by on March 1, 2009

Migrate Your Feedburner Accounts NOW!

Your feeds will no longer work if you don’t migrate your feeds. The deadline for the old Feedburner addresses expired yesterday.

If you are still able to access your Feedburner login, follow these steps:

  1. Log into your account at http://www.feedburner.com
  2. Click the link at the top to migrate your account to Google.
  3. It then confirms if you are already signed in as a Google account-holder (I was logged into my e-mail, so I was) and asks if you’d like to use that account, another account, or create a new Google account to manage your feeds.
  4. After that step, it confirms which feeds will be transferred, and continue from there.

Hurry up.

Then you need to edit any links in any of your widgets or theme settings that say “feeds2.feedburner.com” or “feedburner.com” to say “feedburner.google.com” for things to continue to work.

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by on February 19, 2009

Re-branding Jesse Petersen for Business

With one conference call I suddenly had to re-brand myself as a self-employed WordPress consultant in the wide world of entrepreneurship. No longer was I the moonlighting, 18-hour per day husband and breadwinner, but a full-blown freelance WP expert trying to make ends meet – quickly. Results and feedback have been favorable so far, but there was and still is a lot of work to do to make that transition from doing this work for a company to doing it exclusively for oneself. Here are the first six steps I have taken to re-brand myself.

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Filed Under: Blogging, Design, Wordpress
by on February 19, 2009

WordPress Fixed the Plugin Search

After months of unsuccessful searches for cforms 2 and all the various ways to spell it, Matt Mullenweg announced that he has fixed the plugin search tool.

That sure got my day off to a good start!

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/02/new-and-improved-plugins-directory-search/

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by on February 16, 2009

How to Automate your WordPress Site’s Copyright Dates.

I have been going through my numerous sites gasping at all of the footer copyrights that still say “2008″ and are also annoying me that they don’t show my first date of copyright. Well, don’t let it happen to you next year. Plug this into your footer template and make a copy of the code in a text file in case you switch themes before next year:

get_results("SELECT YEAR(min(post_date_gmt)) AS firstyear, YEAR(max(post_date_gmt)) AS lastyear FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_date_gmt > 1970");
			if ($post_datetimes) {
				$firstpost_year = $post_datetimes[0]->firstyear;
				$lastpost_year = $post_datetimes[0]->lastyear;

				$copyright = __('Copyright © ', 'jesse') . $firstpost_year;
				if($firstpost_year != $lastpost_year) {
					$copyright .= '-'. $lastpost_year;
				}
				$copyright .= ' ';

				echo $copyright;
				bloginfo('name');
			}
		?>
Filed Under: Design, Wordpress
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