Category: SOCIAL MEDIA & IT

Tagaroo vs Zemanta

Published June 6, 2010 by Jo Jordan

Tag and image suggestions

When Zemanta first came out, I fell instantly in love. I had been blogging about a year and I found it really, really useful to have it suggest links and images as I wrote. It even helpfully suggested posts of my own to list as “similar posts”.

Why I fell out of love with Zemanta

But Zemanta became ‘luggable’. It did strange things while I was writing, scribbling my posts. It was immensely difficult to turn off when it played up. It also lost its tremendously helpful Community Manager. Sadly, I unsubscribed and, as is the wont of the net, forgot about it.

Is Tagaroo a good alternative?

Today, I found a similar service, Tagaroo.

Tagaroo is downloaded as WordPress plugin where Zemanta is a Firefox extension. This is the first time I am using it. It is slowing down my typing. So check luggable.

Tagaroo sits below the post, rather than next to it. And it has moved my tag box below the post. Let’s see what it has done. It has suggested Zemanta as a tag but not Tagaroo(!) or semantic web or anything intelligent.

It has listed 2000+ images which tend to be ‘literal’ rather conceptual.

I picked one and it took me a while to figure out how to insert it. The choices were staring me in the face. There are four choices of size but they are all positioned on the left. I suppose that could be adjusted with a bit of editing. It also inserts far less code into a post than Zemanta – one of the reasons that Zemanta played up as it got tangled up during edits.

Evaluation of Tagaroo

No. I am not totally convinced. I’ll use it once or twice again. But so far, I’d say it is quicker to check out Flickr myself.

P.S. And one more thing. Tagaroo highlights any sentence containing a tag. Not very useful for blogging but fantastic if you were doing research and wanted to skim a document.

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How to download 100 pdf files from a website in one batch

Published June 2, 2010 by Jo Jordan

How do we download pdf files from a website without opening and saving each one separately?

I am doing a little research job and I want to read over 100 pdf files linked into several pages on a website. Obviously, I could select each link, open the file, save the file to my hard drive, and go on to the next link. to download all the files would take 2 to 3 hours and then I would probably miss a file or two through fatigue.

I wanted to download all the files more quickly and accurately, so I looked around and put together a 5-step solution.

Step 1: Find a complete list of the links

Problem: The listings visible to the casual visitor were paginated and I would have to step through 20 pages to download them all.

Solution: I used the website’s sitemap to dig deep into the website and find a “page” where all the links were on one scrollable, rather than paginated, page.

Step 2: Download all the links on the page

Problem: To download all the links on the page would be terribly tedious.

Solution: Used the “find links” function in Outwit to list all the links which I copied and pasted into an Excel file.

Step 3: Create a list of pdf files

Problem: The list of links produced by Outwit included links to everything on the page not just the pdf files. The links to the pdf files were also listed as .htm

Solution: I did a simple alphabetical sort of the links in Excel and deleted everything except the links ending with .htm.

Step 4: Reformat the links to link directly to the pdf files

Problem: I still had a list of .htm links not links to the pdf files.

Solution: I used the “Inspect Element” feature of Firebug to inspect the link on the website page and found the source and format of the underlying link to the pdf file. Then, I edited the .htm links into links that described the pdf files.

Finally I saved this list of links to the pdf files in a text file.

Step 5: GoZilla

Problem: I still had the problem of downloading the pdf files and did not want to download them one-by-one.

Solution: I uploaded the text file to GoZilla and used automatic downloading to complete the job while I did something else.

Result!

140 pdf files downloaded onto my hard drive ready for reading or conversion into text for further searching.

It took me just as long to work this out as to do it manually but next time I will be able to do it quicker!

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Step 8: Consolidating my online strategy – letting people pull my content with an RSS feed

Published May 9, 2010 by Jo Jordan

Letting people pull content from my blog

I wish I was done but I am not. People who type in my url (http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org) will find me directly. I am rebuilding my Google page rank slowly.

But out there are people who subscribed to the RSS feed of my old blog. I have one myself coming in to my Pageflakes (a feed reader).

How do I redirect all these feeds to my new blog and make my feeds for the new blog available to those who want them?

The immediate answer is to use Feedburner but I could never understand it before. I made a concerted effort yesterday and if you are like me, you might find this useful.

Some basic building blocks in understanding feeds

1 WordPress, whether WordPress.com or WordPress.org automatically generates feeds call http://myblogname.wordpress.com/feed or http//myblogoname.org/feed (or .com or .net or whatever you are using).

