Drop Down Menu, Drag And Drop Of WordPress 2.7
I’m done updating this blog to wordpress 2.7. Actually, I’m excited to see my new dashboard after the upgrade. If you haven’t updated your blog, the image below shows how it would look like.
At first, I’m not impressed because of the default gray color of my dashboard. I’ve changed it by editing the profile, it is located on the upper right side of your dashboard. But hey, this is a major upgrade, lets not talk about the colors.
I’m impressed with the drop down menu (left side of the image). I love drop down, spacious dashboard. I haven’t explore much of this new wordpress admin panel and haven’t heard that “drag and drop” feature of it. I was supposed to make an entry tonight but I can’t wait to make a quick post. When I was writing this post, when I point my mouse to “widget title” (sorry, don’t know what to call them) and tried to drag (hold left click mouse) and drop (release left click of mouse) it to other location. It was transferred. Wow! Now, I’m really impressed!
But when I card dropping this morning (haven’t plan of upgrading my wordpress at that time), I saw a blog that was used to have the same template as mine and she changed her template because of unusual outcome of her template. I hesitated to upgrade and decided to test upgrade. The template didn’t looked funny so I proceed to upgrade this blog.
Take note that I shifted to simple script from fastastico few months ago. I didn’t use Automatic Upgrade plugin because this is a major upgrade. Now, I’m hoping for plugin updates.
From GoDaddy To BlueHost
No, you’re not lost. New template? Yes, have to change my template, the old one has many errors already or sort of not compatible with the latest wordpress version. Sorry if my header didn’t match my blog content, I will change it soon. I like the simplicity of this one and planning to personalize it again.
Its not that I upgraded to wordpress version 2.6.2 easily but I finally moved this blog from GoDaddy to BlueHost. Goodbye for now, GoDaddy. I never mentioned my old host before so its finally revealed now. Its not that GoDaddy sucks, my site never been down. Thumbs up for that. But… bloggers need reliable customer support anytime of the day. I feel like I’m wasting my time emailing them when something goes wrong on my site. Plus it takes time waiting for their response.
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Monetize Mobile Ready WordPress Blog Using AdMob
Since this blog is already mobile ready, how about generating income? In the Philippines, adSense for mobile content is currently not available. We still see google ads on handheld devices, I guess the publisher is not in the Philippines.
So, if google for mobile content publisher is impossible in the Philippines, a better alternative is using AdMob. With the fast rising growth of 3G and WiFi users in the Philippines, its impossible not to earn on our mobile traffic.
Why use AdMob? AdMob offers more standard ad formats such as Brand Ads and Performance Ads, as well as new and innovative options for monetization such as Facebook Mobile ads and AdMob for Search. A great way to monetize our mobile traffic.
What’s more is they also have AdMob Mobile Metrics (also known as AdMob Mobile Analytics) which they added to Philippines publishers recently, is the “alter ego” of Google Analytics.
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Mobile Ready Your Blog
Never in my wildest dream that the world of mobile technology will reach its present status now. Making a wap site before is like an ego booster… a hobby… an outlet… a lifestyle. Today, mobile users accessing wapsites using their handheld device is still growing especially after the launch of iPhone 3G err… that’s mobile lifestyle indeed.
Wapsites before such as wap forum, moblog (mobile blog), download portals among other wapsites tend to plagiarized contents from websites, web forums and blogs. The good thing is PageRank applies to wap using Yahoo and Google wap search. Technically, if the websites are indexed by search engines with PageRank, no problem with that except for duplicate content. We still enjoy traffic from mobile users.
From the mobile users point of view, if a person go to a website loaded with images, widgets, chances are the mobile browser will be closed because of limited cache compared to PC capability. Sometimes, it would never stop from loading. Looking at their limited needs including myself, this is the main reason why I use a simple template. Although there’s no guarantee that if the site loads faster in the computer it would do the same on wap sites. And remember that wap users have limited visibility because of their mobile screen. But either way, the template would help.
The good thing with wordpress as my blogging platform, there are plugins we can use to mobile ready our blog. Basically, wapsites are XML and wordpress is PHP codes, plugin handles the script. The image below shows how my blog would look like using WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. No need to make a separate wapsite with same content. Remember, duplicate contents are penalized by Big G. It is also possible to earn from wap visitors by making our wordpress blog a mobile ready blog.
We are doing our best to make quality content, I heard it somewhere that “quality is king.” I thought, what’s the use of quality blog if its hard to read or not accessible on mobile phones, iPhone, PPC, PDA and other handheld devices regardless if you’re not a tech blog or mobile related blog. My blogs are WAP ready or should I say mobile ready wordpress blogs. How about yours?
G-Blogs 2.0 Still In Beta
G-Blogs is where I started blogging in 2004, it was a moblog or mobile blog. Due to many glitch of the old g-blogs system, there are rampant hacking of blogs just to prove their worth. Was it worth it? That’s a long story but without g-blogs, I maybe not here blogging. I still love g-blogs even if I did got tired of the old system. If not, I will not be blogging about it now.
Just a short recap of the old system. Old g-blogs can be access to any built in browsers before, it was possible to moblog using third party browser such as Opera, Opera Mini, Netfront etc. Legitimate bloggers can download images, audios, videos from other moblogs for Php 5 per file. I did forgot the rates already. To some, they can upload and download other files such as mobile applications, virus, ebooks and other unsupported files for FREE.
Those were the happy days until the Globe Telecoms numerously changed the system from time to time and our moblogs are always unavailable. Good thing that they decided to use wordpress to their recently launched g-blogs.
What’s with g-blogs 2.0?
G-Blogs 2.0 is built to give you a refreshing experience in personal blogging. Powered by the powerful open blogging platform, WordPress MU, G-Blogs 2.0 is equipped with new and exciting features that enhance the way your life’s moments with your friends online.
This is a giant step forward on blogging considering that I, myself experienced blogging at g-Blogs before. Indeed a wise decision but the normal mobloggers are waiting to access the site using their built-in browsers just like the old g-blog days. Globe Telecoms temporarily disabled G-Blogs’ SMS/MMS and WAP blogging service, as they prepare for the enhancements which they will be launching soon.
G-Blogs 2.0 is still in BETA – fresh out of the clinic after a thorough beauty makeover. This means you may still see a few bumps, scars, unwanted moles or hairs – things you would want us to tweak a bit, or probably even get rid of, here and there. If ever you do encounter any, do send us a note at gtg-blogs@globetel.com.ph and we’ll gladly tidy them up for you.
After recovering my old g-blog, I access the page for my old entries retrieval. They said wait for 24 hours to export my blog blog to new blog. That was 4 days ago and still nothing happened. Since I already knew wordpress, I hope they add more widgets (and plugin if possible), add page feature and more template choices. As of now, there are only two available template.
G-Blogs is built on WordPress MU. Should you need an extra know-how on advanced coding and features, feel free to visit their FAQ section.Technically, no need to hack for free download anymore just like the old days… The site can be access using Opera using Inet connection on mobile.
