Question Asked: How Do I Setup Email Subscriptions in FeedBurner for WordPress?Jul 3rd, 2009
WordPress comes with a built in RSS feed. However, many people may be unfamiliar with RSS and therefore not comfortable with it.
An alternate solution to expand on the basic functionality of WordPress’ built in feed, is to utilize FeedBurner.
FeedBurner is a Google owned product that has a number of features available to enhance any RSS feed, including e-mail subscriptions, which is our ultimate goal.
- Sign up for an account at FeedBurner.
- When logged in, you’ll want to “Burn a Feed”, which is rather simple. Input the full URL of the website you’re creating this e-mail notification for. (Ie; http://www.website.com/site/feed)
- The next page will allow you to select a “Feed Title” and “Feed Address.” For “Feed Title” enter the name of the department. For “Feed Address”, enter something that represents your site.
- Click the “Next” button.
- The next page will show you what the URL is, and allow you to proceed to Step 2, to configure more options. Click the “Next” button.
- On Step 2, you can configure more options, but don’t have to. The options you’ll want, for this purpose, are already enabled. Click “Next” to proceed.
- On the “My Feed” page, select “Publicize”, then select “E-mail Subscriptions” in the left hand navigation.
- Click the “Activate”, the page will refresh and provide you the code you need to allow people to sign up.
- Select the code in the box on the page. It will look like this:
<form style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open(' http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=username', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true"><p>Enter your email address:</p> <p><input type="text" style="width:140px" name="email"/></p><input type="hidden" value="username" name="uri"/><input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/> <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" /><p>Delivered by <a href="http:// feedburner.google.com" target="_blank">FeedBurner</a></p></form> - Login to your WordPress site, and create a new page titled “Subscribe”, and paste the code into it, in HTML view.
- Since WordPress removes the javascript that executes the popup window, you’ll need to save the page, then modify the code. After you save the page, the code will be rendered as:
<form style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" method="post" target="popupwindow"><p>Enter your email address:</p><p><input type="text" style="width:140px"></p><input type="hidden" value="username"><input type="hidden" name="loc"><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" /><p>Delivered by <a href="http://feed burner.google.com" target="_blank">FeedBurner</a></p></form>
- Replace the “Action” URL with:
http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=username
Be sure to replace “username” with the FeedBurner username you created.
- Save the page.
This subscription form will allow people to sign up for new notifications of content via your website, automatically. Within FeedBurner, a user can stipulate many features of that e-mail:
- Link color
- Text color
- Time sent
- E-mail address sent from
- Name on e-mail address sent from
- Logo in e-mail
- Etc.
Now, once a day people who “subscribe” via e-mail will receive a daily digest of everything you’ve posted. It’s that simple.
There are also a number of plugins that will allow you to do this in a Widget, rather than “page”, but that’s a preference that’s up to you.
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Question Asked: When Did The First Nintendo Come Out?Jul 2nd, 2009
The original Nintendo, dubbed “Nintendo Entertainment System”, was first released by Nintendo in Japan on July 15th, 1983.
Nintendo then brought it to America on October 18th, 1985.
It has since gone on to sell just shy of 62 million units worldwide.
The NES began being phased out in the late ’80s, as the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was in development. SNES was available in August of ‘91, and marked the death of the NES.
Many gamers today still have their Nintendo systems, and often set them up for nostalgic purposes. Though hard to come by, every now and again you can find one on eBay.
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Question Asked: Is Ghostbusters III Really Being Made?Jul 1st, 2009
According to a variety of movie websites, including IMdB, yes.
Ghostbusters III (which doesn’t have a catchy sequelesque title, yet) is set to be released sometime in 2012.
As of now, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Akyroyd, and Ernie Hudson have signed on. Sigourney Weaver is listed as being involved, on IMdB, but has publicly stated that she’ll not be in the movie.
There’s no talk yet of what the movie will be about, officially. However, there are rumors that it will be the “old guys” shepherding in the “new guys” to take their places. It’s possible that the original Ghostbusters will have children who’ll be taking their places.
It’ll be pretty amazing to see what they can do with CGI now, compared to the original two movies, which are over 20 years old. The special effects back then were pretty impressive, for their time (a giant marshmellow man, walking Statue of Liberty, flying ghosts? Pretty cool), so it’ll be fun to see what they come up with “these days.”
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Question Asked: When Does Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Open In Theaters?Jun 30th, 2009
The next film in the Harry Potter series is set to be a big one, and opens pretty soon. On July 15th, 2009, it opens in the following 19 countries:
- Argentina
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Egypt
- France
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Spain
- Sweden
- UK
- USA
On July 16th, another 16 countries:
- Austria
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Israel
- Kuwait
- Malaysia
- Peru
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Russia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Ukraine
On July 17th, another 12:
- Bulgaria
- Denmark
- Finland
- India
- Indonesia
- Kazakhstan
- Lithuania
- Norway
- South Africa
- Taiwan
- Turkey
- Venezuela
On July 23rd, another 3:
- Croatia
- Hungary
- Lebanon
On July 24th, another 4:
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Poland
- Romania
And finally one last country on August 27th:
- Greece
That brings the total countries to 55. I’d guess it’s going to open in over 4500 theaters in the US alone, and has a pretty good chance of breaking some opening weekend records, since it was pushed back from November of last year.
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Question Asked: How Do I Redirect All My Webpages To My New Domain Name?Jun 29th, 2009
Changing your domain name can be a pain in the butt, especially if you have a lot of webpages with links in them.
The easiest thing to do is to use a “Redirect” rule, that is unless you prefer opening all of your pages and updating links by hand. And of course, you can’t redirect traffic coming from search engines that way. So we’ll proceed with a redirect.
If you already have an .htaccess file in your website’s top directory (ie; not in a folder), open it. If you don’t, open NotePad or an equivilent text editor. Do not use WordPad.
Type the following in the document:
RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://www.your-domain.com/$1
Replace “your-domain.com”, with what your new domain name is. Leave the $1 on the end.
Now save the document, and re-upload it to your server for your old domain name. (If you didn’t have an .htaccess file. Save the file as htaccess.txt. Upload it, then rename it to .htaccess once on your server.)
Now any request for any page on your old domain will redirect to the domain name you’ve specified. So mysite.com/this-webpage.html will redirect to mynewsite.com/this-webpage.html