Welcome to Fanzilla
Free Celebrity Fansite Hosting
Hello and welcome to Fanzilla!
This package will help you get a basic head start on your celebrity fan site! Please follow the manuals for simple instructions on how to: Make posts, change themes, apply settings and much more. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at admin@fanzilla.org
Things to do:
1. Login into your control panel and Change your Default password. Or Create a new admin with your chosen name.
2. Click on Platinum SEO and fill up Home Title which is the title of your homepage and Click for Help! Home Description which is the text under your title that shows in search engine and finally the keywords which is what search engine index.
3. Upload your theme to the theme directory and activate it
4. Email me with the ad color Title: Text: URL : background: border color in HEX code or if you want me to make one for you based on your theme just message me with the size of the ad. Or go to fanzilla.org/fanzilla-ads-center to get temp ads and submit in ads.
5. Once your site is up go to Settings – > XML-Sitemap and click on (The sitemap wasn’t built yet. Click here to build it the first time.) to Generate the site map to send to the search engines.
6. If your site gets more then 200 views a day turn on the Cache Plugin which will make your site load a lot faster By making a static HTML of your site instead of processing the PHP.
Use your favoite Browser and go to:
yoursite.com/cpanel
Login with the Username and Password provided
Connecting to server (FTP)
The first thing to do is connecting to a server.
This is our (fictional) login data – please use your own data instead if you want to actively follow the tutorial.
Hostname: fanzilla.org
Username: fanzilla
Password: 123password
First Click on File – > Site manager (CTRL + S) Hit “new site” give it a name. Then for Host enter your host name which is your site URL which is Fanzilla.org for mine. Leave the port blank, make sure you select FTP (file transfer protocol), and login. Type as normal, username is the name I provided you with, then type the password and hit Connect.
Your main site (wordpress) is installed in Public_html folder which is the main folder so anything www.sitename.com/name.html <— goes into the public_html folder. The other folders are for the OS and Subdomains.
First – in the local pane – bring the directory into view which contains data to be uploaded (e.g. index.html and images/). Now, navigate to the desired target directory on the server (using the server pane’s file listings). To upload the data, select the respective files/directories and drag them from the local to the remote pane. You will notice that the files will be added to the transfer queue at the bottom of the window and soon thereafter get removed again – since they were (hopefully, if nothing went wrong) just uploaded to the server. The uploaded files and directories should now be displayed in the server content listing at the right side of the window.
Local and remote file listings after uploading the example files
Note: If you don’t like using drag-and-drop, you can also right click on files/directories and select Upload to upload them.
Note (advanced): If you enable filtering and upload a complete directory, only the not-filtered-out files and directories inside this directory will be transferred.
Downloading files, or complete directories, works essentially the same as uploading – you just drag the files/directories from the remote pane to the local pane this time, instead of the other way round.
Note: In case you (accidentally) try to overwrite a file during up- or download, FileZilla will by default display a dialog asking what to do (overwrite, rename, skip, …).
To Login Into WordPress go to
yoursitename.com/wp-admin
or yoursitename.com/wp-login.php
and your Username is Admin
Password is provided in your welcome email
To write a post:
Note: Make sure the media source is on the server dont copy from other people’s image. Save the Image to your harddrive then upload it using the Media uploader
(click for larger)
Title
The title of your post. You can use any words or phrases. Avoid using the same title twice as that will cause problems. You can use commas, apostrophes, quotes, hypens/dashes, and other typical symbols in the post like “Miley & Liam Take Mate for a Walk (Pictures)” WordPress will clean it up for the link to the post, called the post-slug.
Note: Title post should be interesting and can affect the amount of views you get. Labeling what kind of post it is for your twitter followers may help. ex: (pictures) (videos) (new song)
Post Editing Area
The blank box where you enter your writing, links, links to images, and any information you want to display on your site. You can use either the Visual or the HTML view to compose your posts. For more on the HTML view, see the section below.
Publish box
Publish box Contains buttons that control the state of your post. The main states are Published, Pending Review, and Draft. A Published status means the post has been published on your blog for all to see. Pending Review means the draft is waiting for review by an editor prior to publication. Draft means the post has not been published and remains a draft for you. If you select a specific publish status and click the update post or Publish button, that status is applied to the post. For example, to save a post in the Pending Review status, select Pending Review from the Publish Status drop-down box, and click Save As Pending. (You will see all posts organized by status by going to Posts > Edit). To schedule a post for publication on a future time or date, click “Edit” in the Publish area next to the words “Publish immediately”. You can also change the publish date to a date in the past to back-date posts. Change the settings to the desired time and date. You must also hit the “Publish” button when you have completed the post to publish at the desired time and date.
Bridging from Coppermine Gallery
CoppermineSC plugin is installed with your WordPress which will bridge your Coppermine with your WordPress
Type in the Coppermine code you want to insert anywhere on your post editing area example: [cpg_album:1924,5] this will insert 5 pictures from album # 1924
To get the Coppermine bridge insert codes Visit http://fanzilla.org/info/copperminebridge/
To find the album # open up the album in your Coppermine it will show the # in the end of the album URL
Save
Allows you to save your post as a draft / pending review rather than immediately publishing it. To return to your drafts later, visit Posts – Edit in the menu bar, then select your post from the list.
