Required Software :

• Apache Web Server : a Web Server Software so you can run Wordpress on your computer
• MySQL : SQL Database which is required by Wordpress
• Phpmyadmin : to simplify MySQL database management
• Wordpress MU : Required because the most perfect way to import your blogs posts by using Wordpress MU (at the time i wrote this)
• Wordpress SU : This is the one you’re going to use on your web hosting service, if it doesn’t give you Fantastico (but i prefer to upload it directly instead of using Fantastico)

The first step is, install Apache and MySQL on your Computer and configure it correctly so your web server can be accessed at http://localhost by typing at the browser address bar. And as for the next step if you’re using Windows, open the HOSTS file in Windows/System32/Drivers/etc directory and add these line (if you’re using linux there’s no need to use this) :

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

because Wordpress MU required to be run at localhost.localdomain instead of just localhost. And after doing the above steps, extract the Phpmyadmin into the root of your web server directory (in your computer) .. and configure it as necessary like configuring the mysql database path and so on. If you already finish that step, open your web browser and try opening http://localhost.localdomain/phpmyadmin (depends on your phpmyadmin directory) and see if you can open it and access the mysql database in your browser.

And now, create a database to use on Wordpress MU installation, and extract the Wordpress MU Archive into the directory of your webserver, and configure it again to use that database. And once again open your browsers and point the url into your Wordpress MU directory and see if it can load properly, then follow the steps given untill finished

And now (how many time did i say “And Now” ? ) … lol … open your web browsers into your Wordpress.com account and choose Manage -> Export -> and save it in your harddisk. Then Open up the wordpress MU url again in your browser and choose to Import the Wordpress xml file and wait untill your post has been succesfully imported into the Wordpress MU installation, and now open the phpmyadmin url in your browser and open up the _categories table and delete link_count, posts_private and links_private field, then choose to Export from the Wordpress MU SQL Database only at the below table using any format you choose :

*_categories , *_comments , *_posts , and *_post2cat

after doing the above step, if you were using an uncompressed format, copy – paste all the sql query into your favorite text editor … and rename all the *_table so the results will be :

wp_categories , wp_comments , wp_posts and wp_post2cat

and now upload the wordpress single user installation into your web hosting service, and install the wordpress single users and login into your admin dashboard and delete all the welcome messages, comment, posts, etc (just to be safe) … after that open Phpmyadmin (most web hosting service already gives you this, including me that’s not using Fantastico or CPanel) and choose to run the previous sql query by importing it … and wait …

That’s it you’re finished ;) … all your wordpress.com posts are imported into standard wordpress installation … hopefully you understand what i’m trying to say (sorry if my english is bad) … and just a note … this is a manual step without using RSS / external plugin to import your posts and require you to know about SQL, Web Server and such stuff, so if you don’t understand about this stuff i suggest you try asking someone who can help you importing your wordpress posts into your new host.

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as for the css code and instructions you can look into this the full story here

Note:

• If you has more than five pages, you should edit the css manually so it’ll only display on the sidebar instead of the top pages
• Use Sidebar 1 only because i use Sidebar 2 for something else
• You can download the default images from the greenery homepage, because its not included

and here’s the css code :


