Wordpress
WordPress v2.9.1, Upgrading Plugins, Is Good!
Have you updated your WordPress sites yet to version 2.9.1? Actually version 2.9 didn’t last long, went Whoosh! and we had 2.9.1.
It doesn’t matter really because what I want to tell you about is the upgrading of plugins, it is so good now.
Once you upgrade to 2.9.1 and you have plugins to upgrade too, go to the Upgrade option under Tools and there will be waiting for you all the plugins that need to be upgraded.
So all you have to do is, tick the little box ‘Select all’ or maybe you don’t want to upgrade them all, then tick the boxes beside each plugin that you want to upgrade and then the button to Upgrade.
WordPress now puts the site into Maintenance Mode and when all are successfully upgraded, disables maintenance node and you are set to go. Now if a plugin is not compatible with the latest version of WordPress, then that plugin will not be upgraded. So we shouldn’t have that thing happen anymore, where an incompatible plugin can stuff up everything and you have to go through that painful process of deactivating and activating each one until you found the culprit. This is great.
Remember if you haven’t upgraded to version 2.9 or 2.9.1 if you missed v2.9, do that first and then the plugin upgrade option will be there under Upgrade at Tools.
This is so good! Saves so much time too.
Talk again soon
Take care
Cheers
Carmel
Insights, Very Useful
I have been using a WordPress plugin for some time now, called Insights. I used it mainly to make the post have more visual appeal either with images or videos.
It is only recently that I have started to find out just what this plugin can do.
After you install and activate it, you will find it under where you input your posts or pages, it sits right under the editor too, so you don’t have to go looking for it.
Most of us at some time or other have set up sites that we don’t have a lot of interest in. Maybe for something like the 30 Day Challenge or another learning type course and after we have learnt the process, the sites just sit there. gathering cyber dust (that’s harder to get rid of than Aussie dust from a dust storm)
Maybe it was a dud, maybe we didn’t want to write all that unique content or rewrite those PLR articles. The site could bring in some revenue but we don’t know what to post on it.
Well the WordPress plugin, Insights, will help you find content for these sites. Sure it won’t be uniquely written by you but maybe the keywords you researched have prospects for getting you some traffic.
With Insights you have the ability to search for and add to your site, content from -
Your Blog – your own blog, you can update and add to and link posts and pages:
Images – you can add images to a post or page:
Videos, search so much easier with Insights for related videos:
Widipedia – that place with so much info:
Google – where so much info is:
News – the lasest news on your topic to add to you post:
Blogs – other people’s blogs for related content
Books – Google books, I forget about searching for related books
Maps – insert a Google Map in your posts or pages
And…..all in real time too….
Now not only can you do all these searches from just under your post or page but you can insert the information you want in that post or page.
With a little intro from you and a little ‘outro’ at the end you have a kind of unique post. But better still, add another plugin, WPUnique and all your posts through Insights become unique to your site.
Well think about it, if you have selected the content from a few sources, arranged it on your post or page, added a little bit of your own content, like a few or more words from you the Blogger, then you have a post to your blog that will not be anywhere else on the WWW.
The option to search your own site/blog means that you can do the linking within your blog so easily, Insights does it for you. The SE robots love that internal linking, they just gobble them up through your site.
If you are doing anything for local offline businesses, the option to add a Google Map is so cool.
The other good thing about this plugin is that it is free, yes! free. I’ve seen other plugins that do not provide you with as many options as this one and you have to pay for them. Insights is free
Now no more excuses, no more sitting looking at your computer screen with the “What to write?” look on your face. Go download the Insights plugin and post away.
Go do it now! Download Insights here
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/insights/
You can’t say I don’t try to make it easy for you…
Catch you later
Take care
Cheers
Carmel
A Lil’Bit About WordPress You May Not Know
I had payed and signed up for a membership, registered and confirmed my subscription and waited for the next step.
Nothing…..no email telling me how to access, checked the trash folder…..nothing.
Now this membership was set up with WordPress, which is fine, I’ve joined many membership sites set up with WordPress. Actually I’m getting ready to set up one myself. And….I’m very thankful that this happened as you will see.
