wordpress: Simplify your Blog using Microsoft Word 2007 - 08/07/08 03:33 PM
Simplify your Blog using Microsoft Word 2007
Blogging is fun on Active Rain and for me sometimes somewhat time consuming if you are blogging at different portals such as WordPress, TypePad, or Blogger. I use Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Word for all my writing needs. Usually, after I finished … (7 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress in 3 flavors, August calendar, Rain News, marketing features - 08/02/08 04:49 PM
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In this post I thought I'd answer a couple of very basic questions that I hear all the time... "What's the difference between Wordpress and a website?" and "What's the difference between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org?".
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wordpress: Blog Platform Review Site TopTenReviews.com: Tool To Help You Find Your Blogging Platform - 07/31/08 04:13 PM
Reuters.com published this deansguide article August 3, 2008
Who is this man and how will he change your life? For the answer go to the bottom under"Recommendation"
The following is a blog services review with a rich variety of information reviewed so that you can evaluate which blogging platform is … (2 comments)
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wordpress: My new hobby is...working on my Website... - 07/28/08 12:01 AM
I wasn't really looking for a new hobby. I already read way too much, volunteer, ballroom dance, ski, swim, and workout. But this new hobby has taken over my summer. I have been reading about SEO and trying to educate myself on this confusing topic. I have been begging for SEO … (5 comments)
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wordpress: Blog Design: Back To The Basics, marketing week in review - 07/27/08 03:22 PM
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This post was inspired by a few people who've emailed me with problems they're having with their blogs and websites (not on Active Rain) and I thought it might be a good idea to go back a few steps and address some very basic issues.
The emails … (58 comments)
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wordpress: Stop Spam Comments on your Wordpress Blog - 07/27/08 02:06 AM
Kathy McGraw asked me in the comment section of my last blog how I would prevent comment spamming in a Wordpress blog.
I had to think about it but before long I came up with several ways and some FREE Plugins for to Prevent spam.
Simple Fix first. Disable Pingback or … (1 comments)
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wordpress: Keyword Research Made Extra Easy for WordPress - 07/23/08 04:21 PM
Semenvironment just came out with the very handy Keyword Research Wordpress Plugin.
I've borrowed a couple of screenshots from their site to show you how it changes your admin when you write a post.
As you can see below, it gives you links to 3 popular and free keyword tools right … (3 comments)
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wordpress: Blog Design: Anatomy of a blog, Active News, marketing week in review - 07/20/08 01:22 AM
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This post continues where I left off a few weeks ago with my blog design series and how to deal with geeks and techies in plain English so they understand exactly what you mean and you get exactly what you want.
If you missed … (82 comments)
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wordpress: New Wordpress Webinar Breakout Scheduled - 07/16/08 09:48 AM
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wordpress: No Blogger Left Behind Wordpress Breakout Webinar - 07/14/08 08:33 PM
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wordpress: Do You Want To Know More About Wordpress? - 07/14/08 06:53 PM
Join Frances Flynn Thorsen and me for the www.NoBloggerLeftBehind.com breakout for another great webinar... on using Wordpress. Last week's session on ActiveRain was lots of fun. This also promises to be informative, whether it is a platform you are interested in right now or not!
Wordpress Blogging experts will join us for … (12 comments)
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wordpress: Get a Comment Link AND a Link to Your Blog - 07/09/08 11:40 AM
One of my favorite WordPress plugins is Comment Luv, and I have finally been able to add it to my SEO Diva blog after a theme upgrade.
Comment Luv is a nice way to thank a visitor for leaving a comment on your blog by automatically listing the most recent blog … (5 comments)
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wordpress: Stop Hackers: Protect Your WordPress Blog - 07/03/08 11:46 AM
You need some serious password protection if you have a WordPress blog.
Your wp-admin directory is not the only part of your blog that needs protection...plugins, scripts, includes and content can all be hacked.
I'm paying more attention to this now because one of my blogs got hacked last week. Hundreds … (14 comments)
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wordpress: Wanted: Panelists for ActiveRain and Wordpress Webinars - 06/30/08 11:00 AM
No Blogger Left Behind is an eight-week Blog Coaching Webinar series that I conduct with Joeann Fossland. Our "Breakout" sessions are open to the public. We are planning a Wordpress Breakout and an ActiveRain Breakout in July. The Wordpress Breakout is a discussion for entrepreneurs and is not exclusive to real … (5 comments)
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wordpress: Enlarge Your WordPress Post Box - 06/29/08 06:01 AM
Here's one of those little things that I didn't notice until recently.
