Hello everyone! As we wind down the last day of 2009 and get ready for a new year, I just wanted to announce the relaunch of Ninja Blog Setup. What started as a service to offer people free WordPress blog installations has now grown to something much bigger. Ninja Blog Setup now offers blog transfers to new servers, blog transfers to new domains, Blogger to WordPress transfers, and our very own Ninja Lifeline blogger help desk. Check out our new services as well as our new website design. Let me know what you think and have a Happy New Year! There are varied remedies for sundry diseases. Several remedies are antifungal medicines. In definite instances pharmacies offer to their customers Viagra. If you’re concerned about erectile problem, you have to study about “cialis daily” and “daily cialis“. Probably you already know slightly about the matter. Maybe “cialis for daily use cost” is an extremely complicated question. Matters, like “undefined”, are linked many types of medical problems. A scientific research found that about 14 percent of patients taking Bupropion had sexual malfunction. Finally ordering remedies from the Web can save money, but keep these tips in...
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I was recently asked the question, “Why use WordPress?” This is a very valid question for anyone thinking about building a website and looking at all the available platforms out there. WordPress is by no means the only platform out there to build a website with but in no time at all I had thought of ten reasons to use WordPress to build your website so here they are. It’s Free! It’s free, but don’t let the zero price tag fool you. WordPress is robust enough that Fortune 500 companies like Ford Motor Co. choose to use it. If it’s good enough for a multi-billion dollar company, it will likely suit your needs just fine. Easy Integration Many website owners want to add a blog to their site and often use WordPress as the platform to do that. With WordPress, you can create just a simple blog but you can just as easily create a static website with an integrated blog and kill two birds with one stone. There’s no need to have one platform for your website and another platform for your blog. Regular Updates WordPress is constantly releasing updates to stay up with the latest security threats, add features and improve usability. Sometimes, they update so often it’s hard to keep track, but with the built-in update feature, it’s painless. How many updates has your current platform had in the past year? It’s Search Engine Friendly Google seems to love WordPress. I have made new posts and seen Google index them in less than 10 minutes. I have had WordPress sites that got indexed without me even trying. Why? Because of the pinging feature of WordPress. It allows you to send “announcements” known as pings to tell various websites that you have new content on your site. Easy SEO With it’s built-in permalink feature and the right combination of plugins, WordPress can easily be optimized for the search engines. I recommend All-in-One SEO Pack and Google XML Sitemaps. Together, they take the hassle out of search engine optimization and best of all, they’re free! Every site I build has these two plugins. It’s Automatic WordPress has a built-in categorizing and archiving feature, making your posts easy to find for both the user and the search engines. With WordPress, many things just happen automatically, so you can concentrate on creating great content and not worry about the technical details. Free Support Everywhere It’s easy to learn and if do you run into a problem, there are tons of free tutorials you can find on hundreds, if not thousands, of websites. Don’t like to read? Just go to YouTube...
Read MoreI’ve been slacking when it comes to posting testimonials, so I’m getting caught up here. Show these new bloggers some love by visiting their sites and leaving a comment or some words of encouragement: I came accross Ninja Blog Setup totally by chance and it was an absolute life saver! I didn’t have a clue what I was doing or where to start. With an extremely professional, friendly and efficient service I was up and running in no time. I actually “broke” my site on it’s 2nd day and Ninja came to my rescue! I’m considering a 2nd blog and would definitely use Ninja Blog Setup again – I’ve already recommended it to 2 friends (one of whom has already taken up the service). Thanks for super service! Jen http://www.didyoupackthepassports.com/ Hi , I want to thank you for your prompt setup of my blog on my own hosting account. For a while, I was jumping around various blogging platforms, trying to determine which one was the most user-friendly and had the broadest range of widgets that were useful to me. I’m not very technical, so easy, easy, easy is very important to me. Then I stumbled across Yaro Starak’s blogging course, for those who are determined to make their blogging efforts financially viable to the point of creating a very sustainable income. But this would then take me out of my comfort zone of using those easy blogging platforms. However, with Yaro recommending your service, as the set-up expert, this was not a difficult hurdle to overcome. You have made it easy for me to continue with my blogging content as quickly as possible, and for that I am very grateful. Your followup email gave very clear instructions on how to set up my peripherals like webmail. Now the rest of it is up to me. I need to work my little tushi off to create all the attention I’d like my site to receive. Thank you for getting me ready to go!. Warm Regards, Marlowe Aster http://www.big-sister-coaching.com/ Hi, After three months of blogging, I wanted to drop you a quick line to thank you for assisting with my blog’s set-up – you made it quick, easy and painless to jump into the blogosphere, leaving me to get on with developing ‘The Rurban Fringe’ … and knowing all the techie details were looked after. Thanks!! Jennifer Brooks, The Rurban Fringe www.therurbanfringe.com Thank you so much to the ninjas! As a decidedly tech-challenged new blogger, having their help in getting me started was invaluable. The service was fast, friendly and answered my questions. Thanks again and keep up the great...