Post Tags
Refers to micro-categories for your blog, similar to including index entries for a page. Posts with similar tags are linked together when a user clicks one of the tags. Tags have to be enabled with the right code in your theme for them to appear in your post. Add new tags to the post by typing the tag into the box and clicking “Add”.
Note: Make sure you add more then 2 Tags into your post that will help your search engine visbility.
Categories
The general topic the post can be classified in. Generally, bloggers have 7-10 categories for their content. Readers can browse specific categories to see all posts in the category. To add a new category, click the +Add New Category link in this section. You can manage your categories by going to Posts > Categories.
Using Images
A picture says more than a thousand words.
WordPress makes it easy for you to add images to your WordPress site. You can upload them directly from within WordPress by using the built-in file uploading utility in the post screen. Or you could use any FTP Client software to upload many images to your WordPress site.
WordPress can now (within the posting page) resize images and create thumbnails.
More detail at http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Images
Excerpt
A summary or brief teaser of your posts featured on the front page of your site as well as on the category, archives, and search non-single post pages. Note that the Excerpt does not usually appear by default. It only appears in your post if you have changed the index.php template file to display the Excerpt instead of the full Content of a post. If so, WordPress will automatically use the first 55 words of your post as the Excerpt or up until the use of the More Quicktag mark. If you use an Explicit Excerpt, this will be used no matter what.
Note: if your theme don’t have the Excerpt Tag it wont work.
Visual Versus HTML Editor
When writing your post, you have the option of using the visual or HTML mode of the editor. The visual mode lets you see your post as is, while the HTML mode shows you the code and replaces the WYSIWYG editor buttons with quicktags. These quicktags are explained as follows.
Workflow Note – With Quicktag buttons that insert HTML tags, you can for example click i to insert the opening <em> tag, type the text to be enclosed, and click /i or Close Tags to insert the closing tag. However, you can eliminate the need for this ‘close’ step by changing your workflow a bit: type your text, select the portion to be emphasized (that is, italicized), then click i and your highlighted text will be wrapped in the opening and closing tags.
Use Paragraphs
No one likes to read writing that never pauses for a line break. To break your writing up into paragraphs, use double spaces between your paragraphs. WordPress will automatically detect these and insert <p> HTML paragraph tags into your writing.
Using Headings
If you are writing long posts, break up the sections by using headings, small titles to highlight a change of subject. In HTML, headings are set by the use of h1, h2, h3, h4, and so on. By default, most WordPress Themes use the first, second, and sometimes third heading levels within the site. You can use h4 to set your own headings. Simply type in:<h4>Subtitle of Section</h4>with double lines before and after and WordPress will make that title a headline in your post. To style the heading, add it to your style.css style sheet file. For more information on styling headings.
Use HTML
You don’t have to use HTML when writing your posts. WordPress will automatically add it to your site, but if you do want control over different elements like boxes, headings, and other additional containers or elements, use HTML.
Don’t use too much slang
Not all the readers will be from your part of the world so make sure people can understand easily.
It is recommended that the Coppermine admin uses ftp to upload multiple pics/files at a time. Use your ftp software to create sub-folders within /gallery/albums/, where your ftp uploads can be saved. Though not mandatory, it’s always a good idea to have a folder structure within the albums folder that reflects or mirrors your Coppermine categories and albums.
Important: do not create folders or ftp upload to the userpics- nor to the edit-folder by ftp. These folders are used by Coppermine internally and must not be used for any other purpose! Folder names must not contain dots. We also highly recommend refraining from the use of any other special characters – use only a-z, numbers and – (dashes) or _ (underscores) to fill blank spaces. Make sure to upload in binary or auto-mode.
Once you have uploaded your photos by ftp, click on the "Batch Add Pictures" button. The batch-add is performed using the following steps:
1. Make a folder on your computer with the pictures inside of it and name will be the album.
2. Upload it to gallery/album/ using Filezilla FTP.
3. Change the permission of the folder/directory to 777 (read write and execute)
4. Login to gallery and create a new album under the category the album needs to be in and click batch upload.
5. Browse through the folders and find the album, click on it and click OK.
6. Find the album under select album and hit insert selected files.
If you have any questions message admin@fanzilla.org or visit http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm
Table of Table
1. SEO Booster Pro
2. Fanzilla Twitter connect
3. Coppermine bridge
4. Tubepress
5. Hit counter
6. Platinum SEO Pack
7. Quick cache
8. XML Sitemap Generator
9. Secure-Wordpress
10. Autoblogged2
11. Clear duplicate posts
SEO Booster Pro
This plugin detects posts/pages you have placed on page two of Google and attempts to lift them from page two to page one by creating sitewide anchored links on your blog.
Configuration tips for SEO Booster Pro:
- To access the settings first log into your WordPress admin account, click Settings in the left sidebar of the dashboard, click on SEO Booster Pro, and expand the Settings menu.
