I recently move my personal blog about my kids from a cpanel-type webhosting interface to Dreamhost’s own webhosting management dashboard, or something. Recently, meaning today.

Anyway, Matt-and-Sean.com is a stale blog that is supposed to be a photo journal of my boys but because of the webhosting’s storage constraint, I need to move it to my Dreamhost account which has unlimited bandwidth and storage.

I’ll be posting here how to move your WordPress blog from a cpanel webhosting to Dreamhost. But the main purpose of this blog post is a single tip on the mysql prefix thingy…

Basically, before you do anything, download/backup your original files from the cpanel webhosting company that you are in… in my case, I opened up matt-and-sean.com/cpanel went to the Backup section and downloaded the database.. That’s the file with an “sql” extension.

Also you can download and backup wp-content directory.. since it contains all your themes, plugins and all those previously uploaded pictures… if you don’t do it, the images from your previous posts wont show up… now that’s sad.

Here are the quick and dirty steps, and I wont put the details here.. If you stumble upon a problem, and you need the info, you can contact me for other details… Dont.

1. From matt-and-sean.com’ domain registrant (it’s from marvin’s web.. another story.. i dont want to tell you the hassle i’ve been through for it to be ‘released’), change the DNS setting to the one that Dreamhost is using, that is ns1.dreamhost.com, ns2…..

2. Setup matt-and-sean.com in Dreamhost.. You’ll just basically clicking “manage domains” –> “Add New Domain/Subdomain” and filling up the required information

3. Once that’s done, wait a couple of minutes to an hour until the whole internet knows the new matt-and-sean.com.

4. From Dreamhost’s dashboard, there’s this “One-Click Install” features which makes the 5-minute official WordPress installation guide to 2 minutes or less! I tell you, some people (I wont say people from PLRPro.com) even sell the idea to their members.

5. Before you can install WordPress, you will be required to make a user name for the database of even a database. Then after that, you’ll have a new and shinny wordpress blog with a “hello world” post in it.

6. Next, get your old blog up. Go to Database and click on the phpadmin..and import your original sql file.

7. Here’s the tip.. after importing, you may still wonder where’s all your post? Why is it only the “Hello World” post showing? Here’s the deal.

That’s the database tables that Dreamhost created automatically.. (before you import) .. after you import it will add the original/old database tables with different prefix!

That’s why matt-and-sean.com still displays the Hello World post even though my whole blog is in the database already..

What you need to do is to tell WordPress to read the newly imported database and not the one that Dreamhost autoinstall created.

How is that? By editing the wp-config.php file:

Simply edit the line to read wp_ (or whatever it is that your old blog was configured), save the file and you’re done!

Last thing, remember to use your old username and password.. remember, you’re using your old database!

That’s it, enjoy!

Please excuse me if I posted this in the woring forum but I was wondering if anyone can implications of an un-updated RDO?

I understand that this is the code that determines the municipality where one’s taxes are remitted. But what I want to know is what’ll happen to the taxpayer, ie employee, if it is not updated to where your employer is currently registered…

Does this equate to tax evasion and such?

That unanswered question is from:

http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=367633

I was just curious and thinking of the same thing today when I found out that my BIR profile, my RDO code is still registered in Real, Calamba, Laguna… My first employer was TNCIS (formerly NEC Component Philippines) in LISP, Calamba. I was with them for 3 years and it was during that time that I applied for my Tax ID number (TIN).

Fast forward to the present and 5 companies later, while I was trying to update my RDO code from supposedly RDO Code 43A (Ortigas business district) to RDO 050 (Makati business district), the BIR Perosnnel told me that my RDO code currently set to 056, which is in Real Calamba Laguna.

So the question remains unanswered:

What will happen to the taxpayer, ie employee, if it is not updated to where your employer is currently registered?

BIR wont accuse me as a tax evader.. God knows I always swear whenever I see my payslips with that humongous  witholding tax printed there, so I know that I am being deducted of it.

Anyone knows the implication of an un-updated BIR RDO Code? Any BIR people here?

List of RDO Codes:

http://www.bir.gov.ph/lumangweb/rdo_dir.html

and RDO 050 is located at:

http://www.bir.gov.ph/lumangweb/c07r053t56.htm#56

Office Address: G/F, Hectan Bldg., Brgy. Halang, Calamba, Laguna
Revenue District Officer: Julio G. Alcasabas(OIC)

Renewing NBI clearance in the Philippines is as easy as 1-2-3. Literally, it will only take you 3 steps. The first step is the hardest one.

Here’s the 3 steps in NBI clearance renewal… But first go to SM Megamall building B lower ground floor.

• Payment
• Picture Taking
• Issuance/Claim

There you go! Pretty helpful huh?

Here are 6 Easy Ways to Make Money from Your Blog Web Site… Easy? Well, it’s completely relative. If you are internet literate and know your ins and outs of websites and blogs, then it is easy.

But anyway, this list really do work and learning and applying these ways of making money from blogs or websites will surely earn you extra cash.

These tips came from a very successful internet marketer slash blogger slash internet entrepreneur, Jeremy Schoemaker. So this is proven working and more importantly, remember that I did not made this up… although I did made over a million pesos from blogging myself… naks!

• Donations - If you’ve been surfing the interweb for a while now, you may stumble upon links like ‘If you liked this post, buy me a beer’, or ‘Help me with my Web hosting’ or something like that. Asking your frequent readers for help or donation is a good way in making money on your blog.I currently don’t have those paypal badges for ‘Donations’, but I am now considering it. Would you be giving me donations?
• Subscription Revenue -This type of website monetization from your web blogsite is like premium membership on blogs or forums. They pay like a small fee to access a members-only area of a website forum where, of course, there are more information that will help your members.Another good example and more famous is email newsletter where in the more email subscriber you have the bigger your possible earning is. How?
• Affiliate Marketing - And that’s answer our question of ‘How’ – Affiliate Marketing. But having a large number of email subscriber is just one way of earning from affiliates. The main way of earning commissions from affiliate marketing is if you blog website has tons of organic traffic.. or paid traffic, but organic is of course way much cheaper.
• Contextual Advertising – This is where the ever popular Google Adsense is included. Contextual advertising is where companies like Google (or Adbrite or Yahoo and MSN’s context ads) displays related advertisement on your website. You earn commission from every click of ads by your visitors.
• Direct Ads Sale – Direct Ads Sale is where you personally contact your potential advertiser to pay you to display their banners or any of their ads on your website. Much better way of earning from direct ads is, if they contact you directly because your blog is so authoritative and so well known that companies buy ads space from your website! This is my goal on my Pinoy Rock Band blog site… Wish me luck!
• Selling in a Product – Your website has to be selling something. This is the most obvious way of earning from your website.

There are lots more ways of earning money from your blog. This list is just a grain of sand on the beach. I hope that after reading this blog post you’ll be motivated to search googel for more ways of earning money online.

Goodluck!

Talk about beginner’s luck. When I checked my clickbank account tonight I was surprised to see that my blog managed to make 2 product sale! Wow! I really didn’t expect that I will make that much sale! I was very excited when I made my first sale on the first few days of putting up the hop page’s link of click bank on my blog but when I checked it again tonight, exactly a week since I joined clickbank, I saw 2 items sold!

Click Image for larger view… I hid the earnings here, kakahiya pa eh.. :) but i just changed my minimum payout from $100 to $250, para naman malaki laki ung cheque… (yeah, no paypal here)

Aint’ that great?! Galing! I suggest you try clickbank too! A few dollars is still an additional income right? And yeah, there’s no affiliate link here… Gusto ko lang talaga kayo sumali.. :)

http://clickbank.com