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Pinoy blogging experiences. Includes blogging tips, technical blogging guides, wordpress, and SEO.
Oh no! I forgot to post this issue last Sunday morning. I apologize for that. As for now, let me post my links for this week.
Those who have been commenting on my blog have been added to my Google Reader so expect some of your posts to be included in my reaching out issue. So drop more comments and get some link love back. =)
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As I was going through the links in my wordpress dashboard, I noticed a warning from Weblog Tools Collection.
This particular warning is thanks to an astute reader who pointed out another such site called blogstheme.com. They also provide “premium WordPress themes for free” but have modified the footer to suit themselves. The “WordPress” link in the footer of every theme distributed by that site links back to blogstheme.com and the downloads are not pristine as intended by the designers of the themes. The footers are also tainted with sponsored links that the original authors did not put there. I see a whole bunch of Small Potato’s themes on that site as well as themes from many other designers. Though the theme page lists the original author, the theme download is from blogstheme.com and not from the original authors’ site.
I feel sorry for those who spend hours or even days creating a wordpress theme only to be stolen by these people. It would have been ok if they are distributing it but they are even modifying it to make it look like they were the ones who created it.
Please avoid them and support the original authors of the themes. =)
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08 Nov
Posted by silkenhut as Solutions |
I have been checking out my blog stats to know what are the keywords people use to arrive at my blog.
So the search phrase or keywords I’m going to discuss now is the wordpress error I encountered before.
Cause of the problem
I’ve encountered this problem while using the wordpress plug-in called, Wordpress DB Backup. Basically, the plugin wants to write the backup files into a temporary directory but it can’t because it does not have “write” permissions.
Old Solution to the problem
The best thing to do in this situation is to contact your webhost because there is something wrong with the PHP configuration. In my experience, I just waited and then it worked after a few hours. Don’t try to CHMOD 777 your folders because that is a big security risk.
Solution to the problem
First thing you should know that the Wordpress DB Backup plugin creates a backup directory inside your /wp-content/ folder. It is usually named as /backup-XXXXX/ where XXXXX are random numbers and letters. So go check your /wp-content/ folder, did you see the backup folder?
You can try to CHMOD that backup folder to 777. Did it work?
An alternative you can do is to delete that folder (do keep track of the folder name just in case), then follow the instructions below, “If there is not backup folder”.
The Wordpress DB Backup plug-in needs a backup folder in order to work. First thing you should do is to CHMOD your /wp-content/ folder to 775 (if this does not work, use 777) TEMPORARILY. I know that this is a big security risk that’s why I’m saying that you should do that temporarily.
After that, try reloading your backup page in your wordpress administration (you can find it under Wordpress->Manage->Backup)
Try creating a backup. If there are no errors, then you have solved the problem.
For more information, read this explanation by the plug-in author himself.
(Mini tip: You can take advantage of this by making a blog post about those keywords. Not only can you contribute to those who need the information, you can bring more traffic to your site.)
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Last Updated : November 26, 2007
After I heard of the letter of Carlo Cruz, I was again curious on the latest developments on the Glorietta 2 blast that’s why I searched the net for news articles related to it. I landed on the site of inquirer.net and found a list of news articles that are group under the same topic, Glorietta Blast.
So for those who are looking for news articles, you have come to the right place. Here I will list the articles that are mentioned there and clicking each of the article titles leads you to the full contents for you to read. Enjoy! ^_^
I claim no ownership on the articles nor the article titles. I am merely posting them as links. 
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When I went to visit my blog a few days earlier, I discovered that I have gained pagerank. I started at PR 0 and now I am PR 3. Hooray for me!!! Everyone should check their google page rank to know if they have been promoted or demoted.
The effect on the blog
As of now, I don’t see any new effects on having a page rank of three. That is because I don’t have any advertising that takes into account a blog’s page rank in determining the advertisement prices. But for those bloggers who uses Text Link Ads, it is a big factor in their text link ads prices.
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