When you compost a blog post, would you like the size of the post-editor-box to be a bit larger?
I often do, especially if I have some images or videos to insert.
I just realized, that in WordPress at any … (11 comments)
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wordpress: Cheater's Quickie Guide - 06/27/08 06:18 AM
Welcome to The Cheater's Quickie Guide to updating WordPress
(Had you wondering there for a minute, huh?)
Over the course of a few years working with technology stuff, I have learned the value of healthy restraint when confronted with the urge to fix something that ain't broke.
Nonetheless I was … (8 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress, Meta Tags & Google...What Am I Missing? - 06/24/08 10:05 AM
Overall I'll say I'm thrilled with my decision to convert one of my websites to a blogsite. Traffic has increased as has "stickiness". But it seems my posts are not being indexed by Google. I've added meta tags and tweaked the header but don't know if there's a way to add … (19 comments)
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wordpress: Understanding How Word Press Themes Work - 06/24/08 09:08 AM
A WordPress "Theme" is a pre-designed "skin" that you apply to your WordPress blog to change its appearance without changing the content. You can be Blue Meanie one day and Cutline the next day.
You can also further customize any theme by making your own edits to the theme files. You … (9 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress Theme Designer Contest - 30 Wordpress Premium Designs Up for Grabs! - 06/22/08 08:29 AM
AZREBN has been talking up Wordpress Blogs at our last few workshops and so I thought I would share a great opportunity for all our ActiveRain members to take advantage of a contest being hosted by ChiQ Montes.
ChiQ Montes is a full time Wordpress Theme Designer, currently living in the … (15 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress Feed - 06/17/08 12:20 AM
Okay I know it must be simple but I have been searching ActiveRain for an hour looking for a blog that can answer my question.
Is there a way to feed my ActiveRain blog to my Wordpress blog without having to re-type it?
My goal is to blog once here and … (11 comments)
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wordpress: Another Blogger Decides RealTown is NOT the place to be - 06/12/08 07:47 AM
I think I first met Julie Emery on RealTown's RealTalk. I follow Julie on Twitter. Julie Emery is also a member of ActiveRain. Everyone on ActiveRain always enjoys a graph showing ActiveRain "kicking the butts" of other social media for real estate so here's a graph, enjoy. I threw in WannaNetwork, … (21 comments)
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wordpress: Days on Market a bogus number in my MLS - 06/11/08 07:45 PM
I just posted on my Wordpress site www.homebuysblog.com a Video Blog on the problems with the Days on Market number my MLS reports. We stopped reporting the CDOM or Cumulative Days on Market and long time back and the loss of that data does not paint the real picture on our … (5 comments)
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wordpress: Can't Seem To Blog Daily? - Free Tool Sees To It For You! - 06/09/08 02:16 PM
I ran across a free plugin for my Wordpress blog called FAQ-Tastic that I used to create a "Q & A" Section on my Insider Mortgage Advice website. At the time, I was NOT trying to get an "auto" blogging tool in place. I just wanted a way for visitors to ask … (2 comments)
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wordpress: Blog Design: the next step, pink friends, marketing week in review - 06/08/08 05:00 PM
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Blog Design: the next step
Hi everyone, last week I covered the good and the bad about using free blogs for business as well as some things to watch out for(theme spam) when downloading free themes for blogs like Wordpress.
So before I get into … (94 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress: what you should know about it and your choices for using it - 06/05/08 09:49 AM
It's probably as good a time as any to discuss WordPress Blog software. This post aims to help with how WordPress works.
