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Why WordPress is the Best Blogging Platform

May 22, 2009 By Travis Lusk 1 Comment

When you first start blogging choosing the best platform for your blog is critcal. This and your marketing efforts are the keys to your blogging success.

Many people get online to start blogs, but don’t know what platform to use. This is why you need to know why WordPress is the best blogging platform.

Here are the reasons why WordPress is the best blogging platform you can use to start your blog.

One: The blogging platform is very easy for anyone to use. It is designed to be simple for even beginners to use. When you make a post, you will write the post in the WYSIWYG editor, which allows you to save drafts and publish at your convenience.

Two: With WordPress, you have a full support team to help you when you need it. They provide you with a lot of plugins, free templates, add-ons and modifications for your blog.

Three: It is very simple for anyone to change the way your blog looks with just a click of a button. You can easily change the look of your blog very ith so many different templates available. This is very important because you want to have a site that is unique to you, so you can even get a custom WordPress blog made if you want to. In other words, you have total control over how your blog looks.

Four: When you are blogging, it is important that you are able to create permalinks. With just the click of a button, you can easily do this in WordPress .

Five: One of the main reasons why WordPress is the best blogging platform is because it is free to use. All you have to do is to download it and then upload it to your web hosting. What could be simpler than that?

Six: With a WordPress blog, there is automatic pinging to the main blog ping services each time you make a new post.

These are just a few of the reasons why WordPress is the best blogging platform. There are many other reasons that you can learn about with some research. So, if you are serious about blogging, you definitely want to use the WordPress platform.

You will never find one that is as easy to use, even for beginners. Start your blog today and before you know it you will be hooked on WordPress blogs.

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Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: wordpress

Free WordPress Technical Support

February 26, 2009 By Travis Lusk Leave a Comment

BlogCraving specializes in WordPress based gossip websites. If you visit icastlimited.com, you can see a list of our client samples. We currently serve many of the top gossip sites.

We offer you the piece of mind that you general technical site needs will be handled by a professional that knows 1) WordPress, and 2) the celeb blog biz.

Each month, you’ll receive the piece of mind that things like upgrades, server bugs, code errors, etc can be quickly addressed. And again, it doesn’t cost you any money out of pocket…ever.

Our service agreement is paid for by simply placing an ad unit on your website. This ad unit does not conflict with any other ads you currently have on your site. iCast sells those ads to cover the cost of our services for you. Therefore, your technical needs are completely paid for at no cost to you.

Here’s an example of a recent case where BlogCraving came in handy for one of our clients.

The client installed a new plugin that turned out to have some malicious scripts in it. The plugin caused a significant error in the database itself.

Unfortunately, the client’s host backed up the site every 24 hours. However, the client did not notice the problem until 3 days after the fact. So all of the backups had been tainted with the bad code in the database.

We were able to manually go into the database and clean up the errors by hand. We had the site back up and running 100% within 3 hours. The client was on the brink of losing 2 years worth of posts!

We also handle the more simple, but annoying tasks like system upgrades, general maintenance, SEO, etc. You can choose to spend your monthly maintenance time any way you choose.

And when the time comes for bigger projects, we offer preferred hourly rates for construction of new content and design.

We would love to make your site one of the newest members of the BlogCraving family. Cancel any time.

100% FREE Professional WordPress Blog Installation

Filed Under: Business, Free Wordpress Services Tagged With: free, professional, support, technical, wordpress

FREE: How to Start a Gossip Blog

February 21, 2009 By Travis Lusk Leave a Comment

Are you thinking of starting your own gossip blog, but just don’t know how to get started? Do you think you could be funnier and more entertaining than those other sites? Want to earn some serious cash?

BlogCraving is offering our 6 Part Mini-Course for FREE for the first time. That’s a $199 value!

Sign up above and get instant access to the course. If you sign up now, we will send you Lesson 1 instantly. Then each day, we’ll send you the next lesson.

Here’s what you will get:

Part 1 – Your plan of attack. How to pick your killer category, and crush it. INSTANT!
Part 2 – Designing your gossip brand. How to design your site to match your voice.
Part 3 – Site hosting. How to pick the best web host that can grow with you (cheap).
Part 4 – Getting noticed. How to get the first eyeballs on your site, plus your next 10,000.
Part 5 – Show me the money. How to generate advertising money without doing any work.
Part 6 – Tracking your growth. How to track how fast you are growing, and keep it going.

You can unsubscribe at anytime. We hate SPAM as much as you do. Personally, we get thousands of unwanted emails a day, and we hate it. That’s why we will never send you spam, and we will never sell your information. Your email address is safe with us.

