So I made a fairly solid change to my theme today using White a Milk. Kinda cheesy sure, but I like the GPS look. I’m using one of my favorite themes which I use on my niche blogs. Long ago I discovered that I like really clean and simple WordPress themes. They load faster, and they are muck easier to customize. (more…)
I’ve been noticing lately that the WordPress automatic updater fails sometimes. Bummer. Noticed it on many of our different blogs. I had to use an FTP client to do the job right. I just upload the wp-admin and wp-included folders up in entirety, and it’s all good again.
You won’t believe it but that is why Zulit has had so little work done on it lately – the upgrade failed and I didn’t have the patience to go ahead and fix the problem. That shows you how much this blog makes now that I don’t work it on a daily basis.
Anyway, if your WordPress automatic upgrade fails you, do a manual upload of the WP files and folders, and make sure all your plugins are working with the new WP version. Only those two things ever let me down with all the recent WordPress upgrades.
OK…John Godley’s WordPress plugin called Inscript is one of my most important plugins, but you’ll need his 33 page PDF manual to learn how to use it.
I had a bitch of a time finding, but I finally did. Click here to download the PDF manual for John Godley’s WordPress Plugin called Inscript.
Have fun!
Terry
Just went through the process of updating my WordPress plugins and I needed a good media player for SWF, Google Video, Youtube, and audio. I started off with Coolplayer and it was really slow loading videos. Like sometimes it took forever.
Maybe it’s this theme, my database, my hosting server (Website Source), but I had to find a better media plugin. I found the Anarchy Media Player for WordPress and it fixed all these problems. The ability to play SWF flash movies is a great thing to as I like to play around with flash creation once and a while. Wish I had more time actually to do flash, as it’s just plain fun!
So far all videos I’ve posted on Zulit, or any of my commercial blogs, are loading lickity split, and consistently. So if Coolplayer is giving you grief, give Anarachy MP a try.
I’m going to post all of my favorite WP plugins another day, but in the mean time here is a list of the better plugs in my opinion. I use almost all of these.
Zulit is a dofollow blog so post and prosper.
Hello again my fellow droogs. Your humble narrator has been off blog building again as usual. Had a monster domain that I had to get off the ground and running. It’s been awhile, I will avoid the cliche apology since there is no need for one.
I’ve missed posting on Zulit, as it’s my “freewheeling” blog. I like to be able to talk about anything under the sun, and that’s what has happened with Zulit. My main topic of discussion is financial freedom still, but I’ve opened up all topics now.
It’s probably hurt my traffic, Google PR, and search engine ranking, but I’m really not that worried about it – I had to have just one blog where I could vear way off topic whenever I want to.
After working a few weeks on a really tight niche, it’s like being reborn as I type away on Zulit.com again. Never thought I would miss this kind of freedom. Sticking into a tight niche blog for cash and profit purposes is neccessry if you want to make a living at this game, but it can sure be boring.
So I’ve had some fun with some plugins during my niche blogging work, and discovered a few I would recommend. Getting pretty tired of hunting down plugins and applying them, so I think I have the perfect arsenal now and I won’t be experimenting much for awhile. I’ll post some of these plugins in due time.
Until next post….it’s GREAT to be back in the swing again.
If you can see video on your browser, check out this video from Problogger.net. Feel free to leave a comment as this is a “dofollow” blog. Dofollow means this.
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This post is a reminder to all new-comers, that when they load all their WordPress files up to their server, they need to make sure they have the wp-config.php file configured properly. This is the file that links WordPress with the database you created for your blog.
When you first download the WordPress folder, you will notice that there is a php file called wp-config-sample.php.
You need to open the wp-config-sample.php file with a text editor (like notepad), and insert your database information. See the image below.
WP-CONFIG-SAMPLE.PHP File Opened Up In Notepad
You need to insert the database name, username, and password you created when setting up your database.
You should be able to leave localhost as it is with most hosting packages, but some hosting companies (like Website Source) you have to change localhost to the database server address. For example; for Website Source you need to use something like, mysql2.websitesource.net instead of localhost.
If you ever have problems installing WordPress, look at this issue first.
NOW! Very Important!
The last thing you need to do is save this file called wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php,
Once you’ve saved your new php file to wp-config.php, upload it to the server into exactly the same directory as your wp-config-sample.php lives.
Now try going to the URL of your WordPress blog and see if it installs properly.
– Terry
This article was submitted by Linda Bruton, on her opinion of Wordpress as a blogging platform. I agree with most of this piece, except that Blogger has the advantage of driving Google-based links into your private blogs.
I suggest using blogjet to run a string of blogs in Blogger, and a string of blogs in WordPress. Link from the Blogger blogs to your WordPress domains, and vice-versa.
Story….
The more I use WordPress, the more I love it. It has two important features that Blogger doesn’t yet support.
I. You can set up WordPress to automatically ping all the RSS and blog feed directories every time you make a post. This is a very powerful feature if you want your blog to get a lot of traffic right away. On top of that, you’ll be quickly developing back-links to your blog almost automatically.
Think about how long it can take you to build a regular site, get the search engines to index it, get back-links to improve your listings, and then start getting traffic. A blog like WordPress can do all that “grunge” work for you automatically.
II. Wordpress allows the use of Categories. Categories are a very powerful way to improve the structure of your site both for human visitors and for the search engines.
Let’s say the topic of your site is Widgets. You could create a Category for black widgets, one for orange widgets, and one for green widgets.
Now when you add posts to your blog, you can choose which of your categories your post belongs to. Now your blog will archive your past posts not only by their month and date, as Blogger does. But also by Category.
So if you have a visitor who is especially interested in green widgets, they can easily find all your posts on green widgets. They don’t have to go through your entire archives to find them. With a blog that has been around for awhile and has hundreds of posts, that would be pretty discouraging. Using Categories makes it very easy.
Categories are also very search engine friendly. When you use Categories in your blog, there is a link on every one of your pages to your categories. Think about this: would you rather be #1 in the search engines for March 2003, or for green widgets, one of the main keywords of your site?
By using the Category feature, you will eventually have hundreds of pages on your site with links to green widgets, black widgets, and orange widgets. All those back-links to those keywords can result in much higher search engine rankings.
Another neat feature is that you can easily create an RSS feed for each of your categories. Then every time you post to your blog, it could be pinging the Blog/RSS directories for each feed.
Compare that to putting up a new page on a traditional web-site. Even if the search engines find your new page right away, it might be a month or two before it actually gets indexed and starts drawing traffic. It might be a long time before it enjoys a first page position for its keywords.
It’s almost amazing how easy all this is with a well-structured blog like WordPress with Categories enabled.
For more tips and ideas on how to make money blogging, be sure to visit my “Why Marketers Should Blog” weblog http://www.WhyMarketersShouldBlog.com
In regards to all the talk about WordPress categories, watch the video from Wolf Howl below.
WordPress Optimization Video (Wolf Howl)
