Update 25th Aug. 2011: the bug discussed here is still present. I recommend all WordPress Multi Site users install the Proper Network Activation plugin that is available here at the WordPress site. I noticed a compatibility bug between WordPress 3 Multi Site and Greg's High Performance SEO so reported the issue to Greg who very quickly took a look at it. It turns out that WordPress Multi Site does not like it when plugins are Network Activated. So, as a warning to all WordPress Multi Site users, do not Network Activate plugins. Not yet, anyway. To paraphrase Greg's explanation: When a … [Read more...]
How to Move Multiple WordPress Subdomain Blogs to a Single WordPress 3 Multi Site Blog
June 22, 2010 by 35 Comments
What a mouthful that title is! Just wait 'till you read the next sentence. If, like me, you installed a few WordPress blogs into subdomains before the advent of WordPress 3 with Multi Site features and you now want to consolidate your blogs into a WordPress 3 network with all subdomains managed from one WordPress Multi Site installation then you will need a little tutoring about how to convert your multiple blogs into one Multi Site blog network. I have successfully moved many subdomain installations into a single Multi Site installation and now it's time for me to be nice and let you know how … [Read more...]
How to Activate WordPress Multi Site [Updated 2012]
June 11, 2010 by 63 Comments
WordPress multisite turns a website into a multiblogger machine like wordpress.com where one domain with one WordPress installation can be used to create up to millions of blogs on subdomains or subdirectories. Multisite is hidden part of WordPress that has to be activated manually through a few edits to the site's wp-config.php file. There is no button in the site's dashboard taht can be used to activate WP multisite. You will need FTP access to your server or a server control panel that lets you view and edit files stored on your server. These instructions are easy to follow. You … [Read more...]
Der Splog! An Experiment in Splogging
June 9, 2010 by 5 Comments
A few days ago I discovered two new Wordpress plugins for autobloggers. One is a combined RSS feed aggregator and keyword auto tagger and the other is an auto trackback sender. Up to now the only autoblog, aka splogs, that I have created and managed used RSS aggregators and auto taggers to pull in content from the RSS feeds provided by sponsors. Most of those splogs sell adult products. Yesterday, an idea sparked in my mind - armed with these two new autoblogging plugins, how quickly can I create a splog of mainstream content and how much traffic can I get to the splog using only autoblogging … [Read more...]
10,000 Backlinks in 1 – The Best URL Submission You Will Ever Make
February 19, 2010 by 11 Comments
A lonely fact of a webmasters life is the time spent locked away in solitude as we notch up backlinks to our websites. Some come organically through people visiting our sites and bookmarking us on a do-follow social networking site or by placing a link to us on one of their own websites such as a free Wordpress or Tumblr blog. Other links we create artificially by connecting with other webmasters and asking them to link to us in return for a link back to them or we add our sites into the many directories that are available to us. It takes a lot of time to build backlinks even when auto … [Read more...]
This Month at JournalXtra
January 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Welcome to 2010. Wasn't 2009 a hell of year? Come to think of it, wasn't the decade a bit of a fuck-up. I sincerely wish you a much better year and decade ahead. In fact, I know 2010 will be a good start to a fantastic decade; and I'm eagerly awaiting the discovery of a monolith on the moon - Arthur C. Clark predicted it so it must happen. And there's a point, where are the flying cars we were promised 20 years ago? O.K, o.k, Don't get on my back, I know we're 5 days into 2010 and this welcome note is a little late but I have been busily trundling away behind the scenes at JournalXtra … [Read more...]
