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I’ve decided to take a leaf out of Matt Levenhagen’s book, and produce a follow-along - as I go through the steps I typically carry out when upgrading a site.
I first saw Matt use this technique when he was first developing his AdWords Campaign Blasts method when he was still part of Web Profit School. The WPS members really enjoyed the approach as it illustrated the steps he carried out to quickly test Adwords Campaigns. BTW - if you’re interested in developing your Adwords skills as well as get general all-round internet marketing insights, you really need to check out Matt’s membership site, XtremeProfits - a site packed with great internet marketing street-smarts, and a friendly, active forum that provides excellent Adwords campaigns coaching.
OK - back to the WordPress 2.5 follow-along.
This will cover some of the code upgrade issues that I need to tackle as the producer of the Rapid Niche Websites System - but this could be useful for WordPress users - as it will give them some clues regarding what to look for if they use a number of plugins to customise their WordPress installation.
RNW Feature : Note the use of the Category Introduction - one of RapidNicheWebsites features. This allows you to add any post as an introduction to a category. Along with the visual benefit of providing a more interesting category page (you could for instance include an image in the intro …), you now also have the ability to allocate SEO-related custom fields - further improving the SEO ranking of the category page.
WordPress 2.6 has been released. I only uploaded the beta version a couple of days ago - and now had to upload the release version.
The good news is that it looks like a pretty clean upgrade from Vsn 2.5.1.
If you want to see what changes have been made, you can watch the following video - [...]
Wow! The dust is only just settling for WP 2.5, and WP 2.6 is upon us. I know that quite a few of my customers haven’t yet upgraded to WP 2.5 - but I need to keep abreast of the changes due to the fact that new installations on web hosts use the latest available [...]
The DropCap plugin comes from an observation by David Ogilvy - a highly respected direct response marketer. He observed that he got a 13% increase in people reading his sales copy if the first letter in the first paragraph was a large drop capital.
This plugin makes implementing that literally two mouse clicks. You double-click the [...]
WordPress is an extremely powerful application, but it was developed to deliver blog capabilities, not Search Engine Optimized (SEO) web pages.
This plugin addresses WordPress’s SEO shortcoming. It interacts with the templates provided with the RNW System, and delivers conditional SEO behaviour based on values you define on the SEO Options page, and in SEO custom [...]
This plugin allows you to order:
Pages,
Categories, and
Posts
using a simple drag and drop interface:
The good news is that the latest version of WordPress now provides a term-order field in the term relationships table - and so it is no longer necessary to upload a tweaked taxonomy.php file - as we had had to [...]
No Comments »I didn’t expect the RNW Breadcrumbs (Version 1.0) plugin to give any trouble - and I was right.
The plugin activated OK, and the breadcrumbs were displayed as expected - on all page types.
I downloaded the latest versions of Post-Plugin Library ( Version 2.5b22 ), and Similar Posts ( Versioni 2.5b22 ).
Both activated without problems. I set a couple of options on the setup’s Options page, and then added the following PHP code to an Affililate Ad widget :
<?php if (function_exists(’similar_posts’)) { similar_posts();} ?>
The widget immediate started [...]
The Paged Navigation 1.0 plugin is the third plugin by Andy Staines that I like to include on my sites. It provide good-looking page navigation on both the category as well as individual post pages.
This plugin has no options page. It activated without any problems, and the theme pages immediately began displaying the enhanced [...]
I have been using Organizer - a very useful plugin to help upload and organise files on your server.
If uploaded Organizer - Version 1.2.1 to my test blog.
When I activated the plugin - no errors were generated. However, when I tried to update options - I wanted to add SWF as an allowed file type, [...]
I don’t often use this plugin - Kimili Flash Embed - Version 1.4.2 - but needed it for this site, and also for my customer support site.
If seems to work as expected - by using a simple tag, you get a flash image or movie displayed …
[ kml_flashembed movie="http://jeff-w.com/wp25/wp-content/uploads/flash/UpgradeFlash.swf" height="225" width="275" /]
gives you:
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