A brace of queries
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If the answers to these queries are on the FAQs I apologise for being unable to find/understand them.
1 – I started blogging recently using scottdouglas.wordpress.com. However, I’ve called my blog Black and White and Read all Over. So I also took out the url blackandwhiteandreadallover.wordpress.com. Is it possible to run exactly the same content on two addresses? if so, is it advisable (or would I be committing a huge blogging social faux pas?). If it can be done, how? And are there any pitfalls or negatives?
2 – When browsing I find dozens of sites I find interesting and would like to go back and have another look at. But I don’t necessarily want them in my blogroll. How else is it possible to simply and easy create an easy accessible list of such blogs?
3 – What does it take to get a mention on the WordPress front page. Is it totally arbitrary? Is it simply about the “most read” type of hit-based rankings? Can you submit/recommend interesing posts for consideration? Is it a total mystery (and a a question I should never have asked)?
4 – Thanks to a basic greenhorn error I have two “Home” tabs and can’t get rid of the spare one. Nor can I understand the various advice on how this is supposedly done. When this happened with another blog I have, I posted asking this same question and a very kind moderator type of chat nipped in an fixed it while I wasn’t looking. How do I get that to happen again?
Many thanks for listening
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#1 – Export the contents of the old blog to the new one. See:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/how-do-i-move-between-blogs/Having duplicate content isn’t so much a faux pas as a sure bet for being penalized by Google. I’d delete the first one after the 2nd is up and running.
#2 – You can use the bookmark function in your browser or the bookmarks in Google toolbar or a site such as del.ici.ous.com which would enable you to share what you’ve saved with your blog readers using the del.icio.us widget.
#3 – We’re just volunteers and have no more information than you do.
#4 – It might sort itself out on the new blog.
#5 – a brace is 2. :)
Hope this helps!
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#2 – What I did was create a folder in my bookmarks bar at the top of my browser window and named it blogs and I save the bookmarks to blog I frequent in there. That way all my favorite haunts are just a couple clicks away and don’t get lost in the bookmarks menu. Another alternative is to create a folder in the bookmarks menu for your blog links.
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I have two “Home” tabs and can’t get rid of the spare one
#4. http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/i-have-2-home-page-links/
Also note that this same “remedy” can be used on self hosted wp installs -
All – thanks for taking the time to reply and advise.
Ellaella – 20 years as a wordsmith and I never realised until now that a brace is a pair. I’ve been using that word in the wrong way for sooooo long. So thanks for the gentle prod! :-)
Re bookmarking, thanks for the pointers and I will try out all of these options. However, I’m not sure any is the ideal solution, as I work on three or four separate computers and was really looking for an easy, centralised bookmark option, easily reached from any of them.
Del.icio.us looked like the best option – but I’m not hugely techie, don’t have lots of time on my hands and just can’t work out how to use it on either my iMac or the Vista laptop I use (though it works fine on my XP desktop and on my Windows 2000 laptop).
I’m still pretty new to the whole blogging, bookmarking, social media thing, so I’ll keep experimenting.
However, I personally would find it extremely useful if WordPress allowed me to easily “bookmark” (or create a totally private blogroll) of sites that I like and want to list and access centrally, but don’t necessarily want to include on my public blogroll.
Thanks again
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Have you ever considered subscribing to the RSS ffeed of a blog/site?
One reader I’d recommend is Google reader because it can be accessed from any PC via Google. It may seem a bit complicated when looking at it for the first time, but it will save you a lot of time, as you won’t have to visit each site to check for new content.
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