Why keeping a log of your changes is crucial
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I loaded up firefox this morning and noticed something quite unusual – the theme on the make money blog website had re-set to the default wordpress theme. Strange I thought, seen as it had done this a couple of times during the week and I really wasn’t sure if someone had hacked into my account or if I had done it by accident.
Blog has changed to default wordpress theme
Keeping a log
I looked back in a notebook where I record all the changes, additions and urls where I get programs, code and plug-ins from; I noticed that there was one particular plug-in I installed at the end of last week that seemed to be new and affecting the theme. I quickly put the make money blog theme back into display and set out searching for why the blog had done this.
Researching through the wordpress forums I came to a page where the person asking the question was in the same predicament as me – their blog kept ‘re-setting’ to the default theme with no explanation to it. I quickly found out that it was indeed Alex Kings mobile converter plug-in that I installed which was causing wordpress to become all confused and default back to the original theme.
I think I’m going to keep the plug-in deactivated until I get a new theme designed (when I decide on a designer of course) and have them verify that the plug-in can be used and will display on a mobile phone – after all as bloggers we need to capture all the opportunities we can to secure readers.
Keep your blog as your homepage
As I mentioned in a previous post, my advice would be to keep your (main) blog as your homepage, it will help your Alexa ranking and will also alert you of any changes to your blog straight away, which can be crucial to your reader base whether 10, or 10 thousand.
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Beautiful Minds said:
This is the one thing, which am not doing.!
And u know the effects? template change.. uninstall widgets(i donno what or where the issue was) .. pagerank drop(for my earlier blogspot blog) etc etc…
January 9th, 2008 at 10:49 am -
Stephan Miller said:
It does pay off. I made a minor change to a site a while back that increased my affiliate sales from about $150 to $500 a day for a few weeks.
Changes like that you want to remember.January 9th, 2008 at 3:16 pm -
Debby said:
If you go to this site:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.phpYou can type in your website and it will give you a page view of your site almost everyday all the way back to when you started it.
It is a really fun tool to see how your site has progressed.
January 9th, 2008 at 5:27 pm -
Ninja Steve said:
That’s why I only ever use a tested and secure plugin. The version that has been tested and so on.
January 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm -
Nick said:
Stephan that’s pretty good - you definitely want to take note of those moments, but I feel the smaller ones can add upto a big picture too.
January 9th, 2008 at 8:01 pm -
Nick said:
Hopefully you might try it then, it’s been good for me throughout my business career.
January 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm -
Nick said:
@ Debby - totally agree, way back when machine is great, good to visit some of the news sites and see what was hot in 2004, as well as seeing how the bigger bloggers were just starting out; but, I still believe in personal micro progress updates - maybe I could use twitter more towards this?
@Ninja - agree, but I don’t as bad press is a ‘good’ as good press - get a bad story, event or experience (share it) and people will want to read about it.
January 9th, 2008 at 8:09 pm -
Jason - Blogging4cash said:
I have this happen all of the time when I am editing the source code of my blogs. Seems if I save the page sometimes from Golive especially the CSS page and look back at the blog the theme has changed to back default. It is always good to check after making changes and give the page a few refreshes to make sure everything is still working ok. I do like the Log idea as I tend to work on a lot of things at once.
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