I am actually writing this post in my Gmail account. Here is what you
need to do when you want to publish a post to your Wordpress blog by
sending email messages:
For beginner WordPress bloggers, creating a search bot friendly robots.txt is a headache sometimes. This is particularly true for me: I first blindly copied a robots.txt from some site, which resulted in the blocking of all my posts. I late found out that robots.txt was targeted to the WordPress with modified permlinks, and it blocked all posts which has a ? in default permlinks.
Learning a hard lesson, I found a simple robots.txt will just do the job. Don’t copy robots.txt from sites that claim their robots.txt can do magic to SEO.
So how to create a simple and easy robots.txt for your new WordPress blog?
To be exact, I guess it is a design flaw of the File Manager under C-Panel. Blame me if I didn’t’ find the option to fine tune it, but its default setting under Hostmonster can make you accidentally delete all your files. I can’t play back exactly what happened. But it occurred a few times when I tried to move or copy files, and somehow it quickly displayed a delete confirmation window defaulting to the delete button. It also happens when I tried to change the destination of the copy/move operation. I will look into the matter when I use File Manager, but at least this web interface File Manager should at least default to the Cancel button in Delete operations.
I stumbled upon a cool Wordpress plugin called WP Cumulus. It animates the Tag Cloud widget using Flash, and renders tags into a rotating sphere. I am a little tired after an overhaul of my blog a few days ago, so I’ll bookmark this plugin in this post and implement later. It appears to support Wordpress 2.5.
Download: Flash based tag cloud frontend
Update: I finally implemented this Flash Plugin on my site. It can’t show Tags in Chinese, and I hope it has an option to display Tags in a cube. Other than these minor complaints, it is easy to install and configure, and certainly make your site look cool.
Although I like the WordPress theme Dkret3, but its fonts and the layout appear to be a bit crowded, and not so ease on the readers. Yesterday, after a few hours of modifying, I gave this blog a look with my personal flavors. The changes are: Read More
“I’m Knight” provided some valuable insights on the reorganization of categories and tags under WordPress
When I tried to change category names, WordPress simply prompted “category not updated”. I digged into the WordPress forum and find the solution in this post.
The issue may be that you are trying to change a category slug description to a category slug description that already exists within your blog. No doubles are allowed.
I changed the category slug into a unique one and the problem was resolved.
Writing directly on the WordPress interface can be very time consuming. I realized how much time I wasted in the process of formatting and publishing a blog entry.
The solution, it seems to me, is to write blog locally and publish it with a click of a button. I asked this question on WordPress forum and got a pointer to a few programs:
Warning: Do not use Qumana (version 3.0.1) to edit the old posts which has html code <!–more–> in it.
Because Qumana can only see the content before <!–more–> markup in your post, and the rest of the content will be permanently lost if you edit your old posts and save them under Qumana. I have lost a great proportion of my Ron Jeremy post because Qumana only showed part of my post, leaving me the impression that the post was incomplete. After I pressed Update Post, I only had one sentence of my post left.