For starters, to manage your WordPress Real Estate Blog you probably have three choices:
1) do it yourself,
2) hire an independent programmer/ designer at an hourly rate or
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wordpress: Blog Design: things you should know before spending any $$$... marketing week in review - 06/02/08 01:30 AM
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Blog Design: things you should know before spending $$$
Grab a strong coffee, a comfortable chair and we'll begin the series I promised about getting a custom blog designed without going broke or crazy and all the other stuff I mentioned in my post … (114 comments)
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wordpress: Two Blogs- Active Rain & Wordpress - 05/26/08 01:55 AM
I am running two blogs, one here on active rain and another that I self host running on wordpress. Then I have my old school website and my abandon Blogger site. I started my Blooger site in 2004, but never really was very faithful with it. Still some useful historical data … (5 comments)
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wordpress: Social Networking: putting the pieces together... new ebook, marketing week in review - 05/12/08 10:16 AM
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One of my favorite things about working online is the amazing surprises and benefits that come from out of nowhere. Many of our virtual friends quickly become real friends with all the benefits that come with real friendships... trust, comfort, familiarity and wanting to do things together.
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wordpress: Como Insertar Videos Rápidamente desde el Editor de Wordpress y Sin Pegar Códigos! - 05/06/08 03:18 PM
Hace algunos días que tenemos insertado un plugin o herramienta para insertar videos dentro de mi editor de artículos mi blog en WordPress.com. Estábamos cambiando a un dominio propio y aprovechamos para agregar varios cambios, entre ellos un plugin de video construido por nuestro equipo de programación, que funciona dentro de … (0 comments)
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wordpress: Want a good looking blog? Welcome Brian Gardner to the Rain! - 05/04/08 10:33 PM
It's my pleasure to welcome Brian Gardner to Active Rain. Brian is 34 years old and lives in the Chicago area with his wife, Shelly and his son, Zach. Brian also shaves his head bald because he doesn't want anybody to know that he has a receding hair line. Not sure … (69 comments)
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wordpress: Real Estate WordPress Themes - 04/29/08 11:10 AM
I am very pleased to announce the official launch today of a new website called Real Estate WordPress Themes.
Over the past few months, I have received a significant amount of contact from real estate agents asking if I could customize Revolution themes for their business.
I started out by creating … (13 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress 2.5.1 Upgrade a Complete Success or Is It - 04/28/08 07:04 PM
I hesitated upgrading to WP 2.5 for a few weeks and when we started making Listings by Address Blogs we were using WordPress 2.5 as a new install as opposed to upgrading from an already used blog.
I really liked the dashboard and the way you can upgrade your plugins … (12 comments)
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wordpress: Realtor Web Marketing - Starting With A Blog - 04/24/08 10:28 AM
As I was pondering how to start this ongoing series to help realtors market themselves online, I thought to myself,
What better way to start this Web Marketing series than to discuss how realtors and agents can market themselves without having their own website?
The solution: create a website out of … (2 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress Blogging and Active Rain Blogging? - 04/13/08 01:38 PM
Does anyone on Active Rain run a blog off of Wordpress as well?
I was speaking with someone today and they pointed out that while Active Rain is great for networking purposes that it may or may not help my own organic marketing efforts within search engines because the content I … (5 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress Installation and Use -- What I Learned - 04/12/08 11:29 PM
The experience of installing and upgrading Wordpress made me appreciate the convenience and ease of use provided by blogging general blogging services such as Blogger and industry specific services such as own ActiveRain.
I was glad I went through the exercise as I now have a blog site that, while it needs some more TLC on … (0 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress 2.5 Themes - 04/12/08 11:07 PM
After several attempts at testing various themes and plugins, it became apparent that I needed to upgrade to version 2.5 of Wordpress. That entailed manually removing the current software version, keeping the database, and replacing with the new software. The onlything I had to do was transfer system information from
I … (0 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress 2.5 Plugins - 04/12/08 11:03 PM
After several attempts at testing various themes and plugins, it became apparent that I needed to upgrade to version 2.5 of Wordpress. That entailed manually removing the current software version, keeping the database, and replacing with the new software. The only thing I had to do was transfer system information from … (2 comments)
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wordpress: Installing Wordpress 2.5 - 04/12/08 10:57 PM
I needed to "quickly" set up a blog site that was not related in any way to real estate and that could provide easy posting of a lot of reference resources, opinion and commentary about it's subject area. It also needed to function like an online magazine, while retaining a blogging … (0 comments)
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wordpress: Modifying A WordPress Theme - 04/12/08 08:27 AM
Have you spent a lot of time looking for a nice, simple WordPress Theme with a main content column wide enough to accommodate pasting in a VFlyer?
I did. Without success. So I ended up making a few simple modifications to Chris Pearson's Cutline Theme.
