Blogging Mints

ToddlerThings

I know that I have several visitors that are parents here at Cactuus, so I thought I could give you all a little tip. My friend Nan just started up a new site called ToddlerThings.net where she will review all kinds of things for toddlers. She will have her own daughter Freja and camera to help her out with the reviews!

Alexa Traffic Rank decreased by a half million in one week!

I’ve been writing and promoting (not very heavily though, and I haven’t paid a cent for it) Cactuus for about a week now, and just a moment ago I saw that the Alexa rank for Cactuus decreased (a good thing if we’re talking Alexa) by over a half a million! From 1,200,00 to around 500,000. Pretty good.

However, it’s very easy to manipulate your Alexa ranking, so this traffic ranking doesn’t value high in the blogging world anymore.

Did anyone else notice some changes?

How to: Change your WordPress blog URL

Before changing anything in the files, do a backup just in case!

This is a little tutorial on how to change your WordPress blog URL without moving any files!

Lets say that you have installed WordPress in a subfolder called “blog” and the URL is: http://www.mywpblog.com/blog/
That long URL isn’t very nice to look at or to type in. You can change all this so that http://www.mywpblog.com/ can be the address to your blog instead. There is no need to move all these files from the subfolder to the root!

Here is the simple 9 step way to do it:

1. Create a index.php file by just open a text editor, like NotePad, create a new file, copy and paste the code below. Where it says “blog” you have to change it so it matches the name of your own subfolder! Then choose “Save file as” and in the filename column, type in index.php and save.
   <?php /* Short and sweet */ define('WP_USE_THEMES', true); require('./blog/wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
2. Upload the index.php file to your root.
3. Also remember to move the .htaccess file (that’s in your subfolder) to root as well. You might want to download it and open it in a text editor and check the coding in it. It should look like this, otherwise it probably won’t work:

   # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress

Then save the file without editing the filename, and upload the file to your root.

4. Log in to your WP administration panel and click the “Options” tab.
5. In the “General Options“, look up where it says “WordPress address (URL)” and “Blog address (URL)“.
6. In the “WordPress address (URL)” area, the URL to your WP installation already should be filled in, it should say something like http://www.mywpblog.com/blog/ so no need to change that one!
7. Lets focus on the “Blog address (URL)” area. It will already be filled with ie http://www.mywpblog.com/blog/ but here is where you change it. And since you want the URL to be without the subfolder, you just delete /blog/
8. Now it should say http://www.mywpblog.com in the field, then press “Update Options“
9. The next step is to go to the “Options” tab again, click on “Permalinks” and the click on the “Update permalinks structure” button. Then you’re done!

Now the address to your blog will be http://www.mywpblog.com instead of http://www.mywpblog.com/blog/. And it looks way better!

For more advanced (or a better explanation for those who have a hard time with mine) instructions you can check out the WordPress codex about Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site.

Thoughts Aside

JN0-521 as well as 642-565 are both excellent choices for first time credit course. Later you can also glow for 646-562 or 642-873 or else continue your work. The best thing about Walden University apart from the studies was the environment and availability of courses like 646-171 at all times.

How to clean up your feeds list

How many feeds do you have in your feed reader? 30? 100? I doubt that they all are useful to you! Get more time for blogging and other stuff by just unsubscribe to all those boring feeds that you from the beginning thought could give you secrets of life or blogging and how to get rich online.

Make it a habit to go through your feeds each month!
Many blogs today writes about similar topics, especially within the “make money online” niche. So why do you have to spend time to read the same stuff over and over? It’s time consuming and tiring! So I say - get rid of duplicate content! Stick to those who you think has a personal style and insight.

Earlier today I took the time to clean up my feeds list. I think I deleted 8-10 feeds, just today. I think I have to mention that whenever I stumble on a interesting site, I subscribe to their feed. I guess I’m a feed addict. I simply just don’t want to miss something interesting. If the site doesn’t give me anything interesting within two weeks, I unsubscribe. Especially to so called niche blogs. On personal blogs I don’t have the same strict rules.

So to easily drop some feed-weight, unsubscribe after two weeks if it hasn’t given you any interesting!

How many feeds to you follow?

How to: Change the Read More link in WordPress

Always wondered how to change the “read more” link/tag in posts in WordPress? Here is how!

This is how you change the output for <! - - m o r e - -> in your posts;

Go to the Presentation tab and then Theme Editor. Look in the theme files list for your index.php file or, as it also is called, Main Index Template. Skim through the coding until you find a line similar this one:

<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry...'); ?>

All you have to do is to change the text “Read the rest of this entry…” to whatever you like, but remember to keep the ‘ -s around your text! And then save the file! All done!

If you want to digg deeper in to the customization of it, read about Customizing_the_Read_More at the WordPress codex.