Four Great Blog resources

Blogging, Wordpress October 19th, 2007

Over the last week I came across 4 great blog-related resources that I wanted to share:

  1. 66 Ways To Build Links in 2007 - Brandon Hopkins has a huge list of ways to build links. It’s one of those blog posts you should bookmark and keep re-visiting every so often. Marketing and promoting your blog should be a never ending process, and a good chunk of that work is in link building.
  2. WordPress Plugin Directory - WordPress has finally put together a comprehensive plugin list and organized it neatly and properly. Already I’ve found a few plugins I wasn’t aware of, including some very popular ones that warrant more investigation. This will very quickly become the de facto resource for all WordPress users when looking for plugins.
  3. MultiSubmit - A neat little tool that lets you submit a blog post to multiple social bookmarking type sites all at once. You can pick which ones you want to be setup for, and it’s an incredibly easy process. It doesn’t work for StumbleUpon though, which is too bad because StumbleUpon is a great service. Still, it’s a very fast way to get a blog post put into the most popular social bookmarking sites including digg, reddit, Netscape and del.icio.us.
  4. Blogged Out - Darren Cronian is starting almost from the beginning, introducing people to ways they can promote and improve their blogs. The information to-date is basic, but it’s always smart to start at the basics and learn along with others. Darren’s goal is to run Blogged Out for 3 months, earn $1,900 and donate 40% to charity.

Hope you enjoy these resources!

How to setup a forum in wordpress : Rs-Discuss.

Wordpress October 7th, 2007

I based my installation from this post and added some additional details

  • Uninstall RS-Discuss
  • Deactivated the plugin.
  • Delete any previous page your created for RS-Discuss
  • Activate RS-Discuss
  • At Forum Structure Page, Create a forum, example British Film Stars
  • Give it a simple name without space eg: british_film_star
  • Create as many forum as you want
  • You should see a new link on the TOP RIGHT which say: Return to Forum Index
  • Check the address of the link, should be something like: http://www.yourwebsite.com/forum or http://www.yourwebsite.com/re-discuss
  • Copy the sub-directory name, ie: forum or rs-discuss
  • Create a new static PAGE to put all the forums (Don’t seem to work if create as POST)
  • At the Write PAGE, on the SLUG box, enter the directory name as in step 7, ie: forum or rs-discus
  • Switch the editor to CODE edit
  • enter the following in the editer box <!--rs-discuss-->
  • Save the page
  • Your forum should be on
    http://www.yourwebsite.com/forum or
    http://www.yourwebsite.com/re-discuss

Sample site : http://eag-thailand.com/forum

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