2 WordPress also automatically generates a feed for your comments following this format http://myblognhttp://feeds2.feedburner.com/flowingmotioname.org/comments/feed

3 Some themes will generate extra feeds such as http://myblogname.org/category/nameof category/feed

Any one who cares to picks up this name and put it into their feedreader such as Google Reader. Pageflakes even finds the feed for me. I just type in the url (http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org) and it scampers off to the site, ferrets around, and comes back with the feed name.

Keeping count of my feeds

Of course, it is really interesting to know how many people are pulling in my feeds and where they come from. To do this, I sign up to one of Google’s many free services, Feed Burner.

I used my gmail to get in, I type in my url (http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org), it asks me to give this new feed a name, and it generates another feed in this format http://feeds2.feedburner.com/flowingmotion.

All good. We can add some frills. We can ask for a full set of statistics and ask for a Browser friendly option. But what happens next? Well we have to connect the blog to Feedburner in some way.

Before we do that, make another feed for your comments (turn http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org/comments/feed into a feedburner feed)

Connecting your blog to Feedburner

At this point we have your standard WordPress feed that looks like http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org/feed and the Feedburner feed http://feeds2.feedburner.com/flowingmotion.

To connect the two, you will need to download the Feedsmith plug in. You can go to the Dashboard on your blog, left side column, Plugins/Add new and upload. Everything will go find except that you will get an error message.

There is a hack to fix this. Download the plugin to your harddrive and unzip it. Delete the pdf file and the files and the files for Mac. Now zip up the program file only. This is important. The program file only. You zip by going to File in Windows Explorer menu bar.

Now upload the new zipped up file and activate it. It will want to know the feedburner names for both feeds. Save.

Now sit back and wait 24 hours.

Done!

When tomorrow comes you should see two things.

1 On your blog, when you hit the RSS symbol, you should be flicked directly to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/flowingmotion (not to the old feed http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org.feed) even though you changed nothing else on your blog.

2 The same should happen for your comments feed.

3 You should also have some statistics showing up. Enjoy! You are ready to rock n roll. From now onwards, when people pull your feed, they will pull it through Feedburner who will keep count for you.

One Addition

I mentioned before that I feed in the classical WordPress feed into Pageflakes. Those carry on working just fine. In addition, my old WordPress.com feed continues to operate. It is pulling content from my new blog quite fine.

I double checked and Pageflakes continues to discover my ordinary feed, not the Feedburner feed. If someone types the name of your url into their Google Reader, this is also true. So some feeds don’t get counted. I imagine that to fix this, we would need to adjust the code in WordPress. Not too hard, but I’ll experiment with that another day.

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Step 7: Consolidating my online strategy – Redirecting my WordPress.com blog to self-hosting

Published May 9, 2010 by Jo Jordan

The time has come to redirect my WordPress.com blog

Finally, the time has come to redirect my two year old blog with its 740 posts from http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com to http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org.

To remind you of where I am

The original blog is on http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com
An exact replica (with some theme updates) is on http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org

When I imported a copy of the original (see earlier steps), I made sure that I adjusted the permalinks first so the post urls are exactly the same, except for the name of the domain (wordpress.com and jojordan.org).

Why do I want to redirect my WordPress.com blog?

The problem I need to solve now is this. If someone linked to me on their blog post,, say 18 months ago, a reader would follow their link to the original blog but the last post there would be as of a few days ago. The blog would look deserted and because it has no updates, it will slowly lose page-rank, or google-favour.

I can’t ask everyone who has ever linked to me to update their links. That’s not feasible. So how can I bring those visitors to my new blog and keep my standing with Google too?

How does the redirect from my WordPress.com blog work?

What I can do is to set up a permanent redirect – a 301 for geeks – from http://flowingmotion. wordpress.com to http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org. Then when someone follows an old link, they will be taken through the magic paths of the internet to the WordPress computers, and their computer will redirect the reader to Dreamhost, who will serve up the version of the post on their computers.

The reader will barely notice the redirect. They have what they want and they are on an active alive blog where they can interact with humans and leave comments (which link back to their work).

I, of course, can update my posts when necessary, provided I leave the title intact.

How do I redirect my WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted version?

To accomplish this feat, I go through three steps.

Redirect my new blog temporarily to WordPress.com

On my new blog at Dreamhost, I log in to Dreamhost (not my blog), go t0 Manage Domains, and choose the line for my blog which happens to be a sub-domain in this case (http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org).

