I had a very large web site (30,000+ pages) that I wanted to move from one web host to another. Normally I would use phpMyAdmin to export tables or the entire database. This mySQL database was of course too large for that and phpMyAdmin would timeout trying to export, even if I exported only one [...]

You know, I see a lot of “top wordpress plugin” lists on all kinds of blogs (including mine)…but I never seem to see a “wordpress plugin wishlist”. I got to thinking, if I had the money to pay someone, or could tell a really good coder the exact kinds of things I would like to [...]

I’m the most successful blogger in North America - well, probably the world. I have monetized my blog so well that I’ve quit my job and now I earn six figures while typing on my laptop in my living room watching TVLand re-runs in my underwear with a beer at my side! I get so [...]

If you are not using 301 Redirects you are making a blogging mistake. 301 Redirects are easy to setup, save your google pagerank and link love, and save your visitors from a nasty “Error 404 - Not Found” page. What is a 301 redirect? It’s a single line you add to you “.htaccess” file (more [...]

So in the last article I talked about the rapid growth of my web site, and left handing with going from 10-15,000 unique pageviews per day to just over 500. So how does a web site just “die on the vine” like that? I guess it’s pretty easy when google attacks!! What I mean [...]

So in the last post I talked about finding an aggregator plugin for Drupal that aggregated rss feeds and posted them to the front page. As I said in the last post - this would change everything. When I enabled the plugin, I found that it would publish each item in an rss feed and [...]

I’m going to talk about setting up a robots.txt especially for your self hosted wordpress blog, to help the search engine crawlers to best index your site and help with with search engine optimization. Due to the recent content duplication rules in the google index, you want to make sure that you’re submitting one [...]

So in part 1 I talked about going from a static site to a dynamic one, and then reading a blog post about making a little commission from an Amazon Associates link. I had started to think for the first time about monetizing my site. Never having had ads of any kind on any [...]

I’m going to talk about a lot of things in this blog about blogging, but let’s start with the basics - how I got started. I am a web developer and I build and maintain web sites by trade, and I’ve been doing that in the corporate environment since 1996′ish. I stopped building web [...]

Hey, welcome to jtpratt.com! Mainly I’ll be posting about my experiences with web sites and blogging here…what’s worked, what’s failed, where I get the best blogging information and help, and I’ll be posting tips and tricks as I find them. I’ll also tell some blogging stories from the last year, where I managed to [...]