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Wordpress by default displays all the pages and the sub-pages you create in the main menu or the navigational menu of your blog. However, there are situations where we don’t want certain pages from being displayed on the main menu but still retain their functionality. Sometimes when you have too many pages in your blog, your navigational menu starts overflowing from one horizontal line into two and more …

In the article, I will tell you how you can hide pages in WordPress and prevent them from showing up on the navigational menu of your blog.

Method 1 : Write and save a page as a Draft

Yes, this simple method lets you retain all the functionality of a page. You can still access this page by searching for it and this page will still be accessible if you type in the URL of that particular page.

So, create a page as usual and then under Page Status menu on the right hand side, choose Draft and hit save
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If you are getting a database error like this after upgrading to WordPress 2.3

WordPress database error: [Table 'yourdb.wp_post2cat' doesn't exist]
SELECT cat_ID AS ID, MAX(post_modified) AS last_mod FROM `wp_posts` p LEFT JOIN `wp_post2cat` pc ON p.ID = pc.post_id LEFT JOIN `wp_categories` c ON pc.category_id = c.cat_ID WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ GROUP BY cat_ID

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 67

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 68

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-comments-post.php on line 69

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php:160) in /homepages/18/yourdb/htdocs/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 391

The cause of these database errors where wp_post2cat does not exist is due to a single plugin which is not compatible with WordPress 2.3

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The latest and greatest version of WordPress , WordPress 2.2 has just released. Some of the new features include

1. Addition of WordPress widgets to the core of WordPress and enabled for default themes. WordPress widgets needed to be added as a plugin in the earlier versions.

2. Protection from activating a plugin or editing a file that may break your blog

3. Improved speed optimization to your blog

4. A new Blogger Importer similar to that in wordpress.com blogs which you can now use to import your posts and comments from Blogger Beta without any user interaction beyond entering your login details.

We worked out methods such as the one on TechCounter where we had success importing blogger beta posts to Wordpress, which even though did the job needed some time and patience and sometimes if you did not set your Blogger settings right, you might come across an error or two.

Now all you need to do is upgrade to WordPress 2.2 even if already completed the importing from blogger to wordpress. If you are a blogger thinking about moving to WordPress from Blogger Beta, then look no further. Download Wordpress 2.2 here and then

Step # 1: After installing WordPress on your domain, go to Manage and then Import

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Most Bloggers start out with free blog hosting with the most popular of the free services being Google’s blogger where you get a yoursite.blogspot.com address. Now you want to move from Blogger to your own domain. One of the best publishing software is provided by WordPress and the best part is it is free. Importing to WordPress from Blogger used to be a breeze using WordPress’s import posts feature. However when Google moved from Blogger to the new Blogger or Blogger Beta, it became impossible to use WordPress’s import utility.

However, you can now do so with the steps outlined here about Importing Blogger Beta Posts to WordPress

Many users were able to implement this method successfully. Now, we move to the next step. Lets deal with some questions I had so far …

1. What happens to my old blogger blog? Should I just delete it after importing to WordPress?

2. I heard Google penalizes duplicate content. I now have my posts at both my old blogger blog and my new Wordpress blog hosted on my domain. What should I do?

3. You mentioned using the 301 permanent redirect from blogger to wordpress. Can i do it?

Okay … lets deal with these questions first.

1. No, you should not delete your Blogger blog. I am sure you worked hard at it. You might have many subscribers to that blog. The search engines have content indexed to that blog. What happens if you delete your blogger blog is simple … you end up LOSING ALL YOUR TRAFFIC, all your loyal subscribers and visitors simply because they dont know your new address.

2. Yes, Google penalizes duplicate content. How do you deal with this.. well read on

3. When people move from their old website to a new one they use a 301 permanent redirect method without being penalized by the search engines. However, you cannot do this straight up with Blogger because you do not have access to your .htaccess file. So its not a simple plug and play unfortunately because of this.

How to redirect your old Blogger posts to your New wordpress blog posts using a permanent redirect

I wanted to thank Owen Barder for his excellent code to redirect your individual posts from blogger to wordpress. Also, thanks to Tom Sherman. I will try to stick to what these two guys have to tell.

Using the method outlined here, you will be able to

1. Redirect your visitors from your old Blogger blog to your WordPress Blog on your domain

2. Redirect your old posts to new posts on your wordpress blog instead of redirecting them just to your home page of your wordpress blog

3. Do all this in such a way that Google does not penalize you. You also get to transfer your Google Page Rank too. How about that ….. !
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What is a gravatar?

