Onlydarksets » Wordpress http://onlydarksets.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:36:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Great WordPress plugins http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/04/great-wordpress-plugins/ http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/04/great-wordpress-plugins/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:24:11 +0000 onlydarksets http://onlydarksets.com/?p=759 I pulled the trigger and moved the site.  The WP.org plugins are just too freaking cool.  Here are the “must haves” that I have found:

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]]> http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/04/great-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 0 WordPress.com and domains http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/02/wordpresscom-and-domains/ http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/02/wordpresscom-and-domains/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:27:07 +0000 onlydarksets http://onlydarksets.com/?p=746 So apparently it’s not that simple to get out from under the thumb of WordPress.com.

I want to use a custom domain name and my own hosting instead of onlydarksets.wordpress.com, but I would like to retain my Google/Yahoo/Live search rankings. I had hoped throwing a little cash at it would do the trick, but apparently all that gets you is 302 redirects, which are “temporary” redirects.  In common parlance, that tells the browser how to get to the page, but it does not tell the search engine spiders to update your URLs.  So, Google will continue to think that onlydarksets.wordpress.com contains all of my existing posts.

WordPress.com suggests simply paying them $10/year for life to redirect the old links to my new site.  After thinking a little more about why I was doing this, I’m thinking $10/year ain’t a bad proposition.

The good news is that, from this point on, the search engines will use onlydarkets.com for new posts.

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]]> http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/02/wordpresscom-and-domains/feed/ 2 Migrating from hosted WordPress.com to your own server http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/01/migrating-from-hosted-wordpresscom-to-your-own-server/ http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/01/migrating-from-hosted-wordpresscom-to-your-own-server/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:38:38 +0000 onlydarksets http://onlydarksets.com/?p=744 The problem is that you lose all of your search indexing if you just export it and start at your own domain.  However, here is a good writeup on the steps to avoid that.  It’s pretty simple if you’re willing to spend $10.

Basically, you buy a domain and host it through WordPress.com for a while, and then you setup your own server.  Doing it this way, WordPress.com will forward all of the requests to the old site in a way that search engines update their index with the new URL.  We’ll see how it works!

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]]> http://onlydarksets.com/2009/02/01/migrating-from-hosted-wordpresscom-to-your-own-server/feed/ 1 New theme, same blog http://onlydarksets.com/2008/10/08/new-theme-same-blog/ http://onlydarksets.com/2008/10/08/new-theme-same-blog/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:17:01 +0000 onlydarksets http://onlydarksets.wordpress.com/?p=558 I was having trouble with the header tags (<h2>, etc.) all showing up as the same size with the old theme.  This new one flows the text much better.  See the DTB guide (which I just updated a little bit) for an example.

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Total time (including backing up the old site, creating a new test site to verify the theme worked, and upgrading the new site)?

10 minutes.

WordPress rocks.

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