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Getting Serious With Blogging
By admin | June 10, 2007
It’s 22:00 and I have spend most part of the day getting PHP, MySQL, Apache and WP2.2 running on my Apple. The reason behind this is that I want to try and create my own WP theme. This way I can take my macbook anywhere, writing and testing code on my local installation. It’s not perfect yet, I ran into troubles at first when PHPMyAdmin couldn’t handle the size of the bobmeetsworld.com database. Took me a little while to figure out you need to edit the PHP.INI file and set upload_max_filesize higher than the default 2M. But then of course, I couldn’t get it accepting anything bigger than 8M even though I had set the limit to 30M. Finally I used ./mysql -uroot wordpress < /Users/me/Desktop/Sites/Bobmeetsworld/backup/6-6-7bob_wordpress.sql to import the database with success.
All done right? Wrong! Because I use pretty permalinks, anything I click on locally redirects to this online blog. After spending an hour, trying to fix the Apache VirtualHost settings I gave up. After all; I don’t really need to have an exact copy of this blog, an empty one will do just as well. Allforces helped me quite a bit with an excellent tutorial.
If you’re interested in taking your technical blogging skills to a higher level, I recommend you to try this at home. Besides the obvious benefits of self improvement, you can make your blog stand out, save money by not having to buy a custom design. Even make money by selling your themes! If you decide to give them away for free, remember you can get an abundance of linkbacks to your own blog simply by adding a link in the footer of the theme. All in all this was a fun learning experience. Next issue at hand; Trying to get the Ultimate Tag Warrior warking again on WP2.2. Oh, and I’m sorry about the technical Mumbo Jumbo, I know that’s not what you expect here on bobmeetsworld.com 
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June 10th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Hey Bob, thanks for checking out my tutorial. Good luck finishing it and gl on the Technorati goal. I’ve given up on Technorati for Wpdesigner because they never give me the right ranking :).
June 10th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Your tutorial is spot on for people who would like to get their feet wet. I hope you will keep them coming
June 10th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
For sure, I’m going to release a tutorial e-book so you won’t have to stick to reading tutorials on my site, can just print it out.
June 10th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
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June 10th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
June 10th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Awesome and good luck! I hope the theme turns out well and doesn’t drive you insane when running into problems.
June 11th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Hmmm…. I wonder when I should update to 2.2 and what not. I can’t seem to figure out how to do it though.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I definately want to start customizing my sites. I’ll be getting Adobe’s CS3 Web package shortly - hopefully Dreamweaver is pretty decent with that kind of thing.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Good work, Bob!
I taught myself PHP a couple of years ago while customizing a ZenCart. It’s one of the best things I ever did because it’s helped so much with my blogging. I love being able to make my blog look exactly how I want it to and it’s fun to help others as well.
I’m really writing to say congrats on the Google news! I was linking to googlestolemymoney.com in a post I’m writing and saw your news. It’s good to know they actually reviewed your case. It sucks that it took so long, but congrats on getting reinstated and getting your money back.
Sara
June 15th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
It will make things a lot more easier in blogging if you learn some HTML stuff of Wordpress. But I find that searching for a right Wordpress theme is time consuming, I rather pay for it.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
It is ime consuming indeed, that’s why I figured making your own will be a great idea. It will take time again but atleast you can create as you go
July 16th, 2007 at 7:08 am
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