Comments on: How WordPress 2.8 upgrade will improve your blogging experience

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:32:17 +0000

You just need to paste the embed code directly into the text field where you are writing your blog post in the HTML editor part. You do not need to use any “embed video spots”.

By: Jean Tower

Jean Tower — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:51:07 +0000

Mark – I notice that you have embedded video in this post. I am having trouble with that. I can add a link to a video, but when I try to embed the video nothing happens. Can you point me to directions on how to do this? It actually seemed like it should be straightforward – I copied the embed video code from youtube, pasted into the embed video spot on my post page . . .and nothing. Thanks

By: Gerri - Ninety Nine Ways

Gerri - Ninety Nine Ways — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:45:36 +0000

That is fair enough comment, I am using it on one of my blogs and am enjoying it. One thing though is that some plugins here and there that I use and love using make some things in Wordpress 2.8 go ‘crazy’ and I can’t find any alternatives. I guess it is just a matter of waiting for the developers to update their plugins so that they are compatible with 2.8.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:26:38 +0000

This whole blogging malarkey is new to me, so I really, really appreciate it when someone gives great advice and easy to follow guides and tips! Thanks Marko, you're brilliant!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:01:43 +0000

This new process of installing themes is great. make it much easier to be able to take care of this right through the dashboard.

By: Chrissy Morin

Chrissy Morin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:54:38 +0000

WOW.. I just used the theme uploader where you get to go and find new themes other than the same old one’s you get if you are a .wordpress.com person… and it was so so easy.. I just love Wordpress! and this blog! Thanks again.

By: Happy Hotelier

Happy Hotelier — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:02:28 +0000

Redirection plugin is definitively a no go….creates a loop without end….blog has to wait for a while. Aanother problem asks for attention: Replacing a Novell server…yes I’m an old (fashioned) hacker:-)

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:09:01 +0000

@Happy Hotelier – Not sure really, never really had any issues with widgets. WordPress forums or Thesis forums might have something about it.

By: Happy Hotelier

Happy Hotelier — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:44:51 +0000

I’ll fudz further

As to the widgets….the text widgets (referrals to Mybloglog and so on) I had installed in my 1,5 (approx 18 of them) didn’t show up once I had installed 1.5.1.

I still have a copy of the 1.5 installation. Do you know which file is affected when you install or de install widgets? So that I can look there to copy and past the various scripts?

In order to know about faulty landings I have installed the 404 notifier plugin of Alex King which produces an excellent overview of faulty requests also from search bots, so you can weed out some problems but I don’t understand every faulty request … I was hoping the redirection plugin took me a bit further:-)

In the redirection plugin description It sez it gives good text to rewrite your .htaccess file….

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:18:34 +0000

@Happy Hotelier – Didn’t have any problems with my widgets, try to place them again. If you use All In One SEO for meta title, meta description, meta keywords of your articles, then you can just use the inbuilt feature in Thesis. It does the same thing.
I use .htaccess file on my server to redirect. For example see this line of code inside my .htaccess that I use to redirect my http://howtomakemyblog.com/twitter-ebook/ page to another URL:
Redirect 301 /twitter-ebook/ http://www.howtomakemyblog.com/ebook/whats-the-twitter-marketing-e-book/