The end result is here: http://www.bobtaylorproperties.com/
I was going … (24 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress 2.5 Anybody Want To Do This? - 04/08/08 06:07 AM
I have been swamped with some complicated year-end stuff for the last several weeks ... but I do have a new install of WordPress 2.5 running on a "practice" site ... here http://www.clutteredshelf.com/
I had an idea. Anybody want to play around with posting on 2.5 just to see what the new interface … (11 comments)
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wordpress: New Widget from BlogCatalog & JargonFish Designed to Bring More Traffic to Your Blog - 04/03/08 03:01 PM
The people at BlogCatalog and JargonFish have been busy coming up with a new in-text widget. They claim the new application will "drive more traffic to your blog by cross-linking your content with other bloggers in the BlogCatalog network".
Here's how it's supposed to work: once you load the widget, keywords are highlighted … (6 comments)
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wordpress: Bifocal Blogging - 03/31/08 07:03 AM
Good Morning AR Folks! Are we all ready for April Fool's tomorrow? Personally I can't believe that April is one day away...the amount of snow we have and the cold temperatures feel like it is early March or late February in Conway NH. Hopefully it will all melt FAST.
So now that … (5 comments)
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wordpress: Moving Domains and Blogs can be a Nightmare - 03/30/08 08:19 PM
I've been buried in a moving nightmare...Nope not selling my house and moving but moving our website and blogs over to our new server Blue Host.
Blue host has been great as I wrote in a previous post WP.org to hell and back but my old web host company has been less … (25 comments)
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wordpress: How to Create a Favicon for Your Blog or Website - 03/28/08 06:05 PM
Favicons are those little icons you see in the address bar next to the http:// at the top of a web page.
I always wondered how they were created and placed in the address bar. I stumbled upon it and decided to create my own from an image I have on my computer. … (29 comments)
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wordpress: I need help with my wordpress blog - 03/27/08 09:01 AM
I recently installed a wordpress blog on my website and have been having trouble getting it indexed by google for the term Hudson Valley Real Estate blog. I can't get it indexed at all.
For those of you who use word press, you more than likely know about the permalink option in … (1 comments)
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wordpress: Sneak Preview of ForSaleByLocals Video Wordpress Plugin - 03/23/08 11:42 AM
We'll be ready to release the ForSaleByLocals Video wordpress plugin within the next day or so. I've been explaining it to more than a few people and now we are ready to give you a sneak peek of how easy it is.
Objective
The objective of the wordpress plugin is … (0 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress 2.5 - 03/23/08 06:26 AM
The newest version of Wordpress.org is scheduled for release the end of this month, (March, 2008). This version is designated 2.5, (2.4 having fallen through the cracks somewhere).
I spent some time searching around trying to find some info about the upcoming release.
The optiniche blog has quite a bit of information: http://www.optiniche.com/blog/382/wordpress-25-revealed-and-compared-to-version-23x/
Looks like … (19 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress Theme For Realtors - 03/04/08 02:13 PM
Having a blog in the real estate industry is like having a cellular phone these days. Everybody whether young or old, newbie or veteran, seems to think that they "should" be blogging.
Well if you are going to start blogging seriously I highly recommend using a theme that will:
-Entice your readers, … (0 comments)
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wordpress: Two WordPress blogs, One Site, Now Live! And Thanks to AR folks - 03/04/08 08:05 AM
Yesterday my new site went live. What fun! When do you know it is time to go live? When the new is better than the old. Waiting until it is perfect means permanent paralysis...
One site:
www.MikeJaquish.com
Two WordPress blogs. "Neighborhoods" and "Journal."
http://neighborhoods.MikeJaquish.com
http://blog.MikeJaquish.com
In "Neighborhoods," we will create and post content to help folks learn about … (28 comments)
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wordpress: Download, Install and Use An UNZIP Program - 03/01/08 08:05 AM
A few days ago I started a tutorial series on using FTP, specifically using FTP to upload and install a WordPress plugin. Please note these steps apply for a WordPress.ORG blog, you don't have FTP access if you are using WordPress.COM (Here's the official WordPress explanation of the difference.)
If you look at … (14 comments)
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wordpress: Assigning Domain Names to Subdomains on Bluehost - 02/27/08 04:18 PM
OK you learned how to create a Wordpress.org blog using bluehost on Agentgenius’ blog. Benn did a fine job at explaining it. If you haven’t started yet, here’s a couple pre-requisites to this tutorial.
