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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.
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!
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.
If you have decided to move a copy of your wordpress to other host propably you will have problem with your mysql login details. Even if mysql database name, login and password are same - propably you will have to change login host (until it is not localhost :) ). It is very easy to do. All you need to change after you copy WordPress script to your new account is to edit wp-config.php file. Open it in any text editor (Notepad would be ok), find and edit following lines:
define('DB_NAME', 'put_db_name_here'); define('DB_USER', 'put_db_login_here'); define('DB_PASSWORD', 'put_db_password_here'); define('DB_HOST', 'put_mysql_host_here'); |
And that's all :)
My last project have just been launched. It is Web Hosting Reviews website based on customized WordPress and K2 theme. Below you may see front page screenshot. Click it to visit working site.
Web Hosting Reviews
There is a lot of customization in PHP, the design and a few customized free plugins just to make it work a desired way. Site presents web hosting companies and let's visitors to write a review, make a star rating and choose best web hosting offer by reading real users opinions.
Since I have upgraded a WordPress to version 2.8 I have seen new comments counted by Akismet plugin but nothing in spam queue nor any comments to approve. It looked very strange for me!
I have logged out from my blog admin and tried to post a comment. After submitting it I saw a blank page!
The worst thing was that I have not found any solutions in google (and people say that google always knows the answer :)) - so I decided to upgrade K2 Theme... But there is now new release on their main page!
But wait! There is a solution! (or I would not write this post :)) After some googling (ok... please forget what I wrote about google before... :D) I have found K2 nightly build subpage... All you need to do to fix this issue is to upgrade K2 with nightly build. It can be downloaded from: http://getk2.com/nightly/.
I have decided to download last RC8 version (k2-1.0-RC8-revision-807-2009-07-13.zip). And now you can test if comments are working again :)
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