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Best Premium WordPress Themes & Templates

Posted by Emily on August 6th, 2010

Our WordPress Hosting Clients always ask, where are the best places to Buy Professional looking Themes? Below are a listing of the top WordPress Premium Themes and Plugins.  If you are looking for a professional high end CMS Website running on WordPress I would take a look at these highly custom Paid WordPress Themes:

#1. Woo Themes – Woo Themes offer a few Free Premium themes, and after using one of thier News Templates, I realized thier templates are well worth the money, rangin from $70 – $200.  Give one of thier Free templates a test run, thier Woo Control Panel is very user freindly. 

WooThemes - WordPress themes for everyone

#2. Elegant Themes – Elegant Themes offers unlimited access to all thier themes for $39/yr.  This is a great choice if you are an Developer/Designer that wants the ability to offer many theme options.  I am personally liking eStore and the Professional.

#3. ThemeForest – Theme Forest offers 3000+ Themes starting at $5.  I have yet to personally review any of thier themes yet, but they let you buy and sell HTML templates as well as themes for popular CMS products like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal with prices ranging from just $5 up to $40.

#4. WPZoom Themes – WPZoom offers many high end looking, minimalist styled themes for WordPress.

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Installing WordPress on Windows Server 2008

Posted by Mike on December 28th, 2009

This is the Quick and Easy way to Install a WordPress Website on Windows Server 2008.  Step One, Download and install the Windows Web Platform Installer.  Launch the Installer and Click on Web Applications Tab and Select WordPress.

Choose “Install”.  The next screen will ask to install the following required third Party Applications:

  • Web Deployment Tool 1.0
  • PHP 5.2.11
  • CGI
  • URL Rewrite 1.1
  • MySQL Windows Essential 5.1
  • Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP 5.2

Select a root MySQL Password, I choose “FLuffy…….wait a second, get your own password.

Lucky for me, the Hyper-V VPS I am on is on an unmetered 100 MBps Connection, so the Download/Install takes minutes.  After it installs PHP and MySQL on the Windows server it will ask you to configure the new WordPress Web Application. You can install in the Default Directory, a Custom /url or a totally new Application with a Custom Domain Name.

Enter the MySQL password from step three, and click Continue.  Then you will get a Successfully installed message.

Now go to your URL/Domain and you should have the WordPress Initial Installation Screen.

Once you click on Install WordPress you will get your Admin User / Password.  Copy the Password and Click Login.  Once Logged in you can Create Pages, Add Plugins, and Choose Custom Themes.  Good luck and Happy Blogging!

You can install WordPress on a Windows Server, Linux VPS, or even a Shared Linux Hosting Plan quick an easy.  The Easiest WordPress Install, is RackWire’s WordPress Hosting, that has full Theme and Plugin Features!

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How to get WordPress Hosting if your Domain is hosted somewhere else?

Posted by Emily on November 10th, 2009

You already own your own domain, and it is hosted somewhere other than RackWire.com or even internally.  If want to get a WordPress blog added to your site, i.e. a blog at www.YourDomain.com, here are the steps.

Step 1: Go to the App Market and sign up for a WordPress Account, by clicking “Try It Now”.

Step 2: Under Domain Options, choose “I will update my nameservers on an existing domain”.  Type in your current domain name.

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Step 3: Update your DNS servers to have a new entry A record called “blog” and point it to the IP address: 67.219.60.126.  Once this propagates, you should be able to go to the custom installer located at http://yourDomain.com/wp-admin/install.php.

Step 4: Once you add this record, you can point the name servers for your domain to the rackwire name servers located at:

  • dns1.rackwire.com
  • dns2.rackwire.com

Step 5: You are now ready to start blogging.

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