FeedBurner is your WordPress friend

So you’ve created your first post in your new WordPress blog. Excellent!

If you want to syndicate and share your blog posts, you will need to publicize to all you RSS feed URL.

By default within your WordPress blog, the RSS feed location is ‘www.yourblog.com/feed/’. Try it out right now!

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Upgrading your WordPress to 2.3

WordPress upgradeYes there’s a new version of WordPress out.

Should you update your current version? Absolutely!

How long does the upgrade take? Roughly 10 minutes

Any fiddling or adjustments? No

Where is the new version located? On the WordPress download page …

What is the process?

  1. Review the Upgrading WordPress webpage
  2. Download the new verison
  3. Save to local drive and upload to your server.
  4. Maintain your ‘wp-contents’ folder (this is where your custom plugins and site templates are located)
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Post to WordPress blog with Thunderbird email

Well this will be my first test post to this blog via email - pretty
cool and hopefully much simpler.

I’ve tried out various 3rd party applications that help your post to
your various blogs via email, but some were clunky to set up, some
actually used up too much resources, etc. Too much to manage.

Why not set up an email address, write to the email address and have it
posted right away on your blog?

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Considering a blog for your website

I had a discussion today with a billing service provider in regards to their products and services. Towards the end of the conversation, they invited me to visit their website to find out more about their company, their clients, their offerings and more. One thing they did mention was “Please don’t pay attention to our blog, it has not been updated in a while”.

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