Posts Tagged ‘how-to’
by Franky Branckaute on December 17th, 2009
For a project I am involved with we recently considered merging 2 rather large WordPress blogs. These were 2 blogs with several thousands entries and posts and at least 20 authors have written on those blogs over the years. The combined blog would have more than 10,000 entries and more than 40,000 comments.
In this post I am going to walk you trough the whole process, because it is simpler than it sounds and should not scare anyone away. Depending on how ‘hardcore’ you, the merger could be done in some hours only. Yes, some hours only.
Getting Started
Although this tutorial is aimed at both ‘beginners’ and ‘pros’, I assume that you have a certain basic knowledge, understanding from WordPress and setup already:
- You know how to backup a database;
- You know how to FTP;
- You have a localhost setup;
- You have a basic understanding of WordPress database tables, ie. when I mention
wp_options, you know that this is a database table and you know how to ‘find’ this table;
- You know how to make changes to the database
The walkthrough is also based on both blogs running a similar permalink structure and using the same plugins. Read More
Categories: WordPress Tutorials
Tags: how-to, Tutorials, wordpress
by David Peralty on July 22nd, 2009
WordPress.tv is growing like mad lately, especially the “how to” section. They’ve got video explanations of all sorts of stuff from getting started with Google Analytics, to rearranging the post editor to suit your liking, to adding paypal buttons to your blog, and, of course, a pile of other stuff.
Just today they added a video about adding twitter updates to your sidebar, which is an insanely popular thing to do these days. Check it out below, and go to WordPress.tv for more.
Categories: General
Tags: google analytics, how-to, paypal, post editor, twitter, video, wordpress, wordpress.tv
by David Peralty on June 25th, 2009
If you work, either full time or part time, for a company that might benefit from having a someone running a blog for them(and it would be extremely strange if that isn’t the case), you might be able to roll some blogging into your job, or maybe even make blogging for that company your ONLY job if that’s something you’d enjoy.
Alexandra Levit has a guest post up on ProBlogger.com about just that called, “6 Steps to Get Your Company to Pay You to Blog“.
Here’s a taste…
Develop your area of expertise:
It’s not realistic – or even a good idea – for every employed person in the world to have a blog. For one thing, the blogosphere is cluttered enough as it is, and blogs that have no real purpose for existence will just muck things up even more. You should write a blog because you have a unique opinion on an industry issue and can establish yourself as a credible expert. Hone your perspective by reading literature and other blogs in your field and determining where there’s an unmet need.
Of course, that’s just the first step, you’ll have to head over to the full article for the other 5, and they are worth the couple of minutes it’ll take you to read them if you’re at all interested in convincing your employer to let you (or even pay you) to blog about the company you’re working for.
Categories: General
Tags: blogging, company blog, how-to, problogger
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