WordPress Themes for Your Blog Setup
By · CommentsThis is a post from Jon Bishop’s blog. Rather than copy the whole thing I’ll just give you the link and you can see the post in its original form. And while your on Jon’s site wander around and see all the great information he has to share.
Where To Find Awesome WordPress Themes
How to Make a Post Sticky In WordPress
By · CommentsFirst of all what is a sticky post and why would you want one?
A sticky post is one that remains at the top of your blog all the time. As you know a blog places posts in reverse chronological order…the newest is first and the oldest is last. But with a sticky post no matter how many posts your have the sticky one remains first.
Why would you want to do that? If you have some critical information that you don’t want to get lost in the posting you make it sticky. Perhaps the post is time sensitive and you want it to remain at the top until the period is up.
The first thing you have to do is login to your WP-Admin Panel and open up the post page. On the right hand side you will see the PUBLISH box. Click on EDIT next to Visibility. And simply check the box that says Stick this post to the front page” hit OK and you’ve got a sticky post.
When you are done writing the post hit Publish and you are done!
If you have any questions about this post or anything to do with a blog setup let The Blog Builder Guy know!
Danger Danger Danger
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There is danger everywhere on the internet. We must be vigilant all the time. How do I know this??? Unfortunately through personal experience.
I was the victim of an email phishing scheme and I got caught…big time!
I got what I thought was a legitimate email from Hostgator which hosts all my blogs. It turned out to be a phishing email and I gave them my username and password. Within a few hours all my blogs were being re-directed to a Russian site that was either spreading a virus or some other trash. My virus program caught it before it harmed my computer.
Once I figured out what was going on I called Hostgator and they went through each of my blogs and removed all the malicious code. A great big thanks to Hostgator!!! They were all over it in a flash!!
So now all my blogs are safe and happy…and my blood pressure is once again normal.
The day after all this happened I got an email from my bank asking me to confirm my account information. Being paranoid I called my bank and discovered that the email was a phishing scheme! Imagine if I had answered that one…I’d be broke now!
So the moral of the story is to be very very careful when giving out personal information on the internet. If you have any question about an email you received contact whoever supposedly sent it and verify that it is from them. It may take some extra time but it will save you more time and perhaps money in the long run!
So go forth upon the internet and be careful…be very very careful!
Blog Setup & The Post Slug
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One problem that you may encounter is that your post title may be too long and you don’t want a correspondingly long file name. So what are you to do? Simple…change the post slug!
The slug is what you would like your post to be called. The option to change this is right under the post title box.
Spam Protection You Have to Have It!
By · CommentsI’ve been racking my brain to come up with a topic for a blog post. Then I get this SPAM comment on a blog I use solely for trying out new plugins, new themes and learning more about CSS coding. So the blog has absolutely nothing of value for anyone to read.
This is part of the comment I got:
“I’ve been following your posts for a couple of weeks now and I gotta say that your older articles don’t offer as much insight as the newer articles. Your writing is constantly improving!”
A very nice compliment for sure….until you read the actual posts she is referring to.
Here is the older one:
“Practice blog post Practice blog post
Practice blog post Practice blog post…”
Here is the latest one:
“Practice Post #2 Practice Post #2 Practice Post #2 Practice Post #2
Practice Post #2 Practice Post #2 Practice Post #2…”
I guess it might be an improvement…not really sure.
NOTE TO SPAMMERS: At least read the post before you try and push your links on people.
I point this out first to provide a little humor and second to highlight the importance of spam protection.
WordPress has a great spam filter called Akismet. It caught this comment and identified it as spam. So far is has caught over 1000 spam comments since I started The Blog Builder Guy.
If you have a WordPress blog I highly recommend that you install the Akismet plugin.
If The Blog Builder Guy did your blog setup then you have nothing to worry about as I automatically install Aksimet on every blog I build.
So make sure it is installed on your blog and worry no more about spam!
