using wordpress CLI to post to wordpress

There is a very nice post here: How to post content to a WordPress blog from the command line

I tried this in Fedora 14 and here is the way to get this working in Fedora

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      su -<br /> <br /> cpan<br /> <br /> install WordPress::CLI WordPress::Post
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Now, once the above completes make sure that the path /usr/local/bin is in you path.

Photography – Stock photos on bigstock.

Couple of days back, one of my friends suggested that I put my photos on bigstock also along with my site at http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in . I thought, let me give it a try and created a account on bigstock. After creating the account, I have so far submitted 5 images and four of them got rejected.

The rejections did not de-motivate me, in-fact this has taught me a lot of things. Some things that I did not know before I submitted my photos there. So, I am going through a new learning and this has cost me 80% rejection in bigstock. I am trying with few more photos in next few days and probably I will get a better idea of what is required in the photos. Hope to get the tricks of the trade soon. BTW, another way you can help me keep this blog alive is by buying my photos cheap at bigstock and here is the link to my photo :

Performance issues resolved with my blog.

For last 2-3 weeks there were quite a lot of performance issues with my website. I was looking at the same but could not get enough time to have all of them resolved together. Finally I have spent time on my web hosting and wordpress installation to resolve these issues.

I have taken this opportunity to optimize the blog also. Now the page loading time should be much lesser and you should not be seeing any issues with respect to the site performance or un-availability. If you do see some issues, leave me a comment or contact me through contact me page.

web page error\’d – Name cannot be less that 5 characters :)

If you have noticed, I have put a new <a class="zem_slink" title="Toolbar" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toolbar">tool-bar in the bottom. The tool-bar is delivered from the wibiya cdn and while registering for the service, I got the below error 🙂

<img class="size-medium wp-image-2446" title="wibiya error'd" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wibiya-300x162.png" alt="wibiya error'd" width="300" height="162" />

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New Improvements in the site and added few more features.

Last couple of days I have spent quite some time on the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000041684" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website design and format and performance along with moving my Hosting Provider.

Here are couple of things that you would notice immediately:

1. Site loading time is decreased substantially. I saw it loading in 5 seconds from my system.

2. I have moved my hosting from ZNetIndia to <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000003f4284" title="Go Daddy" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.617409,-111.90477&spn=0.01,0.01&q=33.617409,-111.90477%20%28Go%20Daddy%29&t=h">GoDaddy. Though the users do not have any direct impact in experience but that has definitely improved the performance. I have spent quite some amount of money on this and would request the viewers to click on the <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000042acea" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google Advertisements to help me cover it. You help is much appreciated. Other way you can help is by way of buying my photos from my <a title="My E Sop" href="http://shop.amit-agarwal.co.in" target="_blank">e-shop.

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Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.

If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b" title="Cron" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down).

#!/bin/bash –
#===============================================================================

#          FILE:  checklinks.sh

#         USAGE:  ./checklinks.sh

#   DESCRIPTION:  Check if the links exists on affiliate sites

#       OPTIONS:  —
#  REQUIREMENTS:  —
#          BUGS:  —
#         NOTES:  —
#        AUTHOR:  <a class="zem_slink" title="Amit Agarwal" rel="homepage" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in">Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in
#       COMPANY:  Individual
#       VERSION:  1.0
#       CREATED:  04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST
#      REVISION:  —
#===============================================================================

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10 Wordpress Traffic Builder Plugins That Work

This article covers several useful <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/wordpress" title="WordPress" rel="homepage" href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress traffic builder <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/plugin" title="Plug-in (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_%28computing%29">plugins. The most important aspect of owning a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/website" title="Website" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website">website is the amount of visitors you receive. I’m referring to your website’s traffic, which can be very hard to generate in the beginning stages. It’s essential that you <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-websites-to-track-a-websites-traffic/">track your website’s traffic to see where you’re at.