Posts tagged hosting
"Windows Live Writer" won’t upload images to WordPress
May 15th
I’ve used WordPress for almost two years now and today I faced a big challenge: I couldn’t post my articles who contained images to Word press with my Windows LiveWriter application.
Note: This comes after a long period in which I didn’t upgrade the plugins of my WordPress application ( I had 11 of them pending upgrade). Also, I had a full system reinstall (you know, the one with formatting the system drive). After that, I reinstalled and configured all my tools, starting with Visual Studio and ending with Paint .Net.
Because I had a lot of stuff to write, in the first free moment that I had a little time, I started my Live Writer and configured it to be able to post on my blog. When finishing the article, I tried to post it as a draft to www.radupoenaru.com and check if there’s something to be modified.
And when I hit the button that saves draft on my blog, bang! -I got this error:
Choosing hosting for WordPress
Apr 1st
One of the most important questions in launching a website is the hosting.
When moving to private hosting, I realized that I don’t need all features of the premium hosting plans, just a reliable hosting with basic tools to help me do my tasks easier, without too much investment. Also I wanted to continue using WordPress and reuse the content already created in my old website.
The requirements of WordPress from my hosting were pretty small:
- PHP 4.3 or greater
- MySQL 4.0 or greater
- The mod_rewrite Apache module
- What they don’t mention on website Required WordPress space: At least 10 Mbytes of space on server
URL Rewrite = mod_rewrite
Mar 29th
SEO tools and mod_rewrite were out for a while. They do amazing things, like enabling humans to have a crisp view about the contents of a link. Unfortunately, until IIS 7 Microsoft didn’t had nothing comparable as default, but some companies struggled to offer this basic service.The two options were the rather cheap IISRewrite and the free ISAPI Rewrite Filter.
Mr Thomas Deml, Lead Program Manager in the IIS team, responsible for Security, Performance, Shared Hosting, presents in his overview about how SEO can be added to your application in his breakout session in MIX 09
Come learn SEO best practices and proven techniques that can boost the position of a Web site in search results pages.
Instead of having www.blabla.com/index.aspx?q=cats you can create a redirect to same page, but have instead the link www.blabla.com/search/cats. This enables the search engines to operate more efficiently in serving their customers (which can be also your customers, by the way) more accurate responses to their needs.
Language switcher
Nov 1st
Copyright : You can use the code below on your website as long as you keep a post with a link to my WordPress (http://radupoenaru.wordpress.com/) website on your WordPress website.
Since I moved my presentation site to WordPress hosting, I searched for a simple plugin or widget to allow me to have content in many languages. The basic idea is that if I wrote all in English, my older relatives ( whom learned French and Russian when Communism ruled ) wouldn’t be able to read it.
So where to find this precious tool? Initially I searched the plugins offered in WordPress specialized area, some were nice and interesting. But another problem arises – since it is a free hosting, you just can’t ask for these plugins, nor install them by yourself. Even the most popular ones, tried, tested and proven reliable by users weren’t integrated in WordPress hosting website.
Since it is the era of internationalization I believe that the builders thought that all of us learned already English.
Next I was thinking how to overcome this. And I came up with the idea presented below – use tags as switchers for different language articles.
For easy switching between languages, I added a HTML placeholder in Administration area -> Design ->Text widget and I placed him in the first position – feel free to add it as you like.
The text inside the widget is :
<table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center" width="50%"> <a href="http://radupoenaru.wordpress.com/tag/English"> <img border="0" src="http://radupoenaru.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/en.jpg" alt="Select only posts in English language" /></a> </td> <td align="center" width="50%"> <a href="http://radupoenaru.wordpress.com/tag/Romana"> <img border="0" src="http://radupoenaru.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ro.jpg" alt="Selecteaza doar mesajele in limba Româna" /></a> </td> </tr> </table>
I used a table just for effect, to evenly space the flag pictures.
I use the images below, uploaded in this message, because WordPress doesn’t allow media uploading separately – only included in a page.
The simplest way to do this was to include a language tag in the tags collection of each post. I use "English" for English posts and "Romana" for Romanian posts. So the main thing you should set after is one of the tags for each article in either Romana or English.
