December 7 – 8, 2009
Just spent a good part of these two very cold winter days working on upgrading my www.penandpapermama.com blog:
- new theme: Mystique 1.46 by digitalnature (I love the new look!)
- most of the to-do list for wordpress: http://thoushallblog.com/post-install-to-do-list-20-things-you-ought-to-do/ (this is an awesome resource!)
- go back and add tags and categories to all my posts since mid-June (how did I ever forget to do those at the time? Crazy!)
- add some cool new widgets, including a “search” and a connection to hubby’s flickr site!
- Updated my profile page
Still to do:
- properly back up the whole blog so I can upgrade to the most recent WordPress 2.8.6 (as soon as I can figure out how…)
- start using photos with my blogs; stick to a few main ideas instead of just randomly journaling
- start writing summaries for my blog posts – and just generally keep the posts themselves more concise!
- Connect to some other interesting blogs I like to follow
I also finally got around to switching my old www.geocities.com/norma.hill website to it’s new Yahoo reincarnation: www.penandpapermama2.com ….
Now I’d like to figure out how to actually link the blog and the website…. It seems to me like maybe it would be possible to import the website into the blog “pages”??? Or??? Ideas anyone???
ohhh…. prettypretty! You should be able to just press the update button in the Dashboard and let it do it automatically. I think it’s usually located above the “Dashboard” title. To backup… when in your Dashboard, select “Tools”, then “Export”, then “Download Export File”. Store your photos on Flickr for easy access. Hope this helped. :S If you want to talk give me a call. …So exciting mom!!!
I went to Bluehost and did a full backup through there… onto my computer and a copy onto my external hard drive. (Bluehost also keeps a copy for 5 days… I’m going to set for automatic backups). Then I upgraded to 8.6 on WordPress…. I am proud of myself, lol! Thanks for your ideas, though… just figured it out myself first!!!
Mommmmm! You wrote son of Taryn and ALEX on your penandpapermama2 site. Oops! =D
haha~ I better fix that, lol!