{"id":1222,"date":"2007-03-26T13:15:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2007-05-12T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T23:15:20","slug":"scale-your-locally-focused-real-estate-weblog-down-to-the-size-of-a-good-time-why-because-theres-no-place-like-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1222\/scale-your-locally-focused-real-estate-weblog-down-to-the-size-of-a-good-time-why-because-theres-no-place-like-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale your locally-focused real estate weblog down to the size of a good time. Why? Because there’s no place like home . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Teri has a weblog<\/a>. It’s just a prototype for now. She’s shopping for theme so that we can make something truly unique and Daytonacious. I am by now at the point where I can set up a WordPress weblog in my sleep, which is lucky because, with 23 hosting accounts still to be moved, that on top of the normal crush, I’m not sleeping very much.<\/p>\n

Teri already owned the domain, so all I had to do was redirect the nameservers to our new semi-dedicated file server. I keep a standing folder of WordPress-the-way-I-like-it on my desktop, so I copied that in, created the database, plugged the files into the database and — Eureka! Done.<\/p>\n

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A lot easier to say it than to do it, for most of us. My experience this weekend taught me a new trick, and this is strictly<\/i> for the propeller-beanie set: If you have a certain way of setting up WordPress weblogs, you can save yourself the effort of setting your preferences with each new installation. Here’s how: Get a prototypical weblog set up the way you like ’em — settings, plug-ins, the works — then save a back-up of that set-up to your hard disk along with all your set-up files. When you make a new clean installation, inherit that backup into your new database. The new install will be a mirror of your prototype, fully-formed and fully-armed.<\/p>\n

If you’re a propeller-wanna-beanie, Dave Smith of The Real Estate Blog Lab<\/a> has prepared a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a WordPress weblog from scratch.<\/p>\n

But: That’s really the easy part. In my view, the hard part of setting up a locally-oriented real estate weblog is scaling things down to what Robert Moses<\/a>\"\"called “the size of a good time.” Moses built Jones Beach, among many other enormous masterpieces, but he was always aware of the small touches that would make people feel at home within his immense vision.<\/p>\n

So what are we looking for? Hmmm… There’s no place like it, and, when you go there, they have to take you in…<\/p>\n

We’re looking for home,<\/i> of course. If I could lay one blanket Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teri has a weblog. It’s just a prototype for now. She’s shopping for theme so that we can make something truly unique and Daytonacious. I am by now at the point where I can set up a WordPress weblog in my sleep, which is lucky because, with 23 hosting accounts still to be moved, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-weblogging-101","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1670,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1670\/project-blogger-an-objective-post-mortem-analysis-i-hope\/","url_meta":{"origin":1222,"position":0},"title":"Project Blogger: An objective post-mortem analysis — I hope","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Project Blogger is over -- I think. 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