Any Wordpress experts here

[Ian J]

Originally Posted by tapzilla2k

I use Bluehost as well and it couldn't be simpler to install wordpress from the fantastico panel Just a bit of typing and a few clicks is all it takes, to get it up and running.

When I read your post i didn't have a clue what you were talking about but looking at my control panel I saw the word fantastico and it rang a bell so I had a look at it and installed Wordpress from fantastico and it now seems to be working.

Just got to think of something to write about now

Thanks all but no doubt I'll be stuck again soon

[jerryfb]

Originally Posted by Ian J

When I read your post i didn't have a clue what you were talking about but looking at my control panel I saw the word fantastico and it rang a bell so I had a look at it and installed Wordpress from fantastico and it now seems to be working.

Just got to think of something to write about now

Thanks all but no doubt I'll be stuck again soon

An in anticipation of that you'll soon be trying to change the theme. So make sure you upload the theme to the correct location (which should be signedposted but it can be easy to get it wrong with the FTP)

Also - leave the prexisting pages, posts and comments from mr wordpress until you have a good chunk of content. This can stop you getting 404 errors from premature deletion.

Also - your hosting company should allow you to set up subdomains on your main domain subdomain.yourdomain.com etc. You can use these for other functions on your site such as ecommerce, photo sharing, CMS etc. You can use fantastico to write these new scripts to these sub-domains)

[WibXL]

There are some interesting security tips here for wordpress.

[Ian J]

I've been blogging away for two or three months now and have got the hang of most of it but the more involved I get the more drawbacks I find with the templates.

The one that I've been using for two of my blogs is great for normal blogging with a variety of categories and tags to make sure that everything I write about is indexed by the Lord Google but if I try and add an extra page I can't add tags and everything is automatically dumped into the default category without the ability to change this.

I have been thinking about converting another of my websites to Wordpress blog format but 90% of the templates I have seen have the page index along the top which isn't suitable for me as my page titles are long. Likewise the few that have page titles in a sidebar can't handle long titles and they don't wrap them properly.

It seems that I can't get a standard Wordpress template to do what I want it do. Are these things easy to adapt and would it be a simple matter for someone with coding experience to amend the template so that tags and categories can be added to the extra pages or would I be better having a template built from scratch ?

Likewise with the index pages in the sidebar. is it a simple matter to get the titles to wrap properly?

Thanks

[WibXL]

You could try all in one seo pack which will allow you to add a title, description and keywords to your pages which should hopefully get them indexed better.

I think that it would be possible to get the titles to wrap correctly by altering the style sheet for the theme that you are using but I'm unsure what code you need to change to do so.

[Ian J]

I use All In One SEO already but can't tell how effective it is.

I use Google Alerts to bring me daily details of any activity on any website with my desired keyword and any time that I update my blog there is a link to it later that day in the daily alert.

I added two pages to my blog (as opposed to posts) over the weekend and they don't seem to have been picked up by Google Alerts at all which makes me wonder how effective All In One SEO actually is

[WibXL]

Do you use Google sitemaps as well? This plugin will create a sitemap for you and then let Google know everytime you add a new page.

There is also tags4page which will allow you to tag pages but I don't use it myself so I can't say how good it is or even if it works with the latest versions of Wordpress.

EDIT: If you need to make sure that the pages have been indexed you can use the site command by typing site: and then your url into the search engine which will bring up all of the indexed pages from your site which will show if it's an indexing problem or lack of keywords etc.

[Ian J]

Did anyone ever tell you that you're a superstar

[WibXL]

Originally Posted by Ian J

Did anyone ever tell you that you're a superstar

I tend to get called many things but that isn't one of them

[Ian J]

It didn't work so I take it all back

[WibXL]

Originally Posted by Ian J

It didn't work so I take it all back

D'oh.

[WibXL]

Try Headspace2, it'll allow you to add tags to pages along with all of the other SEO stuff and looks pretty good.

EDIT: Why does SEO get a dotted underline added to it?

[johnscarlet]

Originally Posted by WibXL

Try Headspace2, it'll allow you to add tags to pages along with all of the other SEO stuff and looks pretty good.

EDIT: Why does SEO get a dotted underline added to it?

hover your cursor over it