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How Cool is That!

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Julie Francis in Blog Tips, News

Image by Ari Herzog via Flickr

Happy New Year Everyone!

I’m feeling very happy… It’s a new year, it’s a new decade and I just finally fixed this blog after 4 months!

I encountered an error message regarding headers and spent hours over months searching for a fix, tried most of them and failed again and again. My RSS didn’t work, I couldn’t login and aweber stopped sending updates. For a blog on blogging it was a really poor show, but I just couldn’t fix it!

Finally I followed the advice on the page above, to paste over a new wp-config.php file and then return the data to what it should be. This worked! It was a white space problem – it was just “invisible” white space, because I know I deleted it again and again just as instructed and if you have no idea what I’m talking about, then how lucky are you!

In the time I have spent applying band-aids to try and fix it, I have deleted plugins, deleted themes, re-installed twice and altered this and that so I had a mess to clean up. I figured it was time to get a new theme and do a bit of blog renovating.

So now I’m using the Mandigo theme which I love and have used on other blogs. It is an easy to figure out (but rich in function) theme for intermediate bloggers. What I like most is it’s easy to add a header to, it has the 4 widget areas and it has a variety of colour schemes.

I also am trying out some new plugins and updating the options in the admin area so that the blog runs well but mostly automatically without asking too much time of me, as I have much less time to “play” than I used to. So look out for some plugin posts shortly as I explain what I am using and why.

As I have been checking the results of these new plugin installations I have revisited some old posts and I did one about blog value pictures you can add to your blog, so I thought I’d check in and see how I am doing.

How Cool Is That! My blog is worth $40 grand!

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How much money is your blog worth?

The first result was awesome – “How Cool Is That” I thought! My blog is worth $40 grand! I’ve won the lotto!

It’s totally not true of course and visiting the second link was a big disappointment, but not really unexpected because this blog has been out of action for so long.

The truth is actually far closer to

My Site is worth
$127

How much is
your site worth?

OUCH!

Still hey, it’s worth something eh? Let’s see if we can bring it back to it’s former glory in the next few months.

Anyway – The cat is sitting on the keyboard telling me it’s tea time and my son just wandered in and asked what’s for tea so I’ll have to wait a bit longer yet to get up to speed. Looking forward to talking to you this year. I’m back!

Julie