This is another topic that I get asked a lot so I have put a video on You Tube. If you like these videos and would like to see more of them leave a comment and if you are really kind click over to You Tube and rate it.
Upgrading your WordPress blog is important because like all open source software the hackers are always looking for ways to exploit it. WordPress does a good job of fixing any exploits that they find but if you don’t keep current you don’t stay protected.
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Hope you are having or had a Happy New Year. I am starting the year in a giving spirit.
First I will be doing my monthly Q and A call tomorrow night. Details below.
EVENT: WordPress Q and A
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, January 2nd at 9:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW… Listen or leave a question
Second a long term project is ready to be unveiled. After 3 months of effort my partner and I are ready to let the first group into My CC Blog.
One of the problems with most of the free blogging software available in the market place is that they are not usually search engine friendly. We wanted to change that and you can try it starting now at
Well it has been a while as I have been extremely busy with a few projects that have taken priority over posting here. (I know shame on me.) Back to questions today.
I read the report “Get your blog going†which was very interesting. You refer to several tools such as plug-ins with reference to WordPress. All my 8 blogs are in Blogger. I tried WordPress once but got stuck so went back to the easier Blogger. Can I still use these techniques in Blogger? If so, how?
Not that I know of. There are two reasons that I don’t care for Blogger for any primary blog. The lack of automation and customization of the structure of the blog.
I mean you can make them look unique and do some nice things with pulling feeds but…
(First I am not an expert on Blogger and there may be things to do this that I am not aware of) you can’t automate the pinging, create custom title tags and things that I feel are necessary to make your blog more powerful.
My other problem with Blogger (actually any site I don’t own and control) is that you can have your account disappear and have no recourse. You also don’t own the domain (yes I know you can forward to your own domain) and it takes work to create backlinks, bookmark posts etc and that can disappear with no recourse on your part.
Now before you get too mad Blogger does have some good things and can and should be used as part of your overall blogging just not for your primary blogs (in my humble opinion.) If someone that is more expert in Blogger blogs can let me know if I am missing things I would appreciate it as even Old Bald Guys can learn new things.
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Well a day or two late but have been playing with the latest version on a test blog. Lots of new features and I really like the plugin update.
As usual the problem is not with the new version but the fact that things change and some of the plugins don’t play nice.
The most important one for me is Google Sitemaps. Until this gets updated or someone creates a similar one that will work with it I will stay with the old series myself.
Ultimate Tag Warrior has a note on their download page that it wasn’t compliant but it seems to work on the test blog. I don’t use the cloud functions though so it may have trouble with those as I haven’t tested that part of it.
Overall as with most of the new total version changes I would recommend a wait and see. Allow the plugins to catch up with the new version then take advantage of the new features.
Have a few questions to answer and now that vacation is over will be back much more regularly. Can always use more questions though so if you have one use the survey form or leave a comment.
