Art of Blogging

WYSIWYG editors suck.

The WordPress WYSIWYG editor is extra noxious.

To kill its vileness, it takes some poking around. Specially since it is in a non-intuitive place.

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Today’s entry is brought to us by Giulia M of PebbleDashed.com.

RSS feeds are a common feature of blog scripts like WordPress and are useful for keeping subscribers informed when new content is added. But the default setting for an RSS feed is to show the full text of every post. Do you want subscribers to your RSS feed reading your complete content without ever visiting your blog?

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These are specific instructions for installing WordPress MU. WordPress MU is a multiuser blog script. This means an unlimited number of users can have an unlimited number of blogs on one WordPress install. If you just want one blog, this is NOT the tool for you!

I hope they help!

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As you start hacking your blog into shape, sooner or later, you will break it. This can range from a simple “oops” to something catastrophic. Obviously, the second end of the spectrum is very bad.

Setting up a new theme can sometimes take hours if a lot of changes are needed or you are learning something new. Having your blog not work while you learn how to hack it up is never a good thing. Strangely enough, learning how to modify a blog theme is much more stressful when you know that your blog is broken.

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Sometimes you have to move from one server to another. It can be a daunting task and can be catastrophic to your online presence. It is best to be prepared. Properly prepared, migrating a live install of WordPress is a fairly simple procedure.

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Blog’s all have a navigation column and in WordPress, this is called the Sidebar. The actual file that controls this located in your themes/ directory and is called sidebar.php. If you want to add things like advertisement to your sidebar, this is the file to edit. Notice, if you change your blog theme, you will have to edit the new sidebar.php in the new theme. Today, I will show you how to find this file and how to edit it.

Before we get started…

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In WordPress MU, to Edit a blog’s configuration and change it’s setting, you click the “edit” link next to the blog name in the blog list in the admin. Once there you will have a form for all the settings. Below is how I set mine. I will only list the fields that actually get changed. If you can’t find a field name I either thought it was self explanatory or was left alone. If you do not understand something, do NOT mess with it! You can and will break your WordPress install by monkeying around in here. You have been warned and you are on your own.

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Go figure, to blog, you need to have a blog. There are many free blogs and blog scripts out and about so paying for blog software is not really a good idea for most of us. If you want to spend absolutely $0 then you want to use a blog service. If you don’t mind spending a few dollars, I heartily recommend hosting your own blog if you have the knowledge.

If free is for you, MySpace has free blog space. Blogger does the same without all the cheesiness of MySpace. There are MANY free blog services!

If it’s free, why is this post going to continue? Quite simply, there are downsides to the free alternatives ranging from lack of flexibility to inability to run advertisement or being associated with splogs. TANSTAAFL!

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