/*
Skin Name:X-Greenery
Skin URI:http://www.reaper-x.com
Description:Snazzy dark grey theme with splashs of greenery (hence the name). This is a port of
the open-source template by Pat Heard ( FullAhead.org ) of the same name. Converted and modified into Sandbox Theme by Reaper-X
Author:Steve Mooradian
Author URI:http://www.negative99.com
Live Demo:http://demo.negative99.com/wordpress/?wptheme=Greenery
The CSS,XHTML and design is released under GPL:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
Send feedback to steve at negative99 dot com
Changelog:
v1.0
First Release
v1.1
Added Widgets support (special thanks to x2nie at yahoo dot com)
*/
body{
margin:0;
border:0;
text-align:center;
font:0.63em verdana,arial,sans-serif;
line-height:170%;
color:#EEEEEE;
background:url(xgreenery/bg_body.jpg) #585858 repeat-y top center
}
#header{
width:100%;
margin:0 auto;
border:0;
height:4.2em;
background:url(xgreenery/bg_header.jpg) #585858 repeat-y top center
}
#blog-title{
padding:0 55px 20px 0;
float:right;
background-image:url(xgreenery/logo_greenery.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:right;
color:#000000
}
#blog-description{display:none}
#wrapper{
position:relative;
display:block;
width:767px;
height:auto;
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
text-align:left
}
#container{margin-top:-50px}
#content{
float:left;
position:absolute;
display:block;
width:410px;
padding:10px 5px 20px 10px;
text-align:justify
}
.hfeed{text-align:justify}
#content ul{}
.sidebar{display:block;width:185px}
#primary{float:right}
html>body #primary{float:right;position:relative}
#secondary{
background-image:url(xgreenery/plants.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:604px;
width:166px;
float:left;
margin-left:220px;
margin-top:-19px
}
html>body #secondary{
float:left;
position:absolute;
margin-left:44em;
margin-top:-4.6em;
clear:left
}
#footer{
background-image:url(xgreenery/reaper-logo.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:left;
float:right;
clear:both;
display:block;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:center;
padding:20px;
width:60px;
height:34px;
color:#888888;
font-size:0.9em
}
html > body #footer{float:right}
p.access a{display:none}
#secondary li{display:none}
#menu li{
float:left;
margin-top:-71px;
padding-right:20px;
background-color:#86E160
}
html>body #menu li{
width:8em;
float:left;
list-style:none;
text-align:center;
margin-top:-62px;
padding:0 0 42px 0;
background-color:transparent;
line-height:normal
}
#menu li a{
display:block;
padding-bottom:1em;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;
color:#222222
}
#menu li a:hover{
font-weight:bold;
color:#111111;
background:url(xgreenery/menu_tab.gif) no-repeat bottom center
}
h1{
display:inline;
color:#222222;
background-color:#86E160;
background-image:none;
clear:both;
margin:10px 0;
font:700 1em verdana,sans-serif;
text-transform:uppercase
}
h1 a{
margin:10px 0;
font:700 1em verdana,sans-serif;
text-transform:uppercase;
color:#000000;
text-decoration:none
}
h2{
margin:10px 0;
font:700 1em verdana,sans-serif;
text-transform:uppercase;
color:#7BD32C;
background:url(xgreenery/rounded_tr.gif) #686868 no-repeat top right
}
h3{
margin:10px 0;
font:700 1em verdana,sans-serif;
text-transform:uppercase;
color:#7BD32C
}
#wrapper ul{padding-bottom:6px}
#wrapper ul li{margin-left:2px;padding-left:2px}
p{
padding-top:10px !important;
padding-top:3px;
padding-bottom:10px !important;
padding-bottom:3px
}
a,#content a:visited,.hfeed a:visited,.sidebar a,.sidebar a:visited{color:#7BD343;text-decoration:none}
a:hover,.entry-meta a:hover{color:#FFFFFF}
textarea{width:98%}
input,textarea{
padding:1px 3px;
margin:5px 0;
font:1em verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color:#EEEEEE;
background-color:#777777;
border:1px solid #999999
}
input:hover,input:focus,textarea:hover,textarea:focus{
color:#FFFFFF;
background-color:#999999;
border:1px solid #EEEEEE
}
h2 a:hover,h2 a:visited,h2 a{text-decoration:none}
blockquote{
margin:0;
padding:0 15px;
border:1px solid;
background:#555555
}
code{
display:block;
padding:8px;
background:#555555;
font-size:8pt;
border-top:1px dotted;
border-bottom:1px dotted
}
.entry-date{
cursor:help;
border-bottom:1px solid #777777;
letter-spacing:1px
}
.sidebar ul{list-style:none}
.sidebar h3{
text-align:right;
background-color:#686868;
background-image:url(xgreenery/rounded_tl.gif);
background-repeat:no-repeat
}
.sidebar ul h3 span{
display:block;
padding:2px;
background:url(xgreenery/rounded_bl.gif) no-repeat bottom left
}
.sidebar ul ul{list-style:disc}
.commentlist li{
list-style:none;
padding:5px;
margin-top:5px;
border:#555555 1px solid;
background-color:#333333
}
.comment-meta{padding-top:10px;color:#999999}
.commentlist{color:#EEEEEE}
#footer #generator-link,#footer .metasep,#footer #theme-link{display:none}
.commentlist a{color:#7BD32C}
.commentlist a:hover{color:#EEEEEE}
.comment-author{
font-weight:bold;
border-bottom:1px solid;
padding-bottom:3px
}
.entry-meta{
text-align:justify;
padding:10px;
border-top:1px solid #999999;
border-bottom:1px solid #999999
}
.entry-meta a{
color:#7BD343;
text-decoration:none;
border-bottom:1px dotted
}
#searchform{text-align:center}
#searchform input{width:100px}
#searchform #searchsubmit #s{}
#wp-calendar{text-align:center}
#wp-calendar th,#wp-calendar tfoot{background-color:#333333}
#wp-calendar tbody{background-color:#555555;font-weight:bold}
#wp-calendar a,#wp-calendar caption{font-weight:bold}
#footer p{padding-top:0 !important;padding-top:10px}
#footer a{color:#888888}
#footer a:hover{color:#EEEEEE}
.center{text-align:center}
.left{float:left}
.right{float:right}
img.left{padding:5px 5px 5px 0}
img.right{padding:5px 0 5px 5px}
a img{border:none;background:none}
img.left{
display:block;
padding:1px;
float:left;
margin:3px 12px 3px 0
}
img.right{
display:block;
padding:1px;
float:right;
margin:3px 0 3px 12px
}
img.center{display:block;padding:1px;margin:3px auto}