So sign up today, and get started on your new blog right now!

Filed Under: How to... Tagged With: blog, celebrity gossip, How to..., wordpress

WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 Released

June 24, 2008 By Travis Lusk Leave a Comment

Geeks across the land rejoice.

Why just the geeks? Well this release is expected to not have many visible changes. A lot of those were made with the 2.5 release, so it’s time to catch our breath.

Instead, a lot of changes “under the hood” are being made to improve the usability and experience. Here’s the list.

Caching of static files with Google Gears. Speeds up the backend for admins. It’s cool and complicated at the same time. In a nutshell, Google Gears is a little application you install on your computer. It will then fetch the static files and information from WordPress that rarely (if ever) changes. That way your browser doesn’t have to download the item, object, or function every time, thus speeding up the performance. You may have noticed in WP2.5 that the “Link” and “Add Photo” buttons can take a little time to load. Well, after the first time it loads, each subsquent load will be instant because Gears will have saved the functionality to your local machine.

Drag-and-drop sortable galleries

Post Revisioning. WordPress will now save all of your individual post revisions so that you can compare them side by side. Red highlighted text will indicate text that had been removed. Green highlighted text will show what was added. You can then restore any older or previous version of a post from within the system. Works great for group edited blogs. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: avatar systems, beta, google gears, photo buttons, previous version, wordpress, wordpress 2.6

Increase Sociability WordPress Plugin Trial Run

June 16, 2008 By Travis Lusk 1 Comment

I was browsing ShoeMoney today, and I saw a post about a new (or maybe just newer) plugin called Increase Sociability.

I had seen it in action before on the front end of a different website, but didn’t know that was what I was seeing.

Basically, the idea is to plop a special line of text at the top of your blog post when a user comes to your site through Digg, Stumble, etc. The plugin knows when people came to your site from one of the social voting sites, and it knows which one. It then, for example, will remind the Digg user to digg your post.

However, users that just browse your site the good old fashioned way won’t see anything.

The idea is to give the reader just a little reminder to give you a vote. As a result, you should get more social votes.

So, I’m going to test it on a few other sites and see how it goes.

Filed Under: Site Traffic, Strategy Tagged With: Increase Sociability, plugin, shoemoney, wordpress

Image Upload PageURL and Image

May 13, 2008 By Travis Lusk Leave a Comment

Many people are sill experiencing issues with the image upload function in WordPress 2.5.1.

The issue centers around placing images into posts with links to the image itself or to a page with the image on it.

After uploading in an image, you are given the option to place it with None, File URL, or Post URL. File URL links right to the full size image by itself. The Post URL links to a stand alone page with only the image on it. None does exactly what it sounds like.

Well, in IE7, that doesn’t always work correctly. As a matter of fact, it rarely works. However, in Firefox and all Mac browsers, it works just fine.

It is a known issue: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6469

It apparently will be fixed for WordPress 2.5.2

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: 2.5, 2.5.1, firefox, ie7, image upload, images, mac browsers, uploading, wordpress

WordPress 2.5.1 Released

April 26, 2008 By Travis Lusk 1 Comment

WordPress 2.5.1 is now available for immediate download and install.

WordPress and iCast Limited highly recommends upgrading your install immediately due to the discovery of a serious security hole associated with open registration. The vulnerability will be published soon, so it is in your best interest to upgrade as soon as possible.

The full upgrade also has over 70 bug fixes! So a lot of the little buggy issues we have been dealing with have been fixed officially, including image upload problems in 2.5 associated with Internet Explorer (IE).

Other updates:

Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
Better performance for those who have many categories
Media Uploader fixes
An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
Widget Administration fixes
Various usability improvements
Layout fixes for IE

Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: 2.5.1, bug fixes, fix, image upload, internet explorer, performance improvements, released, Security, security hole, serious security, upgrade, usability improvements, vulnerability, wordpress

Right out of the box, it comes with all the most popular social networking sites and bookmarking sites. In about 5 minutes, you can have this configured and launched on your blog. It also comes with a handy little plugin for WordPress that makes the implementation slightly easier. However, you don’t need the plugin portion if you are compfortable with it on your own.

You are left with a clean, small button on the bottom of your posts that says ShareThis with a little icon. That’s it. Nice and clean. When clicked, it pops open to reveal your sharing options.

For you as the site owner, you can track the usage of these networking tools through the ShareThis website. That way, you can see if people are actually using it!

Filed Under: Site Traffic Tagged With: blog, blogs, bookmark, configured, email post, email to friend, implementation, networking tools, sharethis, social networking sites, tagging, traffic, wordpress