dBrio – Design Excitement

Previously, we discovered, five WordPress web sites.  As we continue our quest to understand we will probe more into what she has been doing with the Hostmonster services.

In our previous probe we logged into the cPanel, selected File Manager from the Files Services Menu, and determined that their were five WordPress sites, hosted on Yogine.org.  Great, now we have more questions than we started with.

When we are awake in Naperville, Illinois, it is bedtime in Coimbatore, India.  This morning, about 8:30 am, Sharmela is on Skype, she needs to prepare the evening meal, and I need eat breakfast.  We also need to talk about web sites and SEO.  We are able to start again at 9:30 am.  The first site, in directory “blog” is to be kept the others are to be trashed.  Excellent, now we have less questions that we started with.

Now we login to the Control Panel (cPanel) at Hostmonster and look for the Databases Services bar.

We click on the little down tab to open up the available services.

cPanel database bar

We select the phpMyAdmin services program.

Hostmonster database services

Notice that a username is required, to login to phpMyAdmin program.  This username was generated from your domain name automatically by Hostmonster Services.

phpMyAdmin login

After the login completes, you now have total control over your database server.  The only requirement is that you comprehend and understand how.  Data Base Administrators are some of the highest paid technical experts on the planet.  It will take a few years of education to be good at it.  We may sometime later develop a coarse that will ground you in the basics, and then point out how to extend your education.  It would require a nominal fee if we do this.

WordPress databases

We were only interested in the preliminary information contained in this service.  First you see that there are 9 files that start with _wrd, _wrd02 is missing, otherwise there would be ten files.  WordPress has been installed ten times, not five as we previously thought.  We will remove all of them except the one in the blog directory.

Yogine Blog Login

Sharmela, authorized access her WordPress blog admin name and password.  I created an administrator user with my name and password. Now the real _wrd..(11) file will have two admin users.

Now, using phpMyAdmin , querying each of the 9 database files, browsing the users tables, and finding the one that has me as one of the administrators.  Allows me to state that this is the only WordPress database that we will keep.

WordPress database blog

The yogineor_wrd4 is the correct database for the blog we desire to keep, notice that sharmela and dee have user ID of 1 and 2, and our passwords are hidden by a hashing algorithm.  We do not need this level of expertise to be effective web designers and exceptional Search Engine Optimizers.

This concludes our using the Control Panel (cPanel) services in our quest, obviously we have done absolutely nothing with the web design and Search Engine Optimization issues.

Next, we will dig into the WordPress DashBoard with the purpose of simplifying it so that we understand in a step by step logical way whether or not it will satisfy our quest in better web design and meet our needs for SEO.

Our Skype conversation ended, it looks like we will continue this tonight in Naperville, and in the morning if you are in Coimbatore!

Skype Log