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Updates

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Updates

I have kind of taken a break from my blogging for a bit.  Per a suggestion I received, recently I relayed out the Web Design (formally Your Website) tab slightly to attempt to catch individuals attention quicker as to the costs and organizations that need websites.

Lately WordPress has gone through many updates and the current version is 3.9.1.  I have not had any difficulties with any of my sites when upgrading first to 3.9 and then 3.9.1.  As of 3.8 vs ??, minor updates are usually handled automatically.  Do not depend on this happening as I have had to manually update some of them, mine included.

The All-In-One calendar has gone through an update where they are trying to standardize on one calendar and they have moved some of the files around.  Before they had a Lite, Standard, and Pro Version.  As I understand it the Lite and Standard versions are combined into one with Pro version adding additional functionality to the new Standard version.  After saying all that, I had difficulties on doing these upgrades and on the 1st site that I upgraded lost the calendar and the user had to reload the content.  Turned out to be a mistake that I made in attempting to fix the upgrade. If upgrading from pre-2.0 there are a couple of steps involved that should keep you out of trouble.

  1. Do the update.
  2. If you have a child or modified a theme, save it outside of …/wp-content/themes/themes-ai1ec.  (Be careful with modified themes as the default themes have changed slightly.)
  3. Copy the folder themes-ai1ec from …/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/public/ to …/wp-content/themes
  4. If you have made a child/or modified theme copy it back into …/wp-content/themes/themes-ai1ec
  5. In WordPress dashboard, go to Events->Theme Options and click on the “Save Options” button.
  6. Also, you will probably need to reset the default for your calendar which is done in Events->Settings.
  7. Hopefully, at this point everything should be working OK.  By following the above, I have not any any upgrades issues since the problems with my first upgrade. (On that one Timely helped me get the calendar operational again but I did lose the content.)

Till next time

Chuck
https://www.ainsworthetc.com/

Headlines

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Create Your Headlines

 

A common complaint from would be bloggers is, I don’t know what to write about!  With that in mind I’ll try to give you an idea.

A good way to start is to gather headlines.  Don’t just start writing a blog, instead gather headlines.  Sit down and think of ideas and then create a headline for it.  If one doesn’t come to mind, skip it and move on to the next idea, write these down.  You should have a list of 50+ headlines at all times.  You will find that as you go through time, ideas for headlines will start coming faster.

Now that you have your headline, you can start writing your blog with content related to that headline.  Keep your post a single purpose that corresponds to your headline.

Now, go create your headlines…

Have a good day.

Chuck
AinsworthEtc.com

 

Blogging

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The Value of Blogging

 

Do you know the value of blogging?  This last week I attended a seminar, at WordCamp, where one of the sessions was on this very topic.  I have to confess that until I listened to the subject matter I hadn’t really given it much thought.  Just think about it, no one can find or hire you if they do not know about you. Most people find sites today from blogs.  It is your story that makes it unique.  Even though two people may write about the same thing, it very possible that the audience will not know what the other person wrote.

Bottom line, keep up your blogging!

Chuck