I got an email with username/password… now what?

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

So you joined the iDevAuthors list, and soon thereafter received an
email with a username and password. What do you do with that?

- Go to http://idevblogaday.com/v2/wp-login.php
- Enter your username and password, and you will get access to the
Word Press admin.
- Go to Profile -> iDevBlogADay, and enter the URL for the feed of
your blog that you want to use, and your twitter username (that is
used for the profile images, and Twitter links).
- Go to Profile -> Your Profile, and enter your first and last name,
your nickname (that should be your whole name), and your password. You
will notice some fields (description, URL, nickname) have been
populated with your Twitter profile info, so change them if you want
something different. If you don't change your nickname, or do the
Twitter step first, it will show up in the site when you add some
posts, and it defaults to your email address, so you probably don't
want that. The first/last name are important mainly because I don't
allow anonymous posts.

From now on, anytime you publish something on your site with the
'idevblogaday' tag (or category), it will show up in the iDev site.
For this to work your feed needs to use <category> tags, so make sure
everything is setup properly on your end (if you use Wordpress it
should work fine by default).

(***Yes, I know we are missing the calendar right now. Working on
it***)
Check on the calendar when is your turn, and publish your
'idevblogaday'-tagged post around that day. If you miss your deadline
by more than a couple days don't worry about it; you can post the next
time around (in 2 weeks). Please, do not use the tag any other time;
if your posts show up more than once every 2 weeks (more or less), I
will consider it spamming the site, and will have to ask you to leave.
Of course you can always write as much as you want on your site as
long as you don't use the 'idevblogaday' tag constantly.

If you were an author in the previous incarnations of iDevBlogADay,
you probably have old articles that should be in our archives. I
really appreciate if you take the time to go through your site, tag
the articles, find a feed that contains all these, and then go to
Posts -> Old iDev Posts and enter the URLs there (yes, you can do it
multiple times). See 'Posting your old post' in this Google Group for
tips.

If you update a post in your site, ours will not update automatically.
You can go to Posts, select the offending one, delete it, and the next
time the site updates (it happens every hour) it should grab the new
one (or you can also use the Old iDev Posts page to sync it up
immediately).

Cheers!

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

And the calendar is live. You can check when is your turn here:
http://idevblogaday.com/v2/?page_id=215

On Aug 20, 5:35 pm, Miguel Á. Friginal <miguel.frigi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> So you joined the iDevAuthors list, and soon thereafter received an
> email with a username and password. What do you do with that?
>

> - Go tohttp://idevblogaday.com/v2/wp-login.php

[Kyle Newsome]

Hey Miguel,

Loving the new format, the site looks great and the new system makes a ton of sense.  So is this new schedule effective as of immediately?  I just want to know if I should be writing this next entry for this Friday as you posted on the schedule or continue to post on the next Tuesday.

Cheers,

Kyle

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

I am moving the new design to the front page today, so Friday it is :)
So, for future reference, the URLs above should be http://idevblogaday.com/wp-login.php
for accessing the admin and http://idevblogaday.com/?page_id=215 for
the calendar from then on.

—Miguel

[Tom Ortega]

I got the error as well, but all seemed to work just fine anyways.

Awesome work (as always), Miguel! You're the best! :)

Thanks,
Tom Ortega
cell: 951.212.9686 | twitter/skype: lordbron
lordbron.wordpress.com area-161.com OneMinuteBite.com

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Raimon Zamora <jaild...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Miguel,

I'm trying to update my feed and twitter information. I'm doing it from the "front page", not from "v2". I'm getting this error:

Warning: /home/mafriginal/idevblogaday.com/v2/wp-content/cache//4494b9b8f692f1c3b6d15a3a41b876cf.spc is not writeable in /home/mafriginal/idevblogaday.com/wp-content/plugins/simplepie-core/simplepie.incon line 1769

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

Sorry about that, I forgot to modify one setting when moving the site.
As Tom says it should work anyway, just the writing the cache part was
failing. It should be all working now.

