Have you accidentally installed WordPress on example.coventry.domains/blog rather than just example.coventry.domains ? This issue occurs because Installatron (the tool which installs apps on your cPanel account) puts in the /blog by default whenever you create a WordPress site, and you have to remove the /blog during the set up process. It happens to the best […]
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A “SPLOT” is basically a WordPress theme developed especially for an educational setting. It installs WordPress on your cPanel account with a theme and some images and text ready for you to customize. Setting them up is a little different to a normal WordPress install, so we’ve made a video walkthrough to help get you
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Writing effectively for the web means approaching your content with the reader and the medium in mind. This article will explore some of the differences between printed and web content and offer tips to help you communicate better with an online audience. Print vs web Here’s what a typical article looks like in a scientific
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There’s a huge number of web hosting providers out there, and the majority of them offer cPanel, which is what you’ll be used to if you’ve built a website or application with Coventry.Domains. Most web hosting providers will be happy to import a backup you create of your cPanel information. This will contain everything on
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Whether you’ve graduated from university or are a staff member moving on to pastures new, it’s good to know that you can take all of your Coventry.Domains content with you when you leave Coventry University. Can I continue to use my Coventry.Domains account after I leave? Unfortunately not. Each Coventry.Domains account costs the university a
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Once you have built your first self-hosted website, you can build secondary websites that share the same domain name. With Coventry.Domains, your first website will likely be found on your main subdomain address otherwise known as your root domain, e.g. ‘pseudonym.coventry.domains’. Using sub-subdomains and directories, you can build additional websites that also sit on your
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POSSE, abbreviation of “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere“, is a content publishing model where you post content on your own domain first, and then push out (or syndicate) copies to 3rd party services with links back to the original content on your site. This way, the original version of your content stays within
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This post covers what File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is, why you may wish to place files on your server space using FTP, and how to get started.
This post provides instructions on how to move a self-hosted WordPress site on Coventry.Domains to a WordPress site hosted elsewhere. If you are looking to move a WordPress site hosted through your Coventry.Domains account to WordPress.com this is the post for you!
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Coventry.Domains uses a kind of web server known as a LAMP server, with the acronym “LAMP” standing for the technology stack that is installed on the server. Learn what this technology is and the implications for what you might want to do with your Coventry.Domains account.
