WordPress Advice on Optimizing WP Content Management
We found this to be the best way to alter URL for a WordPress URL.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
Here you can see we set the DNS at our registrar to our host.
Here are our subdirectories at our host.
Finally, we finish off by creating forwards, that take the main domain and send it to our subdirectories. This allows us to have multiple WordPress blogs all hosted at the same account.
Being able to move and rename folders where WordPress is located is an important capability. For instance when you start a blog, you may not know what the eventual folder will be. Housing your WP installs in different folders allows you to have multiple WPs per host. However, the documentation on moving and renaming folders on the WordPress.org site does not appear correct. We spent a great deal of time trying to figure this out. We finally found the correct documentation here….
http://www.endgamepr.com/blog/2007/05/11/how-to-change-your-wordpress-blog-to-a-different-url/#comment-7323
This includes a critical correct point regarding adjusting the .htaccess file.
On additional thing to do, which is not listed in this article is to change the media folder to your new folder. You do this under Miscellaneous.
We began using the Thesis theme a little while ago and just love it.
http://diythemes.com/thesis/
It is very good at content management and we think makes a great site. One issue we are currently working on is placing an image header on a few of the sites we are creating with thesis. So we decided to take a screenshot of online message on how this is done. Here is the link
http://diythemes.com/forums/thesis-customization-tips/397-how-clickable-header-images.html
We start off with our image which we created in Keynote.
Now we want to copy this code.
<pre class=”alt2″ style=”border: 1px inset ; margin: 0pt; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 258px; text-align: left;”>/* This line sets up our clickable background image based on the site title’s link */
/* DIY: Adjust the height & width attributes to reflect the actual size of your image */
/* DIY: Change the filename of your image to reflect the actual header’s file name */
.custom #header #logo a { display: block; height: 100px; width: 960px; background: url(‘images/header.jpg’) no-repeat; outline: none; }
/* This line gets rid of the site title & tagline by casting them out to far left field */
.custom #header #logo, .custom #header #tagline { text-indent: -9999px; }
/* This line collapses the vertical space of the tagline so that there isn’t unnecessary white space after the header image */
/* This is a bit of a kludge, but it seems to work. */
.custom #header #tagline { height: 0; }
/* This line removes the padding from the header so that the background image sits close to the nav menu, the bottom border of the header, and the sides of the content */
.custom #header { padding: 0; }
</pre>
We will change the height and width to match the height and width of our image. We then need to change the name to match what we are uploading.
We will then save and upload our .jpg
Now we can go and check our site. We can see that it worked. However, its a bit big, so we will go back and adust. However, it is working properly.
For those of you that may not know, ScribeFire is a great way to create and manage the posts and pages on your blog. ScribFire is a plug-in for Firefox that incorporates an editor into Firefox.
To find out more about ScribeFire, hit up their site at http://www.scribefire.com
What we want to talk about today, is how to use ScribeFire to best effect.
For many months now we have been using ScribeFire sub-optimally. When you install ScribeFire you receive this little icon in the status bar of FireFox.
By hitting it you receive this view.
We used this view for quite some time. However, it is cramped and requires a lot of moving around of things in order to get enough space to operate.
Recently we found you have an option off of the ScribeFire icon on the toolbar to open an entirely new tab.
This opens up this view (if you select new tab)
This view is far more usable and spacious. If you are a ScribeFire user, try this view and see if it works for you.
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This is an interesting feature. It is called Google Custom Search. This allows you to provide a searchbox on your blog or webpage that only points to a particular site.
We begin by going to the Google custom search site.
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
We will type in a basic search with some basic search engine keywords related to our site on SAP (its a software package).
We limit the search to just our website.
Now we go to the code area and copy the code.
We then paste it into our WordPress blog, save and then view the searchbox that has been created.
They we will type in a basic search.
Notice how every one of the results is from the http://sapplanning.wordpress.com blog. So we have just basically brought the search power of Google to our one website, and this search box can be imported into any web page or blog.
This is functionality that eluded us for a while. We wanted to share different folders with the WordPress Box.net widget. All one has to do is perform a right mouse click on a folder and you will receive the dialog box with the embedded folder code.
You can then goto your widget page and enter the code.
Furthermore, this code can be entered right in WordPress as well. Here you can see what the output looks like.
Finally, your viewers can actually subscribe to an RSS feed from this file that is located in at Box.net.
Well, with WP 2.7, there has been a substantial improvement in the statistics view. We recommend viewing your monthly hits. It gives you a great idea about the peaks in your volume.
Now the tough part comes…trying to figure out “why” certain high periods were high and possibly how to replicate it.
Post Popularity
Another interesting statistic is which posts bring the most views. Here you can see the most popular posts for the blog http://counterecon.wordpress.com
Everyone has to decide whether they are writing the blog primarily for themselves of primarily for others. However, if a person would like more popularity, one could write a related article to the most popular ones. In this way you can let your readers tell you what they find interesting. Following this advice, the blog author should write a few more articles on “Writing Bias” and “Milton Friedman.” These two posts combined represent about 12% of the traffic to the site. This site has 45 articles. So only two articles (which is roughly 5% of the site) represents 12% of the traffic in this case. How much it makes sense to redirect your efforts to popular articles would depend how important popularity is combined with how much more their is to write on the subject and how much you want to provide more coverage to these areas.
