http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases Travel Writers Exchange Forum Home » Topic: Did I get all the terms and phrases en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:00:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/search.php http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases/page/2#post-1564 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:22:56 +0000 Devin of ITKT 1564@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hey Trisha,</p> <p>My hero!</p> <p>I have not tried it yet, because the process is a little intimidating, but this make perfect sense. I will look into it in the next couple of days and keep you posted.</p> <p>I really appreciate you taking the time to offer so much help.</p> <p>Best,<br /> devin </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1559 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:50:58 +0000 Trisha Miller 1559@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Actually, I would disagree with what the person in the support forum wrote...</p> <p>There is nothing wrong with using hardcoded links, the problem is using relative links vs. absolute links.....</p> <p>A relative link does not include the domain, and looks something like this:</p> <p>href="../someimage.jpg"</p> <p>The problem with a relative link is that where it's relative to depends on the page it's being called from - which is different if you get a couple of categories/pages or sub-categories/sub-pages deep....the "../" just means "go up one level" but one level may not always be enough - when it's not, what's being referenced can't be found.</p> <p>An absolute link looks like this:</p> <p>href="http://travelwritelive.com/images/someimgage.jpg"</p> <p>This is as it sounds - absolute. Where that picture lives is now being called absolutely and will always be found.</p> <p>So my advice is to look in your Theme files where the images (or whatever is not showing up) is being called, and change any relative links to absolute ones.</p> <p>This same holds true IF you're writing posts and adding links to either pages or images without using the full URL - always use the FULL absolute URL, never a relative one, and you'll never have trouble. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1555 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:14:30 +0000 Devin of ITKT 1555@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hi Trisha,</p> <p>This is some great information, but I think it is still not quite right in my particular situation.</p> <p>When last I was working on this, I did end up calling my site host (a really good one, InMotionHosting.com) who walked me through everything and everything was good with htaccess.</p> <p>However, I discovered that while "post" entries worked great, anything listed as a "page" did not load some of my main graphics. I am adding the response I received from Wordpress support, just in case someone runs into this one, which had something to do with hard coding links. So I have some more work to do. However, the additional changes to htaccess are brilliant. I suspect I will have more to do.</p> <p> "...The top three graphics are rendered using javascript but the image links look incorrect to me - eg:</p> <p> <a href="http://travelwritelive.com/index.php?cat=4" rel="nofollow">http://travelwritelive.com/index.php?cat=4</a></p> <p> The blue links are showing because your link images are not being loaded. The return to home link is pointing to <a href="http://travelwritelive.com/category/write/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://travelwritelive.com/category/write/index.php</a></p> <p> My guess is that you need to replace some of the hardcoded urls in your theme and/or scripts.</p> <p> Unfortunately, it's a custom theme issue. You need to stop using hardcoded links wherever possible in favour of template tags and WP constants...." </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1543 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:45:34 +0000 Trisha Miller 1543@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Ah ha - I thought it might be the .htaccess file problems....</p> <p>Do you have an FTP application, or if not, access to a File Manager type of application thru your hosting account that will let you download/upload files between your computer and your site?</p> <p>If so there are two things you'll want to do to fix this problem, and potentially another issue.....</p> <p>But first you need to download and save the .htaccess file as a backup.</p> <p>If you did not manually create your .htaccess file, then the only instructions in it are the ones that wordpress put there during the installation process.</p> <p>If that's the case, once you have it backed up for safekeeping, delete the one on the server. When you go back to Settings &gt; Permalinks and choose a new permalink structure and SAVE your changes, WP will create a new .htaccess file.</p> <p>That's enough to fix the first issue of how your URL's appear.</p> <p>BUT ALSO, a lot of people don't take the time to correct a potential canonical issue, which is to tell Google that your domain name as show both WITH and WITHOUT the "www" are the SAME domain - Google does not know this and so will index BOTH versions of your site, creating confusion and duplicate content issues - not good for SEO.