Category Archives: Blogging

Analyze your blog for fun

Typealyzer will analyze and suggest a Jung-Myers-Briggs type. It also shows a brain activity analysis which looks cool.
Forty Plus Two was classified as INTJ – The Scientists while Zen and more was classified as ISTP – The Mechanics. I think both should be taken with a grain of salt but it shows that sticking to [...]

WordPress and magazine-style themes

Through The Blog Herald I was pointed to Smashing Magazine and When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?
It is a great and long post that deals with
• Key Differences
• Why Are More Blogs Moving to Magazine Themes?
• Pros and Cons
• Considerations for Choosing a Style of Theme
• Tutorials for Designing a Magazine Theme
• Resources for Grid-Based Design
• Free Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress
• Premium [...]

Book tips

NETTUTS writes about The Best Web Development Books – As Voted By You!
Dumb Little Man has a post with 21 Must-Read Tips To Write Better Web Content.
Update September 4, 2008.
Chris Garrett writes about 3 Great New Books to Buy Today.
Update November 9, 2008.
NETTUTS writes about 50 Must-read Books on Web Development.

WordPress and how to disable post revisions

WordPress introduced Post Revisions in version 2.6 which results in lots of posts (each revision) getting stored in the database. The feature is nothing I need or use and after seeing the result in my database size I looked for ways to disable it.
In How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress 2.6 is the [...]

Authentic blogging

I subscribe to ProBlogger and got Authentic Blogging in the mail. That post leads to The Authentic Blogging Manifesto which is a great post that I can relate to. Maria Gajewski tells about how she got hooked on writing for social media like StumbleUpon and forgot about the real reasons for blogging. She has created [...]

WordPress 2.6 and blank admin screen

I am in the process of upgrading my blogs to WordPress 2.6. That gave me a strange problem in some of my blogs, I got a blank screen when trying to access the admin part of WordPress. The strange thing was that those two themes (my own tweaks) that caused problem in admin mode worked [...]

Blogger at Google admits mistake

Blogger, owned by Google, runs checks to find spam blogs at Blogger. Obviously something went wrong since they posted this in Spam Fridays:
While we wish that every post on this blog could be about cool features or other Blogger news, sometimes we have to step in and admit a mistake.
On Saturday they posted this in [...]

Use Google Alerts to keep track

I use Google Alerts to keep track of who is linking to my blogs and sites. Since you can create an alert for any search term I also use Google Alerts to watch some key words for me. It is an easy way for me to get emails when something interesting pops up on net.

What about blog sidebars?

I have taken time to work on my blogs, behind the scene as well as how they look. Part of that work was creating a list of WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. Some of those plugins – Best Foot Forward, Random Posts Widget and Tag Functions – give me functionality that I [...]

My WordPress plugins

I have created a page with the WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. There are posts about various plugins here, now I have a list of what is currently used. My intention is to keep the page up to date.