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In this post I’ll cover how to get your blog upgraded to version 2.7 using the Instant Upgrade plugin. If your site was setup by Ninja Blog Setup, then Instant Upgrade was installed when we set up your site. The Risks When Upgrading There are always risks when upgrading your blog, especially a major upgrade. The worst case scenario is that you would need to completely roll back to the older version and restore your database from a backup. Minor problems that could be faced are plugins that are not compatible, errors in your theme, or general brokenness in the admin area. At the bottom of this post, I’ll give you some pointers for where to get help for these problems. Step 1. Getting Started One plugin that I know is not compatible with WordPress 2.7 and needs to be disabled before you upgrade is called “Plug Installer” You’ll need to go to the Plugins page on the dashboard and de-activate it. We usually do de-activate it at the end of our install process, but go and make sure just to be safe, you can also delete it, once it has been de-activated, as you won’t be using it again. Once you have de-activated the “Plug Installer” plugin, then continue from here. Step 2. Cover Your Butt – Backup! Using the backup plugin installed under Manage / Plugins, go and take a backup (make sure the checkboxes for all the tables are selected) and download the backup to your computer. Once it has finished go to the location you saved the file and verify that it exists. Once you have created a backup and verified that it is safely on your computer, then continue from here. Step 3. Perform the Upgrade This video covers how to actually use the Instant Upgrade plugin to upgrade to version 2.7 of WordPress. Click the Image or here to watch the video. If you get any errors, skip this part and read on down below for where to get some help and debug the problems. Once the upgrade has completed and everything looks cool, check out my video tour of the new WordPress 2.7 admin area and new features to find out what’s not. (Step 4. Disaster Strikes & Everything Went Wrong) Deep breath… Every blog that Ninja Blog Setup has installed has been sending a backup to your primary email once a week since it was setup, so even if your were extremely crazy and didn’t heed my warning to take one before you began, you should still have a fairly recent one that you can use to restore your site. Getting...
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This video is an overview of the dashboard area of WordPress version 2.7. I’ve also demonstrated what I think is the best new feature of WP 2.7 and that is the ability to search for and install new Plugins from right inside the WordPress dashboard. A word of caution however: don’t get a case of “Pluginitis.” Just because it is easy, don’t install 300 plugins. If your blog is brand new, sure try them out, but once your blog gets more established, the fewer plugins the better, as it will just slow your blog down and open up potential errors and security problems if you have too many plugins installed. Click the image below or here for a video tour of the WordPress 2.7 Dashboard Here are a couple other resources for getting to know the new WordPress a little better: WordPress 2.7 Upgrade Tips by Lorelle 2.7 the official release video on Ma.tt First Look At WordPress 2.7 on Weblogs Tools I’ve heard a lot of people complaining about all the changes and the new look of WordPress 2.7, but overall I think if you spend some time getting to know it, you’ll find that there are a lot of major improvements. The only thing that seems like an obvious oversight is to be able to install new themes automatically the way you can with the plugins (fingers crossed for this one in the near future). There are varied remedies for sundry diseases. Several remedies are antifungal medicines. In specific instances pharmacies offer to their customers Viagra. If you’re concerned about erectile problem, you have to study about “cialis daily” and “daily cialis“. Probably you already know some about the problem. Maybe “cialis for daily use cost” is an extremely complicated question. Matters, like “undefined”, are linked many types of medical problems. A scientific research found that about 14 percent of patients grab Bupropion had sexual malfunction. Finally ordering remedies from the Web can save money, but keep these tips in...
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