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Windows Live Writer settings transfer/backup – blog profiles, draft and recent posts
Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is considered to be the most feature rich blog authoring tool. Available for free in Windows (sorry Mac/Linux folks) is known for comprehensive text editing, image management, and link management tool for bloggers.
This Christmas, I got a awesome present, a brand new laptop. It is great working in the new machine. But, I wasn’t easy updating all of my blog addresses in the new Live Writer. So, I went searching for a tool that can backup and transfer blog profiles.
A free tool, Windows Live Writer Backup, available in CodePlex, proved to be the perfect tool to make the task easy. Even if you don’t need to transfer profiles or settings, this is a perfect tool for keeping the backups of your blog profiles.
Downloading, installing and creating the backup is pretty easy. Clicking on the "Backup" button creates a bakcup file containing settings, posts and plugins. If you want more flexibility on what to backup and what not, you can optionally select or deselect features in Settings / Posts and Plugins. Clicking on the text ‘Settings’ lets you deselect ‘blogs’, ‘blog templates’, and "link glossary". By default, recent posts are not saved. But, you can also select it by clicking on the text ‘Post’ (as shown in figure below).
After backing up the backup file (name.wlwbackup) is copied in the new machine. After installing the software in the new machine, Restore button is used to restore the profile in the new Windows Live installation.
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Goodbye Blogsome
Before we started the blogs in our own domain, we tried various blogging platforms including Geocities, Blogsome, Blogger, WordPress.com and so on. After realizing that investing a lot of time and effort on such platform doesn’t pay-off later, we choose to purchase our own domain and start developing it. Our fears are turning out to be real… After Geocities and other free hosts, Blogsome is also shutting down soon.
We received the following email today:
Hello owner of the xnepali blog,
We regret to inform you that Blogsome is going to be closing down
permanently. We’ve enjoyed hosting your blogs, but all good things
must come to an end. After the 7th December the admin interface of
your blog may no longer be accessible and the blog content may be removed.
If you would like to backup your content you can do so by logging into
your blog. After this choose the Manage >> Backup tabs. Here you
will find three backup options. We have recently added a WXR file
option, which will allow you to import your content back into the
popular WordPress.com blogging site. In order to keep your images you
should select a backup of the database which includes images.
We are sorry about the inconvenience and wish you good luck in your
future blogging endevours.
Cheers,
The Blogsome team.Although we didn’t devote much time in the blog, we hadn’t closed it (now, they are going to delete it).
The email I got was not from Blogsome address but from "Browse the World" with email id originating from browseireland.com. When I checked the the Blogsome Forum, it is confirmed that they indeed are closing. Many users were disappointed and were desperately trying to move the blog to other platforms.
Some users have been worried about how to move the blog to another platform. Here is the procedure:
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Submitting sites to Google and other search engines
Question - How do I submit my blog to Google and other search engine. I found a website that has 100 plus links of local versions of Google to submit sites. Is it worth the effort?
Answer - Short answer – no, you don’t need to submit. Get links from other sites.
Almost all the search engines (including Google) have site submission tools. That used to be one of the most important tool in past. But, time has changed and now search engine submission is not as important as it used to be. Search engines are intelligent to find your site – all by themselves. You can make their jobs easy – by posting your links in sites that Google/search engines already know.
Some SEO companies give more than necessary emphasis to search engine submission. One submission to Google through this link might be a good idea but, you don’t need to submit to multiple search engines or spend money to submit to multiple search engines. Try to get most out of backlink instead!
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How to add Google +1 in websites ?
Google has now allowed to add Google Plus +1 button in WordPress sites easily.
Webmaster have been in hurry to add +1 button in their sites in hope that it might influence the Google search engine ranking and influence SEO.
Otto has posted a code to make a pulgin for WordPress. But, it is crude form yet.
Here is the easiest way of adding the button:
Visit this Google page. You will see the page as shown in the screenshot below. Choose the size of the button (preview is shown in box on the right). Scroll down and copy the code and paste on the header portion and the place you would like the button to appear.