Now I am going to pick Full Hosting and remove it. Scary, huh? I am not going to delete it in the far right column. I am going to remove the hosting in the middle column. This will keep the copy on the Dreamhost intact and I will recover it shortly.

Now I am going to chose the DNS for the same record and go to the next window. In the middle, there is provision for a Customized domain. In there I see an A – that is for IP addresses. I don’t need that. But in the dropdown menu is CNAME – I choose that.

Then under Value I insert the url for my old blog, which in my case was http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com. [Note well there is a fullstop (period) there. Make sure you put it in.]

Update

Redirect my old blog to Dreamhost

Now I head off to the WordPress computers and login as usual to my old blog http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com. Under Dashboard, at the bottom of the left hand column, I choose domains, and add the domain name for my new blog which is http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org.

Worpress checks that is has access and that by definition I own the new blog. That’s why I had to open it up temporarily.

When it sees everything is OK, it tells me to whip out my credit card and page $9.97 and reminds me that I must pay them every year to keep the redirect going. So put this date in my diary!

(At some point, I set my new blog as the primary blog. It is self-evident when you see it.)

Reclaim my new blog

Now I head back to the Dreamhost computers, log in to the “panel” (not to my blog), choose My Domains, find the line with my blog (in my case a sub-domain http://flowingmotion.wordpress). I chose DNS and go and delete the value for the CNAME, which you recall was http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com. Update.

I go back to My Domains and chose my blog again and this time stay on that page, go to the middle column and select full hosting. A new window comes up. I check the settings and choose full hosting.

Done!

Now when I put http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org in my browser, I should bring up my blog. When I put my old http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com in the browser, it should send me at the speed of internet over to Dreamhost and show my blog in the browser.

Blunder

Of course, it didn’t go quite this easy for me. My redirect got in perpetual loop and the advice from Dreamhost, unfortunately, was “Wait. These things take time.” Fortunately, young Nick Cochiarella from Olney nudged me 12 hours later to tell me Dreamhost were wrong and I got back in touch with them to check my settings.

This is what happened. Two steps back, before the One Click Install, when I set up the subdomain I had chosen the wrong combination of make http://wwww go to http://. There are three choices and I left it on the default.

When I One Click Installed, my wordpress on Dreamhost was set up as http://www.flowingmotion.wordpress.com. When I redirected from WordPress.com, it was to http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org because that was the only choice we have.

Once I had corrected the address of my new blog by logging onto the blog (not Dreamhost panel) and taking out the www in the address registered under Dashboard/Settings/General, everything worked fine.

I also went back to the Dreamhost panel, Manage Domains, the line with my blog and DNS, and fixed up the redirects there to send any traffic looking for http://www.flowingmotion.jojordan.org to http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org.

I’m still a bit confused by it all. The point is to remember you have an address registered within your new WordPress blog. You may not think of it as you are staring at an unfamiliar Dreamhost panel

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Step 5: Consolidating my online strategy – moving my content from WordPress.com to self-hosted Dreamhost

Published May 5, 2010 by Jo Jordan

Importing WordPress content to self-hosted Dreamhost

Was difficult but I got it sorted eventually.

I began with my content on my old blog: http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com, and I had already installed the shell of WordPress using a One Click install on Dreamhost.

Export

To move my content from my old blog to my new blog, I went to my old blog (on WordPress.com), chose Admin, scrolled down the left-bar to Tools, and selected export. WordPress automatically downloaded all my posts, categories, tags, comments and authors to a file on the hard drive on my laptop.

Import

To upload the content at my new blog on Dreamhost, I went to http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org/wp-admin and logged in. I chose Admin, scrolled down the left-bar to Tools and chose import.

Import Fail!

I followed the instructions and it timed out after 30 seconds.

Roadblock

If I were importing to a blog on my localhost (WordPress on my laptop), I could edit my .htaccess file and set the maximum execution time to 3 minutes. I can’t do this if I have One Click installed on Dream Host. I have access to all other files but not that one.

Workaround

Fortunately, someone has already solved this and has written a program to split the WXR (RSS XML) file that I had exported so successfully from my original blog.

WordPress WXR (RSS XML) Splitter

WordPress WXR (RSS XML) Splitter is downloadable as a zip file. I made a sub-folder in my WordPress themes folder and unzipped the splitter programme there. Then I ran it and inserted the path and name of the file of blog content that I had downloaded from WordPress.

