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This post, as a live journal, will document the journey of this self-hosted wordpress blog server: how it gets created, maintained, altered, upgraded, and secured. The live diary will cover the whole spectrum of a wordpress blog server, or as a business-savvy would put it, the blog’s “ecosystem”: the hardware, networking (DNS, routing, firewall), operating system, Apache, PHP, MySQL, wordpress blog server software, security, themes and plug-ins, Google AdSense, backup and restore, disaster recovery, performance boosters, and etc. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night I added the post list functionality to SEO Dave’s almost-spring-adsense theme by copying the functions from his Blix-adsense theme . When previewing the new post list on this site running Wordpres 2.1 on FC6, I noticed the very single post is listed in the ‘most recent posts’ list on the sidebar as well. That’s a bit unusual. Read the rest of this entry »

So far, most of the traffic to this site was referred by Google Search or alike. More often than not, readers land on a single post. I believe a list of recent posts would appeal more to the readers to hang around than the current page list. This site uses SEO Dave’s almost-spring-adsense theme with a few of my own tweaks. Almost-spring-adsense theme doesn’t have post list at all, while the Blix-adsense theme does. Read the rest of this entry »

A Google AdSnse text link is added to the top of the page, right below the blog title. Look at top of this page, you shall see it. The stying and such is a copy+paste of SEO Dave’s Google Adsense unit code from page.php into header.php, in his famous adsense-spiked almost-springs wordpress theme. Read the rest of this entry »