Hi

A few minutes ago I upgraded my Blog in WordPress to the newest version.

I am very proud of that, as I paid someone to do this before at a cost of $12.95 US each time.   I realised this would be rather an expensive exercise if I kept paying someone else,  as WordPress has upgrades occurring fairly frequently now.  I searched and found out how to do it and simplified the steps, summarising them for future reference.  I then thought that if this was a new learning curve for me that it may be for others too and I wanted to assist others to be able to do it too.  That is why I want to share these steps with you in a moment.

Isn’t it funny how easy something becomes once you have mastered it? but how difficult and impossible it all seemed before that?

I simply went in to my admin area for my Blog – http://www.YourBlogName.com/wp-admin using  my username and password. I then scrolled down the left-hand side  to the Tools section.

I then scrolled a little further down to the word Export and clicked on the appropriate words that told me to export the file to my desktop which then saved it as an xml file.

I then left this file on my Desktop just in case anything went wrong with my intended WordPress upgrade and also so I would be able to find it easily if I needed to reinstal this last version.

If I had to reinstal this version because, for some rare reason the Upgrade failed,  I would then be able to use the Import section, also found down in the Tools section, to reimport this last version I had saved on my desktop, which would in turn recover my WordPress Blog back to the original version I was using before the upgrade, so that everything I had on my Blog before would be restored to the way it had been before.  This is all very comforting to know if something does perchance go wrong with the Upgrade, which is pretty rare.

I then scrolled down to the word “Upgrade”, also housed down in the Tools section and, feeling safe, as I had exported my last version and saved it to the desktop, I then clicked “Upgrade Automatically”, and WordPress lets you know, in a message that soon appears on this same screen,  when it has upgraded successfully.

I then went to my Desktop and transferred the exported file in to my usual folder I am now saving these upgrades in to which I called WordPress Upgrades, but you could call whatever you like that assists you to easily locate that folder.

I hope this information has been helpful to you.  I know it really would have been extremely helpful to me when I was paying others to do all this for me.

I am thrilled to say the Traffic to my Blog has increased, as to my List Building site.

I have spent a considerable amount of time watching Alex Jeffrey’s videos on List Building and they are brilliant. I am learning many great things from them.

When I look back and see where I was before with Internet Marketing and eBay and my knowledge, or lack therof then, to where I am now, I am totally thrilled with my progress.  Thanks so much Alex Jeffreys, John Thornhill, Garry Parkes, Daniel Sumner, Dave Nicholson, Avril Harper, Tony Sharpe and Steve Barrows.

Before I used to often say to my husband it was all too overwhelming and that I just did not know where to start, and that I didn’t think I would ever be able to do it at all.

However, I have now set my plans and goals as Alex Jeffrey’s has explained and am taking one step at a time towards my yearly, 3 monthly, monthly, daily goals. I know where I am heading now. I feel like a ship that has a compass now rather than how I felt before like I was wandering aimlessly all over the oceans never knowing where to head.

I do have a problem though.  One that I would really love the answer to please, so if you are reading my Blog and can help me, I would be really grateful.

I love to insert pictures and videos in to my Blog and used to be able to have them sit centrally.  However, nothing I am doing seems to be working now.

I tried using <center> and </center> before and after the pictures,  in the html view but that did not work.  I also clicked on the image and used the centre justification.  That did not work either.  I also, before inserting the image, placed my cursor at the centre and then inserted the image and it showed as being central to my view, but when published it is not.

Anyone who can help here, thanks so much.

Thanks for reading,

Speak again soon