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MG MGA - WORDPRESS Blog - Help!

Hi guys, help needed please from computer geeks - entering the MGA Register Land's End - John o'Groats tour, I decided to try my hand at setting up a daily blog. Get Domain name, use Bluehost, install WordPress, write Pages, Media photos, write a Post, then CLICK top right to go LIVE. So far so good, then I find only the first Post is displayed on the site, my Pages have gone walkabout. What did I miss please? Thanks in advance. Site is douglasrpwallace.com
DRP Wallace

In the admin area (dashboard), can you view the missing posts? If so, make sure they aren't scheduled for a later date. If they are simply not there, then you may not have saved them after writing and they are gone.
Steve Simmons

Douglas,
did you click the "Publish" button once you had written each post?
If you didnt, the new blog page would usually still be there but not uploaded yet.

Also, when you wish to upload a picture you should use the "Insert" function. This inserts the picture into the paragraphs on your page and wraps the words around it.
If you upload a picture any other way it usually wipes out anything you have written in the process and you just end up with the picture.

It is quite a coincidence that you should post about this subject Douglas as I have just today been speaking to Stuart Mumby on this subject. Edward Vandyk has been asking if anyone was doing a Blog on this event to make sure that we have a permanent record of it.

I was considering doing it but having done Blogs of my last two MGA expeditions, I was unsure about doing this one.

You may have seen the one I did last year about the trip to the Pyrenees mgachallenge.wordpress.com

If it helps, I always made certain that each picture was taken from an MGA, had an MGA in it or included some of the MGAs crew. I also put a caption under each picture which make them a lot interesting. Pictures of scenery only can be a bit boring, I am not an expert photographer and I always think that a professional could probably take a better picture of a mountain than I could.

I also uploaded video clips of the most exciting parts of the trip onto YouTube and posted the links into the blog so everyone could see what we had driven on. Again, the best clips seem to be the ones in which you could see us driving the MGA and hear what we were saying about it at the time.

I found the most difficult part was to sort out where and when each picture was taken before I posted it. So if you use anyone else's pictures, make sure you know where and when they were taken

I really enjoyed using Wordpress which considering is free, is really good.

Let me know if I can help you any more with it.

Colyn


c firth

Hi Steve, thanks I have been looking at your site, superb cars!

Colyn, I am new to this blog stuff and just trying to keep a record for friends who are interested; anyway looking forward to meeting you again at Land's End.
Cheers,

Doug

DRP Wallace

I attempted to set up Wordpress a while back on my hosting service to post some of my restoration pictures, and also ran into trouble. I tabled the idea temporarily, but I will get back to it eventually, and maybe just do a regular website rather than a blog.

One thing I thought I would mention, is I was advised that Wordpress is one of the single most attacked pieces of software out there due to its popularity, and you need to basically keep it patched within an inch of its life if you don't want your site to be hijacked.

-Del
D Rawlins

Doug
I just realised that it appears that your blog is on a website whereas mine was only a Wordpress Blog.
The Blog is easier to do but not so versatile once you have it up and running.

Hope I can help you more at Lands End, we will be there late afternoon today hopefully.

Colyn
c firth

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