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I have been writing articles on the wordpress.com blog, now I am looking to move it to self-hosted WordPress blog but I wonder:
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Should I move all my articles on the new blog or just put an article on my last blog that more articles will be posted on my new blog?
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If i move all articles on my new blog, I am not sure about how google will react to it because there are articles with good number of visitors, won't this be seo-un-friendly because I am not sure but Google will re-create page reputation stuff, etc or those articles will have same popularity even if I move elsewhere?
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What are the implications and side-effects in moving from wordpress.com blog to self-hosted WordPress blog?
For general instructions and hints, check out this in the WordPress forums:
migration to wordpress.org self hosted & image exporting or uploading
Should i move all my articles on the new blog or just put an article on my last blog that more articles will be posted on my new blog?
I'd say take them all with you. That way, you'll have a rich archive from the start, plus all your articles have the same link structure and are on the same domain.
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You will most likely take a hit in SEO if you switch off your old blog, and re-create all content on the new one. For a personal blog, it might be not that much of a big deal, though. I would definitely not maintain the same content on both blogs, because Google might interpret that as duplicate content. If the hosted Wordpress blog allows it, maybe install a redirect to the new blog.
If you can set up the hosted WordPress to deliver a header redirect to the exact article on your new blog, it may even work without losing much in Google's ranking.
i migrated the end of 2007, and wrote a blogpost on what I did, but it's in Dutch i'm afraid. but here's a summary of what I did;
moved my RSS-feed to feedburner a long time in advance and asked everyone to switch
did an export of my old blog (i.e. articles + comments) and imported the result in my self-hosted wp.org-blog
changed the number of posts/page to 1 on the old wp.com-blog
removed all comments on the old blog
for the 20 (or 50?) most popular blogpost removed most of the content, only leaving a teaser and linking to the full blogpost on the self-hosted blog
removed (almost) all widgets and added an rss-widget with the feed from my new blog
asked everyone who linked to the old blog to change the link
posted a 'last blogpost' which includes the link to the new url and to the feed (again)
it still took some time for google to send traffic to the new blog, but you'll have to bite that bullet i'm afraid.
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The author in my single blog posts displays as an icon followed by the name (see picture). Instead of this, I want it to display "By: Author's Name" with no icon.
It's been a long time since I've played around with PHP code. My website uses the Integral Pro Wordpress Theme. Can anyone clarify how I can modify this feature?
That is difficult to answer because there is a lot of things that we don't know, but, the process will be identifying the php file that handles the author display, copy the file over your child theme, edit where appropriate and run to see if it works.
Solution:
The problem was actually SEO Yoast. It creates "Archives" for posts and authors, creating a whole load of crap on the website.
The current template for our wordpress website originally was html only.
A guy we hired some time ago, did the transfer so to speak, but there are some problems.
At the moment the website contains "www.website.com/blog" and various "www.website.com/2018 or /2018/06" links that google does it's damnedest to index. Some of the links return a 404 occasionally as well.
Because we do daily blog post's everything is naturally copied over to those "/blog" pages. The results is 52% duplicate content (according to Siteliner)
I'm writing here looking for advice, because I don't know how to get rid of them or how to manage them to reduce the SEO related impact. I also didn't find post relating to this specific problem.
(example of the problem "multiorders.com/2018/07/page/2/" )
Our post links are set to website.com/sample-post, someone had suggested adding a "RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ http://yourwebsite.com/$3" into the .htaccess file.
I can tell you the basic structure to avoid the Duplicate content issue and the URL structure issue. Both are really important and can say main factor for Seo purposes.
Structure:
First one, Create a blog page (Already created on your website). On that page there must be shown the all blog posts that you have entered in the admin panel at POSTS menu. The lists of all blogs www.example.com/blog here as you said. In that page there should me pagination that means if you are showing 10 posts per page then the 11th post will be on the www.example.com/blog/2 and so on. (acceptable foe seo purpose).
Secondly, If someone clicks on the post or Read more button it should redirect the
single blog www.example.com/blog-post-name (perfect for seo).
To change the permalink (URL Structure) you have go to the admin settings menu -- permalink menu-- change to post name and Save.
Note: Take a backup before applying
Any questions, please ask..!!
The problem was actually SEO Yoast. It creates "Archives" for posts and authors, creating a whole load of crap on the website. As soon as I disabled those features all the extra pages vanished. Now all I need is to wait for Google to catch up.
I have a Invision Power Board forum
and I am seriously thinking to change it and convert it to a Wordpress blog/news site
since I have a lot of threads, and post replies my question is can I convert it too just Wordpress without adding bbpress plugin to Wordpress?
there I a paid service that could do teh conversion but into bbpress in Wordpress I just want the thread replies to appear in worpress as comments on each post
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I am a rails programmer basically who is looking to move towards wordpress for a project which involves conversion of paper based magazine / newspaper to an online version. I have developed rails app with HTML themes before and understand the HTML themes basically are concerned with front end logic. How wordpress themes are in that respect?? They are a bit expensive but do they have any back end functionality as well. I need some help understanding if i am thinking in the right manner. The theme has homepage which has multiple posts from multiple categories. Will i be able to put post with some categories and they will automatically appear as they shown in the homepage or do i have to manually select which post goes where. Regards
Each post in WP can be tagged and categorized. The posts can then be pulled from the database by various criteria - author, category, tag, date etc.
Read more here : http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
You could assign various columns on your homepage to display posts from different categories.
There are also different kinds of posts (post formats) such as image, video, quote etc. - which could all be displayed differently, depending on the theme (template).
Posts, post formats, categories, tags - all of these are a part of the standard WordPress install and are independent from the theme. The theme simply takes advantage of these features.
Wordpress is essentially just like any other CMS. You can make it do pretty much anything you want it to do. If you want all the posts to display on the homepage, you can. If you only want specific posts to display you can do that too with either categories or tags. All you need to know is some PHP and check out the Wordpress Codex for all the functions available.
If you are just wanting to buy a theme then obviously don't get the flexibility unless you hack the theme a bit.
Recently I migrated some 1400 pages of static content to WordPress, but some of the URLs are messy and do not match the old site. Is there any way I can quickly edit many page URLs?
Only some URLs are messed up, so Database Query won't work in this case and In the WordPress codex, it is mentioned not to edit GUID column in the database.
Not sure if there is a plugin to do this. I am also using custom permalinks plugin for editing each page URL but it takes forever.
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