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WordPress Upgraded from 3.0 to WordPress 3.0.1

Friday, September 24th, 2010

I’ve finally managed to upgrade my WordPress version from 3.0 to 3.0.1 successfully. I’m pretty glad that I’ve finally done it successfully.

Thanks to WordPress for its Extended Guide on Upgrading WordPress in the Manual way!

Simple & Easy!

I followed the step by steps guide and got my WordPress upgraded to the latest version. (Thanks to WordPress for its Extended Guide on Upgrading WordPress in the Manual way!)

Bear in mind, there might be exploits in older version of software, thus it’s recommended to upgrade to the latest version frequently.

During version 3.0, I had problems upgrading with the Auto Upgrade function. During the process, I had Fatal Error saying insufficient memory and so on and so forth. I’ve also tried increasing my php.ini memory limit to 512MB, but without any success too.

Security Key Definition:

I’ve just realized that WordPress had upgraded its level of security with security key definition since WordPress 2.6. (I did not notice that!). Follow the steps to create security keys to secure your WordPress also. Highly recommended.

All credits goes to WordPress Development Team:

More @ http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended

Tags: Wordpress, wordpress how to, wordpress upgrade
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Glory Food Corner Blog | Famous Claypot Chicken Rice in Town | Melaka Best Food

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I’ve completed an official blog for my dad’s Glory Food Corner Restaurant in Melaka. Melaka is famous with Satay Celup, Cendol and Nyonya food. But did you know that my dad’s Claypot Chicken Rice is also one of the famous food in Melaka too? even internationally too.. we have customers from Japan, Singapore, Australia and many more that are out of Malaysia misses our food.. Really appreciate all the customers who loves our food!

Glory Food Corner blog is fitted with a basic design from WordPress. I love building webpages with WordPress because of its powerful + stability engine and it’s easy to use. The blog comes with 4 pages and they are the Main Page, Our Dishes where I put up some photos that I’ve photographed, Customers Feedback where it’s a guest book or comment page for the customers to say some words and Locate Us where you can find us, complete with Google Maps too

Dad’s shop fully painted with blue color, he loves blue color a lot, thus most of the section are completed with blue color. By default, the header is a light blueish header, but I changed it to match the restaurant’s color. Some of the dishes that I’ve photographed long time ago.. Check out Our Dishes section to find out more. Of course, I’ll put up more and more dishes to share with the internet world too!

In Customers Feedback, the customer can leaves us comments and feedback. I’m pretty sure most of the customers that are staying overseas misses our food a lot. Shereen, one of our customer wrote us a feedback yesterday night.. Check out her comment there now! If you have visited Glory Food Corner in Melaka before, be sure to leaves your words there too

At Locate Us section, complete with our address, phone number & email address so that you can contact us when you can’t find us. Thanks to Google Maps too, I’ve put up the direction of our restaurant so that you can locate us easily when you’re coming from the town, your house or your hotel during your stay in Melaka. I’ve also put up our name card, so that you can download and save in your mobile phone or your iPhone, it will make you much more easy to locate us too!

Tags: best food in town, Food, food blog, food review, food-blogger, food-in-melaka, Gabriel Lai, gabriel lai photography, gabriellai, glory food corner, google-maps, maps, melaka, melaka best food, UNESCO-Melaka, weblog, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins
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Gabriellai.com Has A Personal Logo

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Yea!! Gabriellai.com has a personal logo for www.Gabriellai.com. The logo is specially designed by Hosanna Lai specially for Gabriellai.com. If you need her service, please contact her @ her blog.

Why must have a logo?

The question that will pop up in your head will be “Why must Gabriellai.com has a logo” ? The answer is pretty straight forward! A blog represent yourself, your personality and what you do with your blog.

In the logo, it has my face on it, edited with Photoshop and re-design with Adobe Illustrator.

By having a logo, it will allow bloggers or internet world to know who you are by recognizing your logo instead your URL. On top of that, it will drive traffic to your blog too!

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

Simple & Nice Logo

The logo that was design by Hosanna is not very complicated, but simple and nice. I think it suits my personalities even though it’s very simple. I like simple as much as possible and her works impressed me =)

The logo is available to published at your blog if you would like to link with me. Let’s exchange link with each other.

Click here to find out more about exchanging links with Gabriellai.com

Tags: Blogging, Gabriel Lai, Traffic, Wordpress
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Migration from Blogger to WordPress Tutorial

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

My love with Blogger is finally over! Yes, Blogger.com is cool and good, but self hosting a blog is even cool and good too, Why?? WordPress is offering free!! Having self hosted WordPress Blog allows you to have better management over your own blog. Also, Blogger themes doesn’t have much options compare to WordPress free themes where can be downloaded anywhere in the world! Plugins from WordPress is also around the internet where you can simply download it from the web eg: WordPress Plugins

Recently I moved another blog of mine from Blogger to WordPress. Now, let me say again: “Blogger is good, I’m not saying Blogger is not impressive, it is… Reason why I moved that blog to wordpress is because self hosting gives you a better management of your own blog”

So, I think it’s good to come out a post on the process I’ve taken to share to those who want to moved to wordpress, perhaps in future. WordPress provided a powerful tool I would say, to import every Posts that you have in Blogger to be import to your new WordPress Blogs.

