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I was just asked by a local school how to make a post always appear on the home page – the answer is surprisingly simple, but if you don’t know where to look its rather difficult to find!
On the publish box to the right of the wordpress post in the editor, click on the Edit link next to Visibility: Public and then tick the Stick this post to the front page box.
Done! The post now stays at the top of the front/home page. All you have to remember to do is to un-stick it in the future!
This tutorial does a complete walk-through on the basis of you using Mac Os to set up a new EC2 WordPress site. Once you get practiced, you can do this in minutes!
Log in to your EC2 Management Console (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/)
Select a new instance of Amazon Linux AMI (Free tier eligible)
Just leave everything un-changed on the next screen and press on the Next: Configure Instance Details button (NOT the Review and launch button)
Leave everything on the next screen un-changed too, and press Next: Add Storage
Again, don’t change anything and press Next Tag Instance
Give your new Server a name (name of the wordpress site/company?) then press Next: Configure Security Group
Add two new rules to allow http and https through the firewall
Click on the blue Review and Launch button
Press on Launch
Create a new key pair and give it a name (something easy to type)
download the Key Pair File file (from this point onwards referred to as nameOfKeyPair.pem)
remove the .txt extension
Open terminal and navigate to downloads folder (usually cd /users/yourYourName/Downloads/ )
chmod 600 nameOfKeyPair.pem
ssh-keygen -f nameOfKeyPair.pem -e -m per > nameOfKeyPair.pub
chmod 400 nameOfKeyPair.pem
ssh -i name.pem [email protected]
You will be connected to the new instance
Type the following, pressing Enter after every line
sudo yum update
sudo su
yum install httpd
service httpd start
yum install php php-mysql
yum install mysql-server
service mysqld start
mysqladmin -uroot create myblog
mysql_secure_installation
Press Enter (no existing password)
Enter new password (keep a note of this, you need to enter it into the wordpress config in a couple of steps time)
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cd /var/www/html
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
mv wordpress myblog
cd myblog
mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
vi wp-config.php
—press i for insert—
Make the following changes to the wordpress config file
Database: myblog
user: root
password: what you set it as during the security setup previously
press Esc
press wq to exit editor and save the changes
service https restart
browse to the new site and start configuring by typing http://yourinstanceipaddress/myblog
If your website runs on WordPress, you need to be aware that WordPress versions 4.2 and earlier are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise your website.
WordPress 4.2.2 includes a comprehensive fix for this issue.
Please ensure that you update all instances of WordPress to 4.2.2 as soon as possible. You can do this by logging into your WordPress Dashboard and clicking “Update now” from the “Updates” option in the menu.
If your website has been hosted by ISArc, they have already done this for you, your website will already be running on WordPress 4.2.2!
For more information visit https://wordpress.org/news/
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