I’m sorry that my blog was out of action this afternoon — this had nothing to do with any kind of legal threat from Adfero (note that voice recognition calls them added zero, I think that sums up pretty well too!), I just encountered technical glitch trying to upgrade the WordPress template.
Why is it with computing that something which works perfectly well on one site cannot then get repeated on a virtually identical site the following day? As always, the devil is in the details — it turns out that tiny little differences in the WordPress configuration file can result in the whole blog not working, and all you get to show for it is a blank screen — no error messages telling you where you have gone wrong, and nothing from WordPress themselves saying how to fix the problem.
Fortunately, I managed to pull myself away from my computer and take a break, rather than repeatedly going round and round in circles, which is so easy to do when faced with an eye explained coding problem like this. Back with a full stomach and a clear mind, the logical thing to do is to search out a few forums, but sometimes the obvious search term (WordPress reinstall) isn’t enough detail to get the answer. When I searched again for ‘ WordPress reinstall blank screen’, I came across a very useful post entitled solution to the WordPress blank screen of death, and this explained how the writer had experienced a similar problem I had, but he had wasted a whole day trying to fix it.
I realise as well that this WordPress upgrade means my blog should now appear back on the UK affiliates forum, so I guess that means I should try to make most of my posts relevant to affiliate marketing.
This is the first time that I’ve been blogging regularly since the end of 2007, a period when I went through a lot of, well let’s just call it personal turbulence — I now have a separate blog called Mind Pilot which looks at those issues. Of course, Flightmapping.com still has its own blog (Flightblogging.com), and this has really started to pick up over the last few weeks, so even though this covers topics from the point of view of the traveller rather than as a direct revenue earner (of course we add affiliate links where we can), I hope there are a lot of useful tips there for affiliates who are out and about, especially as independent minded travellers are exactly the kind of people Flightmapping has always been aimed at.
In order to try and keep this blog more on topic for affiliate marketing purposes, I’m also planning on launching a new blog shortly, which will be called Bling My City. This takes the concept of Web 2.0 to city development and asks how urban infrastructure can and should respond to the demands of the Internet age. This is where I will park most of my political rants, as I think it is fair to say that most politicians and city fathers are well behind the game when it comes to working out what citizens and consumers really want. This blog won’t be a strictly affiliate blog as such, but I hope it will make interesting reading.
