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It’s simple to sign up – although it will take a few hours for your ID to propagate into the system so be patient. You will receive an information once this process finishes. After you sign in, you will need to set your keywords.  You can set your keywords in the Preferences tab and once complete, you will see the results of the search in your dashboard.

From there, it’s a simple matter of selecting an article you like and choosing “Embed in Blog”. Then copy paste the code directly into your newsletters blog as I did at the bottom of this post.

Web Camps TV #10 - WebMatrix Beta 2: Themes, NuPack, HTML 5 templates and more

This week, Jim Wang from the ASP.NET team and James Senior talk about WebMatrix Beta 2 and take a look at some of the new things—the Theming helper and Facebook Social Plugins helpers—that make it easy to add functionality to your websites. Additionally, we take a look at the Package Manager included in WebMatrix, which makes it easy to download and use helpers and templates—in fact, any assets—when building your websites. The Package Manager uses the new NuPack package management features, whi...

Windows LiveWriter is an easy to use blog editor, that has a rich ecosystem of add-ins, such as the Facebook Like plugin by Guy Burstein.  In order to use the Windows based plug in with the WordPress PHP application, you’ll need to enable remote procedure calls with XML. Otherwise you will see the error “Server Error 405 Occurred. XML-RPC services are disabled on this blog.”

In order to set it up – navigate to the options-writing.php page using your browser and check the box to enable XML-RPC.

WordPress is the most popular PHP application running on Windows.  SlingAlibi currently runs on BlogEngine.NET. We decided to set up a second blog engine with WordPress, running side by side on Windows Server with BlogEngine.NET. 

The steps are super easy thanks to the Web Platform Installer, we’ll walk through them with screenshots below. In essence, it takes 5 steps to host PHP on Windows Server 2008 via WordPress (assuming your hoster supports PHP and MySql):

1. Download WebPI
2. FTP the WordPress files to your webserver
3. Create a blank MySql database
4. Configure the wp-config.php file to point to #2 and #3
5. Launch the wp-admin/install.php file in a browser and finish the setup.

Download Web Platform Installer

The easiest way to pull down WordPress for Windows is through the Web Platform Installer (WebPI).  WebPI will automatically pull down any necessary dependencies such as PHP and MySql:

In the Web Applications tab, you can choose

FTP the Files

This is simple enough to do. I use FileZilla to bring over the WP files, which I have stored in a directory called AntiqueCurator.

Create a MySQL Database

WebHost4Life uses PHPMyAdmin, a popular tool for managing my database. To access it, click on MySqlManager on your control panel. This will launch PHPMyAdmin. Type in a database name and click the Create button.

Edit the WP-Config file with your server and database information

Open up the WP-Config file in Notepad, and just update the user, password, database, and server fields with your data. Be sure to FTP the updated file over to the server.

Run the installation page in a browser

From the server, open the /wp-admin/install.php page and walk through the wizard.