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Every once in a while a search engine will index a page and that page may go away. When someone clicks on the link from the search engine and no efforts have been taken to handle the “Page not found” error visitors will hit the back button and move on. There is a way to customize the errors using a file called .htaccess. Within the file one simply adds these lines:
ErrorDocument 400 /error.php?400
ErrorDocument 403 /error.php?403
ErrorDocument 404 /error.php?404
ErrorDocument 500 /error.php?500
What that does is any web errors that are encountered are automatically sent to a page on your site called error.php . This file can be any valid file on your site or even to another site. Chances are great now that your error is properly handled that your visitor will not hit their back button and leave your site. One problem solved! More info on apache http status codes.
I have found a new plugin for wordpress I like. It’s called CommentLuv and when you view the comments box for a post at the bottom you will see a new checkbox. When you make a comment CommentLuv will try to get your latest blog post and post it with your comments. Try it out on this post if you like!
I first read about doing this on this post. If you read this post and want more twitter action and blog readers post your twitter url and your blogs feed I would like everyone to follow / subscribe to that person. I’ll start with mine:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/justinrains
RSS feed: RSS feed
What’s your info? Post it and we’ll see how many new followers and readers we can get for eachother.
Bloggers or webmasters who make cash on their site by displaying ebay affiliate ads or live auctions will need to change their code by the end of April. eBay is moving their affiliate program in house. A cool site I have also found is shoppingads.com. ShoppingAds displays ebay auctions on a website using a snippet of javascript code. ShoppingAds will continue to work with the new eBay partner program so no changes will need to be made. To see a shoppingads.com ad go to this outdoor blog and see the Hot item listed under the sponsors section. For more information on shopping ads click on the ads by ShoppingAds link on the outdoors blog. Shopping Ads is easy to setup webmasters can give the search terms to use and pick from a variety of different ad sizes.
This is published by Stephen Enzweiler for Yall Magazine every Friday. Check out the latest cartoon here.
Recently mySQL was upgraded on the hosting server my site is on and something weird happened: the posts were displayed from oldest to newest! My blog was running wordpress 2.0.2 and wordpress 2.5 had just been released. I dreaded upgrades because of the “what ifs”. My worst nightmare was that the upgrade would break everything and I would loose two years of posts. I put on my big-boy-be-brave hat and set side an hour of time to perform the upgrade. First I disabled all of the plugins I was using (that was a good thing, I didn’t enable at least half of them after the upgrade), switched the theme to the default wordpress theme, removed the old directories as I was told to do, unzipped 2.5 over top of any code left, copied my wp-config.php back to my directory, and ran the upgrade script. It worked! What’s even better is that the posts are now showing the latest post first! What I came out of this was that wordpress is not as hard to upgrade as I thought and that I should be running the latest stable version. That being said, here are some things I like about wordpress 2.5:
I think my favorite is the last one. Just enter your FTP information and wordpress downloads the plugin, unzips it and installs the latest version of the plugin. All of this is done through your browser window!
Are you using Wordpress 2.5? If so what is your favorite new feature?
I use a free too to create PDFs. PDFs are nice to send out because their content cannot be easily chnged. PDFs are also almost a “standard” for printable forms that are linked to from a website. The tool I use is called Primo PDF. To use it you simply click on File-> Print in the application you are using and change your printer to be the Primo PDF printer. The software takes over from there and asks you where the file should be saved. Quick and easy!
Hey everyone please go here and digg this cartoon by Jim Borgman entitled “Welcome Home Matt”. You have homework now go do it.
Wordpress Adsense: Blogging For Profits
