The newest WordPress is now out with version 3.0 Theonious.

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STEP 1
Get a domain name. We recommend Namecheap.com for all your domain name registration. Once you have your domain name register, go to the next step.

STEP 2
Get a web host. You will need to sign up with one of the following web host provider.

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The WordCamp Toronto 2010 will be open at the Centennial College Student Centre on March 27 and 28. Here’s a map on Google map.

More information can be view here on the WordCamp Toronto’s website.

The price will be $35 CND for one person. So, I’ll be going there to check out what it is all about and maybe I can pick up something from it.

Here is the schedule for the 2 days event for The WordCamp Toronto 2010.

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Just two months ago (December 2009) this website www.keyframe5.com got hack by a spammer! I never thought I would end up as a victim, I always say to myself this will never happen to me.

Here is how I find out how my WordPress website was hack and how to protect your WordPress website from becoming a victim.

1. The fastest and easiest way to keep your WordPress website protected from hackers and spammers is to always upgrade your WordPress website to the latest WordPress version.
2. Validate your CSS and source code with W3C.
   
   If some unknown html codes were added, you can easily pick it up the errors with W3C. If you don’t know how to validate your source code through W3C, you can still do it by remembering the amount of errors you have and later on when you check it again you suddenly have 100’s extra errors. Then that should tell you something is wrong.
3. Look at your web traffic statistic. If you notice a slow decline of traffic on your web site and you have a gut feeling something is wrong. Check and see what key words some of the people use on search engines to find your site. For example, I notice someone used the key word “3D penis mesh”. I know the word penis is not on my website anywhere (except on this page), but for some weird reason someone found my site with the word penis. That should be a good warning sign something is wrong.
4. Lastly, regularly check your source code. I check my source code all the time and I’ll admit I didn’t notice anything wrong when I got the hack but if you’re careful you might be able to find something out of the ordinary.
5. Another thing you can do is backup your files regularly. If you do not want to upgrade to the latest wordpress because you are scared something might break. You can always upload your back up. This will overwrite the spammer’s code, but remember it can happen again since you are still using the same files.
6. Yes, always upgrade WordPress when in doubt.

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Intro and Splash Pages
The worst thing you could do is to have a Flash splash page and inside the flash object there is the enter link. This mean, the each engine spiders can not access the enter link inside the flash object. Therefore, your splash page with the flash object will be the only page the search engine spiders will index and not the other pages.

It is okay if you don’t care about search engines indexing your content, but for the rest of us this is the biggest mistake anyone can do with SEO. Your homepage is likely the highest ranking page of the entire site. Why put any splash page there? There is no use for splash pages, unless you want the users to have the options to select which language they prefer, but other than that I don’t see any good use of a splash page.

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Every time you update your posts or pages wordpress will automatically backup the last version of the posts. This feature can be very helpful when you want to go back in time and change your posts to the past version, but I find it clogging up the database as each update will add an new line to the database. Over time it can add up and I don’t really need this anyways.

To remove this Post Revisions.

First open up wp-config.php and add the line below…
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

To delete and remove all existing post revisions entries and rows from WordPress database Posts table, simply login to MySQL command-line interface, phpMyAdmin, SQLyog or other MySQL GUI tools. Select the appropriate WordPress database (if you have more than one databases on the same server), and then issue the following command (it’s also recommended to backup the database before performing the deletion SQL statements):

Click the Query Window icon on the top left corner of your phpmyadmin. See image below. Make sure you select the correct database first. When you click the Query Window icon, you should get a pop up, just past in the code DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”; and clcik GO. Again make sure you back up first before doing this.


More info on “How to remove wordpress Post Revisions” with the below links.

Lets say you have your wordpress setup and ready to go. But we all know that the current default wordpress can only have one single design and layout for all the posts even if you have multiple categories.

For example, you have two different categories called “News”, the other “Items” and you wanted all the posts under the category “News” to look different from the posts listed under the category “Items”. This is what you do…

1. Open up your single.php file. Should be inside your theme folder somewhere like this yourdomain/wp-content/themes/your-theme/

2. Paste in the code below to your single.php – This code should be the only code you see inside this single.php


3. You will need to create two new files call “single-news.php” and “single-item.php” (just copy the original file “single.php” before you add in the above code). Now you can have two totally different design and layout for your posts under the category News and Items.

