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Day 16 - Optional - Create Your Own 30 Day Challenge Blog
By Mike Mindel | August 17, 2007
WARNING: This post is optional. The official Thirty Day Challenge blog for your posts is Tumblr. These three posts show you how to set up a WordPress blog on the Thirty Day Challenge for fun only. This part is entirely optional.
I (Dan Raine) want to show you how to create your own blog on the Thirty Day Challenge site.
This isn’t an essential part of the Thirty Day Challenge.
It’s a little bit of an added extra so you can use your blog to document your progress and update us all when you make your first $10.
Get Your Own Blog
Head on over to blogs.thirtydaychallenge.com and you’ll see this
Click on login
and enter the same username and password you used to register for the Thirty Day Challenge
Your Profile Page
There’s not much you need to do here other than change your nickname. When you make a blog post, thats what will show up on your screen as who the post is from.
Then select ‘Update Options’
Create Your Very First Blog
Go back to blogs.thirtydaychallenge.com and click on ‘Create a new blog’
Your blog name will appear in the address bar in your browser. Choose something appropriate as you can’t change it later.
There’s an option saying ‘Privacy’ where it says ‘I would like my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati, and in public listings around this site’. You definitely want this ticked.
and then hit Create Blog >>
What the Blog Looks Like
There’s a little default ‘Hello world!’ message there which you can get rid of later.
Site Admin
On the right hand side you can see ‘Site Admin’.
Click on that and it will take you to your Wordpress control panel - where all the magic happens.
Change the Default Template
You want to click on ‘Presentation’ and you’ll see lots of themes
There’s quite a few on there at the moment and more will be added over the next few days.
So pick one you like
and click on it
and it’s activated!
Now click on ‘View site’ and there’s your activated theme
It’s the same information but just theme has changed.
Update Your Permalinks
Click on ‘Options’ menu
then select ‘Permalinks’
It may look complicated but it’s very simple.
Check the ‘Custom’ box and remove the text below
Change to
What this does in the actual url that appears in your browser or Google - normally it will show you blogs.thirtydaychallenge.com/dansnewtest/date/postname.
This way it shows you blogs.thirtydaychallenge.com/blogname/title which is preferable for search engine optimization.
Then click ‘Update Permalink Structure’
General Tab
Now click on the ‘general tab’
and make a few changes to your blog.
Change the Tagline
Change the tagline to make it more attractive. The tagline will appear underneath your main blog title and should describe what your blog is all about.
Click ‘Update Options’
That’s it. Your very first blog has been created now.
If you ever want to get back into the blog just go to
http://blogs.thirtydaychallenge.com/yourblogname/
Then click on ‘Site Admin’ and you’re back into your Wordpress blog.
Done
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Topics: Daily Summaries |
August 17th, 2007 at 3:02 am
I continue to be amazed at the apparent ease you put together these notes.
i am a hard copy note taker myself but I haven’t taken the time to do the video capture like you do.
Your extra notes and guides are much appreciated by those of us “drinking from a fire hydrant”
Again great job.
If I have delious and tagged your site, why would I tag each day as well? Question from a new guy and trying to understand the social marking tools. When are they appropriate? And which ones?
I liked your glosary of terms. Everything helps me.
I love Word Tracker.
August 17th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
I just want to say your copious notes for the daily summaries have been very beneficial to my “training”. Thanks for taking the time to help drive it in what the 30DC folks have been teaching us.
The GTrends tool - Awesome, what a huge timesaver.
Appreciate all your input and comments
August 18th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Hi Mike,
How would this blog help us in our challenge?
I can’t see the connection.
Thank you.
August 18th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
These series of three posts are optional. It shows you how to set up a WordPress blog on the Thirty Day Challenge.
Either for fun, to post your own thoughts or to show your progress.
A WordPress blog is also a suitable content platform alternative to Tumblr.
You can join up here.
That’s why it’s relevant to the 30DC.
-Mike