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?
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
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.
I am frustrated with Google for not crawling into the individual posts on my blog, and I can only search my front page hitherto.
After some investigation, I think I found the cause of Google’s reluctance to look into my site: Read More
When I attempted to upload an image to Wordpress 2.5.1, I was prompted to input my login and password in the image uploader. After feeding the information to it, it just gave me an error and no image was uploaded at all.
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< > are special characters which will not be correctly rendered if put between <code> </code>.
There is a simple method to allow for correct insertion — just replace < and > with specific symbols for them to be taken as normal text:
It turned out to be very simple to disable directory listing if you are using C-Panel. Just find the Index Manager in C-Panel, click on the directory you want to disable the listing, and choose “No Indexing”. I disabled the index listing on the whole www (public_html) directory. The pictures in this post explain it all. Take a look. Read More
