Entries Tagged as 'Wordpress'

A New Look

I love working with Wordpress. So many templates available with options for 1, 2 and 3 columns and a whole lot of extras. Makes changing the look of your blog almost as easy as changing your clothes - you could do it daily if you wish (the blog I mean)! And so, my new look blog - for a while at least. On my ‘to do list’ when I have nothing else to do :-) I might actually spend sometime learning php and then create my own template from scratch. But for now there are enough choices out there to keep me happy.

If you haven’t yet explored operating a blog for your own business, you can get a free account at http://wordpress.com/ or, if you have your own website you could ask your web host if it’s possible to install Wordpress on the server. I do my own through Fantastico which was installed on my server by my host. Now I can set up Wordpress on any domain I set up for hosting and it’s quite easy to do. Not to mention in learning a new skill like this, it means I can also provide it as a service for my clients, as my proficiency increases. Something to think about, isn’t it? KMT

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Blog Templates, Themes and Skins

It occurred to me that those who read the ‘how to blog’ posts on this blog might be interested in different blog skins and templates, so I’ve created a new category of links for that purpose. Have fun exploring.

If you manage a website that has blog templates and would like it listed on this site, please do let me know so I can add it. KMT

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Using Permalink addresses in WordPress

I feel very proud of myself! I did it, I did it!

Instead of my posts at www.soho-life.com/blog/?p=5 being numbers they are now names of the posts http://soho-life.com/blog/2006/08/25/attention-virtual-professionals-in-australia/

The main thing was I had to find out where the .htaccess file resides - it’s in the root diretory of Wordpress.

You can log into your Wordpress account, choose the Options tab, click on Permalinks, select the Date and namebased option, then click on Update Permalink Structure. Then copy and paste the code it gives you and go to your .htaccess file online (I downloaded it and opened it in notepad), paste the code and then reupload the file. I then went back and viewed my blog and it was working fine. So I’ve now done it with most of my other blogs.

One word of warning from my webhost guy - if you use MS FrontPage (as I do for two of my sites that have a blog hosted with them) FP writes to that file too - so I’m not going to tamper with that one yet till I find out if there’s a way to do the WP change.

FP uses the .htaccess file and so I don’t want to disable the FP Server Extensions or the Permalink structures so I’m reading up on that at the moment. I’ve found
this reference and am thinking I might have to get my webguy to make some change for me - haven’t finished going through it all yet.

If you’ve already gone down this road why not share your experiences with the readers of this blog (and it’s owner). KMT