Advantages of splitting the file of your blog content

My objective was to split the file into smaller files that I could import into my new blog one after the other.

I didn’t want to faff about so I cautiously set the splitter at 40 posts per file. I suspect more could be crammed in but I went the cautious route of 23 by 40 posts. Splitter runs fast and made me 23 files neatly labelled from 0 to 22.

I went back to my new blog and tried again (Admin-Tools-Import). And it all worked perfectly though it took me well over half-an-hour.

Result

So now I have a working theme with all my blogs, categories and tags, on a self-hosted blog at Dreamhost, and I can start tidying up details like RSS feeds, Google Analytics, email subscribe forms, and so on.

UPDATE from Dreamhost

“If I were importing to a blog on my localhost (WordPress on my laptop),
I could edit my .htaccess file and set the maximum execution time to 3
minutes. I can’t do this if I have One Click installed on Dream Host. I
have access to all other files but not that one.”

You do have access to the .htaccess file. The One-Click installer doesn’t
prevent that, you have access and can change/delete any file in that
directory.

The problem is that the “php_value max_execution_time 180” addition to
the .htaccess file will not change how PHP runs in the DreamHost
environment. It worked on your home computer because you are running PHP
as an Apache module (mod_php). On the DreamHost servers however PHP
processes are run in CGI mode. This means PHP will work independent of
Apache and therefor doesn’t look in the .htaccess file (this file passes
instructions to Apache) for configuration changes. When running PHP in
CGI mode most configuration changes come from the php.ini file which is
owned by the root user and therefor can’t be modified directly by your
user.

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Step 4: Consolidating my online strategy – prepping my WordPress shell to import my blog content

Published May 5, 2010 by Jo Jordan

Migrating from WordPress.com to self-hosted

My overall goal here is to organize my online assets and my specific goal right now is to move my 2 year old blog from WordPress.com to a self-hosted WordPress blog on Dreamhost. Though self-hosting costs a monthly fee and takes more maintenance, self-hosting allows me to control the theme, get Google Analytics and use advertisements.

So far, I have completed these steps

I bought a domain name, jojordan.org
I made a neat frontend for my domain using Posterous and connected it to the domain name that is housed at Dreamhost
I set up a sub-domain on Dreamhost flowingmotion.wordpress.om
I used Dreamhost’s one One Click install to set up WordPress including an admin account
I zipped a theme that I had edited on my local host version of WordPress and tested it on a dummy account

Uploading a theme

Now I am ready to import my own theme to my self-hosted version of WordPress.

I don’t need to login into Dreamhost. I simply go to my browser and type in the address of my blog: http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org/wp-admin and login in as admin (not me).

Now I can go to Appearance in left side bar and Add Theme. I use Upload and Browse to upload the them from my hard drive. Activate. Check. Done!

Setting up permalinks

Now the last task before I come to get the content here is to match the permalink style on my self-hosted blog to the style here. If I don’t do that, then the post titles are going to get scribbled and people won’t be able to follow old links and bookmarks to find the posts. I may as well leave them behind, in other words.

To prep the permalinks, I look at the bottom of the left sidebar, choose Settings/permalinks, and and choose the 2nd option, day and name. Check they are same as usual.

Ready to import content

Now if I am right, I am ready to import content. I will come to my hosted blog, go to dashboard and export all the content to my hard drive. This usually trips up over size and timing. As can never remember what I wrote, I will write it down this time and make post 5 in this series!

But that will be from the new blog! See you on the other side!

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Step 3: Consolidating my online strategy – make a WordPress shell on Dreamhost

Published May 4, 2010 by Jo Jordan

My Online Strategy

My online strategy includes

My own domain name jojordan.org (that I bought through Dreamhost and will renew annually with them or somebody)
A front page for jojordan.org to have a smart CV to add to the bottom of emails’s. I made that on (free) Posterous and “redirect” it to my domain name at Dreamhost.
A blog that I used to keep on WordPress.com (the free version). I am going to move that to Dreamhost now, and pay for hosting. Why do I want to do that? So I can control the theme, get Google Analytics and have the freedom to advertise.

Steps in self-hosting WordPress on Dreamhost

To make a WordPress shell on Dreamhost, I must go through 3 steps. Then I’ll be ready to pretty it up before I import it and attend to SEO (let the world know it is there).

