Blog post not showing problem?
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Cat in How To
I just went to publish a post in WordPress and it wouldn’t show up in my browser even though the post was cleared published.
Fortunately, I quickly realised that I had the WP Super Cache plugin installed which makes my blog more static so that it calls on my web hosting’s server less, thus uses less of its resources. If that all sounded like gobbleygook – basically it makes your blog perform faster.
However, you have to remember to delete the old cached copy (which will show the new updated version of your blog) or else your new stuff won’t show.
I went and checked my options (It’s under WP Super Cache Manager in Settings) and sure I found that the “Clear all cache files when a post or page is published” option was unchecked. I checked this and clicked on “Update Status” and any new posts now show up immediately without me having to clear the cache.
Here’s a screenshot of the option which should be ticked:
Introduction to blogging
Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by Cat in Blogging, How To
I’ve had quite a few of my friends ask me what a blog is, so I thought I’d put together this article explaining exactly what one is.
What is a blog?
Originally, “blog” was a shortening of “web log” – or a web journal. What differentiates a blog from a traditional website is that blogs facilitate the publishing of “posts” or stories in reverse chronological order. So you will see the most recent blog post first. Like a news feed, blogs meant that a reader could quickly see which entries were the most recent. Also like news feeds and also like a journal, it is expected that blogs are regularly updated. While if a traditional website hasn’t been touched in a number of months, most people wouldn’t notice – if a blog has had no updates for the same time, it’s considered at the very best “dormant”, but most usually, it would be seen as “dead”.
Blogs are now an important component of online publishing. Major newspapers and many magazines have incorporated blogs into their websites. There are influential publishing companies like b5media and Weblogs Inc that are based solely around networks of blogs.
That’s not to say that big companies have an advantage when it comes to blogging, they don’t, and in fact, the big media companies have been relatively late to jump on the blogging train. A big part of the popularity of blogs is linked to availability of blogging software which allowed blog authors (bloggers) to post entries to their blog with very little or no coding ability. The main thing that separates blogs is the quality of the writing, the dedication, the personality and the insight of the writer/s – not technical resources. This has meant that blogging has really levelled the playing field and it has provided, and continues to provide, countless opportunities for individuals.
Blogs have really opened up the world of independent publishing – now anyone from kids to grandparents can easily become web publishers.
Why Blog? (more…)
How to set up a Google Alert
Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by Cat in How To
Google Alerts are a handy way of monitoring conversations. Whenever there are updates to Google’s index on a particular search term, you can arrange to be notified.
You can use this to keep up to date with your company’s name, your product/service brand name, your own name or your company’s key personnel. You can also use this to monitor keywords that are relevant to your product/service so as to keep up to date with news in that area.
Go to Google Alerts, and you’ll notice a small box.
Fill in the search term you want – just choose one keyword or keyword phrase (you can make 1000 Google Alerts per email address).
Enter the email you want it sent to.
The default option is “Comprehensive” which you’ll get anything that turns up in Google’s search index, but this may be too much or irrelevant so you can limit it to news reports, Blogs, websites, video or Google Groups results.
You can also choose the frequency that you’ll receive email updates – once a day or week or as Google gets updated itself.
When you’re happy with your settings, hit “Create Alert” and you’ll get any updates on your search term straight to your inbox!
If you want more than 10 Google Alerts (you can have up to 1000 per email address), you will be asked confirm/verify that you want to receive these alerts via your
At any time you can stop getting alerts by using the “delete alert” link at the bottom of your alert emails.
If you have a Google account linked to your email, you can manage your alerts by going to the Google Alert page and finding the “click here to manage your alerts” or by using the “Manage your alerts” link at the bottom of your alert emails.
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