You need a bluehoust account.
CLICK HERE TO SIGNUP FOR BLUEHOST.COM NOW.
(yeah, I get a referral, … (19 comments)
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wordpress: Using FTP - 02/23/08 07:50 AM
I have a request to create a tutorial on using FTP, specifically using FTP to upload and install a WordPress plugin. Please note these steps apply for a WordPress.ORG blog, you don't have FTP access if you are using WordPress.COM (Here's the official WordPress explanation of the difference.)
If you look at … (3 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress Guide Series - 02/22/08 09:54 AM
Do you know how your WP blog works, what files to put where, and how to upgrade to the latest WordPress version?
Read the first installment of WordPress Guide posts to learn how to install your blog to an existing web site, how to upgrade it without messing anything up, and … (8 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress: Static Page and Blog Page Coexist - 02/16/08 06:27 AM
Thank you, Bob Carney! In case anyone was reading the exchange between Mr. Carney and me here and wasn't quite sure what we were talking about .... let me try to go through it step by step here.
You have a WordPress blog with the domain name www.mysite.com ... When people go to … (15 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress: How to write today and post automatically in the future - 02/15/08 07:01 PM
Trying to keep up with your blogs while you are on vacation can be a daunting task. Not that I have been on vacation anytime lately. But if I ever was on a vacation, I would want my blog to post while I was on vacation so my readers wouldn't miss … (46 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress: Open On A Static Page/Link To Post Page - 02/13/08 06:50 AM
Here's a question for Wordpress gurus.
Someone wants to setup a WordPress blog to function more like a website, so they set a static page as the main page, like this:
They click the Options tab, then the Reading tab ....
Then under Reading Options -> Front Page -> Front page displays, they select a … (12 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress People: It's Update Time Again - 02/08/08 09:12 PM
WordPress released another "urgent security update" a few days ago.
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/
http://wordpress.org/download/
Since I currently run seven different WordPress(.org) blogs, updating can be a time-consuming PITA, so I want to do it quickly and painlessly.
The only file that needs to be updated to fix the security issue is xmlrpc.php ...
However, to … (10 comments)
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wordpress: Let Your Readers Rate Your Blog Posts using Outbrain - 02/06/08 10:01 AM
Do you have a blog that uses Typepad, Wordpress, Blogger, Drupal, Javascript or Feedburner?
If so, you can let your readers rank your blog posts with the free service at www.outbrain.com.
I don't know if this can be added to the ActiveRain blog or not but we are adding it to … (2 comments)
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wordpress: Confused by WordPress? - 02/03/08 02:57 PM
I don't know about you, but when I first started using WordPress for my SEO Diva blog, I got pretty confused as to where to go to change what. It isn't the most intuitive platform I've ever used. Even now, after 6 months of using it, I sometimes forget where to … (15 comments)
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wordpress: InsideSanAngelo.com - 02/02/08 02:01 PM
Hey ya'll AR is great for interacting with agents...and localism is good for consumers. However I have started an independant blog at my own url to better customize and control my own content. Taking this approach, in my opinion, is going to benefit me in the long-run more so than AR. I … (0 comments)
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wordpress: Power Your Domain With WordPress - 01/28/08 08:31 PM
Let's say you have a domain http://www.mysite.com, and let's say you started a WordPress blog in a subdirectory http://www.mysite.com/myblog/ and now that your blog is taking off, you are ready for the blog to become the initial starting page of your domain.
Here's how to move things around to make that happen.
Login … (16 comments)
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wordpress: Awesome WordPress Plugin: Theme Test Drive - 01/19/08 09:08 AM
Do you ever feel like trying out a new WordPress Theme or hacking your present theme ... but you don't want to make your blog inaccessible - or worse yet, scrambled - while you are in the process of testing new themes.
This plugin is the answer to your prayers: Theme Test … (17 comments)
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wordpress: Stuff That Hides In Plain Sight: Hacking A WordPress Theme - 01/16/08 08:02 AM
While this blog post tells of solving a very specific problem, the issue of Stuff Hiding In Plain Sight is certainly not unique to WordPress code.
