Allow The Spot-Er To Solve Your WordPress Problems
On November 12 I have posted an offer “Allow Me To Solve Your Biggest WordPress Problem” that quickly became very popular and generated quite a few questions. I have answered most on the spot and hopefully provided solutions to most and then later followed by a post where I go deeper into details on couple problems.
Popularity of this post made me wonder if I can do this on a more permanent bases and help you solve your WordPress problems. This post is the first in a series that will follow and I plan to post it every couple weeks and help you fix whatever issues you might be having with your self-hosted blog…
Obviously with running my own business and providing support to customers I will never be able to address every issue so I want to put some guidelines in place:
- Your problem needs to be directly related to self-hosted WordPress blog, sorry I don’t use free hosting and don’t believe in them as valuable platform so I will not even spend my time on it.
- While I can help with some basic coding issues with existing plugins – don’t ask me to code a custom solution. All problems have to work with existing code, interoperability and obviously my answers will be based on my knowledge and ability to solve it.
- I will do my best to solve your issue and if not able to – I will state so, so please don’t get upset if I don’t provide a solution to your specific problem.
- I will limit number of questions to max 5 per post and will answer them in form of comment but if a problem is more generic and possibly relates to more people then just you I might create a separate post on it and do a step-by-step walk through or video presentation.
One the conditions met I will close comments for the post and if you didn’t make it in time I can only recommend you watch for my next one and one of the best ways to do it – Subscribe to my RSS feed.
With that been said and if you agree to my terms – post your first 5 questions now!
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Alex Sysoef is an IT Consultant, Internet Marketer and ProBlogger who shares his passion and knowledge of WordPress, SEO, Social Media and traffic strategies on his blog WordPress Howto Spotter. Connect on Twitter or Facebook
We have a niche site about a Broadway play called Jersey Boys. We have a back link from the official site, although it is buried on a back page of their Flash site. We are being pushed to the bottom of the page or to the second page, by ticket brokers. Within the last six months we have added a forum.
Besides going out and getting more back links from authority sites, how can I rise above Wkikipedia in the SERPs for the keyword phrase “Jersey Boys”.
Dale Skarl’s last blog post..Jersey Boys?A BIG Hit in the Windy City!
Dale,
Well, there are ways to probably achieve it. I don’t claim to be a SEO expert so instead I can point you to the information provided by people I personally consider very knowledgeable in blog optimization for SE:
http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/seo/comprehensive-guides-to-blog-search-engine-optimization
Alex
Q: Regarding Images In Feeds
Hi Alex!
I have a question that you may be able to address.
My feeds went from not seeing any of my images to seeing my video but NOT my images.
Any idea HOW to correct this?
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give.
I appreciate you!
cj
Hi Alex!
Using your products has helped immensely to update my blog. However the Related Posts plugin is not working. Is there a way to call it directly from the template through a modification?
Just for reference, this is an already existing blog, not a new one. Several of the plugins, like Print, Email, Socialize, just don’t show up in any other template but yours.
Oh yeah…by the way…
“I Love You For Spam Karma’s recommendation!”
Just felt I HAD to say that again. It hasn’t been a month yet since I added it and 935 of these have been caught.
Can’t you just feel the love…
;o)
cj
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Cheryl,
Thanks for the comments.
1. Related posts will require that you place a code into your single.php file to call the function.
[php wp23_related_posts(); ] – sorry I can’t place complete code in here and you will need to replace the square brackets with php code brackets. Visit author blog for the code:
http://fairyfish.net/2007/09/12/wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin/
2. On your feed – you have to be more specific. Are you using FeedBurner or just the raw feed as that comes with WordPress?
Hi Alex!
I’ve been trying to FIX this problem for hours! So..I went and searched for a new related posts plugin, as this one is SO useful for helping visitors consume your site.
I found Wasabi.
Wasabi let me know that I was missing that code text AND…there might be something wrong with my database build…which I would have to do by hand.
After I did ALL of that, I got Wasabi to work, although it required trying to figure out how to get the output to an easily readible size.
Once I did this, I located WP23 plugin’s home, re-downloaded it and found a text file that said I had to add a line of code the post page file. When I did it, it finally added the section of related posts, but did not fill in any posts, listing NO POSTS for all of my posts.
A little frustrated by that outcome, I just nuked WP23 and reloaded Wasabi. At least I got a lesson on what to do IF this happens again with my other blogs.
As always, THANKS to you for your assistance. Now to figure out why my images are not showing in my RSS feeds.
cj
cheryl’s last blog post..This Spinner Bike Is The Real Deal
Oops…
I forgot to add the feed info. Yes, I’m using FeedBurner.
cj
cheryl’s last blog post..This Spinner Bike Is The Real Deal
Cheryl,
I have just checked your feed in IE7 – everything looks good, but when using Firefox I see what you are talking about – I got just the default exerts feed.
I think you need to check your FeedBurner configuration. When I actually went through and subscribed to your feed with Google Reader – I can see that your feed works properly. It is just the initial display that is not working when someone click on RSS button on your blog.
So basically – your feed is good and I recommend you always subscribe to your own feed via all means you offer to your visitors, so you could detect ANY issues , but your FeedBurner configuration is out f whack …
FeedBurner -> Your Feed -> Optimize -> Convert Format Burner -> Enable RSS2
FeedBurner -> Your Feed -> Optimize -> Browser Friendly -> Enable this service and choose whatever theme you like
FeedBurner -> Your Feed -> Optimize -> SmartFeed -> Activate
That should do the trick!
Alex
As always, thanks again, Alex.
Yes, I HAVE those configured just like you said. But maybe something has changed on their end?
I had looked at the code you used on your subscription form and my OLD one – and there was a lot of difference. When I updated it or should I say ASKED FeedBurner to generate a NEW one, the code looked like yours.
So, maybe it is as simple as doing the same INSIDE FeedBurner with all the other parameters? I’ll just go over there and try it.
Blessings,
cj
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Cheryl,
Your feed does work fine .. I did see FeedBurner through fits like this from time to time …. I would check settings on their end and verify you are good and then just go through their troubleshooting tool …
Make sure to subscribe to your own feed anyway – it will help you to see if you actually have a problem with feed itself or not.
Alex