The import plugin in WordPress is out of beta and has been tested with the current version of WordPress. The final version is available here. From the new release of WordPress, this plugin would be present as default.

Features:-

· Imports all Blogger Posts

· Imports all the Comments

· Imports the Post Author and Comment Author information

· Imports Categories (i.e. Labels) from Blogger

Let’s begin with simple steps:-

1. Make sure you got the id of Blogger which you’re trying to import (eg: bloggerid@gmail.com).

2. Make sure your blogger publish full feeds, if not modify the option to publish full feeds.
( In Settings –> Site Feeds –> Blog Posts Feed –> FULL)

3. Next, logon to your WordPress Administrator Console, go to Manage –> Import –> Click Blogger to import posts from Blogger.

4. Once you have clicked Blogger, you will be brought to Blogger import page. Next, you need to authorize WordPress in order to allow WordPress to pull posts from Blogger

5. Click Authorize button, you’ll be direct to another page shown as below.

6. For sure, you’ll have to logon to Blogger.com in order for WordPress to import from Blogger. Alright, just click “Grant Access” button to grant WordPress access to Blogger.com

7. Once WordPress able to talk to Blogger.com, you’ll be back to WordPress Import page as shown below.

8. If you able to see the above snapshot, looks like you’re almost done J

9. Now, click on Import button, you’ll see it’s “Importing…” right now.

10. Once imported, next you got to “Set Authors”, to do so, click on “Set Authors” button

11. Author Mapping page, is to set what is the owner for all the posts shown in WordPress.

12. As shown in the snapshot, my Blogger username is Gab, I’m mapping to Gab in WordPress too

13. Next, just click “Save Changes” to save what you have done from step 1. Then, WordPress will bring you back to your Manage Posts. All your posts will be Published automatically, just do whatever changes required to
every posts you want.

14. To draw more traffic to your blog, I learnt that every posts should have a tag. So, I believe you have to edit posts tags one by one.

Set up redirects

Log into your Blogger account and click your way through the awkward navigation menu until you are at the "Template/Edit HTML" page. To redirect visitors from the main page, insert the following between the <head> and </head> tags:

<meta content='6;url=http://yournewblog.wordpress.com/' http-equiv='refresh'/>

Number 6 means that the redirection will take effect after 6 seconds. Replace the url with your own.

The tricky part comes now. We want to redirect users from individual post pages to the corresponding post pages on the new blog. For that, we need a piece of JavaScript spiced with Blogger proprietary tags. Insert the following right after "<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>" in the template:

<b:widget id='Redirector' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'> <b:includable id='main'> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'> <script type='text/javascript'> var new_page='yournewblog.wordpress.com/'; var permalink = '<data:post.url/>'; var timestamp = '<data:post.timestamp/>'; timestamp = timestamp.split('/'); timestamp = timestamp[2]+'/'+timestamp[0]+'/'+timestamp[1]; new_page = permalink.replace(/youroldblog\.blogspot\.com\/2007\/[0-9]{2}/,new_page+timestamp); new_page = new_page.replace(/\.html$/,''); document.location.href = new_page; </script> </b:loop> </b:if> </b:includable> </b:widget>

Don’t forget to enter your new blog’s URL at var new_page = .

Important note! For this script to work, all your posts should have been imported to WordPress.com using their Manage/Import function. The creation dates of all posts must match, because they are part of the permalinks.

remove duplicate content

Insert the following between the <head> and </head> tags:

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"/>

After seeing this, search engines should remove your old blog from their cache and the old content will stop existing for them. Therefore they are not going to penalize your new blog for duplicate content.

optionally, display a message

This is not required, but helpful for your readers. Tell them that you have moved and that they are going to be redirected. Right after the <body> tag, insert this:

<div style='position: absolute; top: 30px; left: 30px; border: solid 2px #333; color: #000; background-color: yellow; padding: 5px; width: 400px; z-index: 5; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;'> <p><strong>My blog has moved!</strong></p> <p>You should be automatically redirected in 6 seconds. If not, visit<br/> <a href='http://yournewblog.wordpress.com/'> <strong>http://yournewblog.wordpress.com</strong></a> <br/> and update your bookmarks.</p> </div>

Well, now we are set. Found any errors in this tutorial or have more tips? Share them in the comments please.

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