Behind The Scenes

Published by admin under In The Begining,Website on June 11, 2009

WordPress just rolled out with “Baker”; version 2.8. This is the first time I’ve ever had to update my version of WordPress, and I was pretty scared. I’m still a newb at all this website junk. It turned out there was nothing to be afraid of. WordPress as always had a very detailed how-to article. Basically as long as I didn’t delete certain files that they graciously listed for me from my site I was in the clear! Not to much has changed as far as I can tell. Reactivating my plugins went smoothly, but I did have a difficult time figuring out the widgets(sidebar stuff). All the active, and inactive stuff threw me for a loop. On top of that for some odd reason It’s not dragging and dropping how it’s supposed to. Fortunately at the top there is still the screen options so I just switched it to operate the old school way. What was the point then of me upgrading you may ask? Well…..I wish I had an answer for you. It does seem to function a lot faster, but I’m not sure it was worth all that work it took. I’m sure I’ll see the benefits latter on down the road when I want to switch my theme. That is supposed to be much easier somehow.

I haven’t blogged much, but I have been working on the site a lot in other ways. Recently I was reading about how to drive more traffic to your site, and discovered that I should create a site-map.  I created one using this nifty website that gives you a free basic site-map for up to 500 pages. Not that I could even create that many pages 0_0!  Besides for putting it in your public file with your host you can submit it to Google manually using your webmaster tools. It allows your page to be verified, and then it gets crawled on a regular basis. Why would you want your page to get crawled…..well that means that google is getting up-to-date information for their search engine about your website on a regular basis and that translates into more traffic. What is a blog without readers? Another thing I was pretty stoked to discover is that you can manually submit your blog for google blog search instead of waiting to be discovered. I don’t know about you, but I am always checking what is going on in the blogosphere.