3. Configure YORGOO Blaster

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Nov 15th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Configure the Blogroll –

The Blogroll is a list of links to other websites, specially blogs. I like to list there sites which deal with the same or similar topics as I do on my blog and whith whom I exchange a link. That means, I list sites which put the link to my blog also on to their blogrol.



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Nov 15th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Create Categories – The categories have two purposes: first they help us sort the content and second, their slug will be part of the URIs of each article; these slogs will also be translated into meta tags in the header of ech article. Therefore they help us reaching our targets on Google.



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Nov 13th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Miscellaneous Options –

Not much to do here, just make sure you enable the ‘Use legacy my-hacks.php file support’ function by ticking the relevant box.



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Nov 13th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Reading Options – Without going too much into the technical details: this section allows to configure the reading options, as well for internal use as for external effects, such as feeds. Don’t worry too much about these settings, just copy the below example.



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Nov 13th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Writing Options – These options will be more important at a later stage; however we will allready load a Ping List to let the world know that we exist.

Writing Options

From your Dashboard, select options and then Writing



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Nov 12th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Discussion –

Discussion settings help you to manage the comments posted as a reaction to your articles. We will put spam filters in place; on the below page however we create a second security, which consists mainly in filtering comments, namely by the experience we made with an author and by number of links. My preferred settings are: I want to moderate every comment containing a link.



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Nov 12th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Permalinks –

From your Dashboard under Options, select Permalinks

The permalinks settings will determine how the URIs are created. Contrary to default settings we are not emphasizing the date but the contextual key-words.



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Nov 12th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Options –
2. Options (Setings)

In your Dashboard menu select Options



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Nov 12th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster

Edit Admin User –

Basically the configuration is similar to a WordPress CMS to start with. YORGOO Blaster is built on a earlier version of WordPress and can therefore be optimized like WordPress.
Edit the admin User



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Nov 11th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 3. Configure YORGOO Blaster

Configure YORGOO Blaster
This category will deal with configuring YORGOO Blaster.