</p> <p>You can correct this by adding these lines to the very top of your .htaccess file, SO once WP has re-created it, and your URLs look good, then download the NEW .htaccess file, open it in a PLAIN TEXT editor (NOT Word - use something like Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac) and add these lines:</p> <p>RewriteEngine On<br /> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.intheknowtraveler.com$ [NC]<br /> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ <a href="http://intheknowtraveler.com/$1" rel="nofollow">http://intheknowtraveler.com/$1</a> [R=301,L]</p> <p><em>(This is backwards from what I do (force the addition of the wwww, not remove it) but I looked at your site and it looks like you've already chosen the non-www version.)</em></p> <p>Then save the file and upload it, overwriting the one that is there. </p> <p>NOTE: htaccess is a hidden file, because it starts with the "." so on some systems you have to rename it to find it on your computer - just name it htaccess.txt - while you're in your FTP or file manager and you can still see it on your hard drive - THEN when you upload it you'll need to name it back to .htaccess, but you'll likely have to either rename or remove the existing version on the server to do so.</p> <p>If you have trouble with any of this, call your site hosting tech support - they should be able to do this for you in mere moments, and at no cost. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1542 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:16:07 +0000 Devin of ITKT 1542@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hi Trisha,</p> <p>Thank you for the help.</p> <p>I tried that, but there are a few other steps that have something to do with changing the HTaccess file that I have not been able to figure out yet. I have had terrible success with the WP Support forums. I completely agree about the gurus. Unfortunately, I have never had a response to any of my posts yet. Still working on it.<br /> devin </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1538 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:49:09 +0000 Trisha Miller 1538@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hi Devin</p> <p>To change your permalinks, you go to Settings &gt; Permalinks and choose either "Day and name" or "Month and name" (if you want the date or month as part of your URL) OR choose custom and use the variables to create a custom URL...</p> <p>For example, if you just want the post name with no indication of date in your URL, just enter: /%postname%/</p> <p>If you get an error message, post it here and if I can help I will, if not you should have good luck posting in the Wordpress.org support forum - there are some real WP gurus there.</p> <p>Since you should be using a keyword or keyword phrase in your post title, this will improve your SEO with search engines....</p> <p>No worries on the Fam issue - it was the only thing I could find to nit-pick on - and a very small one at that..</p> <p> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1536 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:51:22 +0000 Devin of ITKT 1536@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Thank you all for your comments, it means a lot.</p> <p>I am not sure how to easily change the permalinks (?p=85). I tried doing it in Wordpress but kept getting error messages. Does anyone know how to do this?</p> <p>As for the FAm issue, I agree with you, Trisha. At the same time, I have had a couple of people write me suggesting FAM should get an entry.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> devin </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1494 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:49:10 +0000 Amandah Blackwell 1494@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Welcome Devin! I found your blog and website easy to navigate and user friendly. As Gary mentioned, put the full title in the URL. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1492 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:34:06 +0000 Gary Arndt 1492@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>If you are using WordPress, go into your settings and change the URL so you don't have ?p=85 in the URL. You want to have the full title of the article in the URL so Google can pick it up. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/did-i-get-all-the-terms-and-phrases#post-1491 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:38:33 +0000 Trisha Miller 1491@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hi Devin</p> <p>Nice job on your list......I didn't see anything I'd quibble over without feeling overly nit-picky.....</p> <p>Oh, okay, I'm afraid I must....."Fam" trips are for travel agents, press trips/press junkets/media trips are for writers. The difference? Not a whole lot, except that on fam trips the emphasis is on what a travel agent needs to know to sell a resort or destination (selling points, number of rooms, rack rates, add ons, inclusives, etc) and on press junkets the focus is on the experience for the traveler. A very subtle difference, only obvious if you've been on both types.</p> <p>But all that being said, I really don't think you need to change your list at all. As said, nice job!</p> <p>And welcome to our Forum! </p>