Real Estate Blog Lab

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today I took the plunge once again and upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress 2.2.1 here at the lab. I don’t know about you but these things make me nervous every time I do them. As [...]

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The other night I was getting the Scoop on Michigan Real Estate when I noticed Maureen had a new IM thingy (technical term) on her blog.  
Plugoo isn’t a plug-in.  It is a script that I put in a text box in the widgets setup screen once the Plugoo account was setup. 
You can see it at the bottom of [...]

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Early this morning, I took the Lab up to Wordpress 2.2. I did the 5 step process as recommended.

Backup all the files
Deactivate all the plug-ins
Install the new files overwriting the old ones
Run upgrade.php
Re-activate the plug-ins

I will say this upgrade has been the one causing the least issues of any major upgrade I’ve done. The [...]

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Have you ever done a Google search and when you clicked on a link it went to the homepage of the site and not to the information you were looking for.
Most of us take 1 millionth of a second to see it isn’t there and rather than try and find navigation to the page we [...]

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Setting up the wp-configure.php file
Before you can install Wordpress you have to have a valid MYSQL database setup and you have to create the wp-configure.php file.
Here is the current place to go to get The latest version of Wordpress.
Wordpress comes with a wp-sample-configure.php file.  You can open this using notepad if you don’t have a [...]

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UPDATE   Here is a great plugin for changing your Permalink structure.  It creates 301 redirects when you change the permalinks.   
I’ve noticed lately that Google was showing a lot of missing URL and URL’s not found and HTTP errors.
I thought most of those were due to the change in domain names mentioned in other posts here.
Today I [...]

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The trials and travails of this little experiment have take their toll on sleep and other things in life the past couple of days.  But in barely two month of existence.  Lots of help from 2000 bloggers project and others linking here we broke the 100 barrier.
It does pay to keep track of these things.  [...]

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 Ever Find Your Self in a Pickle?
(UPDATE!)  I SEEM TO HAVE HIT THE RIGHT COMBINATION AND ALLOWING TIME FOR RESET.  I HAVE TO CHANGE THE URL FOR IMAGES IN POSTS.  IT SEEMS OTHER THAN THAT ALL IS WORKING AS IT SHOULD. 
I’M LEARNING TO HATE IE LIKE SO MANY OTHERS THAT HAVE GONE BEFORE. 
THANKS [...]

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Meebo hit the RE Blogging community last week when it started showing up on a lot of the real estate blogs I read everyday. 
I found this Meebo post at 3 Oceans Real Estate by Kevin Boer 
quickly followed by seeing it appear on:
Phoenix AZ Real Estate Blog  Jonathan Dalton
Transparent RE                   Pat Kitano
Tucson Real Estate
I put it on [...]

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Tiga, of all themes in all the Wordpress world I had to pick you.  You had what I wanted, three columns and most of all a post column 600px wide.  I like large images and room to write.  I’ve looked at many other themes, three column, but just can’t find one with the width for [...]

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