I hope you like it, just like i do

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And this time instead of putting it somewhere for you to download, i’ll list the code here (in the next page of course because i don’t want to clutter my front page with code) :P … as for the image itself, you can download the ChinaRed theme, or replace it with your own image … hope you’ll like it ;)


/*
skin name:eXs-ChinaRed
skin uri:http://www.bighead.cn/?p=100
description:a chinese theme for wordpress converted by reaper-x
version:1.0
author:bighead (?? ?? ?)
author uri:http://www.bighead.cn/
this theme was designed and built by bighead,
whose blog you will find at http://www.bighead.cn/
the css,xhtml and design is released under gpl:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
feel free to contact me if you have questions,my email:bighead@gmail.com
*/
#globalnav,p.access{display:none}
body{
font-size:66%;/* resets 1em to 10px */
font-family:'lucida grande',verdana,arial,sans-serif;
background-color:#D5D6D7;
background-image:url(chimg/bgcolor.jpg);
color:#CA9B82;
margin:0;
padding:0;
text-align:center
}
#wrapper{
margin:0px auto;
width:760px;
background-image:url(chimg/kubrickbg.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-y
}
#container{
background-color:#FFFFFF;
color:#CA9B82;
padding:0;
text-align:left
}
#header{
background-color:#73A0C5;
color:#CA9B82;
background-image:url(chimg/kubrickheader.jpg);
height:200px
}
#content{font-size:1.2em}
.hfeed .entry-content{line-height:1.4em}
.hfeed{
float:left;
padding:0 0 20px 45px;
margin:0px 0 0;
width:450px
}
#footer{
background-color:transparent;
color:#CA9B82;
background-image:url(chimg/kubrickfooter.jpg);
background-position:bottom;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
padding:20px 0 0 1px;
margin:0 auto;
height:63px;
width:760px;
clear:both;
}
small{
font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:0.9em;
line-height:1.5em
}
h1,h2,h3{
font-family:'trebuchet ms','lucida grande',verdana,arial,sans-serif;
font-weight:bold
}
#blog-title{
font-size:2em;
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;
float:left;
display:inline;
margin-top:73px;
margin-left:80px;
padding:0px
}
.sidebar h3{
font-family:'lucida grande',verdana,sans-serif;
font-size:1.2em
}
#blog-description{
float:right;
display:inline;
text-transform:capitalize;
color:#D1B059;
background-color:transparent;
margin-top:77px;
margin-right:100px;
padding-top:0px;
text-align:center
}
h2,h2 a,h2 a:visited,h3,h3 a,h3 a:visited{color:#D7B963;background-color:transparent}
h2,h2 a,h2 a:hover,h2 a:visited,h3,h3 a,h3 a:hover,h3 a:visited,.sidebar h2,#wp-calendar caption{text-decoration:none}
.entry-content p a:visited{
font-weight:bold;
background-color:transparent;
color:#999999;
text-decoration:none
}
.entry-content p a:link{
font-weight:bold;
background-color:transparent;
color:#DCDF4F;
text-decoration:none
}
.entry-content a:link{
font-weight:bold;
background-color:transparent;
color:#DCDF4F;
text-decoration:none;
border-bottom:#DCDF4F 1px dotted
}
.entry-content a:visited{
background-color:transparent;
color:#DCDF4F;
text-decoration:none;
border-bottom:#DCDF4F 1px dotted
}
.commentlist li,#commentform .form-input,#commentform .form-textarea{
font:0.9em 'lucida grande',verdana,arial,sans-serif
}
.commentlist cite,.commentlist cite a{
font-weight:bold;
font-style:normal;
font-size:1.1em
}
.commentlist p{
font-weight:normal;
line-height:1.5em;
text-transform:none;
margin:10px 5px 10px 0
}
#commentform p{
font-family:'lucida grande',verdana,arial,sans-serif;
margin:5px 0
}
small,.sidebar ul ul li,.sidebar ul ol li,.nocomments,.entry-meta,blockquote,strike{color:#999999;background-color:transparent}
code{font:1.1em 'courier new',courier,fixed,sans-serif}
a,h2 a:hover,h3 a:hover{
color:#BA9830;
background-color:transparent;
text-decoration:none
}
a:hover{
color:#BA9830;