#1 Set up a sub-domain

Because I am redirecting my Posterous blog to my domain name, jojordan.org, that domain is no longer available to host my wordpress blog. I need to make a subdomain, which I will call flowingmotion.jojordan.org. I thought of using blog.jojordan.org. It is shorter and easier to remember but some people already know my work as flowingmotion and flowing motion tells those in the know I am interested in a holistic paradigm of psychology. Using a subdomain does mean though, that my my domain, jojordan.org, won’t benefit from the pagerank that I have already accumulated on Flowingmotion.

To set up my subdomain, I . . .

Log in to Dreamhost
Look for Manage Domains on the right sidebar
Choose Add a Domain
Type in flowingmotion.jojordan.org
Submit, and all is done. Wait a bit and I should be able to access it from my browser: http://flowingmotion.jojordan.org

Now when I got to Manage Domains, the Dreamhost screen looks like this. Notice my jojordan.org is not fully hosted because the physical asset of the blog is actually over on the Posterous computer. Dreamhost is now expecting me to put something in space reserved for flowing motion, and, the world can find it. If I put nothing there, a visitor will just see an “old fashioned looking” list of generic files.

#2 Create a WordPress shell

So I have a space on a computer waiting for something and the world can find it. I am going to load up the WordPress framework into the space.

Dreamhost has a One Click Install. Choose it in right side-bar. Then chose the Advanced option (can’t remember why – tip I picked up on the net). Make sure the radio button for WordPress is selected.

Whiz down to the button and make sure Dreamhost will link to the right sub-domain. Submit.

Wait ten minutes or so. You should get an email saying everything is done! So easy!

#3 Create an admin account on WordPress

When the email arrives, follow the link. You are asked for a blog name and an email address and then given a password. Cut and paste the password in the login for admin and IMMEDIATELY change your password to something you can remember.

Done! You have wordpress loaded up. Now you are back on familiar territory of adding a theme, etc.

Next steps

I have already edited a theme on my own laptop and I am going to zip that into a file and try loading it up.

Then I’ll import my content from WordPress.com.

The final stages will be to add plugins, set up Google Analytics, add the spam catcher Akismet, connect to Feedburner and most importantly, set up redirects from WordPress.com so that anyone who is looking for me is redirected to my new address.

So next step. Have a go at importing a theme.

Comments very welcome!

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Step 2: Consolidating my online strategy – redirecting my Posterous blog to my own domain name

Published May 4, 2010 by Jo Jordan

Neat and tidy Posterous

I use a (free) Posterous blog as a tidy frontend to “serve” my CV at the end of emails and so on. Here it is jojordan.org.

Redirect a Posterous blog to your own domain name

First, of course, you must buy a domain name. Once you’ve done that, you will need to direct your Posterous blog to the domain name.

(PS You can buy a domain name through Posterous . I didn’t; but it looks possible.)

Dreamhost

I bought my Domain name through Dreamhost and I intend to keep other assets on their computers, that is, use them to host some of my online assets.

“Redirecting” my Posterous account to Dreamost

My Posterous account will stay on the Posterous computer though. But I want people who look for jojordan.org to be redirected there without them having to do anything extra.

The word “redirecting” is confusing, because it suggests the Posterous blog moves over to Dreamhost. The opposite happens. People looking for my Posterous blog will be sent by the world-wide internet system to Dreamhost who will redirect them, without them even noticing, to Posterous.

Settings on Dreamhost to “redirect” my visitors to Posterous

To setup Dreamhost to perform this magic redirection, you need to login in to Dreamhost and look in the left sidebar. Pick manage domains. Choose the domain that you will be linking to Posterous. Then choose DNS. You will get a wider screen. In the middle is the following information.

Copy the settings. The numbers in the second last line is the IP address of Posterous. You will use your domain name throughout, of course, not mine. The CNAME setting has the effect of allowing people to type your domain name without the www and finding you nonetheless.

Posterous settings

On the Posterous side, all you have to do is login, go to Manage (top menu bar), choose settings (tab one-third down) and type in your domain name. It all looks like this.

The link up will take at least 30 minutes (the world wide web is a physically big place!). Beware too, that once Posterous is directing to your domain name, if you break the Dreamhost side you won’t be able to get into Posterous because the WWW will still redirect anyone looking for http://yourblogname.posterous.com to the domain at Dreamhost. You are effectively locked out! So remember to disconnect the Posterous end before you fiddle!

Problems

Let me know if you have any problems and I’ll adjust these instructions. It’s sometime since I did this; though I did manage to lock myself out of Posterous today. I got back in again with a bit of Googling and reading so, all good. Patience and tolerance of geeky English and it comes together.

