I believe my wife has emailed you. We appreciate the help

Re: Your comment on Cath’s site yesterday. Have your wife email me. I have other “tools” that she can use for costume jewelers. Additionally, given that I have a wholesaler’s license, I have access to certain people who provide GOLD and GEMSTONES at a cost LOWER than many costume jewelers’ suppliers!

I do NOT make jewely (with one exception -shhh….) But given that your wife does, I may have some specific ideas for her that are VERY cost-efficient!

Also, I hope that the health problems are subsiding!

Rita

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Trust me, I hear ya. I still don’t like mess’n with my database at all and I only do it first by testing everything on a test account. In fact, many times I have a test WordPress blog for my test WordPress blog LOL.

Like I mentioned to Barbara and Cath, follow along using the demo hosting account I provide in the post. The username is probably one of the easier things to do in your database. Next lesson will little more involved but if you create a test blog installation and work it first using that, you’ll feel a lot more confident doing those things on your real blog.

Re: household
Oh I hear ya. I have a 2 year old and a 4 month old. Nuff said! LOL

The good thing about simply changing your username is it doesn’t really mess with your database too much. The only thing you’re changing is one thing - backspacing admin and typing in your new name.

@ Cath - Like I mentioned to Barbara, click on the demo account I give a link to and follow along in the tutorial. Messing with the database can screw things up, like you said, so it’s best to walk through it first.

You should be able to change your email address straight from WordPress. Right? Under the Users tab. I also found this plugin which might help as well: Change Default Email Address Plugin for WordPress.

@ Barbara & Cath - Protecting your files are very important, especially as your blog grows. Installing WordPress is easy with Fantastico or Elefante scripts. So what I suggest is set up a test WordPress installation in some directory (like the default /wordpress) and hack it up all you want! That’s what I do.

I found your blog by way of Cath’s blog.

I had no idea you could do that. I did know that you can give yourself a “nickname” in the WP admin panel and it will show that name instead of your user name (though of course, it doesn’t change how you login).

But I’m with Barbara - messing with that kind of stuff requires lots of rest and in my household, a time when there will be minimal interruptions. (Which is RARE!)

Thanks for such great info. I’m going now to check out more of your posts.

~ Annie

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