Archive for July, 2007

Alex King has a list with his WordPress Plugins, I have installed two more of them.
Link Harvest keeps track of external links in posts and pages. Once installed you start a harvest of existing links. After that it catches your links when you publish. I use this plugin to see which blogs/sites I link [...]

Bloggrrl had insomnia and wrote The Three Little Blogs: A Cautionary Tale which is a tale about three blogs with different concepts for their blogging. The story also includes the big bad blog. It is an interesting way to explain what works and what does not work.
I have posted before about contests as link bait. [...]

The Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin makes it much easier to keep track of your statistics. This plugin allows you to view your Google Analytics and Feedburner reports in your WordPress administration area. It is great to have key stats available while logged into the blog.

A medley is a series of different tunes performed one after the other. My Blogging Link Medley is a series of different blog posts and/or web sites listed one after the other. There are so many blogs and sites worth commenting on and so little time. That is why I decided that instead of forgetting [...]

Jason at JibberJobber usually blogs about topics related to that site but during a week he posted his blogging secrets. Five posts that are really useful and worth reading (and re-reading).
Day 1 is about relationships. The post is about long term work, with things like commenting in selected blogs and link love. All with the [...]

I got 404 Notifier from Alex King’s list of WordPress Plugins. The plugin logs 404 hits on your WordPress powered site and you can choose to be notified of them via e-mail or in an RSS feed.
The plugin directly gave me some interesting information. WordPress created a 404 error on each pageview due to [...]

Sarah Lewis at Blogging Expertise has started a Contest: Create a Clever Blogging T-Shirt with great prices. I have not decided whether to participate or not but I love the idea. Contests are a great way to get visitors involved and interested.
The next step could be to create and sell T-shirts at places like [...]

There are lots of WordPress themes available. A great place to start looking for free themes is at WordPress Theme viewer. Decide which features that are important to you, tick the list and search. My key features were three columns and widget ready.
My final choice is the Prosumer theme. Other options were Blue Wonder, Silver [...]

After moving to a host I had to decide which plugins to use in my WordPress. I asked around in my blogging network, did some research and here is a list of the ones I have installed.
Fight spam and stay safe.
Bad Behavior is my first line defense against spam. Bad Behavior complements other link spam [...]