Tag Archive for 'Wordpress'

5 steps to reorganize “Categories” on your blog

If you have started your blog in rush just like me. And you have been writing a lot of posts and have not planned your “Categories” on the beginning. One day you may notice that you may have way to much “Categories”. The more you have, the less processional your blog is looking. There may be just one case when you have “hundreds” of categories. It is when your blog have no any general topic.
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Move your WordPress blog to new domain without traffic and backlinks loss

WordpressMoving your WordPress blog can be very frustrating and can bring you a real headache. You have put a lot of effort in creating your website content and you want to take it with you to a new home. Of course you want to keep all backlinks and link structure untouched. But be warned that any mistake can bring you very serious trouble as you may loose your traffic and/or search engine positions. If you have decided for such move you need do it well. In this post I will do all my best to help you with your move.

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Subscribers Text Counter – New WordPress Plugin

I would like to announce that my new WordPress plugin is available to download. It is “Subscribers Text Counter”. This plugin creates very easy to customize “Feedburner rss subscribers” and “twitter followers” text counters. You may see sample widget created with this plugin on top of my right sidebar.

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Selling my blog…

This post is just a quick note to let you know that I am selling my blog. No… not this one. I am selling my web hosting reviews blog. If you are interested you may find auction on flippa (inactive link removed). And you may see the website I am selling right here. What is this website about? I have described it some time ago in this post.

UPDATE (2009-11-30)

Blog have been sold. Congratulations to the new owner!

Be warned: Wordpress update crash (2.8.4 to 2.8.5)

WordpressIf you are going to upgrade your Wordpress installation soon you should read this post. A few days ago when I woke up and as usual turned on my notebook to check my mail and my sites stats. I have noticed and upgrade message in Wordpress admin panel “WordPress 2.8.5 is available! Please update now”. I have decided I will not ignore this update and it was the beginning of my trouble.

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Got Music Talent – new music blog

I would like to announce a lunch of my new music blog “Got Music Talent“. What is it exactly about? Have you ever watched programs like “Got Talent” or X “Factor”? This blog is similar. If in this programs you liked the most music performers – it is a place for you.

Got Music Talent!

Got Music Talent!

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How to start your own blog?

So you have decided to start your first blog? That’s great. You are in a right place. There are three ways you should consider if you want to create a new blog. It depends from two things – money you want to invest and tech knowledge that you have.

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Top 10 Articles About Blog Promotion You Should Read

How to promote my blog? How to get more traffic? What should I do to get more readers? I am sure that you ask this questions to yourself all the time. Probably it’s the reason why you are reading my post. There are tons of articles about it in the Internet and I have chosen top 10 that are really worth reading.

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How to make Wordpress “Page” link to any url

Today I have been looking for solution for making one of my “page” links linking to category of posts for one of my Wordpress projects. I have found a few tips about putting “href” tags in description etc. But it have broken my layout.

Then I have found great Wordpress plugin called “Page Links To” that would let you put any URL instead of your real page content (even external!). When you install it you get additional field in your Add New Page section where you can put your url. For me it works like a charm!

Problem with 404 error on /wp-admin/ in Wordpress

I have just been moving my blog to new host. Everything was fine after I did it as described at Wordpress Codex except admin panel.

When I was trying to login to Dashboard I got 404 error. There is one very simple solution for it. When I was moving files from my old host my ftp client set chmod of /wp-admin/ directory to 775. It won’t work with this permission. All you need to do is to change it to 755 and it should be working again.