Archive for December, 2007
« Previous EntriesWordPress Lessons to reopen
Thursday, December 27th, 2007If you have been looking for personal coaching to get your blog up and generating traffic then I have good news for you.
Tomorrow at noon I will reopen WordPress Lessons.
You can see what wil be offered at
WordPress lessons
You can’t get in yet but noon tomorrow it will be available.
This has sold out in a week [...]
How do I stop a page from being spidered?
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Todays question was submitted through the survey form. If you would like your question addresseed here you may submit the question there or leave a comment.
Google says that I can stop spiders from indexing a particular page by putting this in the header: How do I put this into a header of [...]
Setting your RSS feed for your WordPress blog
Friday, December 21st, 2007This is a continuation of yesterdays post. Wanted to go through step by step how to set your feed.
The default option is to send the full feed. If that is what you want you probably won’t have to do anything. If you only want to send a summary follow these steps.
1. Log in to dashboard
2. [...]
Should I use full text on my RSS feed?
Thursday, December 20th, 2007This is another question from the monthly call. Feel free to ask your questions by leaving a comment or using the survey form.
When I write a post and I check it in bloglines or google reader, the full post shows up. What is the incentive for people to come to my blog if they can [...]
How do you shut off the wysiwyg on WordPress?
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007This is another question from my monthly call.
This is relatively easy and one of the first things I do when I set up a new blog.
Log in to your dashboard.
Click the users button
Click your profile
Uncheck the box next to “Use the visual editor when writing”
Click the update button.
See the image below
Your questions and comments are [...]
How do you enable track backing on your blog?
Monday, December 17th, 2007This question comes from one of my monthly Question and Answer sessions.
This answer will be specific to WordPress blogs because different platforms handle this in different ways.
With WordPress it is quite easy to do.
1. Log in to your dashboard.
2. Click options - discussion
3. The second check box down will say
“Allow link notifications from other Weblogs [...]
Can Google read text widgets?
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Todays question is:
Can you tell me if Google can read text widgets? If I use a lot of them, and they show up with every page, do those pages get read by google as duplicate content?
Thank you.
Yes Google can and does read what is in the text widget. Let me explain what a text [...]
Ping questions reviewed
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007This question came to me in email. Not the best way to get them to me as it is too easy for them to get overlooked in the sheer volume.
I have posted several times, but I don’t know how to go about pinging. Is it in wordpress? Or do I set up an account somewhere [...]
Plugins - What are they and how do you use them
Friday, December 7th, 2007This question was emailed t me after the monthly call. It is not a good way to get questions to me as they can easily be missed due to sheer volume of email I receive daily.
I have a question. Plug ins. How do you get them? What are they, exactly? How do you use them?
Well [...]
Replay is available
Thursday, December 6th, 2007The replay is available of last nights call. Not sure how long it will be up so take the tiome to grab it right away.
WordPress Q and A Replay
Hope you enjoy it.
Mike Paetzold
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