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Haven’t done any more work on this blog, but not to fret, I have a big activity session planned in a couple weeks after I sort out some MAJOR deadlines (work, life and study related… it’s just that time of year). In the meantime, I’ve been checking out Vox which looks to do the myspace […]

A small health warning… blogging may take over your life. If you don’t believe me, check out this video by PhilTube.
Phil loves blogging. If only he had more time. And we are not talking euphemism here, people, blogging is a serious pursuit. It is shaping everything from little licorice candies to fertile American minds to […]

If you want nice search friendly permalinks that don’t involve numbers and question marks you can tweak this in your WordPress dashboard.
Click on Options/Permalinks, choose your favoured style. I’m going to go with a custom style that’s numeric and name based: ie http://blogmaking.net/blog/123/sample-post/ so I click on the custom option and paste:
/%post_id%/%postname%/
but feel free to […]

Wordpress has five roles in version 2.0. for more info, you can go to: Roles and Capabilities « WordPress Codex, here’s a summary from it:

Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the administration features
Editor - Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
Author - Somebody who can […]

Unless you’re happy with all your posts coming as “admin” (if that’s how you named your initial user in the set up), you might like set yourself up as a user and then use that identity to post.
Click on site admin (or go straight to the /wp-admin/ part of your site) and click on Users […]

In the set up, you assigned/were given a login and a password. Login to your blog and if you’re the only one who uses your computer (or you can trust any others who might too) then it is much more convenient to get your browser to remember your password. I also click on the “remember […]

If you set up your blog in a root folder ignore this post, when someone types in your domain they will go straight to your blog.
If you set up your blog in a folder other than the root, you might like to make a placeholder page so when someone visits your domain they get something […]

Again, this depends on the 1 click system your host uses. In Micfo and any other system that uses Fantastico, click on the Fantastico icon (a big smiley) and then choose WordPress from the options on the side left. Click on “new installation” and follow the instructions. When asked to install in directory, if you […]

DreamHost’s 1 click install was down on the weekend, but this ended up being a good thing because it forced me to do a manual install (which is supposed to be much healthier) and I realised how wonderfully easy it actually was. I normally can’t stand back-end stuff, once it starts getting too codey I […]

It’s a good idea to set up an email address from that address. In dreamhost if you click on Mail/Manage Email, you’ll find the “create a new email address” link and this will let you create email forwarders and pop3 mailboxes. Definitely create an admin address that you can use when you set up your […]