Upgrading Wordpress version

So if you happen to have an old Wordpress version and want to upgrade to the latest, and somehow automatic updating doesn't work, you can always update/upgrade manually. It's pretty easy.

1. Backup your existing website (files and db)
2. Download the latest Wordpress zip file, and extract on your local machine
3. Access your site via FTP and remove/delete/rename (whichever suits you) these 2 directories in your current installation wp-admin and wp-includes
4. Upload the new wp-admin and wp-includes from the newly extracted zip file
5. Then upload the rest of the files overwriting the existing ones
6. Check your admin site, WP might ask you to update your database.

That's it.

Installing fonts in Windows 7

When I was in high school and learning Corel Photopaint, I got fond of installing fancy looking fonts on my PC. My uncle taught me how to install fonts on Windows by simple copying the fonts to c:\windows\fonts and magically have it available for the applications I need it for. The last Windows version I used (before switching to Mac OSX) was WinXP. And I think I was still able to install fonts using the method I learned from my computer mentor. Now I'm back, using Windows 7, and in one project I'm working on required me to look and install for a font. I was able to download what I need but couldn't find the windows/font directory. I thought of sending my uncle an email for help but I figured Google would be faster. :)

I hope you'll read this someday Uncle Joe. Here's a quick(er) way to install fonts on Windows 7:

1. Right click on the font
2. Select install

Transferring Joomla site to root directory

I have a Joomla 2.5 installed in a sub-directory that I wish to transfer to the root (public_html). Below are the steps:

1. Clean up the root directory of all files except cgi-bin
2. Backup SQL db via php-admin
3. Transfer all the files to the root
4. Modify configuration.php esp. variables under $log_path and $tmp_path 

That's it.