R. Bhavesh recently release a very elegant, professional style, free WordPress theme called WP Premium. I really like it and have installed it on two WordPress blogs, (with … (2 comments)
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wordpress: I Learned One More Thing About Image Insertion In WordPress - 01/13/08 03:41 PM
Here's another trick I learned today about inserting images in WordPress.... Mike, see if you like this:Start by clicking Browse in the Uploader tool.Choose the image you want and click OpenClick Upload Now here's the trick. DO NOT click "Send to Editor".. Instead, click "Edit". WordPress will display the URL of the image … (10 comments)
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wordpress: Useful Tip When Setting Up A WordPress.org Blog On GoDaddy - 01/13/08 07:51 AM
Here's a little tip that just might save someone some time and headaches.
Let's say you are creating a new WordPress.org blog, and you are going to host it on GoDaddy.
Be aware that in the process you will be working with FOUR different sets of login names/passwords. Keep a little notebook handy, … (14 comments)
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wordpress: Moving My Blog - 01/13/08 01:27 AM
I like to be in control. "Teamwork means a lot of people doing what I say." (ARDELL, I did not come up with this myself so you are permitted to make this your tagline.:-) When I don't have a team I must do it all. That includes telling myself to learn … (1 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress Image Problem - A Solution - 01/09/08 10:11 AM
Margaret Woda's comment here got me wondering ... "I am missing something in this WordPress/Image/Internet Explorer/Two-Dot/Headache business.... what am I missing?"
Aww, man. This might be the answer. Here are the basic steps to adding an image with the WP Visual Editior in either WordPress.org or WordPress.com.
In the lower panel Upload, you … (20 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress.org Themes - 01/09/08 06:50 AM
Disclaimer: I am a long time TypePad blogger. However, I figure a well-rounded blogger should be familiar with more than one platform, so I've taken to dabbling a bit with WordPress.org.
While TypePad is second nature to me, WordPress isn't, so as I do stuff, I make notes and take screen … (15 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress.org Image Placement Issues Deja Vu - 01/07/08 06:29 AM
Well, looks like I have come full circle here. My experiments with WordPress started when Mike Jones remarked that there were image alignment problems in his WP posts. And yes, it's true. If you use WP's default visual editor in Internet Explorer, upload an image, then try to set image alignment, like this: The image … (13 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress.com Or WordPress.org - What Is The Difference? - 01/05/08 09:23 AM
Just to clear up any confusion: WordPress.com and Wordpress.org are two different animals. Related, but different.If you went to http://www.wordpress.com/ and signed up for a blog you are on WordPress.com. OK, that's simple enough.WordPress.org is a software program that you download to your computer. You don't sign up for it. You download it from http://www.wordpress.org … (6 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress.org - Would Somebody Clear The Table Please - 01/05/08 08:25 AM
Most likely this will not happen to you. But let's just say your DSL connection puked while you were in the middle of your WordPress.org install on GoDaddy. (It did, in fact, happen on one of my installs.)
You go back to http://www.mysite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php with the intention of reinstalling, and you are greeted … (4 comments)
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wordpress: Software: WordPress and GoDaddy - 01/05/08 01:56 AM
A few days ago I discovered that I couldn't install WordPress on my GoDaddy hosted site because I had chosen a Windows server instead of a Linux server. I was able to get tech support at 2AM on a Saturday night and I was switch my hosting from a Windows server to Linux … (3 comments)
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wordpress: Installing WordPress.org On GoDaddy - Yes! It Can Be Done! - 01/04/08 09:05 PM
Printable, downloadable PDF version of this post here.
Usual Disclaimer: I am new to WordPress.org. As I figure things out, I am posting my notes here, mainly so I can find them again after I foget how to do what I just did. I do know TypePad pretty well, but hey, a … (15 comments)
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wordpress: Updating Your WordPress.org Install - 01/02/08 09:31 PM
Disclaimer: I am not a WordPress expert. But as I learn the various mechanical techniques in working with WordPress.org, I am posting them here on Active Rain. Mainly so that I can find them again when I forget the steps involved.
Please don't go messing with your own files unless you feel comfortable … (6 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress.org One Click Install - 01/01/08 10:50 AM
Disclaimer: Although I know all kinds of TypePad stuff, I am a total beginner in WordPress. But as I learn things, I am sharing them here. (Make that writing them down here in AR so I don't forget them.)