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums and allows you to create your Identity online.

How Do I create a Gravatar?

Signing up for a Gravatar is simple and above all FREE. All you need is to associate a picture with your Email address. This would be the email address you enter while commenting. It is important that this email account is legit. My suggestion, associate your Blog’s email account with your Gravatar account.

Step # 1: Sign up for your Gravatar account

You can signup here to Get your Own Gravatar

All you need is your email address! You will then receive a confirmation email including a link that will activate your Gravatar account and allow you to set your password.

Step # 2: Set up a password.

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Everyone who owns a blog or publishes content to a blog or a website provide their users some kind of an RSS option. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication used to publish frequenty updated digital content such as blogs or news feeds.

Users of RSS content use software programs called “feed readers” or “feed aggregators”. The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user’s subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. If you long for creative ways to attract an audience, see where your content goes once you publish it and generally add a lot more value to your feed, then “feedburning” is for you.

You used Feedburner to get a feed and then used the FeedBurner plugin for your blog. What’s next? Well, you need to promote your feedburner feed and get people to subscribe to your blog and turn them into loyal and regular visitors to your blog.

Step # 1: Log into your FeedBurner account. Click on the Publicize Tab in your FeedBurner Dashboard

Step # 2: Click the Chicklet Chooser Service on the left hand side. A Chicklet Chooser allows you to promote your FeedBurner feed directly on your website and allows your users to easily subscribe to your feed.  Once you select Chicklet Chooser, you are given a list of options to choose your standard feed icon. I would recommend choosing the default feed icon with the larger sized icon.
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FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. If you long for creative ways to attract an audience, see where your content goes once you publish it and generally add a lot more value to your feed, then “feedburning” is for you.

Feedburner also has one of the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies (e.g. Wall Street Journal Online, Wired News, Ziff Davis), A-list bloggers and blog networks and individual publishers from around the world.

Here, we will walk through the process on creating a feedburner feed for your blog and get you started…

Step # 1: Click here to go to Feedburner. There on the FeedBurner homepage, Enter your full blog address such as http://www.techcounter.com in the “Ready to Burn?” form. Click Next

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Using Section targeting, you can target an ad unit to a specific section of your blog. What this means is that say you are displaying ads on a particular post. The post is about say Colleges in America. However, in the side bar you have posts about Football, XBox etc. So, how does Google know what keywords to pick while generating targetted ads for your blog? Well… it doesn’t. Using section targeting helps you do this by blocking out irrelevant sections on your page.

The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:

<!– google_ad_section_start –>

<!– google_ad_section_end –>

Implement Section Targeting for a WordPress Blog

So you have a wordpress blog and are looking to implement section targeting.

Step # 1: Log into your Wordpress Admin.

Step # 2: Go to Presentation and then Theme Editor

Step # 3: Under Theme Editor, select the theme file for generating a single page on your blog. This is usually something like single.php  or singlepage.php

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Everyone who owns a blog or publishes content to a blog or a website provide their users some kind of an RSS option. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication used to publish frequenty updated digital content such as blogs or news feeds.

Users of RSS content use software programs called “feed readers” or “feed aggregators”. The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user’s subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. If you long for creative ways to attract an audience, see where your content goes once you publish it and generally add a lot more value to your feed, then “feedburning” is for you.

Feedburner also has one of the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies (e.g. Wall Street Journal Online, Wired News, Ziff Davis), A-list bloggers and blog networks and individual publishers from around the world.

So, follow this series and get started on increasing subscribers, adding more subscribers for your blog and also adding a major source of revenue for your blog.
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At TechCounter, the WordPress files are installed to a Subdirectory? So you ask the question, how can I access your blog at http://www.techcounter.com and not at techcounter <dot> com/subdirectory.

Many people like you want to WordPress to run of their site’s root directory ( e.x http://yoursite.com ) but don’t want all of the WordPress files cluttering up their root directory. In this article, I will tell you how to Install WordPress files to a subdirectory, but run your blog off your site’s root directory.

1.  Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we will use /myblog in our examples).

2. Go to the Options panel in your WordPress Dashboard. Go to General tab

3. In the box for WordPress address (URL): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files. Example: http://yoursite.com/myblog

4. In the box for Blog address (URL): change the address to the root directory’s URL. Example: http://yoursite.com

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