Anyway, I was about to contact the person who owned the site when I needed to check a few of the folders that I have emails directed to and there it was…Guess who sent it? WordPress….that’s who it was from and I have a folder where anything with WordPress in the ‘From’ goes directly to that particular folder(the folder is called something else, not WordPress but that’s my filing system).
I have never had a site where ‘anyone can register’ so had never come across this before.
Now I was adding the plugin Web Invoices to one of my sites to make sending accounts to clients easier. This is a great plugin, actually there are two of them, I’ll tell you my pick later.
With this plugin, you need to enter your clients, they don’t register, that’s how my site is set. They need a username and password to access their past invoices and the WordPress will send that to them automatically the same as if they were registering as a new user.
So that was the email that would go out to clients and they would have no idea why they were getting an email from WordPress and who the heck is WordPress anyway? (these clients don’t do much stuff on the Internet)
So Google, being such a good friend of mine, helped me to find a plugin for WordPress that would solve this problem.
There are a couple, actually three that I considered. The one I chose has templates of the emails which can be easily changed to suit and now the clients will know just who is sending them an email.
If you install it through your dashboard, which is very easy, that should be the latest version, (I had to upgrade mine as soon as it was activated) so check just in case, because the latest version has some really good ‘Settings’ options. You can reword the email that goes to the client/user and even send a test so that you are sure it is right.
This is the plugins site.
http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/
And it works like a treat!!
Now read all about Web Invoice here
Dust Off The CyberDust – WPUnique Is Here! An Update -
This is an update about the WPUnique, WordPress Plugin.
Late yesterday I was finishing off a site and there was some content needed on three pages. So I thought I would try using something I already had.
I had submitted articles for this site to EZA and the content in three of them was perfect for these pages. I didn’t need the content for the site to be as much as the articles contained so I took sections of them about 200+ words and added them to the relevant pages.
On this site I had installed WPUnique and had it set to ‘unique’ all the pages and posts, you can do that with an option in the settings.
Now on the individual pages and posts there is also an option to change that setting to something else.
I wanted to see how the ‘spin’ option would work on these articles, I’m not a great lover of spin unless I have set up the options in Magic Article Rewriter.
I also have a program that checks the original and the spin or rewrite version of an article for the percentage of uniqueness.
So, with setting up nothing for the spin options, using it ‘out-of-the-box’, the uniqueness from the originals came out at – 32.58%, 37.45% and wait for it 55.56% and…….there was only one word that needed changing.
Now that’s what I call – Uniquely Brilliant!!!!!!
I did check some of the PLR articles that I had included on another site through my checkup program and guess what – from the original to the article on the site, it was 100% unique, now reading that article on the site, it read exactly the same as the original but my checkup program, when I copied and pasted it into there, from the live page, it was 100% unique…….that is how the search engines see it – 100% different from anything else out there on the ‘Live WWW’.
That’s why WPUnique is – Uniquely Brilliant – all this duplicate content – well is simply disappears, no-more, not-a-worry, no-no-dupe. Love It!!!
I know there will be those who say you still have to rewrite PLR articles, (yes you do – for submitting to article directories, not EZA though, they don’t accept rewrites of PLR)
And…there are those who say you still have to wash your dishes by hand and dry them by hand too, all the while having a perfectly good automatic dishwasher.
Or…those who say you still have to install WordPress manually while there is a perfectly good Fantastico sitting on their Cpanel.
Or…those who say the only cricket to watch or go to, is a test match while eveyone is out having fun at a 20-20 or a One Day game and it is the 20-20 and One Dayers that is putting bums on seats and allowing the test matches to continue…….
Sorry got off the track a little there, but you know what I mean. If you have PLR articles sitting on your computer with, as they say, cyber dust all over them, blow the dust and cobwebs off, go get WPUnique while it is at this great price (I can’t see it staying there, it is too good), set up your niche sites and make some money, add Adsense, Clickbank, make your own product, whatever……..just do it!!!!
Click here, yes it is my affiliate link and I do stand to make a few dollars and so can you, but you won’t unless you – and you know what’s next – TAKE ACTION!!!!
