Weight Watchen Blogs! & Boards

Hi all! I added the site RSS feeds to the side bar in case in you interested in subscribing through your readers. I know this is getting more and more popular and I thought it might be a nice option for some.

So on the side bar you should see three feeds,

WeightWatchen News

This feed will only contain posts I write for the news section. Like this one.

Community Blog Posts

This feed will be all the posts by public community members. If you see your posts in the main page then it will also be in the feed.

WeightWatchen Boards

Subscribe to the last 35 posts to the message boards!

My Page

I added mine because, and you may not know this, my site is not actually part of the community site. When the sites crashed I built them parallel and I would not have been able to integrate mine and rebuild as fast. So for now my site is actually managed by blogger and the community is build on Wordpress MU.

Ok – Enough geek talk, I just thought some of you might find this useful.

Have you guys seen the Weigh We Were?
It is a collection of weight loss success stories and blogs. I love it!

Being that we all have blogs here, we can join their blog list for free.

Why? What does that mean?
Well, when you update your blog here the post will show on there’s as well! We all know more exposure means more readers. More readers means more comments. More comments mean more support. And more support means we are happier weight losers! ;~) See how that works. LOL

So if you want to learn more and take advantage of this opportunity click here.
To see my listing as an example of how your weight loss blog will look click here.

Let me know if you have any questions!

The question of the day is…

How do I get one of the snazzy Tables for my food journal?

Well it’s Easy! It’s only an HTML table organized in a nice way to display food and “diet units”. If HTML scares you NO WORRIES! You can copy and paste. If you don’t know how to copy and paste click here for a quick lesson.

Before we get into the table instructions, the first thing you want to do is make sure you have the visual editor turned on in the “write post” window. To do that…

• Log on to your blog admin
• Click on “users”
• Click on “your profile”
• Check the “Use the visual editor when writing” check box
• Click “update profile”

Now when you go to write a post you will two tabs, “visual” and “code”. To copy and paste the tables you want to be in visual.

Ok, now that we have the correct set up and you know how to copy paste it’s simple!

Here is a sample table like the one I’m using now.

Here is a more detailed one in case that’s you cup of tea.

Simply copy one of the tables above and paste it in your post window (under the visual tab).You can really do anything you like with it. It’s just HTML. For a tutorial on HTML tables click here. If you would like to edit the HTML just click the code tab.

NOTE: I’m using Diet Units (DU) because not all of our members follow the same plan, some do WW some count calories, etc. You can even leave that whole column out if you just want to journal what you ate and not calculate anything.

So now you have what you need to make your own daily food journals!

I hope that helps! Comment any questions you may have!

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The upgrade has brought us Widgets! These widgets allow us to customize our sidebars with text, RSS feeds, types of links, etc. Check it out it’s SUPER cool.

Go to you dashboard, click on presentation and then widgets. I have done some quick tests and they work with all the templates. If you come across any problems, let me know.

Man I’m so happy I had the guts to upgrade. I was a little gun shy considering we just got the community back!

Have fun and post any questions or comments. If you used the new widgets, post your blog link in the comments so people can get an idea of what it possible.

I have exhausted other possibilities of global statistics. It is possible but the time commitment and complexity is too much for me right now. Maybe one day I’ll get it!

In the mean time, here is a nice solution. It takes only a few minutes to set up and you can have simple statistics for your site to see how many readers you have!

Installing Site Meter

1. Sign up for the free site meter account
2. After you sign up and are logged in follow these instructions
3. THAT’S IT!

Now if you want to have your own section in the side bar for it you can add a new category for it by going to manage –> categories. Then go back to the blog roll and put the sitemeter link in the new category you created.

Originally Posted June 5, 2007

That is the question of the day. People have been emailing and asking how they know whether they have readers if no one is commenting. Technologically I’m looking for a solution where you can see how many views you’ve gotten but in the mean time here is some advice…

1. Write for you and only you. We all know it’s great when we get comments and reinforcement from our online readers but at the end of the day you are writing the blog to help YOU stay accountable. Right? Well you should be! When I started I had my mom and a few friends and look at me now! Write for you and only you, readers and comments are just icing on the cake.
2. Visit other blogs in the community and comment. This is the great thing about being a part of the community. When you comment your name will link users back to your blog. When you give support, you will get it back. If you’ve gotten a comment click on the users name and check out their blog. Check out the latest blogs and posts on the main page and welcome our newbies!

I hope that helps. I am working on the stats feature, like I said, but I have no idea when and if I’ll get it working! I will keep you posted though!

Originally Posted May 28, 2007

Adding avatars on the boards was much easier then I thought! It’s not completely integrated but the functionality is there. Here’s what you can do…

Yup, that’s mine! ;~)

1. Login in
2. Go to the boards page
3. Scroll down on the page and on the left click on View your profile
4. On the upper right click the edit button
5. Put the Web Address (URL) of your image file

A few things you need to know.

1. The avatar is 80 x 80 pixels. If you graphic is bigger then that it will be cropped automatically
2. Your image file must be uploaded on the web server so you have an address for it. Example… http://noonefamily.com/resources/avatar.jpg
   If you have a blog you can upload your image in your blog admin and then get the URL for it by going to manage ->uploads. Click on your image and the URL will be shown.

Again, sorry it’s not totally integrated but at least we have the option!

No offensive images PLEASE.

I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT! I have successfully upgraded to the newest version of wordpress for us. The site was only down for a few minutes. The blogger importer works like a charm! Import away people!

For everyone who is hesitant, I totally understand. Just so you know I will be continually making improvements and backups are being made on a regular basis! ;~)

Thank you so much for being apart of my community.

-Roni