Registered the co.uk domain for this case study on the 3rd December, then installed the Wordpress Blog into some Weycrest Hosting space. Although Wordpress is Google friendly out of the box, we installed some additional “SEO plugins” and added our customised “ping list.”
Those with Wordpress Hosting might fnd this little Tutorial invaluable. There are times when you want to create a blog page, that looks entirely different from the rest of the blog. This might be because you want to use WordPress to run your entire website (as increasing numbers of people are) but want the main, index or a “featured page” of your website to not reflect the typical blog appearance. The easy way to customize WordPress is to create a custom WordPress page Template and this is easy to do.
On one blog I had an ‘index’ or default page and wanted it to have a completely different look to the rest of the blog. I couldn’t think of an easy way to do this with Wordpress but 10 minutes (OK 15) minutes later, I had the exact page I required working with the right header, sidebar and footer. Great!
This Blog Automation System has been out a few days, but I wanted to check it first before blogging about it. It’s been put togethor by 22 year Andrew Hansen, who has managed to practically retire on his success and can now spends a lot of his time travelling. Andrew Hansen already has an excellent track record in the internet marketing world, as his software products tend to based on what he does to make a living on the internet.
Wordpress, the most popular blogging software on the internet has reached version 2.5 with plenty of improvements and new features.
The new version has a cleaner and faster “dashboard” which is now largely widget based. The widgets provide posting statistics, latest comments and popular Wordpress plugins.
Wordpress 2.5 also comes with a multi file upload facility with a progress bar to allow the Wordpress administrator to keep an eye on upload progress. Wordpress will also handle Exif data so it can extract photo data into custom fields of a template. The search facility now works with posts and pages which is useful if the Wordpress install is being used more as a content management system rather than a blog.
I came across this Wordpress Tutorial on Youtube, which gives a very good instruction on installing and configuring a new Wordpress Theme to your Blog:
The only thing to point out is that the paths may be slightly different on your blog installation. For instance on a Plesk servers your Wordpress will be installed in the httpdocs folder. Lets say you installed Wordpress in the blog directory (ie http://www.yourdomain.com/blog) then once you have downloaded the theme and uploaded it using Filezilla (or the FTP programme of your choice) then navigate to:httpdocs/blog/wp-content/themes
(Replacing “blog” with name of the directory you installed Wordpress).
If however you installed Wordpress in the root of your web space then simply navigate to:
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