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ASCII codes (text and chart)
ASCII codes are special characters, usually not available in keyboard. Programs like Word and Excel have facilities to enter them in a document by using their toolbar commands. But, in basic editors like Notepad, combination of keys in the keyboard should be used to enter the special character.
Press and hold ‘alt’ key and type the corresponding number (in number pad) given in the table below.
If you are using laptop without the number pad, you might need to use applications like Word or Excel to insert the "symbol" and copy paste it in the required place. You can also copy the symbols from the following list and paste in the required place (description credits – chexed).
An image version is posted at the end (in case you want to print and paste it in your room.)
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How to add photos/images in a WordPress post
This is a beginner-level tutorial that shows how to insert an image in a WordPress blog.
This tutorial covers only the most basic aspects of uploading and inserting an image.WordPress makes it easy and simple to upload images to the blog.
Single image uploading and inserting:
A short tutorial on uploading multiple images
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How to change Blogger icon?
The default Blogger icon, white ‘B’ on orange square doesn’t appeal much to the viewers. We can change it to the icon of our choice by following the following steps:1. Icon image
Blogger is flexible in icon image – it can be can be ICO, JPG or PNG format. PNG or ICO are the format. Generally websites use 16×16 icons (favicons). Blogger is flexible in this regard too – the image can be bigger or smaller. I would suggest to stick with 16×16 pixels – for loading speed and display. You can create a big image and resize to small one later.
2. Upload the imageYou can upload the image in image hosts like PhotoBucket or any hosting sites that offer "the direct link" to the image.
3. Add the image link to template
In the Blogger control panes click "edit html" in "layout" section. (Make backups before editing the file.) In the head section, between "title" tag and "b:skin" tag add the following code. Replace the text "the direct URL of icon image" with the direct link to your new icon image.
<link href=’the direct URL of icon image‘ rel=’shortcut icon’ type=’image/vnd.microsoft.icon’/>
Save the template. Open the site to see your new icon. Sometimes, due to cache system in browser, it might take some time before the new icon appears.
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A Blogspot blog, your content without permission – what to do?
The content you write is your property and nobody can steal from you. If you find somebody posting undesirable contents in a Blogspot blog you can complain Google about it. If the content violates the Terms of Service of Blogspot, Google will punish the blogger.
Some of the issues they take seriously are:
- Copyright and privacy of contents
- Spam content
- Hate or violence
- Posting contents in somebody else’s name – posting private information of others.
- Defamation/Libel/Slander
- Nudity and inappropriate contents
Click here to complain Google about the blog.
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5 WordPress Plugins to promote your best contents in your own blog and outside
These are the Top five plugins I have found to be useful in promoting contents of my blog. Promotion is the key to the success of any blogs. If you want more people to read your most important posts, you will need to advertise them (literally). There are some cool plugins that can help you promote your best contents and make it easy for everybody to find them.
The plugins I am going to tell you about will help you to boost your traffic, increase subscription. The first two plugins are useful to promote your blog outside your own blog. The remaining three plugins are used to promote the most significant posts in your own blog.
The future has something more than Google to increase traffic in your site. Social networking is huge and their importance can’t be ignored. A nice plugin from ShareThis has been quite popular in this aspect. It’s a single icon shows pop-up window to share the blog content to most of the popular social networks.
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Unicode text turned garbage and ?s in WordPress blog
Our blog – blog.xnepali.com is basically an English site. But, the movies posted there are in Nepali language – so we were posting the name of the movie in Nepali text. Recently for some unknown reason the cache plugin ‘Hyper Cache’ stopped working and I had to play around with the settings. After a couple of days I realize the text in the site have gone crazy.
While searching the WordPress support I found out that the solution to the problem was the configuration file "wp-config.php". When I restored the back-up of the file, the unicode start to look fine.
To troubleshot what might have happened, I removed some of the lines that were not present in the original files were and restored the new config file.
The problem were the two lines in the config file:
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