from CD/DVD. If not, enter into BIOS settings and set the Boot priority to CD/DVD drive. Now It would start to boot from the inserted CD/DVD.

3. It would start to copy the Windows files to hard drive. Wait for the message “Setup will completed in approximately: 39 minutes” to appear in the left pane.

4. Once appeared, press “Shift+F10” to open the command prompt.

4. Type “taskmgr” without quotes and press Enter to open Task Manager. Now search for the process “setup.exe”. Once found, right click on it and set the priority as “High”.

Thus you have all done. Now closing task manager and command prompt, wait for only 9 minutes.

This trick can be also applicable for Vista and Windows 7 but I personally think it’s not required since Vista, Windows 7 installation generally take less times by default.

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Forum is the best online platform to build a strong and wide communication. Recently a lot of blogs have launched their own forums to establish a communication among the blog readers. But the main issue is forum can’t be run on Wordpress and that’s why it is not so easy to create and maintain. phpBB is a famous online platform, just like Wordpress to build a forum easily in 12 steps.

No need of having a deep knowledge in php. The tutorial is written in a easy-to-do manner with our own expertise. Check out it below…

Before proceed make sure that you are running on a php supported hosting server and any one of the database types below

MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi)

PostgreSQL 7.3+

SQLite 2.8.2+

Firebird 2.1+

MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)

Oracle

How to Install phpBB3 Forum:

1. Download phpBB3 folder from home site (phpBB3 is the latest version of phpBB).

2. Upload the directory (if RAR, after extracting) to your hosting server under home directory with your preferred FTP client. The URL of the forum will look like www.yourdomainname.com/phpBB3 where phpBB3 is the directory name and www.yourdomainname.com is the home directory. You can rename phpBB3 to change the URL something like www.yourdomainname.com/forum. Let us assume here that you have not renamed phpBB3.

3. Change the config.php permission to be writable by all. You can do it using Filezilla FTP client. Browse config.php and right click on it to get the Change file attributes window. Now put 666 in Numeric Value tab. Click “OK” to save the change.

4. Change the permission of the directories below to read,write, execute by putting 777 in the numeric value tab as described above.

Store,Cache,files,images,avatars,upload.

5. Login to your hosting control panel and create a new database for the forum. To do it, click on the “MySQLDatabaseWizard” option under Databases section. After creating remember the Database name, username and password to be put later.

6. Open the URL www.yourdomainname.com/phpBB3/install and click on the “INSTALL” link. It would show you the starting page to install.

7. Click on the “Proceed to next step” button to continue.

8. Now the requirement verifying page would appear. If fulfilled “Start Install” button would be activated. Click on it to proceed.

9. It’s the time to connect the database. As I am using MySQL database, I have set the database type as MySQL. Type localhost in DSN tab. Leave the database server port blank and put the previously created database name/username/password in the corresponding tabs.  Finally click on “Proceed to next step” to continue.

10. If you have entered the database attributes correctly, the interface would change and show the success message. Click on “Proceed to next step”.

11. Thus the forum installing is complete. Administrator configure page would appear where you have to put the administrator username,password to login and maintain the forum. Click on the “Proceed to next step” to finish.

12. Now pass through 2-3 steps by simply clicking on “Proceed to next step”. Do not perform any action during these steps. After that the forum login page would appear. Enter administrator username and password, created in step11 to login.

Leave a comment below to let me know is it useful for you?

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