Blogging Mints

How to add a favicon to your Blogger blog

Here is a little tutorial on how to add a favicon to your Blogger/Blogspot blog. A favicon is the little image next to the website address in your browser.

• Check out my How do I add a favicon? post I made earlier. Follow the steps in Option one to create the favicon. Then follow the steps on the FavIcon from Pics site.
• Choose to download the favicon from the site, when downloaded - extract it on your computer and then look in the “extra” folder.
• Now you can go to for example Photobucket, and upload either the animated_favicon1.gif if you want it to be animated or the preview_16×16.png for the plain image. I chose the last one and renamed it to favicon.png and uploaded it to my Photobucket account.
• Then go to your Blogger admin panel and click on the template tab and then on Edit HTML.
• Then add this code before the </head> in your template (replace the URL with your own link to the image!):
  <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="http://img.yourphotobucketaccount.com/favicon.png" />
  Then save it! And you’re done!

Check out my blogger test site to see my favicon in action!

Thoughts Aside

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How to add your Blogger blog to the Google Webmaster Tools

In my SEO: WWW or not post I discussed how you should choose one of them, either with www or no www. Even if you have a Blogger/Blogspot blog you can choose the preferred version (step number two in my other post). This is a tutorial on how to add your Blogger blog to the Google Webmaster Tools and how you set your preferred version.

Part 1 - Register on Google Webmaster Tools

• Go to Google Webmaster Tools and register/log in.
• On the dashboard, enter your Blogger url in the empty Add site field and click on the “Add site” button.
  I will add my new test blog so I type in http://cactuustutorials.blogspot.com/ in the field.
• As the site will tell you, next step is to verify your blog. So click the “Verify your site” link.
• In the drop down list, choose “Add meta tag” as your verification method. Then the site will provide you with a unique code that you have to copy and paste later on.

Part 2 - Adding the code to Blogger

• Open a new window in your browser and log in to your Blogger account and click the template tab in your dashboard.
• Then click on “Edit HTML“. Then you will see a bunch of codes in a text box. This code may differ depending which template you have chosen.
• Find the <$BlogMetaData$> and replace it with the code you got from Google in your other window. If your theme doesn’t have that code, look for the </title> (the ending tag - can be found in the top of the box) and paste the code from Google after the </title>. Then click on save.

Part 3 - Verifying

• Go to the Google Webmaster Tools page again and click “Verify” below the meta tag. If you did it right you should get a message that you successfully verified your blog.

Part 4 - Choose www or no www

• Stay on the Google page and click the “Preferred domain” link in the sidebar.
• Now you can choose which version you would like and then click “Ok“. If you don’t know what to choose, test the pagerank both versions and pick the one with the highest pagerank. Then you’re done!

Piece of cake right! Don’t forget to explore the site to check out the other features!
If you have any problem, or if you don’t understand something, comment and I’ll try to help! :)

Thoughts Aside

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How to do a disclosure policy

When joining a site like PayPerPost, they require a disclosure. Sometimes the advertisers just want a site wide disclosure and not a post disclosure.

You don’t have to sit and write one yourself. All you have to do is to surf to DisclosurePolicy.org and follow their 6 simple steps and their generator will create one for you.

And when you’re done, you just copy the text, create a new page (or post) and paste it there, and save. Then you can place a link to your disclosure in your sidebar, navigation, or footer. Or you ca use one of their badges!
Click here to see Cactuus Disclosure.

Simple and painless!

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

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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.