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I live in a Windows/Linux world. For my website administration I rely on ftp/sftp and ssh. Installing software/scripts that require upload/configurations are a pain in neck especailly if you are testing out new modules or themes which you end up testing atleast a dozen or so.

If you are constantly downloading files to your local PC then uploading them to the server, I have found a great soluition.

Sftpdrive drive allows you to mount your sftp server as a windows network drive. So now I unzip my files directly to the server and edit configuration files without having to deal with FTP/SFTP clients. It just saves me a lot of time.

Unfortunately it is commercial software and had to drop $39 bux!. There may be some open source solutions out there, if you spot any let me know. For the meantime this works great for me…

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At work

Working hard or hardley working?

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Wordpress & Pinging Setup

Next to stats, the second most important aspect in building out your blog is making sure it is sending out pings after every post you make.

What are pings? A ping is a XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a blog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post or updates an old one. (thanks wikipedia).

Basically it tells the world that you have put up new content and notifies sites you are pinging to so they can send over their robots to spider your fresh content. Once it is spidered and indexed, users can search through your content on various blog search engines. This also seems to help me get my content into Google within a day.

I opted to install MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. I chose this because the default pinging option in wordpress pings the services every time you post new content and edit content, which can lead you to being banned for ping spamming. MaxBlogPress will only ping when publishing new posts.

Installation:

Once again the install is very easy. You can FTP the files up or to save time, just SSH into your server and change to the wordpress plugins folder and do the following:

wget http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/maxblogpress-ping-optimizer.zip

unzip -x maxblogpress-ping-optimizer.zip

Then login to your admin panel and activate the plugin.

Now in the admin panel still, click on options and MBP Ping Optimizer. These are the pinging servers I am using:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://bblog.com/ping.php

You can add whichever ones you want.

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1st Plugin:Google Analyticator

Installing plugins are a breeze, just unzip and upload to your plugins folder and make sure to keep the full directory structure.

What I do is just copy the link of the plugin, for example if the plugin is located at http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-analyticator.2.1.zip
I just ssh into my server and change directory to ~/wordpress/wp-content/plugins

Issue:

wget  http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-analyticator.2.1.zip

unzip -x  google-analyticator.2.1.zip

That’s it. Now just login to your admin panel, go to Plugins and activate.

The first wordpress plugin I installed was Google Analyticator. Stats should be the first thing anyone should install when dealing with any website. You should always know who is coming to your site,  who is referring to your site and what countries they are coming from. You never know if that domain you purchased may already be getting traffic.

Available at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/

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Attempt #2

This is my second attempt starting up my blog.

I have switched from Drupal which is really nice except when you throw in one too many modules it gets a bit slow and complicated. It’s probably more suited for someone who can code their own modules.

Wordpress is very simple and sticks to its core duties. There is even a host of 3rd party tools to allow it to talk to other platforms which I will try to review.

I’m off to configure the rest of the plugins….

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