October 17th, 2007
When you first create a blog with Wordpress, I highly suggest that the first thing you do after customizing your Wordpress Dashboard Options is to install these 3 Plugins.
A plugin is like a utility for your blog that does something.
There are programmers all over the world who build these plugins to do little jobs for them and then they share them. Most of them are given away free of charge, so feel free to experiment with them if you like.
When I first create a blog for myself or clients, these are the first three I install and activate.
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October 12th, 2007
Where do you store your themes, plugins and files on your web host and how should you store your files on your own client computer? When you install your wordpress blog using either fantastico or by doing it yourself, the file and folder structure is very specific, you can’t really change it, nor do you want to. There is no room for changing the built in structure, leaving you simply having to understand it so you can FTP your files to the proper places.
It’s actually quite easy and there’s really only two places you ever need to be aware of. Having a system of storing files on your own computer is, in my opinion, actually more important than understanding where they go on the server.
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September 21st, 2007
Timothy Ferriss, author of the 4 hour work week recently posted 5 Uncommon Timesavers for bloggers on problogger. These two caught my eye because they’re both very common for me to do, so I thought I would pass it along.
2. Post less to be read more.
No matter how good your material is, too much of it can cause feed-overwhelm and unsubscribes. Based on input from close to a dozen top bloggers I’ve interviewed, it takes an average of three days for a new post to propagate well in the blogosphere. If you write too often, pushing down the previous post and its visibility, you decrease the reach of each post, run the risk of increasing unsubscribes, and create more work for yourself. Test posting 2-4 times per week—my preference is two—and don’t feel compelled to keep up with the frequency “you have to post three times before lunch” Joneses. Quality, not quantity, is what spreads.
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August 16th, 2007
Changing the permalink structure for a wordpress blog may have your inbound links end up as 404 not found errors because they’re pointing at an old link structure. Changing your permalink structure is something you have to consider quite thoroughly before doing. It may not be common sense to future think and know what the impact of such a change would make, but it’s what you have to do. Do not make changes to your permalink structure without knowing the implications. Can it be easy and seamless? I just found out that it can.
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