Jun
8
I got WordPress Firefox Add-on: Zemanta from Hack WordPress in my mail today. Zemanta looks like a very interesting tool for bloggers. They currently support Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted Wordpresses from version 2.0 onwards.
Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more [...]
May
29
I have found some useful blogs about WordPress that I have added to the feeds I subscribe to. In no special order they are WordPress Expert, All4wordpress, Hack WordPress and WordPress Max.
May
27
I had a manually created list of My Favourite Posts in the right hand menu before. It worked but not as easy as I wanted it too. Today I came across the Best Foot Forward widget which allows you to select which tags that shall be listed. I created a new tag, MyFav, and just [...]
May
15
Chris Garret writes about Get a Gravatar. Scott Sehlhorst goes into details, How To Create Your Gravatar.
DailyBlogTips posts about Take Screenshots with Firefox 2.0. That is how I found out about Screengrab!.
Put Things Off posts about The Creative Sweet: Creativity Should Be Free, listing lots of free software.
Brent Hodgson posts The Story of the Three [...]
Apr
20
One of my other blogs got targeted with spam comments, all aimed for one specific post. I did turn of comments for that post but that did not help, I have gotten 5,200 spams in a short period of time. Akismet properly catches the spam comments but I wanted to stop spam from getting into [...]
Apr
19
Blog Design has posted How to Blog Design Style Guide. It is a terrific walk through of the different parts of a blog with suggestions on how to improve them. I will get back here and see what I can use as modifications of the theme I am using.
My view on the design of Blog [...]
Apr
14
Scott Allen writes about How Much Money Can You Make Blogging?. If you consider blogging to earn money, start with reading that post, there are some links to other sources.
North x East has a guest post by Jarkko Laine about How To Show That You Are Serious About Blogging.
Darren at Problogger posts about How Many [...]
Apr
13
Brian Clark at Copyblogger asks Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream? The article sets RSS versus email but I do not see it that way. The important thing to me is that readers follow a blog, not which way they prefer to do it. Personally I prefer to subscribe to RSS-feeds through email and then read [...]
Apr
12
Over at Hack WordPress is a post titled How To: Hiding Your Affiliate Links using WordPress. A simple one line PHP-page is created for each link and placed on your own site. You then link to this PHP-page instead of linking directly to the external page. The good thing is that you have the external [...]
Mar
29
March 29, 2008 – 11:43 am
Skellie has posted My #1 Tip for Creating Better Content: Write in Advance which lists several reasons for writing in advance. I am slowly heading that way, writing in the weekend and publishing during the week.
Good habits can be powerful things, but they’re not easy to develop. I do hope I’ve convinced you that the [...]