Comments on: How Do I Connect My Site and My Blog?

By: CDLauryl

CDLauryl — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:12:22 +0000

BTW, you can call me Chrys – I keep forgetting to sign that way. I signed up for a login on the night gmail was down, so I had to create a second login to be able to respond. My intended username was Chrystalline (my first name). Maybe I’ll switch it later.

Chrystalline – What a pretty name! – Ros

By: CDLauryl

CDLauryl — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:09:07 +0000

Hmm. You’re using WP there, too – is there a reason your side link is a feedburner link? WP does feeds automatically, and since you said you were having trouble with it, I tried it – RSS subscription (using WP’s function, not the feedburner link you have on the right) worked just fine. Your Atom feed address there is http://roamsters.com/feed/atom/ (which works) and the RSS 2 address is http://roamsters.com/feed/ (which also works). Are you still having trouble?

Hi Chrys,

I was having trouble getting the feed to validate in most places. However, I just discovered this morning that by removing the homepage slug and making the blog the homepage, it validated easily. So, now I have to move the whole blog to another directory so that I can have a homepage… :-/ Oh well.

Cheers,
Ros

By: Rosalind Gardner

Rosalind Gardner — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:27:53 +0000

I just wish I knew what I did, ’cause the feed at http://Roamsters.com still doesn’t work. Aaaargh!!! Ros

By: CDLauryl

CDLauryl — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:27:47 +0000

It worked! I’m getting the RSS feed now.

By: CDLauryl

CDLauryl — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:24:47 +0000

Nope, I had just tried subbing to the feed three times – both RSS2 and Atom 0.3. It’s not an address change issue. It shows up in my feed list with the proper title, but it never gets any posts. Every other blog I subscribe to updates immediately with the latest 5-30 posts, depending on frequency of posting, as soon as I subscribe.

When I was using WordPress, I could get my posts in RSS (in Opera) as well, so it’s not a fundamental incompatibility there, either, unless something major has changed in Opera in the last few months. This one says I’ve subscribed, but gets no posts at all. Ever. Besides, to make sure it’s not *just* Opera, I tried to syndicate it at LiveJournal (I only have a handful of feeds subbed there), and that didn’t work either. Something’s set wrong. Thanks for trying, though, Brad.

Hi, I’m having the same problem and think it has something to do with one of the many plugins I’ve tried to activate of late. In the process of de-activating now. Ros

By: BradleyD

BradleyD — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:43:11 +0000

Hey CDLauryl,

I don’t know if your still watching this thread,
but this might be because of the recent update to the blog.

The feed url used to be: http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/index.php/feed/

Now it’s: http://netprofitstoday.com/blog/wp-rss2.php

It messed up the feed in my feedreader too

Hope it helps!
Brad.

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:58:56 +0000

Last year I hosted a wordpress blog on my own domain http://www.beyourowndetective.com/blog with lots of great hand-written content that I spent months building, but it has not performed very well. I assumed all along my whole problem is insufficient link popularity in a competitive niche, but I could be wrong.

My site was also under a penalty with Yahoo search, that now appears to be in the early stages of inclusion.

By: cash8020

cash8020 — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:41:00 +0000

Ros – - Isn’t Damon almost “home”? The main domain has a link to the Blog. So building out the main domain page and leaving a navigation link to the Blog should accomplish what’s desired – - or am I missing something? This is how I see you’ve set it up on your http://www.netprofitstoday.com page. I ask this because I have the same problem. When I started my Blog as part of your class, I registered my domain at Bluehost and then installed WordPress under “blog”. Now, my main domain name, http://www.russianbridefacts.com which has nothing on it, goes to a Bluehost welcome page and to get to my Blog I must use http://www.russianbridefacts.com/blog. I was going to do something like Damon did to link to my Blog from my main domain page. Would this cause problems? Thanks – - Gary.

By: CDLauryl

CDLauryl — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:38:41 +0000

Glad to help. PS - your RSS feeds don't seem to be working. They won't update in Opera (which is my favorite feed reader as well as browser) or start syndicating at LJ. Might get someone to look into that. Oh sure, that's great news! :0 (Thanks for letting me know, tho.) Fortunately, they do seem to work everywhere else, so I'll see what I can do for the Opera users. ... I never did like opera , and now I know why! :-/ Cheers, Ros

By: CDLauryl

CDLauryl — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:55:52 +0000

Somehow I don’t think his original blog gives him FTP access, since it’s not his domain, but if it does, you can download your files that way. If your admin controls include an Export or Backup function, you should be able to use those, although WP makes it remarkably easy to import posts to your new WP blog.

What it sounds like he’s asking, though, is whether he can simply use his original blog and have it show up on his other webpage, which is possible with something like Feed2JS.

It’s very easy. If you know how to use CSS, you can style it yourself, or if you’re not comfortable with that, there are some template styles to try. I’ve used it to display a LiveJournal community on a fan site.
(yes, I’m a geek;)

Hi CDLauryl,

Aaaah. Geeks are good. Export and Backup, now why didn’t I think of that? Thank you so much!

Cheers, Ros