Matt Vapor’s Blog

Thanks to a a nifty little script called the “Wordpress to Myspace Auto Crossposting” my blog is now updated with my MySpace Blog.

There are a few problems with styles, which you can see on my MySpace Blog but it is a good way to get your MySpace “friends” to your blog.

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I have finally convinced my wife to start a blog. You can view it here

http://sue.clickonline.org.au

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Phew, now I can remove my heart from my mouth. I thought I would upgrade my Blog from WordPress 2.1 to 2.2, and during the process I managed to delete my config file doh!

Anyway I just reedited the config file that come with WordPress 2.2 and I was back in business

I was very surprised how easy the upgrade was. I know the read me file says its easy to do, but with anything like this you do it with a great deal of skepticism.

Heres the steps from the read me file:

Upgrading from any previous WordPress to 2.2

1. Delete your old WP files, saving ones you’ve modified.
2. Upload the new files.
3. Point your browser to /url/to/upgrade.php.
4. You wanted more, perhaps? That’s it!

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Want to have an easy solution for a Sitemap for Google and other search engines for your WordPress Blog?

Check out Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress

It features:

• WordPress 2 compatible
• No PHP skills needed
• Has a user interface where you can customize all parameters like change frequencies, priorities etc.
• Available in fourteen languages
• Generates a static XML file in your Blog directory (Filename is customizable)
• Can generate a gzipped version of the sitemap
• Generates a sitemap for homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages
• Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments (You can also turn this off)
• The XML file gets automatically rebuilt if you change/edit/create/publish a post
• Tells Google automatically about changes via Google-Ping
• You can include external pages which aren’t generated by WordPress or are not recognized by this plugin
• You can define a minimum post priority, which will override the calculated value if it’s too low
• Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap

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Since I have started my blog some I have officially received 1,838 spam comments!

And thanks to Akismet Wordpress plug in it has caught every spam comment apart from one which i saw yesterday awaiting moderation.

Better yet check out Michael Arrington’s recommendation at TechCrunch where Akismet stopped over a Million Spam Comments!

This plug in is definitely a must for any Blogger using Wordpress!

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