In fact, my poor brain has processed so much in the last 48 … (11 comments)
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wordpress: Software: WordPress And Web Hosting - 12/31/07 12:13 AM
Last night I was trying to set up a free WordPress blog on a new domain. I followed the instructions, created a MySQL database, and uploaded the WordPress files. When I ran the installer that comes with WordPress, I got the following message:"Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL … (3 comments)
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wordpress: Web Site Design and Blogging Support - 12/17/07 07:49 PM
Long before I got into real estate I was a software developer. So it was pretty natural that within a short time after getting into real estate I'd start to really get interested in Internet marketing. I was the first Realtor in Sacramento to publish a blog (back before ActiveRain), and … (9 comments)
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wordpress: WORDPRESS.COM - 12/14/07 12:49 PM
Have you all gotten your community service blogs off the ground? If not, check out wordpress.com. It's a free host site that has gadgets evolvings constantly. Easy to upload, easy to post, it seems to be one of the better blog hosting sites around.
Cheers for a happy holiday season!
Kae Davis, … (1 comments)
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wordpress: How to Quickly Add and Manage Featured Listings Pages in Wordpress - 11/28/07 07:49 PM
There are lots of ways to add listings to your Wordpress blog to promote your listings. You can add listings directly to your blog posts, embed widgets and flyers and also create special pages dedicated to the listings themselves. However, if you are using Wordpress, there is an easier way that … (7 comments)
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wordpress: Windows Live Writer Copying Tables into your WordPress Blog - 11/25/07 03:11 PM
David A. Podgursky, mentioned he uses Windows Live Writer to import tables into his blogs. I have heard of it but I just didn't get around to using it. So per Dave's advice I decided to download it and install and give it a whirl. I am using Windows Live Writer to … (40 comments)
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wordpress: Wordpress: Can We Make It Easier for Readers to Comment? - 11/23/07 09:36 AM
I'm spoiled by the Active Rain interface that lets me comment and interact. Todd Carpenter has an extremely useful site called Lenderama. This screen shot is from the latest post by a writer taking advantage of Todd's "Open Microphone" feature.
Wade Young, of Red Door Home Loans, has written a piece that Real … (20 comments)
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wordpress: www.wordpress.com: Free Blog Tool - 11/17/07 04:08 PM
Thinking about promoting your community, special interest group, or listing? Check out www.wordpress.com. It's just another great marketing tool at the disposal of the real estate community. With only a few short hours of effort, it's easy to make a professional blog site and do your local area marketplace some good. … (6 comments)
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wordpress: Five minutes with Matt Mullenweg - 11/10/07 03:31 PM
Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, delivered the opening keynote on Thursday at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. After the session, I was able to talk with him one-on-one for a few minutes.
Just 23 years old, Matt grew up in Houston, where his family is involved in real estate, and now … (10 comments)
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wordpress: Blogging anniversary one year and counting - 11/03/07 11:27 AM
A year ago my wife Monika came to bed and woke me up from a sound sleep asking me if I could upload her picture to her blog. She says I just rolled over and said "OK". When I woke up the next morning I went to her computer to find … (22 comments)
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wordpress: My Work Here Is Done. - 10/26/07 03:34 PM
Thank Goodness!!! Now that Bob Carney has sorted out his move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org I can stop diddling around with WordPress ... 'cuz I wuz only doing it to see if I could help out. Carney can take over the WordPress tutorials.
So don't look for any further WordPress posts from … (7 comments)
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wordpress: Creating a podcast in Wordpress - 10/24/07 02:06 PM
I had been trying to insert a podcast in our wordpress blogs New Hampshire Real Estate Blog for a while now with no success. Until I found Mediacaster over at Semiologic's blog. I read through the directions and decided to download the plugin and activate it to see if it would … (15 comments)
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wordpress: DarWidgetry. A Strategy for Real Estate to Evolve WITH Technology - 10/24/07 11:18 AM
Zillow, Trulia, Google, Yahoo, and a slew of other real estate listing (and other) information providers out there demonstrate the want/need for alternative ways to locate and act on property listings instead of using a traditional Realtor and their antiquated methods. The genesis can be traced back to Google’s opening of … (2 comments)
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wordpress: Why Google Blogger? - 10/23/07 02:06 AM
My son Josh and I just completed a set of 110 Google Blogger Videos demonstrating how to use every tool available in Blogger's arsenal. It is the most comprehensive Blogger video program created to date. But why Blogger and not Wordpress? Blogger is quite simply the easiest blogging platform on the … (12 comments)
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wordpress: No Time? Start a Photo Blog - 10/20/07 10:40 AM
An AR blogger asked the question - Why blog when you can just show pictures?
