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Maintaining multiple blogs is getting harder and harder

September 30, 2008 by Tricia

If you are a regular reader of this blog you probably already know that I maintain several blogs. Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m just spinning my wheels. You know, working all day on different things, but still feeling like I haven’t made much progress at all. I know … all those little things I’m doing usually pay off down the road, but when you have a number of sites all the tasks to maintain and promote them can become overwhelming.

I’ve been feeling this way for several months. I think part of the problem is that my routine isn’t as organized as it used to be. I used to write posts in advance and save them as drafts or set them to publish on future dates. If I had enough of them set up that way for a number of sites it left me free to do things like comment on other blogs, network, add site listings to directories or write articles to publish on article sites to help promote the sites and gain traffic.

I think I’ve slowly been becoming more and more disorganized because I simply don’t sleep much anymore. I’m in chronic pain due to Crohns so I’m achy when I get up in the morning and if I didn’t get enough sleep it takes a while to get on a role with my writing. Then by the time my husband is going to bed at night I start to feel like I’m getting work done, feel like I’m on a role … but I’m starting to get tired so it’s harder to get things done.

I’m going to revamp my whole routine. I’m going to start getting up by 8 am – even if I didn’t sleep well or didn’t fall asleep until 5 am! Then I’ll try to do some exercise – take the dog for a walk, work out on the elliptical – whichever as long as it’s about an hour of physical activity. That will help me get in gear for the day and hopefully help me lose a few of the extra pounds I’ve put on as my routine began to fall apart ( no fat burners for me! not yet anyway!).

Then after getting the basics out of the way like eating and showering I’ll spend a few hours writing for all the blogs and then an hour or two promoting the sites and or networking. It’s important that I get the writing done during the day when there’s less distractions. The promoting and networking can go into the evening if they must.

Now the last and hardest part for me will be getting to bed by a decent time. I can’t see myself going to bed any earlier than 11 pm as I’ve always been a night owl. 2 am is probably more likely! either way if I can make myself get 6 to 9 hours of solid sleep each night I think everything else will fall back in place for me again.

Do you work at home or do you maintain multiple blogs? What’s your routine like? Are you organized or are you finding it harder and harder to keep up?





Filed Under: Blogging, Chronic Pain, Crohns Disease, Health Fitness + Beauty, Items to Try, Technology Tagged With: activity, articles, Blogging, blogs, disorganized, exercise, getting_organized, lack_of_sleep, multiple_blogs, network, pain, promote, routine, site_promotion, sleep, write

So who’s going to Blogworld this year?

September 18, 2008 by Tricia

Almost every site I go to these days – well the social blogging platforms like Mybloglog, Blogcatalog and other BIG sites seem to have ads for the Blogworld expo this weekend.

I went last year and I thought it was great. I learned a lot- especially since I was also attending another blogging convention that was going on at the same time and I had a great time.

Of course it was in November last year. I don’t know what the temperatures are in Vegas at this time of year, but I do know that by November they’re perfect for anyone who’s thinking of taking one of those infamous Vegas vacations lol. It was quite comfortable.

Anyway … I guess I’m getting a little weary seeing the same ads on all the big sites. Perhaps if I were going to Blogworld I’d feel differently, but since I’m not … enough already!

It’s kind of like when you’re visiting a lot of blogs and you keep seeing posts talking abut the same product or service everywhere. 😉

Anyone going to Blogworld this year? Hmm I guess if you’re going you might already be there or traveling to Vegas right now.

Filed Under: Blogging, Items to Try, Recreation, Travel and Vacation Tagged With: ads, blog, Blogging, blogworld, conventions, flying, hot, learn, November, september, temperature, travel, vacation, Vegas

Busy weekend updating 16 WP blogs!

September 16, 2008 by Tricia

You know what I did this weekend?  I updated 116 blogs to either WP version 2.6.1 or the latest version 2.6.2.  That was a huge task!

Luckily I was able to do half of them using my C-panel Fantastico section – those were the blogs that were only updated to 2.6.1 and the rest I updated by using the WordPress Automatic Update plugin.  I used the plugin for the first time … otherwise my updates would have all been manual updates.  Ugh … that would have taken even longer.

Unfortunately I’ve discovered a small problem or two. The blogs that I updated using the Automatic update plugin won’t go into the new Turbo mode using Google Gears. After reading the WordPress.org forums it seems that the update plugin doesn’t update all of the files so I might have a few missing. So it looks like I’ll have to manually update anyway.

I also discovered that one of the blogs that I used the autoupdate plugin on has a widget problem. The site looks fine from the front end, but when I try to edit the widgets in the right column I can only see a few of the widgets. There’s an error message that I’m missing one of the files that one of the codes i have in a text widget calls for (the file is not missing BTW – it’s where it should be).  I can’t see any of the widgets below the one that WP thinks has an error in it.

So I don’t know if that’s an error caused by using the Automatic Upgrade Plugin – if it is, it will soon be corrected when I manually update the iste, or if it’s a problem with either the theme that I’m using and or WP 2.6.2 itself.

