LadySivitri.net

I spent most of the day working on transferring Dot’s blog over to her own domain.  It was rewarding to be able to figure out things and make them work!  All I have left is getting the footer and sidebars complete – it doesn’t seem like the widget functionality works very well; maybe that is something I can fix in the future.  Then the chore of importing the Blogger posts – it is fairly simple and most pictures and video transfer just fine; but WordPress likes to put all of Blogger’s “labels” as “categories” instead of “tags” and that is a real nightmare – especially since she has 350 posts!  If you are serious about keeping a blog, get your own domain name right from the start, that way you don’t have to start over building page rank when you decide you need more control.  WestHost has some great deals right now, and their customer service is fantastic.

I installed an SEO Plugin, and it was very easy.  I’m only displeased about one thing:  It has changed my page titles.  The home page has no title at all, and the post pages only have the post name and not the name of the blog.  I’m sure it is a simple setting that I am missing somewhere.
UPDATE:  Not sure if it was a theme issue or not, but I replaced the funky code in the title section with this:
<title>
<?php if ( is_home() ) { ?><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> | <?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>
<?php } else { ?><?php wp_title($sep = ”); ?> | <?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?>
<?php } ?>
</title>

This will show as:  Post Name | Blog Name (or just Blog Name on the home page).  I think the plugin works with this just fine; if not, that is how it is supposed to appear, anyway.  The only thing I might change in the future is the pipe bar | to a hyphen.  I think it is more friendly to the out-loud reading software.

This evening I spent working on my blogs, since I discovered clicking on a tag/keyword only returned a page with one post on it.  After a few hours of hacking through the php files I finally hit on it, and fixed the category pages while I was at it.  The only problem is that I uncovered a few more things that I need to do!  I also had a scare – all my Logical Media ads disappeared and it was blocking me from logging in!  It turns out that something corrupted my cookies, thank goodness.  I just deleted them and all was well.  Whew!

My magic touch is at work again today. I upgraded WordPress and now I can’t change the pretty picture up on the top of my blog. I have future plans for that picture spot but they aren’t really ready to go, yet. Oh well, Ayumi is beautiful to look at, eh?

I have been busy with getting the new website and blog set up for two weeks, now.  Traffic seems to be picking up gradually.  I’ve gotten a better handle on the Twitter stuff, finally, so it didn’t take quite as long for me to grow followers this week.