Comments on: A WordPress QuickStart Guide – What Plugins Should I Use?

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:52:10 +0000

@ jt:

JT – it simply means to let Technorati know that you own your blog: http://technorati.com/account/blogs/

By: jt

jt — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:00:15 +0000

when you say ‘Claim your blog on Technorati’ what do you mean?

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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:19:28 +0000

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By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:31:51 +0000

Wendy, thanks for the tip on HitTail, it’s the first I’ve heard of it.

By: Aruni

Aruni — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:03:55 +0000

Thanks Dennis! I’m actually a bit surprised that I haven’t heard back from Feedburner yet on the other issues.

I’ll check out the cavemonkey plug in and install it later.

The other weird thing I’ve noticed is that I no longer get email notifications when someone submits a comment. I just happen to log in and see there are comments waiting for moderation. I have all the same boxes checked (I think) for comment moderation but am not getting email notification. Hmmmm. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks so much for your help!

By: Dennis BjÃ¸rn Petersen

Dennis BjÃ¸rn Petersen — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:50:28 +0000

@Aruni: I use a plugin call Full Text Feed. You can grab it here: http://cavemonkey50.com/code/full-feed/
It overrules the setting in Wordpress. That setting doesn’t work any way, so download the plugin instead. It works with the images as well. I’m afraid I can’t help you with the other two issues, but let me know how it works out for you.

@Pearl: What are your issues with those two plugins? I’ve used UTW and Sociable for quite some time now, so perhaps I can help. Do you want the tags to show on your sidebar?

By: pearl

pearl — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:20:38 +0000

Hi Dennis – I sort of gave up on the ultimate tag warrior and social bookmarking plugins this weekend!

With the social bookmarking, the text shows up on the individual posts, but this is not the same as I see on many blogs, just like at the end of this very post! May be its a different plugin than what I am using..

With WP Backup, I noticed my email is set up to the blog email (which of course I have no idea how to access) but I will try and change it my gmail….

Installed the Contact form and that seems to be working..

Thanks Dennis – my email tyropearl at gmail dot com…

help much appreciated!

By: Aruni

Aruni — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:47:02 +0000

@Dennis – I solved one but have three others outstanding…have submitted support tickets…still waiting to hear from them.

One has to do with how the posts are coming through email. Now they are listed in summary format (top part only and no images) despite having checked full text in wordpress and feedburner. While on wordpress.com the email came out with latest posts including images.

The other has to do with the email posts missing the post date on them. So not it comes out saying Post: (i.e., no date shown).

The final has to do with feedflare. We were able to post the code into the Single Post theme editor section but could not figure out the right place to put it in the Main Index section. Our theme does not seem to have the code they suggest we put it before.

Other than that, it’s going well. I still need to move the images over. Fortunately, we had set up a re-route so that http://www.babblesoft.com/blog would go to babblesoft.wordpress.com so most traffic should go directly to our site but any permalinks I left on other sites will go to our old blog which has a note that gives out our new address but since we deleted old posts the user gets a 404 message.

Still getting used to the slightly different set-up. We kept the same theme until we can figure everything out…but eventually I hope to happen upon another theme.

By: Dennis BjÃ¸rn Petersen

Dennis BjÃ¸rn Petersen — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:56:27 +0000

@Aruni: Did you solve your problem with feedburner? You can simply change the URL in your Feed details to the new URL. That way your subscribers will get the new feed. I did the same about 14 days ago.

@Pearls and Andrea: Are you still struggling with plugins?

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From the emoms content-some really great and educational entries... — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:19:42 +0000

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By: Midlife Mommy

Midlife Mommy — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:09:10 +0000

What is your thought of Ultimate tag vs All in one Seo? So they do the same thing? Thanks Wendy

By: Aruni

Aruni — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:11:53 +0000

We figured out the follow-up comments and now are trying to figure out how to move our feed. We are already set up with Feedburner at our wordpress hosted wordpress.com site and we want to change the feed to our new URL without losing our subscribers. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!!!

By: Aruni

Aruni — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:31:40 +0000

Great stuff!! We are trying to install some of these now. The WP Database link goes to a page that says it is no longer supported/offered and the Custom Contact page goes to a Donation form. It’s a whole new language to me som maybe Custom Contact = Donation form???

We’re also trying to do the notify me of followup comments plug in but it might not work with our existing theme because we have it installed but the checkbox is not showing up on the comments section.

By: Shine

Shine — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:12:50 +0000

This is simply awesome! I will go through them one by one and pick those suit me… Thanks so much for the recommendations!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:32:48 +0000

Hi. You have a great selection here. I have a similar post about plugins – http://getstartedtodayonline.com/getting-plugged-with-the-plugins/ – however, I mention how I cant get the google site map to show up, the simple tags inside [] to show up as instructed, the UTW also didnt work . What I also want to know is how you have that part at the end of your post.. if you like this article with the 3 different options and their widgets.??

I can tell I am going to be hanging out here more often:)

Andrea – another emom

By: pearl

pearl — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:56:51 +0000

I am still struggling with some of the plug-ins I have installed but seems like they are not working.. or may be I don’t know how to make them work.. like the Ultimate Tag Warrior.. and Social Bookmarking… I have the database backup plug in and set it up to get the backup emailed daily but I haven’t seen any yet! will be trying Andy’s Sociable and the contact form.

Wendy, I just completed your 10-days to a better blog free e-course and the information you provide there as well as here on this blog is priceless…. your blog is like an encyclopedia on blogging .. thanks a ton for such valuable information!

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port16.com » Blog Archive » New Blog To-Do List — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:37:46 +0000

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By: Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:35:41 +0000

Thanks for the guide Wendy. I just registered my first domain (for my use) today, and have been setting up WordPress.

This guide has been a lot of help.

- Mike Scott

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:10:11 +0000

I have over 75 plugins installed. You think that might be too much?

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:54:29 +0000

Thanks for the mention Wendy.

I’m glad my SRG Clean Archives plugin made your list of useful WordPress plugins.

Gold star for you