- Under Settings, change the wait time to 10 minutes, otherwise your blog will lag.
- Check the Auto Tag Post box under Auto Search Tag Queries in Settings and click Update Options below to save the changes.
Fanzilla Twitter Connect
- This plugin connects your blog to twitter via Oauth
- Fanzilla Twitter connect publish plugin must be activated for this to work.
- Fanzilla will provide you with a twitter account that our automated system will collect 1000′s of targeted followers on. It will use this Oauth connect to link your WordPress to Fanzilla’s Twitter. If you connect your own account please contact admin@fanzilla.org so our Twitter will connect via RSS feed.
Coppermine Bridge
Coppermine is pre-installed and already bridged with your WordPress. To config Coppermine bridge’s CSS visit http://fanzilla.org/info/copperminebridge/
Tubepress
This plugin displays gorgeous YouTube galleries in your posts, pages, and/or sidebar.
Populate your galleries from one of twenty sources…
Here’s a Demo: http://mileycyrusworld.org/video
Make a page for the video on WordPress and enter tubepress in brackets [ ]
Sample video page created in your welcome package called “video”
for more shortcode to enter to your pages visit http://tubepress.org/documentation/#shortcodes
if you having trouble with this plugin contact admin@fanzilla.org or post your question on http://forum.fanzilla.org/
Hit counter
This is a simple plugin that tracks how much views you get. Add <?php fanzillacounter_hits(); ?> to your theme where you want the Hit counter to show.
Platinum SEO Pack
Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines(Search Engine Optimization).
If you need Keyword research help email admin@fanzilla.org
* Automatic 301 redirects for any permalink changes
* Canonical URLs * Optimized Post and Page Titles for search engines
* Generates all SEO relevant META tags automatically
* Option to specify meta description and meta keywords tag for categories and tag pages.
* Option to turn off page title or post title rewrites for any particular post or page
* Option to turn off page title or post title format for any particular post or page
* Helps you avoid duplicate content
* Lets you override any title and set any META description and META keywords, for any post or page
* Compatible with most other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others
* You don’t have to fear changing permalinks. If you are not satisfied with the current permalink, change it through Settings > Permalinks in your admin panel, without worrying about loss of page rank or penalties from Google. Platinum SEO plugin will take care of issuing a 301 redirect to the new location. This is a new essential feature, not present in All In One SEO
* Add index, noindex, follow or nofollow, noodp, noydir, noarchive, nosnippet meta tags to any post/page.
If you don’t know what the check boxes mean please don’t check them
Things you need to check is *Use Tags for META keywords:* This will use the tags you entered in your blog post as meta keywords.
Quick Cache
If you care about the speed of your site, Quick Cache is one of those plugins that you absolutely MUST have installed. Quick Cache takes a real-time snapshot(building a cache) of every page, post, category, link, etc. These snapshots are then stored(cached) intuitively, so they can be referenced later, in order to save all of that processing time that has been dragging your site down
The Quick Cache plugin uses configuration options that you select from the options panel. See: Config Options under Quick Cache. Once a file has been cached, Quick Cache uses advanced techniques that allow it to recognize when it should and should not serve a cached version of the file. The decision engine that drives these techniques is under your complete control through options on the back-end. By default, Quick Cache does not serve cached pages to users who are logged in, or to users who have left comments recently. Quick Cache also excludes administration pages, login pages, POST/PUT/GET requests, CLI processes, and any additional User-Agents or special pattern matches that you want to add.
Please do not change any of the of the settings on the Quick Cache unless you know what it does.
XML Sitemap Generator
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With said sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.
Make sure your site is complete before activating this plugin. First you need build the sitemap from 1 click on the top and then change the priority to “Do not use automatic priority calculation.” All posts will have the same priority, which is defined in “Priorities” in the Settings associated with the plugin. When you start getting more comments, then you can change it to “Comment Average” Uses the average comment count to calculate the priority.)
After you have done that it will auto submit your sitemap to the major search engines every time you post and everyday at scheduled time.
Secure-Wordpress
Autoblogged
This is for use when you go on vacation or take a break. You must email me at admin@fanzilla.org before activating it. You may not leave the AutoBlogged plugin on for more then 2 months per year.
AutoBlogged is a powerful autoblogging plugin for WordPress that automatically creates blog posts from any RSS or Atom feed. Autoblogging is a great way to automate your WordPress posts. With dozens of features, AutoBlogged is one of the most powerful autoblog software plugins available for WordPress and the best way to get automated blog content.
Features:
- Change your autoblog’s post template to %content% – The body of the feed content, which may contain HTML or other markup
- Find an RSS feed from a blog for your celebrity and paste it in the feed.
If you don’t know how to set this up please contact admin@fanzilla.org and we will set your Autoblogged up. In this case, all you’d have to do is provide us with the RSS feed you would like to leech from.
Clear duplicate posts
This clears dulicate posts caused by Autoblogged turn this on when you are autoblogging.