Ever wanted to set up a weekly or monthly mailing list for your blog?

FeedBurner is good for a daily email dispatch which is attainable by just “burning” your feed and activating mail service for it.

But how about less frequent mailings?
And how about selecting only the best articles to include in those rare mails?

It’s easy. Better yet, it can be automated with standard components for your WordPress installation.

To set up a Weekly (or Monthly) Top Posts mailing list just follow these 5 simple steps:
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Из ICQ:

винда - это самая православная ОС, потому что в ней есть иконы и службы, а не демоны и зомби, как в юниксах

(English: “Windows is the most Orthodox OS because it’s got icons and services unlike demons and zombies of UNIX”)

So this is the first post in the new migrated and merged weblog. At last.
It has proved one more time that a web site start up should be planned carefully lest you’d have couple of busy evenings correcting your strategy in the future.

Problems one should be prepared to when venturing such moves:

• Permalink re-design. Page addressing approaches are very different in Joomla and WordPress.
• Permalink forward setup for each page moved.
• Loss of your design. Joomla look&feel and its themes may be appealing to many (like it was with me couple years ago, when it was “Mambo” yet) and it’s got nice built-in features (some of which may be available as WP plugins, but some may not)

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… when you encounter nasty problems while doing a “make buildworld”, like

/usr/src/secure/lib/libcrypto/../../../crypto/openssl/crypto/dh/dh_err.c:81: error: `DH_R_MODULUS_TOO_LARGE’ undeclared here (not in a function)

annoyed me in building FreeBSD 6.1 stable…

Now that common people are becoming more familiar with computing the computer userbase is gradually pushed back to using text input (in contrast to “point & click” interface popularized by earlier versions of Windows and suchlike)
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Finely tuned bash UNIX shell can really help streamline the workflow.
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