4. The file “single-news.php” can now be alter to whatever you want and the same with “single-news.php”.

5. Remember to change ( in_category(’1′) ) to match your category id.

6. And you can do more than two different design and layout to as many categories as you wish.

That’s it!.

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The power of high-pressure sales: From CBC aired on March 20, 2009 on CBC-TV

FYI: Universal Energy are the same people from National Home Services. Here is proof click here. Also, Just Energy acquired National Home Services. Read more about it here…

Have you been approach by a door-to-door sale agent from National Home Services? Do you feel you been subjected to deceptive business practices, please contact Pat Foran from CFTO/CTV and tell your story. His email is alert@patforan.com

This post is not about the hot water heater price or about how much money we can save, it is not about saving the world and this is not about the energy efficient water heater. It is about the sleazy sale tactics use by National Home Services sale men. This is about being properly informed and at least has the opportunity to make an informed choice.

National Home Services “independent” energy agent lied to me by saying they were sent by or affiliated with our current provider, or they would say they were sent by the government for a check up. That was why I felt I had to let them in.

I would be more than happy to pay $2 or $5 dollars more each month for something we need, instead National Home Services tried to replace our 50 gallon gas water heater that is only 7 years old (life span up to 15 years) and doesn’t need replacement. National Home Services “independent” energy agent completely lied by saying our natural gas water heater was out dated, might blow up, need to replace some piping and contain dirty water. When he only looked at my tank for 10 seconds. Also, he wasn’t a water heater technician, he was a sale man, an “independent” energy agents and he had no idea what was inside the tank.

On top of that the “independent” energy agent didn’t even mention the long term contract and left out many details on the contract or did not clearly disclose all the pricing, terms and conditions. For example, the “independent” energy agent left out the large fine for their cancellation fees and the fine for transferring my contract if I was to sell my home within the next 15 years. For those reasons, I hope no one sign up with National Home Services.

I don’t work for any other hot water heaters company like Direct Energy or any other. I agree if you have a gas hot water heater over 15 – 20 years old, it is time to replace it, but make sure you know all the terms, rules, and the cost before going with National Home Services. Personally, I hate being mislead, for that reason alone I would never buy anything or support such company like National Home Services and its affiliated companies. Also, Just Energy is the head company of National Home Service, to me Just Energy is the scum bag of all company.

Here is an article from The Star “Don’t sign sales deals at your door”, about National Home Services and other companies making sales going door to door.

Here is another article from The Star about National Home Services poor installation, needing the exhaust fix after the installation. National Home Services install a 50 gallon gas water heater since they didn’t have a smaller size tank. The tank was too large for his home, they wanted $1000 for the additional water heater installation prices for their own screw up. Read here: Beware door-to-door hot water tank sellers

Why you should not sign with National Home Services

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Lets say you have your wordpress website online and you want to remove the word “category” from your url.

For example:
http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/category/wordpress

and you want to change the above url to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wordpress

Use the two plugins below.

Decategorizer Plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/decategorizer/installation/

Redirection Plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/installation/

1) Upload redirection Plugin first.
2) Upload Decategorizer.
3) Activate Redirection.
4) Settings are under Tools > Redirection. Just add “category” (without quotes) in the “Source URL” field. Target URL is blank. Save it.
5) Activate Decategorizer.

My top wordpress plugins.

1. Akismet – This plugin comes standard with wordpress for a good reason. One of the most annoying thing is comment spamming. With Akisment plugin it will stop spams about 99% of the time and it is a life saver.

2. All in One SEO Pack – This is the greatest SEO plugin you can find anywhere. All you have to do is activate it and spend a minute to write down your meta title, description, or keywords and on the long run you will get more traffic. See it in action here.

3. Breadcrumb – I love this pulgin and I have used it on all my wordpress websites.

4. Google XML Sitemaps – This is a must have for any website to easily integrate a .xml sitemap. Just download it, activate it and it does all the work for you.

5. Disable wpautop – This plugin is more for advance hmtl user. This removes the extra <p> and </p> when writing your posts or pages.

6. Exec-PHP – This plugin make it possible to use php includes on your posts and pages. Just remember to disable your visual editor then add your php includes.

7. Dagon Design Sitemap – Don’t get confuse with the xml sitemap. See it in action here sitemap.

8. WP-PageNavi
9. WP Super Cache
10. Redirection
11. Different Posts Per Page – Instead of having the same number of posts in the front page, archive, search result and category pages. Use this plugin to have different number of posts on different pages.