Catch you later,
Cheers
Carmel
Posted in Wordpress
This Is Really Unique – WPUnique Plugin
I haven’t been here for a little while, actually it is much longer than I thought, as the saying goes, time flies when you are having fun.
It is great when work can be classed as fun.
Apart from the ‘fun’ I have managed to find some great tools and products which I will fill you in on over the next few days.
The first one is a, wait for it, WordPress (knew it would be that didn’t you) Plugin. This is no ordinary plug,, no this one is unique and so simple to use too.
Now it is not a free plugin and after you find out what it does, you wouldn’t expect to get something this powerful for free. But the price is right……
Okay! Here it is!!
WPUnique……now can you guess what it does?
Yes! it turns your PLR content into unique content, actually it turns any content you have on your site into unique content.
Watch the videos here.…..I tried what is in the videos and my results were really, really good!
A site that I installed the plugin on was really doing nothing, looking great but doing nothing. I had heaps of PLR articles and content for the niche but was too busy with other work to rewrite the articles and unique them.
After adding the WPUnique plugin and setting up the un-rewritten, PLR articles to drip feed onto the site, I noticed the traffic to the 
site had increased to the point where the month was only a couple of days old and the visitors had increased to many more than the two previous months. And….visitors who will leave a comment too, not just the ‘link’ kind of comment either, a comment relevant to the article they have read, and by that, you can see they have really read the article.
I’m not going to try to explain the WPUnique plugin to you, I’ll let the developer do that, Steve does it so much better than I can. I can only tell you the results I have been getting and they are only two instances.
But I will give you an outline of what else this plugin can do -
You can unique all your posts and pages.
You can unique individual posts and pages
You can spin all content.
You can spin individual content.
You can link keywords up to your money products
You can make these links Dofollow or not
And -
The links can be opening in a new window or not.
With the unique option for posts and pages, they still read the exactly the same, it is not the visitor who picks up the duplicate content, it is the search engines and that is where the content is made unique, all above board too, not black-hat stuff.
So far I have only used the spin option on one site and on one article but even without setting up the ‘necessary’, the article still read well and was 32% unique from the original. So with a little bit of work there, this will be a winner too.
Okay, if you are like me and have lots of PLR stuff, even a little PLR stuff, then this is the plugin for you, don’t take time to think about it, give your brain a rest, this is one of those ‘no-brainers’, or as they say in Nikeland – “Just Do It!!!”
Head on over to WPUnique now,read all about it, watch Steve’s video but most importantly, make the decision to ‘get it’…….
Catch you later
Cheers
Carmel
Posted in Wordpress
RiotFeeds – Powered by OneRiot
Some interesting topics
Posted via web from carmelbaird’s posterous
Posted in Wordpress
Cannot Login To Your WordPress Site/Blog?
Cannot Login To My WordPress Site
If this ever happens to you, don’t panic, don’t go changing your password. Take a deep breath, go get your coffee/tea/soft beverage of choice and prepare for an almost mind numbing experience, ( the harder beverage of choice can come later, you’ll enjoy it more then)
In more cases than not, the reason you cannot login to your WordPress site/blog is caused by a plugin. I said “take a deep breath etc” because if you have many plugins then this little job can take some time.
Firstly to be able to login, go to your FTP client and change the name of the plugins folder to anything you like as long as it is not just ‘plugins’. I changed mine to oldplugins.
Now go back and try to login, you should have access now. In the Plugins section you should have error messages for all your plugins telling you that they cannot be found and have been deactivated or something to that effect.
Next make a folder on your desktop or wherever you like and call it ‘oldplugins’ then download all the plugins from that folder on your site.
Make a new folder in your wp-comments called, you guessed it, plugins.
Now the ‘fun’ begins! Upload each plugin that is in the ‘oldplugins’ folder to the new ‘plugins’ folder, one at a time.
So what you do is:-
Upload plugin.
Activate plugin
Log out
Log in
If you get back into your site, that plugin is fine.
If you find that the plugin from your folder needs upgrading after you upload it, don’t do the upgrade before you log out and then in. If the logging out and in works, then upgrade the plugin and try the log out and in again.
Do this for every plugin and you should find that after activating one of them, you will not be able to login. That one till be the culprit.