background-color:transparent;
text-decoration:none;
border-bottom:#D7B963 1px dotted
}
.entry-content{margin:0 0 40px;text-align:justify}
.entry-meta{
padding:8px 5px 8px 5px;
margin-left:2px;
text-align:justify;
border-top:1px solid #B99070;
border-bottom:1px solid #B99070;
background-color:#722012
}
h2{font-size:1.6em;margin:30px 0 0}
h2.entry-title{margin-top:30px;text-align:left}
.sidebar h2{margin:5px 0 0;padding:0}
h3{padding:0;margin:30px 0 0}
h3.comment-header{padding:0;margin:40px auto 20px}
p img{padding:0}
img.centered{display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}
img.alignright{padding:4px;margin:0 0 2px 7px;display:inline}
img.alignleft{padding:4px;margin:0 7px 2px 0;display:inline}
.alignright{float:right}
.alignleft{float:left}
html>body .entry-content ul{
margin-left:0px;
padding:0 0 0 30px;
list-style:none;
padding-left:10px;
text-indent:-10px
}
html>body .entry-content li{margin:7px 0 8px 10px}
.entry-content ul li:before,.sidebar ul ul li:before{content:"0bb 020"}
.entry-content ol{padding:0 0 0 35px;margin:0}
.entry-content ol li{margin:0;padding:0}
.entry-meta ul,.entry-meta li{
display:inline;
list-style-type:none;
list-style-image:none
}
.sidebar ul,.sidebar ul ol{margin:0;padding:0}
.sidebar ul li{
list-style-type:none;
list-style-image:none;
margin-bottom:15px
}
.sidebar ul p,.sidebar ul select{margin:5px 0 8px}
.sidebar ul ul,.sidebar ul ol{margin:5px 0 0 10px}
.sidebar ul ul ul,.sidebar ul ol{margin:0 0 0 10px}
ol li,.sidebar ul ol li{list-style:decimal outside}
.sidebar ul ul li,.sidebar ul ol li{margin:3px 0 0;padding:0}
.searchform{margin:0px auto;padding:0px 0px;text-align:left}
.sidebar #searchform #s{
width:115px;
padding:2px;
background-color:#722012;
color:#CA9B82;
border:1px solid #B39571
}
.sidebar #searchsubmit{
padding:1px;
background-color:#722012;
color:#CA9B82;
border:1px solid #B39571
}
#commentform .form-input #author,#commentform .form-input #email,#commentform .form-input #url{
width:170px;
padding:2px;
margin:5px 5px 1px 0;
background-color:#722012;
color:#CA9B82;
border:1px solid #B39571
}
#commentform .form-textarea #comment{
width:100%;
padding:2px;
margin-bottom:4px;
background-color:#722012;
color:#CA9B82;
border:1px solid #B39571
}
#commentform .form-submit #submit{
margin:0px auto;
background-color:#722012;
color:#CA9B82;
border:1px solid #B39571;
padding:2px
}
#commentform .form-submit #submit:hover{background-color:#852A25;color:#CA9B82}
#comment-notes{font-size:10px;padding:2px}
.commentlist{
padding:0;
text-align:justify;
border-top:1px solid #B99070;
border-bottom:1px solid #B99070;
background-color:#722012
}
.commentlist li{
margin:15px 0 3px;
padding:5px 10px 3px;
list-style:none;
font-weight:bold
}
.nocomments{text-align:center;margin:0;padding:0}
.comment-metadata{margin:0;display:block;font-weight:normal}
.sidebar{
padding:10px 0 0px 0;
margin-left:540px;
width:200px;
font:1.2em 'lucida grande',verdana,arial,sans-serif;
text-align:left
}
.sidebar form{margin:0}
#wp-calendar{empty-cells:show;width:155px}
#wp-calendar th{font-style:normal;text-transform:capitalize}
#wp-calendar #next a{padding-right:10px;text-align:right}
#wp-calendar #prev a{padding-left:10px;text-align:left}
#wp-calendar a{display:block;font-size:9pt;text-decoration:none}
#wp-calendar caption{
font:bold 1.2em 'lucida grande',verdana,arial,sans-serif;
text-align:center;
width:100%
}
.entry-date{
border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;
font-size:0.9em;
letter-spacing:.07em;
cursor:help
}
blockquote{
margin:15px 30px 0 10px;
padding:5px;
border-left:5px solid #996633;
border-right:5px solid #996633;
background-color:#722012
}
blockquote cite{margin:5px 0 0;display:block}
.center{text-align:center}
hr{display:none}
a img{border:none}
.navigation{
display:block;
text-align:center;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:60px
}


