Learning To Blog pt 2

Robert W Cain — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:06:40 +0000

The adventure continues…..!

Now, I left part one, having made a post on Twitter, with a link to the article and a request to reply. The first lesson I gained from inviting the world to comment is, try to have more followers, 500, although brilliant, and thanks all you lovely people for taking the time to follow me! – well, its a long way short of the world..Ha!..Ha!… Mind you, I have only had a presence on Twitter for just over a month.

The second lesson came via a comment from @mikecj. Mike is a professional blogger, who very kindly took the time out to have a look, and guess what?, he encountered a problem with the ability to post a comment, it appeared that the comments php code was incorrect, consequently, the display boxes required to make a post were a bit of a mess. Mike knew where to type from previous experience, and managed to warn me, coupled with a few complimentary observation to cheer me up. Many thanks to Mike, you can visit his site (always worth a visit), from here http://www.mikeslife.org/

I scratched my head a couple of times, then had a look at the php code, Oh! dear, or words to that affect, what do I do now!…I couldn’t make much sense of it all, I checked out a few forums, to no avail, and then contemplated the prospect of having to install a new theme….. “Why don’t you use a comments php from another theme” my wife said, whilst beating a hasty retreat, in case I thought she was mad!….Guess what, she was so right!

We found a suitable theme by previewing a couple, then downloaded it, next we uploaded the new theme to WordPress and pressed activate. Now, with the new theme loaded, we then went to Dashboard/appearance/editor, and located the comments php, copied it to an open notepad page and saved. Hope that makes sense.

OK, now we re-loaded the original theme, and returned to the editor, again we took a copy of this php, and bravely pressed delete. next we copied the new php code into the open, but now blank php, from my original theme, and pressed save. Done…. We checked that we could post…. all worked….. magic!

Unfortunately, this little mishap did indeed, rather spoil my intended objective, I did however, receive a few kind remarks via my Twitter account, so it worked, albeit, in a small way.

Creating an Ad!

This was fun, I discovered this week that my Host WebHost.uk.net, run an affiliates program, where by, any referral traffic earns me a small commission. So, leaning on the old adage of ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained, I decided to create my first ad.

With the aid of ‘Snag it’, a useful piece of software that enables selective screen capture, I created a small image of their website. I then looked for a suitable widget plug in, that would enable me to display the image and link it to a website. To this end, I discovered a plug in called ‘ Blogwell’s Simple Image Link Widget‘ Cool!, and the clue was in the name.

Using the widget was a very straight forward affair, and the result is most pleasing, now all I need is a couple of hundred clicks a day and I will be made….Ha!….Ha!.

Be warned, the ad to the left actually works.

So that concludes this weeks adventures in Learning to Blog, I wonder what goodies await. “Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section provided below”, He say’s optimistically!

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