On Aug 22, 5:44 am, Tom Ortega <tom.ort...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got the error as well, but all seemed to work just fine anyways.
>
> Awesome work (as always), Miguel! You're the best! :)
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Ortega
> cell: 951.212.9686 | twitter/skype: lordbron

> lordbron.wordpress.com area-161.com OneMinuteBite.com<http://oneminutebite.com>

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Raimon Zamora <jaildoc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Miguel,
>
> > I'm trying to update my feed and twitter information. I'm doing it from the
> > "front page", not from "v2". I'm getting this error:
>

> > *Warning*: /home/mafriginal/
> > idevblogaday.com/v2/wp-content/cache//4494b9b8f692f1c3b6d15a3a41b876cf.spci s not writeable in
> >  */home/mafriginal/
> > idevblogaday.com/wp-content/plugins/simplepie-core/simplepie.inc*on line *
> > 1769*
> > *
> > *
> > *
> > *

[Luke Rogers]

Hi Miguel,

I'm afraid I'm getting a bit stuck at the first hurdle. You say we should have received an email with username and password? I've been unable to find mine. Is there something else I should have done?

Thanks,

Luke

Rizer Games

e:  lu...@rizergames.com

w:  www.rizergames.com

t: @rizergames

s: rizergames

[MrGando]

This is a bit strange,

I updated my profile, I also created a category called "idevblogaday"
on my Wordpress Blog ( http://www.gandogames.com ) and added that
category to all my previous iDevBlogADay posts.

After that, I updated my iDevBlogADay profile with my RSS Feed address
( http://www.gandogames.com/feed/ ) but only 2 very old posts ( more
than 10 months old ) seem to appear... any ideas ?

I'm also not showing up in the calendar ??? :(

Cheers!

On Aug 22, 2:10 pm, Luke Rogers <l...@rizergames.com> wrote:
> Hi Miguel,
>

> I'm afraid I'm getting a bit stuck at the first hurdle. You say we should have received an email with username and password? I've been unable to find mine. Is there something else I should have done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luke
>
> Rizer Games

> e:      l...@rizergames.com

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

@Luke I will send you a new email in a moment.

@Nicolas You are in the calendar on Monday 29. As per the old posts,
you have to use the Posts > Old iDev Posts option with a feed that
actually contains all those idevblogaday-tagged posts. In your case,
try http://www.gandogames.com/category/idevblogaday/feed/ and
http://www.gandogames.com/category/idevblogaday/feed/?paged=2 to get
all 14 posts.

On Aug 22, 11:30 am, MrGando <goles.nico...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a bit strange,
>
> I updated my profile, I also created a category called "idevblogaday"

> on my Wordpress Blog (http://www.gandogames.com) and added that

> category to all my previous iDevBlogADay posts.
>
> After that, I updated my iDevBlogADay profile with my RSS Feed address

> (http://www.gandogames.com/feed/) but only 2 very old posts ( more

[Luke Rogers]

Thanks Miguel — all set up and working great! :)

Luke

Sent from my iPad

[Kyle Yamamoto]

Hi Miguel.

My partner would also like to post under my account since we're a team
and we each would like to only post once a month.

Is it acceptable for us to do that? Can we specify both our names as
the idevblogaday name?

Thx.

-Kyle

[Matt Rix]

Not really a complaint, just an observation... The author page urls seem to be using people's email addresses, which seems a little weird. Not a huge deal obviously, but it's a little strange...

For example, mine is: http://idevblogaday.com/archives/author/mattmatt-rix-com

Gavin's is: http://idevblogaday.com/archives/author/gavinbowmangmail-com 

Etc. 

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

@Kyle Sure, I don't know if it will mess up the layout of the site,
but I can fix it if it does :)

@Matt I know! It does it based of the username, and I just used email
addresses there so I could create the users fast. So still trying to
figure out how to change that URL; there must be a filter or something
I can change somewhere. Is just a matter of finding it :)

[Miguel Á. Friginal]

Fixed! That's why I like WP: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-author-slug/
Of course if I didn't use WP I would have not had that problem… mmm…
oh well, is better now :)

—Miguel

On Aug 23, 8:43 pm, Miguel Á. Friginal <miguel.frigi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Kyle Yamamoto]

Sweet. Thanks. If it's too much of a pain, I'll just switch it back.  =)