That’s it you’re finished ;)

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RedirectMatch 301 ^/google(.*)\.html$ http://examplesite.domain.com

By using that line you tell the webserver to do a permanent redirect to all files named google*.html into the destination server, and by using that simple line there’s no need for you to upload the google sitemap verification file into your server, because every request that made to search a google*.html will be redirected into the destination page without giving a 404 error.

Unfortunately this trick doesn’t work on wordpress since you can’t get access to the .htaccess file .. anyway i hope this trick can be usefull for you ;)

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Note : i don’t have the upgrades account at the wordpress so i can’t give you any help on that matters … also since im just a beginner in this css thing dont ask me about advanced css stuff. And there’s one more thing, my css will looks better on Firefox since i test it using Mozilla Firefox browser

and here’s some screenshot of my sandbox theme called X-Cuberik :P (since there’s someone using Kubrick Reloaded i change its name into X-Cuberik) :D

and to use this css style, first you must download my css stylesheet for Sandbox theme from http://d.turboupload.com/d/857580/X-Cuberik.zip.html

and don’t forget to adjust the image path to point to your image directory (in reaper-x.css)

I’d like to give credits to Lorelle , and that’s because of her i was able to write this css stylesheet. Because she is listing the class id for each element from the sandbox theme

also credits to the maker of various Wordpress theme, since my theme inspirated from various wordpress theme especially AndreasViklund

Hope you’ll like my css stylesheet for Sandbox Theme ;)

Edit: don’t forget to put this line into reaper-x.css since i forgot to put this line to disable globalnav

div#globalnav, p.access { display: none; }

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