I hope that I can fix the problem with a manual update of the WP files.  Otherwise I’m going to have to go searching to see if anyone else has this problem and try to track down a way to fix it.  Or wait until WP updates again so I can see if this problem goes away. Big drag not being able to edit the content of you widgets! Grrrr

Oh I also discovered that when creating a post in WP 2.6.2 that if you accidentally forget to give your post a title there’s no going back!  You used to be able to edit the post slug. The only time I ever did that was on the rare occasion that I posted without a title. I’d just go back, remove the slug and save the post after giving it a title and the post slug would contain the post title as it should.   It seems that there’s no post slug area in the new WP.  So the post I made a mistake on now has a numerical url. Yuck … not good SEO.

Exciting weekend huh?  Now it’s time for me to go and eat dinner. I made homemade spaghetti sauce so we’re having a delicious spaghetti dinner.  We’ll watch House while we eat … can’t wait to see the premiere!

Filed Under: Blogging, Home and Lifestyle, Recipes and dining, SEO, Technology, Wordpress Tagged With: autoupdate, cpanel, dinner, edit, fantastico, file, files, googlegears, manually, missing, missingfiles, mode, plugin, postslug, problem, sauce, spaghetti, turbo, update, widget, Wordpress, wp

My desktop computer is so much faster than my laptop

July 19, 2008 by Tricia

Lately I’ve been using my desktop computer more often. We got our Laptop two years ago and I let myself fall into the habit of using the notebook pretty much 100% of the time, however lately my laptop has been slowing down and it’s becoming frustrating to work on it.

My desktop computer on the other hand is nice and fast! We did a memory upgrade last year and well I guess the computer chip is faster than the laptops as well even though the Desktop computer was purchased in 2004. You’d think it would be the other way around with the laptop being faster … not in this case!

The main reason I had started using the desktop computer more often lately is because I purchased some programs that don’t seem to work on the laptop. I have something wrong with my .net framework installations on the laptop. They’re installed for programs that need them, but the programs won’t work, so there’s got to e some corrupted files or something else going on.

I guess I’ll have to completely remove all the .net framework installations, clean the computer up with a net framework cleanup program that I downloaded a while ago (through Microsoft) and re-install. I’m just worried that some programs will crash badly when I remove the installations and then I’ll have even more trouble.

So for now I’ll just have to use the software that I purchased recently only on the desktop!

I am enjoying working on my old computer again though. As I said earlier it’s so much faster than the Laptop. Even blogs and websites I visit seems to load faster. Now if I could only get my laptop working close to the desktops speed I’d be happy.

Does your computer make you frustrated with it loads programs or websites slowly?

Filed Under: Blogging, Computers, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, software Tagged With: cleanup, Computer, computer chip, computer memory, desktop, fast desktop computer, framework, laptop, Microsoft, net framework, notebook, problem with laptop, program, slow laptop, software, speed, trouble, upgrade

Looking for free WordPress Themes

June 15, 2008 by Tricia

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on this blog, but since January I’ve been on a wordpress Theme hunt. I have several blogs and as I prepared to finally update them to wordpress 2.3.3 I realized that some of the themes needed updating. They needed updating not only because the sites needed a new look, but because the themes I’d been using had flaws like loading the sidebars before the content or comments being way at the bottom of the page after a huge gap when viewed in IE. Plus a few of the themes weren’t widgetized and now that I use widgets for my sidebars I’m in love with them. It certainly makes it easier to switch themes quickly if you are using widgets.

I found a lot of themes that I liked. In fact I have a test blog that’s loaded with about 100 themes as I just couldn’t decide which ones to use for the blogs I was updating. LOL

One of the sites were I found a few themes that I liked was Top WP Themes. If you are looking for themes they have a selection of some of the best wordpress themes around.

The site is updated with a new theme almost daily so if you are looking for the perfect theme for your blog look through their archives and I’m sure you’ll find one that suits your needs. Of course you can also bookmark the site and visit it regularly to see what new themes have been posted too. That’s what I’m going to do as I’m still looking for a new theme for this site.

What I like about this site is that you can also look up themes by category. If you are looking for a two column theme, a three column theme, Adsense ready, fixed width or widget ready theme just click on the appropriate theme category and you’ll find dozens of designs. You can preview the themes before you download them if you want to be sure the theme has all the right features.

I’ve already spent some time browsing the site and I think this Rainbow Garden theme is kind of cute. It would certainly be a different look for this blog!

If you are new to wordpress and aren’t sure how to install new themes there’s a helpful installation guide on the Top WP Themes website. They also offer support for some of the themes listed on their site. That’s always helpful!

So if you’re looking for a new look for your wordpress site be sure to check out Top WP Themes. I’ll bet you find a few themes that you like – maybe you’ll even end up with a collection of themes like I did!

Filed Under: Blogging, Great Sites, Technology, Wordpress Tagged With: adsense, best wordpress themes, blog, blogs, bookmark, collection, column, download, free, installation, installation article, preview, rainbow garden, selection, sidebars, support, Theme, theme category, theme hunt, Themes, top wp themes, website, widget, widgets, width, Wordpress, Wordpress theme, wp themes, wp themes selection, wp themes site

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