The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Category: Blogging

  • Trouble with Technorati Links

    I am putting this post up just to reference my last few post because they have not been listing correctly on Technorati. Here are the posts – WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks – Where I talk about what you need to do to get permalinks working on Godaddy. How to setup…

  • How to setup WordPress MySQL and Permalinks info on Godaddy Hosting

    I am posting a followup to yesterday’s post – WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks in which I spoke of what you need to enable permalinks on Godaddy hosting. From that post I got an email asking about how to setup the wp-config.php file with the correct MySQL info. Here are my…

  • WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks

    UPDATED 4/29/2009 – My original conclusion about Permalinks not working with Godaddy hosting has a new conclusion. Zac Vineyard noted below that it can take up to an hour to update the .htaccess file on the server so that the Permalinks work. I have personally confirmed that this does indeed…

  • Round Rock Web Design Blog # 6 on Google

    I did a quick check this morning on Google for the Phrase “Round Rock Web Design” and low and behold – the blog I setup on wordpress.com is # 6 in Google results. The coolest thing about it is that I did not put quotes “” around the phrase so…

  • WordPress Permalink Post Names for SEO

    In my post “themastersfamily.net – Page Rank 4” – I mentioned that I had changed the permalink structure for SEO purposes to the following – websitename.com/postname-postid.htm I did this based on the theory that Google puts more emphasis of pages from the root of the site then a page in…

  • FeedBuner Feeds on idano.net

    idano.net has now switched from the standard RSS feeds for posts and comments to feeds generated by FeedBurner. The reason for this was two fold. FeedBurner offers stats on subscriptions to your feeds They just came out with a cool new e-mail subscription service (see Techcrunch’s article) It was a…

  • WordPress FeedBurner Plugin with Comments

    Update – Ivan stopped by to inform me that there is a newer Feedburner plugin that now includes comments and does not need .htaccess. It can be downloaded at orderedlist.com. Thanks Ivan. Now the original post – This is a quick “How to” on how to get your comments feed…

  • idano dot net Web Site Review

    History idano.net was the original Masters Family web site when it was just my wife and I. The name came from my name – Dan and the fact that I would on occasion call myself Dano. The rest of the inspiration came from a web site called iwalt.com. I came…

  • WordPress Theme rdc0.7 mod by idano

    I decided to share my mod to the original rdc0.7 theme by Jon Roobottom and designed by Paul Lloyd. You can download it here I want to be clear that they are the original designers and this is my mod of their design. Also note that I removed the functionality…