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Entries from August 2008

Google Sitemap Generator 3.1.0.1 Issues

August 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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A couple of month ago I upgraded the lab to WP 2.6.  You will remember I wasn’t to happy with what was going on at the time.  I’m still finding some issues but for the most part have learned [...]

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Tags: Plug-ins

Askimet 2.1.8 Issues

August 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I’ve recently upgraded three blogs to WP 2.6.1.  When I try and do anything with a comment that is flagged spam, I get an error message.
If I check them as not spam an error message appears about not being able to modify a header file.
If I try and delete them SAME MESSAGE.
The workaround has been [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Header Image Rotator and WP Super Cache

August 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I recently installed the WP Super Cache plugin on Tucson AZ Real Estate.  I’ve installed it here at the lab as well.  I hadn’t noticed any difference in how fast the blog loads, but I did notice something this morning.  I’m using the Header Image Rotator Plugin on that blog. The Header images which should [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

The Lab Rat Report Continued

August 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

On Monday I wrote about the Hosting Day from Hell that took almost 12 hours to get everything back up and running. I was going to have this post live yesterday, but something call “Life” intervened and I was in the real world for most of the day. Geez out there it is [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Today I was the Lab Rat

August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It all started out as an early morning experiment that went horribly wrong and I learned more than I ever wanted to know about patience and URL resets.  I’ll try and keep this short and break it into section.  Yeah, I learned a lot today.
Combining Two Blogs into One
The experiment that went wild.  I have [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Hyper Local Target Marketing Subjects and Topics

August 21st, 2008 · 12 Comments

While the lights were dimmed in the Lab for a couple of weeks to start August.  I was on the road with my camera bag on the seat, laptop on the floor and Panasonic Lumix FX35 in the my left thigh pocket of my cargo shorts.  Cargo shorts have become my uniform of dress this [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging

Blog Top Sites - Blog Top Lists Ego Stroking or Real Value

August 19th, 2008 · 15 Comments

Are these little chicklets of value or do we put them on our blogs to stroke our egos?

There are some changes going on with BlogTopSites.  Everyone is to update their code to point to the new URL for the site.  Because so many sites haven’t done this I’ve noticed a significant bump in the rankings [...]

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Tags: Blogging In General

Lights Dim in Blog Lab Aug. 1-16, 2008

August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I know I have disappeared for a while before, possibly even as long as two weeks. Let’s not belabor the point.
Moving on, For the past two weeks I’ve done somthing I’ve never done before.  I hoped into my Chevy Tracker, by myself and headed back to Ontraio Ohio where I grew up.  It was [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging