This morning, I received several emails telling me some readers left me comments on the blog, I replied them one by one, and deleted several hundred of spam comments. For the last month, I didn’t even log in this blog, didn’t upgrade to Wordpress 2.7, I am so sorry to reply all comments so late… and I want to say sorry to all of my RSS readers if you subscribed my blog…

I’m back now… I made up my mind to renew at least once a week, please don’t leave… thanks

I am so happy to announce the luanch of my new forum Charles’ Readers Community for all my blog readers. This community is a forum based on bbPress. bbPress is a very good forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. It’s very ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. What’s most import is that it’s very light-weighted and powerful enough with add on features through its extensive plugin system.

Just because it has so many features to meet my requirements, and, it’s also a work of Wordpress developer team, it can be easily intergrated with my Wordpress blog, it became my readers’ community software.

Although bbPress is very good with so many features, it’s not powerful enough, we can add some plugins to add more features, there are a great number of plugins available for different add on features. I downloaded and uploaded some,  now you’re able to add bold, colored text, insert pictures and smilies, disply online users, etc (more here)

I added some forums already, like Blogging/Internet, Fedora News, FOSS Software as well as a Random form for any topics and different needs.

I think forum is a very good place to discuss something, although you can add comment at the end of this blog post, but you can’t start a post here and let me reply you. (my blog doesn’t allow ) It’s better if we have a place to do so, anyone are welcome.

Charles’ Readers Community: http://charlespeng.com/forum

This forum has been intergrated with my Wordpress based blog, if you registered in my blog, you can log in with the username and password and they share the same cookies too. So please register in my blog or just register in the form.

Thank you so much! And don’t forget introduce yourself here .

BTW, I added Google Analytics tracking code on both of my blog and forum, so all visiters’ can be tracked.

How did I move my English blog?

Well, first of all, I Exported pengyulong.com MySQL database from its host phpMyAdmin, and backed up all files in the old wp-content directory. Then, downloaded the lastest wordpress 2.6.2 and uploaded to the new host, and seted up a new MySQL database and made some necessary change of the wp-config.php file, and uploaded to the new host’s wordpress directory. After that, imported the mysql file which exported to the newly-created MySQL datebase. When I opened http://www.charlespeng.com, it was automatically redirected to http://pengyulong.com… it’s useless this way…

I searched on Google, and found I have to replace “http://pengyulong.com” with “http://www.charlespeng.com”  in the exported .sql file, I did, I downloaded EmEditor and did with it. After this stetp, I imported again into the new MySQL database, I also changed the siteurl option_value of the wp-options table in phpMyAdmin like the searched result say. Afer all done, when I refreshed my browser, it’s just ok, http://www.charlespeng.com could be opened, but when I clicked any of the blog entries’ title, it’s a 404 page, and I failed again.

I tried like this for several times, all failed!

And later, I found another way. Exported all http://pengyulong.com posts from Manage/Export, and then Droped all tables of the new MySQL database, then re-seted up the new Wordpress blog. Imported the exported file from Manage/Import, some posts were ok, some were lost.

I was really stupid and didn’t know where I got wrong, and why, but I did several times as what I said above. I succeeded when I imported WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR for the last time, yes, so lucky.

Why I moved my English posts from pengyulong.com to charlespeng.com?

Tell you the truth, pengyulong and charlespeng, as well as another of my Chinese blog pengjiayou.com, are all my names domain names, while, pengjiayou is my Chinese name I prefer, so it was chose as my Chinese blog domain for 2 years.

When I firstly started English blogging, I created a blog with the domain pengyulong.com, because at that time, charlespeng.com was my Make Money Online Blogging blog domain. But I fould later I had little and little topics to continue writing in Make Money Online Blogging.

And in fact, the blog Make Money Online Blogging hadn’t been added any new entries for half a year, but recently I liked writing in English, which will be good for my job as a Foreign Trade salesman as a result of my English level highly improved.

Just because I want to write in English, it will be better if the blog domain name is the same with my English name, whicn all my contact information in my MSN, Yahoo Messenger, as well as the name in my price lists are all this name as Charles Peng, it will be much better to communicate with my customers using this name.

I had merged the entries of the old Make Money Online Blogging into pengjiayou.com, so I will only have 2 blogs from now on.

• Pengjiayou.com My Chinese Blog
• Charlespeng.com My English blog

I will only write in these two blogs from now on, it’s much more better to manage them, do you think so? And it saves too much of my enerage too….

I just want to look for a good hostinig provider to blog, why it is so difficult, another Chinese blog of mine used up all the bandwidth, and service stopped for two times recently. That blog is hosted in Hostgator, one of the reseller plans, bought from a reseller called Jiang, the Hostgator reseller plan offers 500M storage and 5G bandwidth, but that blog has 1500-2000 visitors a day on an everage, it used up the bandwidth yesterday, I told Jiang, and he added 1G extra and today morning I found my site stopped again, he added 1G again.

Hostgator has a good speed, but  the bandwidth so limited for me, not enough, I have to ask Jiang for a final solution.

Very late tonight, stop now, and go on this topic tomorrow, say goodbye to all of you. Thanks.