Go back to your FTP client, delete it from your system and if it is for a function that you cannot live without, there is probably another that will perform the same or similar function.
This incompatibility can happen after installation of a new plugin or an upgrade of a plugin too, could be the WP version and the plugin version not getting along.
I did think that the way the auto upgrade for plugins in the 2.8 version was great and it still is but from now on I will only ever upgrade one plugin per login session and make sure I can log out and in again.
Thank goodness all is back to normal, well normal for me, could be different for you 
Ever Broken A Delete Key, Not On Your Keyboard Either?.
I took a leave of absence from my site so that I could get up to date with some big jobs like transferring HTML sites over to WordPress, reorganising other sites, updating and generally getting myself set up for when I start the day/night offline job, 12 hour days leave no time for other things. Just as well it’s only for a few weeks.
Now, when I was sorting out, I ‘broke’ the delete key in my Outlook Express. Didn’t know one could do that and after Googling my problem, I found out I was not the only one, felt a little better then. Well I found the solution and all is back to normal. You see I have all my email addresses forwarded to OE to make it simpler but there was a build up in various folders, so lots of sorting and lots of deleting made for a broke delete key. All fixed now.
If it ever happens to you, then here is how to do it, How To Fix The Delete Key In Outlook Express
Posted in Wordpress
WordPress 2.8 Wait!
Don’t know about you, but some days I start out with what I feel is a simple job, the first one of the day should always be pleasant and straight forward. That kind of sets the tone for the day, hopefully and most days it goes like that. Not today….
If you have anything to do with WordPress, then you will surely know that WordPress 2.8 has been released.
My advice would be, leave it go a couple of weeks, there are always things that don’t go to plan and 2.8 is no different.
Many will upgrade and have no problems but there will be issues with many others. It seems like there are a couple of plugins that can cause hiccups, like not being able to view the admin/dashboard and/or the site.
It is very tempting now that it is so easy to upgrade, to select the Upgrade option in the tools area but take it carefully.
I would be inclined, if you can’t wait, to deactivate all your plugins before you hit the ‘Upgrade automatically’ and then activate one at a time. Seems like there are a few that don’t want to play the game and from what I have seen, this seems to be the most common problem.
If you do go ahead and upgrade and if you do have problems, then this link may help you out, Troubleshooting and if you do have problems with the plugins and can’t access your Dashboard to get to the plugins area then here is a workaround that I was directed to over on the WordPress Forum. Actually that is a handy one to keep bookmarked for any other occasion that plugins or not accessing your dashboard, may be a problem.
There are some nice looking areas in the dashboard, like if you use Widgets for your sidebars, much easier to get around. You can now drag and drop widgets that have been in use and keep the settings. All the sidebars are visable and you save each widget as you go, so you don’t have to worry about setting up your widgets and forgetting to use the Save changes and losing the Widget and it’s info.
You can now Preview, Activate or Delete a theme from the actual Theme graphic also you can now select what you would like for your theme, like colors, number of columns, column widths, features like, custom headers, theme options, threaded comments etc, just tick the boxes and you will be taken to the search for themes option with all your wanted items already entered.
With the Plugins, there is now an option to group all the plugins that need upgrading automatically. So when each plugin is successfully upgraded, you return to the list with that plugin removed from the top.
Very neat and very easy, Oh Boy! when I think about how it was to upgrade a plugin, WordPress has come such a long way and it is just great!
So don’t dispair, be patient and the hiccups will be fixed and your WP sites/blogs will once more be a joy to work with.
Posted in Wordpress
To Comment or Not To Comment! Problem Solved -
Just setting up a site as a CMS using WordPress, I’ve done this many times and one of the things that is not needed when setting sites up this way, that comes with every WordPress installation, is the ‘Comments’.
Of course you can untick the “comments” before you publish a post or page but it shows up as “no comments” or ” no comments allowed”, something to that effect.
So I went looking and found a very neat little plugin called – wait for it!- “No Comments Plugin”.
And….it works like a treat, activate it and no more comments or notation that the comments have been turned off.
Very neat, very nice, very light!
If you go the the ‘Add New’ plugin and search for no comments and it should be the first result. Install, activate and Presto!!
Talk later,
Cheers
Carmel