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Step 1: Consolidating my online strategy – self-hosting my blog

Published May 4, 2010 by Jo Jordan

3 reasons to self-host a WordPress blog

I am planning to migrate my two year old blog on WordPress.com to a self-hosted version (WordPress.com). The advantages of self-hosting are three

I can choose any theme I like
I can link up to Google Analytics that will tell me lot more about my traffic
I can add advertisements

Online strategy

I prepared for the big migration by thinking about my online strategy. Despite wanting to put some adverts on it, my blog is not part of my commercial strategy. I use it think things out and to write regularly. It is a notepad where I develop, rather than sell ideas.

Ideally, I want it to link to my “CV” sites and to use its page rank to boost other online ventures.

Online organization

As I dallied, a tai chi outfit in the states snapped up flowingmotion. com. My names is rather common as well. So I settled on this strategy.

Buy a domain in my name (jojordan.org)
Take up jojordanorg on Facebook
Set up an central organizing point on a free Posterous blog and redirect it to jojordan.org
Make my blog a sub-domain of jojordan.org (flowingmotion.jojordan.org).

The reason I did this is because Posterous makes a good-looking front end CV site where I can link out to all my CV assets – Linkedin, Xing, Slideshare, etc. It’s easy to redirect the Posterous blog to my domain jojordan.org which is hosted by Dreamhost.

I thought for a moment that I could host the blog at jojordan.org/flowingmotion and take full advantage of its page rank; but it seems not. So a sub-domain it is: http://flowingmotion.wordpress.com.

Costs and maintenance

In summary,

I’ve purchased a domain name http://jojordan.org. I bought it through Dreamhost and will need to pay for an annual renewal. At the time of the renewal, I could move it to another host/registrant like GoDaddy, if I want to.
I set up a “permanent” CV front end with Posterous. That blog stays with them for free and I redirect it to the domain at Dreamhost. This seems counter-intuitive because it is working the other way. People go to http://jojordan.org and they are redirected to Posterous.
I am now taking my blog hosted for free at WordPress.com and I am moving to Dreamhost. I will pay them a monthly fee for hosting my blog on their computers but the software will come for free from WordPress.org. I will use a free theme which I have edited to suit me.

Clear so far? I need to add the instructions for redirecting the Posterous blog to Dreamhost because that tripped me up the first time I did it.

Now I am going to set up the “full hosting” for the WordPress blog.

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Category: SOCIAL MEDIA & IT

Tag and image suggestions

Why I fell out of love with Zemanta

Is Tagaroo a good alternative?

Evaluation of Tagaroo

Like this:

How do we download pdf files from a website without opening and saving each one separately?

Step 1: Find a complete list of the links

Step 2: Download all the links on the page

Step 3: Create a list of pdf files

Step 4: Reformat the links to link directly to the pdf files

Step 5: GoZilla

Result!

Like this:

Letting people pull content from my blog

Some basic building blocks in understanding feeds

Keeping count of my feeds

Connecting your blog to Feedburner

Done!

One Addition

Like this:

The time has come to redirect my WordPress.com blog

Why do I want to redirect my WordPress.com blog?

How does the redirect from my WordPress.com blog work?

How do I redirect my WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted version?

Redirect my new blog temporarily to WordPress.com

Redirect my old blog to Dreamhost

Reclaim my new blog

Done!

Blunder

Like this:

I have a self-hosted blog. Now to share!

Steps for connecting with the world

Setting up Akisimet

1 Activate the plugin that was installed with your One Click Install on Dreamhost

2 Get your Key

All done!

Like this:

Importing WordPress content to self-hosted Dreamhost

Export

Import

Import Fail!

Roadblock

Workaround

WordPress WXR (RSS XML) Splitter

Advantages of splitting the file of your blog content

Result

UPDATE from Dreamhost

Like this:

Migrating from WordPress.com to self-hosted

Uploading a theme

Setting up permalinks

Ready to import content

Like this:

My Online Strategy

Steps in self-hosting WordPress on Dreamhost

#1 Set up a sub-domain

#2 Create a WordPress shell

#3 Create an admin account on WordPress

Next steps

Like this:

Neat and tidy Posterous

Redirect a Posterous blog to your own domain name

Dreamhost

“Redirecting” my Posterous account to Dreamost

Settings on Dreamhost to “redirect” my visitors to Posterous

Posterous settings

Problems

Like this:

3 reasons to self-host a WordPress blog

Online strategy

Online organization

Costs and maintenance

Like this: