Well, it looks like we are not out of the woods yet on the site upgrade issues. I’ll be using this article to track issues that people are having and the current status.
Please help us out by sending us feedback in the comments below. When listing issues please provide your operating system, browser, and screen resolution so that we can properly replicate the problem.
Current Issue – Not able to edit the author settings.
I’m currently working with the script developer to get this one fixed ASAP. For now, please continue to use the username and password that was provided in the lost password email. (If you have already had your username changed, use your new username and the password provided in the email for now.)
Current Issue – Old articles are not formatted correctly or have errors in them.
I believe this is working now for most everyone.
To Do List
Edit input boxes to fit 1024×768 screen resolution
Word filter detail edited.
Find way to reintroduce article stats
Thanks again for everyone’s patience on this and don’t forget to mention your errors in the comments! Read the rest of this entry »
After nearly a week of downtime the Christian Articles Resource is back online and sporting some fancy new software! (The old site software was throwing out some major glitches and was going to be impossible to repair.) We decided to take the opportunity to upgrade to the Article Friendly Ultimate script and we hope that you are not disappointed.
However, in order to access your account you will have to go through a few steps.
Step One – Click on the lost username or password link http://christian- topics.info/forgotten.php and fill in the spots for your email address you used when you signed up for the old site.
Step Two – Wait for your email from the site with a temporary username and password.
Step Three – Log in with your new username and password.
Step Four – Edit your profile and change your password to one you are comfortable with.
Step Five – Send me an email via the contact form or PM me with your preferred username.
Step Six – I will then update your new username directly on the database table and send you a PM or email with confirmation of your new username.
Step Seven – Check out your old articles to verify they look right with the new formatting and make changes as needed to things like your resource box. (I believe you will have to edit the links in the resource box to make them clickable.
We appreciate everyone’s patience during the downtime and hope to continue to work with you going forward.
And as always, if you run into any issues please contact me via shane@christian-topics.info, our contact page, or the new PM system.
Author Frank Walker returns to the Bible Czar radio program to discuss rasising successful families from a Biblical perspective. Be sure to listen in as he discloses his easy to remember 12 steps. Frank’s blog can be found at www.chapelgrace.com
One of the recommendations that we make to authors here at Christian Articles Resource is to have and to regularly use a blog. It has been proven time and time again to be an excellent vehicle to have your writing seen. Of course, one of the most common pitfalls of blog use is dealing with the comments. Good comments can bring lively discussion to one’s blog and works as a great way to develop links to your work. The flip side of comments are the dishonest spammers and spam bots that plague everyone.
Many bloggers either disable comments entirely or let them go unmoderated for so long that it becomes a chore to sort through everything. Others use excellent free plugin tools such as CommentLuv to give their commenters an incentive to behave and use comments in a positive way. I have personally used CommentLuv on some of my online endeavors and have found it to be a great tool, albeit somewhat simple. However, I always held out hope that there would be something that could do things better. Someone must have been listening, as there is now a new CommentLuv Premium!
CommentLuv Premium Takes the CommentLuv plugin and supercharges it to become a virtual Swiss army knife of tools designed to take blog commenting to the next level! Here are some of the features:
CommentLuv: Allows a commenter to add their own last blog post URL to the comments, giving them an incentive to leave quality comments.
Twitter Link: This adds an extra field to a typical comment form that will allow readers to add their Twitter username to comments. (This can be set up as a reward for having “x” number of quality comments.)
G.A.S.P Anti-Spam: This is a powerful anti-spam feature that trips up 99% of automated spam bots.
KeywordName: Similar to KeywordLuv but does more and stores keywords separately from names in the database. (Gives your commenters another incentive to leave good comments.)
Dashboard Widgets: Statistical analysis straight from your WordPress dashboard. (This lets you track which comments are helping you!)
Top CommentLuvvers: Configurable widget to display top CommentLuv commenters in the sidebar. (Who doesn’t like to be recognized?)
DoFollow: To set reader-links to nofollow or dofollow for example, after 3 comments.
Trackback Validation & No Self Ping: Self explanatory
Overall, I believe CommentLuv Premium to be an excellent value and have purchased it myself for all of my blogs. And at the limited time price of just $40 dollars, it is definitely a bargain as it can be used on an unlimited number of blogs once purchased.
Ann made a second appearance on the Bible Czar program on the 19th. This time she was discussing the Two kinds of freedom one enjoys in Jesus Christ. You can check out the podcast here.
One of the options available to our authors is the ability to create and use pen names on our site. Most will create one when setting up their account and never give it another thought. Sometimes however, the original pen name chosen fails to mesh with the content written and needs to be changed.
Here’s how to do it:
How to change your pen name at the Christian Article Resource.
We recently went on vacation to Ceder Point and our laptop broke during the trip. This left us without a way to approve articles and showcase them on our Facebook and Twitter feed. We are back now and clearing out the backlog.
Not sure how we missed it, but Christian author Reverend Christopher Drew was a recent guest on the Bible Czar internet radio program. On the podcast he discussed thinking clearly, worshiping continually, relating purely, living justly, and answering ones critics.
Alexandra Swann was recently a guest on the Bible Czar program. During the broadcast she shared the 4 phases in which we respond to God during our journey through life. Be sure to read her biography and then download the podcast.
