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WordPress.org blog HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I want to welcome WPReality to ActiveRain.  I want to thank Rita and Brian Burke for introducing me to Sean.   Sean is a member of ActiveRain.

WPReality info

Rita or Brian Burke wrote:

Need help with WordPress? - WPReality can help!

I did.

I really, really needed help.

I needed help long before I accidentally deleted my WordPress content on Sunday afternoon.  I have had the blog since New Years Eve in 2006 but this WordPress.org thing does not come easy for me...

It is ugly... It does not have plug-ins.  I have read WordPress for Dummies as if Lisa Sabin-Wilson was talking directly to me.

I read all of Cheryl Johnson's helpful posts in the WordPress group on ActiveRain.... and reread them...

I think it is a mixture of a mental block, not really being techy and sheer terror that keeps me from getting WordPress.org 

The sheer terror shoulda kept me from doing what I did on Sunday but this time it did not...

The ActiveRain WordPress group

What you woulda seen if you'd looked at my blog on Sunday or Monday or up to about 5:00 on Tuesday was a blog with one post... the default welcome post...

Oh I went in and changed it just a bit, saying something like "ooopsie" what I really said was a bit stronger....

I started the WordPress.org Group on ActiveRain. Jay McGillicuddy must have featured the Burke's post about WPReality because I certainly did NOT remember featuring their post but it has a star. 

I spent part of Sunday (the part after I cried) and lots of Monday looking for help to get my WordPress.org blog's content back up.  I looked for a contact that I vaguely remembered from Twitter.  I sent out a muffled cry for help via Twitter on Sunday night. I never looked in the ActiveRain WordPress group on Sunday or Monday for some reason....  I admitted my error publicly on ActiveRain on Monday evening in a Reblog of Jeff Corbett's post about the terms of service of various social media in comparison to ActiveRain's TOS.

I found the Burke's post Tuesday and contacted Sean and my blog was recovered before the Mardi Gras Party....

My blog, ColumbusBestBlog.com is still butt ugly but MY content is back up...

 

 

 


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Naoma Doriguzzi
Virginia Beach - Virginia Beach, VA
New Media Director

Thanks for the tip! Wordpress is alot more overwhelming than Active Rain.  I need a class on WP

Feb 24, 2009 11:11 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

I have wanted to take a class for ever.  I really, really became aware of WordPress because of someone who teaches a class on it in Dayton.  Teri Lussier took his class.  I think he is a jerk.

I am going to Word Camp...  I will be the "drooling idiot"  who can not follow what people are talking about but I am going...

Feb 24, 2009 11:25 PM
Lenn Harley
Lenn Harley, Homefinders.com, MD & VA Homes and Real Estate - Leesburg, VA
Real Estate Broker - Virginia & Maryland

Shucks.  I don't believe that your Wordpress blog is ugly.  It beats mine, that's for sure.  But, they do the job. 

What I fould amazing is that you started blogging on that wordpress blog back in 1969.

December 1969

Feb 25, 2009 12:09 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

I can't 100% remember why the 1969 thing... it has to do with trying to import the original blog on RealTown to my WordPress blog which did not work...

It is so odd it is 1969...  I can't bring myself to remove that...

Thanks for the kind words.

Feb 25, 2009 12:15 AM
Dawn Maloney
RE/MAX Trinity Northeast Ohio Real Estate Specialist - Hudson, OH
330-990-4236 Hudson & Northeastern Ohio

Mo, so glad you are back up and now have a WP guru. So, yeah, not an exciting looking blog, but who am I to talk. You have great content and that is more important. Now if you can look cool, too, that's a plus...

Feb 25, 2009 12:22 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

The content is the important thing...  you were there on Twitter when I first mentioned it. 

I was in shock after I did it.

Feb 25, 2009 12:29 AM
Jay McGillicuddy
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty - Exeter, NH
Real Estate Broker

I very rarely visit AR. I do stop by the WP group every once in a while and I wish you had called me or sent me an email. I'll keep an eye out for you from now on. If my memory serves me right I think it was you who got me interested in WP in the first place back in late '06 or early '07. Back when they had version 2.2.1 or something close to that. I feel bad I couldn't help. I had you in my feed reader but I lost all my feeds when I had to re-format my hardrive.

Feb 25, 2009 04:26 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Jay I thought about calling you, or Mark Fleming  who helped you in the past  but I really, really needed to hire someone to do this and more.    

 

Feb 25, 2009 04:40 AM
Troy Erickson AZ Realtor (602) 295-6807
HomeSmart - Chandler, AZ
Your Chandler, Ahwatukee, and East Valley Realtor

Maureen, I keep hearing about this Wordpress thing, but not sure at all how it works.  Now you really have me scared.  I will continue to try and learn as much as I can to see if I can get it to work for me someday.

Feb 25, 2009 04:46 AM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

don't be scared Troy... I am just the dumbest dummy when it comes to WordPress.org I will be terrified to update to the latest version of course from now on.

All the big boys in RE blogging have 'em (WordPress.org blogs)

I believe most all the blogs you see sold by the companies that sell blogs to real estate agents are built on a WordPress.org blog (Tomato, RSS Pieces, Dakno, etc.)  are souped up WP.org blogs.   The puppies sold by BHB are on the WordPress MU I believe.

Jim Lee recommended someone who he's got help from in the past too when I tweeted that Sean got it back up for me. 

Cheryl Johnson who blogs on a Typepad blog has done a lot of tutorials on WP.org in the WP blog.

 

Feb 25, 2009 04:58 AM
Ginger S
Wilkinson & Associates, Wilmington NC - Wilmington, NC
Wilmington NC Real Estate & Relocation~

Maureen, This is great news! I was so hoping there would be a way for you to get your stuff back!

Feb 27, 2009 04:50 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate

Thanks Ginger.  I am going to have him do some more stuff for me too.  

Mar 05, 2009 02:02 AM
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