She makes a good point - let me tell you how to do that and reap SEO benefits from it.
First, start a privately hosted WordPress blog. See my blog post Give Your Web Site a Huge Boost … (7 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress Text Widgets: Oh, Now I Know Why WP.ORG Is Preferred - 10/18/07 05:35 AM
Oh. I get it. So, this is why folks prefer to use WordPress.org and self-host their WordPress blogs. With a few exceptions, Wordpress.com doesn't allow third party flash or javascript widgets (such as VFlyer or BlogRush) in the sidebars.
I'm a spoiled TypePad Pro user. I'm used to plugging in any ol' … (15 comments)
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wordpress: Sharing An Excellent WordPress Link - 10/16/07 08:32 AM
I figure my next WordPress excerise will be Text Widgets.
While googling about to see what kind of information I'd find, I cam across Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/
She has a lot of good information: "Help, tips, advice, and techniques for blogging and using WordPress, and Wordpress.com. The blogging help you need. … (5 comments)
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wordpress: Domain Mapping With WordPress.com and GoDaddy - 10/16/07 06:23 AM
This series could be titled "A Regular TypePad User Dabbles In WordPress". As you read, please keep in mind that there are many, many people here who know much, much more about WordPress than I do.
However, curious about all the recent commotion over problems with inserting images in a WordPress post, I … (3 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress: Image Alignment In Code View Part II - 10/15/07 10:51 AM
I was reading Cheryl Johnson's post WordPress-Image-Alignment-In-Code and thought that was a good way to align pictures.
However, when I went to add another theme to my already list of twenty thousand themes in my wp-content themes folder I found a pretty slick way to make the images align a different … (8 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress: Image Alignment In Code View - 10/13/07 06:25 AM
This series could be titled A Regular TypePad User Dabbles In WordPress. As you read, please keep in mind that there are many, many people here who know much, much more about WordPress than I do.
However, curious about all the recent commotion over problems with inserting images in a WordPress post, I … (16 comments)
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wordpress: The WordPress Experiment Continues - Day 4 - 10/12/07 07:04 AM
The Firefox browser was used to compose and publish this test entry:
http://cheryljns.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/47/
Firefox and WordPress.com played very nicely together. Multiple images were uploaded and positioned without even one click of the code view tab.
So, my first suggestion to anyone having WordPress nightmares is to download and install the Firefox browser.
It seems … (7 comments)
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wordpress: Point 2 Agent and Static Websites make them come alive - 10/11/07 03:17 PM
I recently read a post by Cheryl Johnson about how to feed your static websites with more content without doing much work. I really thought it was a great tool as I knew I could do a lot with it. We have a few static pages out there so I … (20 comments)
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wordpress: A Rank WordPress Beginner Adds Images - 10/10/07 08:39 AM
Mike Jones recently remarked that adding images in a WordPress blog was giving him some grief. I thought I'd play with it and see if I could figure it out.
Please keep in mind I am a longtime TypePad user. I don't know anything about WordPress. But I figured, hey, one beginner could … (18 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress.org Internet Explorer and Firefox not playing well together - 10/08/07 08:27 PM
Most of you know about my frustration last week with the upgrade to WordPress 2.3.Well now I have another issue. I am having problems formatting pictures in my post. They look just fine in Firefox web browser but when I open up I.E. they look like crap.If you want to … (23 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress.org to Hell and Back - 10/04/07 10:27 PM
Well, it's been an awful week as it goes in the WordPress world. It also didn't bode well for having a happy wife either.
Monika's wordpress blog went down just after I had upgraded to version 2.3. She was not a happy camper. The initial error message that I received was " … (63 comments)
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wordpress: WordPress For Real Estate? - 09/20/07 05:53 PM
When I had my first major redesign of one of my websites done, it was changed from .NET (Advanced Access) to a Drupal site. I wrote about that change in a post named Drupal For Real Estate within a month of making the new site live.
Well, it's happened again... only this time I … (19 comments)
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