Speed Up WordPress 2.6
As I saw my dashboard this morning, WordPress 2.6 is officially released July 15 to US but July 16 to my location, a month earlier to expected August 2008 release. I instantly decided to update my wordpress 2.5.1 without knowing the added features. I admit, I don’t want to be left behind and updating wordpress version is kinda addicting. LOL. I didn’t even made a back-up.
You can read the WordPress 2.6 features to this link. After uploading the files and database upgrade, of course I looked for changes on my dashboard. Haven’t found any yet but noticed the “turbo” link at the upper right corner of admin panel.
Here’s what I saw after clicking the turbo link:
Wordpress now has support for Gears which adds new features to web browser. hmnn… sounds a major change so I installed and enabled Gears. Then I clicked it once again to see what will happen next.
I had an error, it says:
“Local Storage Status: Error: Download of ‘http://www.ebooktechie.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/menu-arrow.gif returned response code 404“.
I checked on my web host and saw that I haven’t upload such folder. So I upload it and reclick “turbo”. Now it says:
“Local storage status: Updated completed.”
So, I guess, there are no more problems. I’m impressed. Looking forward for future wordpress upgrades, I told you, this is addicting. LOL
Other Top Droppers On My Favorites
I have a house guest yesterday and I missed entrecard dropping. I thought, its a wise idea to share what I do to reciprocate efficiently and never miss a site to reciprocate. As we all know we are allowed to 300 drops daily on each blog and I have two blogs.
I start dropping to my co-recipro droppers first. Switch to my other blog and drop to co-recipro droppers again. I do drop on my linked blog, the drop serves as my starting point. Then, dropped to my top 25 droppers and begin reciprocating from the miss day. Sites I haven’t drop were temporarily added to my favorites.
Guess what? I found more sites not included to my top droppers but have 20 and more drops on my site. I thought, they are loyal droppers, so I might as well leave them permanently on my favorites, as long as I have 20 drops from them for the past 30 days.
So, what will I do to my favorites? They will received regular drops from now on, I hope they will also reciprocate. In the future, if I received the perfect drop like my top droppers, they deserve to be added to my technorati favorites and might as well subscribe to their feeds. Linking to their blog to thank them is another thing.
As of now, I have 32 favorites and didn’t include my co-recipro droppers (no need to add my daily drops, this is another list). I don’t know if there are more since I start editing my favorites now. Want to be added? Continue dropping…
Read Web Host Reviews Before Changing
I’ll be renewing my web host again next month. I’m tired of renewing my webhost quarterly so I guess, I’m ready for a long term payment scheme now.
I’m planning to move to another webhost because I’m not satisfied with their customer support. I mentioned that last May when I renewed my account. The host is good for beginners simply because they’re the only webhost I know that charges monthly fees. What I want now is to enjoy features and services I haven’t experienced from my current host.
I could try every webhost recommended by my co-bloggers but I don’t want to waste my time for “trial and errors”. I’ve checked on web hosting reviews and proved that my current webhost is not included in their top ten webhost list. I hope I’m not making a mistake on choosing my future webhost next month. It won’t be on #1 rank if its not the best.
Favicon For WordPress And Blogspot
If I wasn’t mistaken, it was two months ago when I setup my favicon at my personal blog, glitchline but I’m sure that I’ve also changed the favicon of this blog. Since it was summer and school vacation, I guess I forgot to correct the link to my php file of this blog. A comment noticed that I’m still using the “default” favicon and I’ve fix it now.
What is favicon anyway? Favicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) is short for “Favorites Icon”. It is a small image or icon before the URL at the address line just like the encirled favicons at the image shown below. Every opened tab also displayed a favicon before the link, same with the bookmark toolbar (using Mozilla Firefox).
Favicon is also visible to saved bookmarks as shown below. Most websites are using favicon. Sometimes, I don’t need to read the link from my bookmarks, the favicon help me recognize faster the link I was looking for.
Its not advisable to change favicon unless needed. Like logo, it is your trademark associated with your site and contents, decide first what favicon suited for your site. After choosing the image, use the favicon generator. Click the animate favicon and input text if you want. Download and save the file to your computer.
For WordPress:
- Upload the favicon.ico file to your web host using FTP or your file manager. I’ve upload it to upload folder so that I will not lose the file just in case I want to change my template. You can also upload it to other file host, don’t forget to take note of the link.
- Go to wordpress admin panel, theme editor and open header.php
- Edit the file by adding this code:
* Don’t forget to edit the favicon.ico link - Save header.php
- Refresh the page to see the result.
For Blogspot:
- Upload the favicon.ico file to any file host you want. I don’t suggest to upload it to blogger because there were times that some of my upload images are missing after some time. You can make an account at xthost (it is free). Upload the image there and take note of the link.
- Go to Blogger dashboard – layout – edit HTML
- At the top part of the html after [head], add this code:
* Don’t forget to edit the favicon.ico link - Save template then view blog.
Its easy, right?
Paypal Verified My EON Card
Finally, I have my UnionBank EON Visa activated and my Paypal account is verified already. Although, I’m hoping that I can use my own paypal to renew my host, I didn’t make it on time. Thanks to Marikenya for helping me on my host renewal using her Paypal.
The branch I choose near my place was not UnionBank anymore, it is IBank or International Bank, they’ve merged. The UnionBank site should informed us regarding that before hand so that we will not choose the branch or look for a bank which is not actually there. How about calling the Customer Service Hotline? Read more…
