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Wordpress 2.1 Text Editor Why I hate it

February 1st, 2007 · No Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’ve spent so much time trying to get 2.1 up and running with the Tiga theme and various plugins I haven’t done much in the way of posting.  Now I’m trying to post and the new editor is biting [...]

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Tags: How To · Setup

Wordpress 2.1 Upgrade Update 1.1

January 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Things are rolling along nicely in the world of Wordpress 2.1  I reported just a few days ago that I didn’t thing this version was ready for prime time, it wasn’t.  I think it is much closer now and most could update now following the upgrade guidelines from Wordpress and heeding some of the additional [...]

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Tags: Plug-ins · Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Tiga Theme updated for Wordpress 2.1

January 28th, 2007 · No Comments

The Tiga theme has been updated to deal with some of the changes made to the table structure for Wordpress 2.1
The link is http://themes.wordpress.net/download.php?theme=66
My thanks to RT Cunningham at Untwisted Vortex for his continued updates on the Tiga Theme.
I was hoping the theme would have a bug fixed for the permalinks issue.  If you change the [...]

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Tags: Setup

Wordpress 2.1 Upgrade Update

January 24th, 2007 · 7 Comments

It has been an “interesting” couple of days since our upgrade to Worpress 2.1  For now here is my recommendation, WAIT  This upgrade is not ready for prime time. 
Meaning

If you like to spend hours and possibly days getting your blog back up and working then you are ready. 
If you aren’t using any plugins at all and have [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Setup

WordPress 2.1 is out Ella it is

January 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Last last night I saw the new version of Wordpress was available for download and installation.  I added it first to the Tucson Real Estate in The News.  I followed the instruction of de-activationg all the plugins and backing up the database before placing the new files and running the upgrade.php.
WARNING.  When you go back [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Hittail, A Peek Behind The Curtain

December 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments

I actually was using Hittail for quite some time before Mary at RSS Pieces mentioned it in her Top 10 Best SEO Web Tools.  There are a lot of good tools mentioned on that post.  I have used some of them and I’ve bookmarked that post and go back to it often.
I imagine that most [...]

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Permalinks SEO and Keywords in the URL

December 19th, 2006 · 11 Comments

I have read that it is a good idea to have your keywords in the url.  For a long time I didn’t know what that meant. Ok, so I’m old and not as quick to pick-up on somethings, but once I get it, I don’t let go of it easily.  Sometimes it is hard to [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · SEO · Setup

Tiga Theme looses Formatting.

December 19th, 2006 · 7 Comments

I’m using the Tiga theme for Wordpress on this blog and 6 others.  I like the theme and the flexibilty using the Tigarator (anyboby else thinking Arnold here) for formatting the look of the blog quickly and easily. 
There is one big bug.  If you change the Permalinks to anything but the default the entire theme looses [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Setup

RSS Chicklets in Sidebar Widget

December 18th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Wait a miniute I thought I already read this, but now it is different.  Have you ever watched a movie over and found out they changed the ending on you since you last saw it.  Well I’m changing this entire post.
If RSS Feeds are a mystery to you then welcome to the party.  It seems there are certain [...]

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Another Real Estate Blog Are You Kidding Me?

December 13th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Another real estate blog, but this isn’t like any other real estate blog that I’ve found.  It will have elements of many great blogs about real estate and real estate blogging.  It is to fill a nitch in real estate blogging.
It is born out of the comments and council of real estate bloggers that helped [...]

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Tags: Real Estate Blogging · Setup