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Category Archives: Blogging

Link Medley Blogging

The Blog Herald has a post about Blogger First Aid Kit.
Traffikd posts about Social Media Marketing and the Need for Focus.
Daily Blog Tips has a great post about 10 Ways to Brand Your Blog or Website Efficiently.

Link Medley Blogging

Problogger writes about 10 Ways to Make Money BECAUSE of Your Blog.
What if I told you that there’s a way to make money as a result of your blog where you don’t need to have a single ad on your blog, where you don’t have to run any affiliate programs and where you don’t have [...]

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.

Link Medley Blogging

Problogger writes about 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky, How to Choose a Topic for Your Next Blog Post and asks Does Your Next Blog Post Matter?.
Shilpan Patel of Success Soul has a guest post at Write To Done about 7 Certain Ways to Crucify Your Content.
Skellie writes about How to [...]

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 [...]

Link Medley Blogging

ProBlogger has an interesting guest post from Sara Ost about The Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge Method, Or, Blogging Is Flirting.
WriteToDone has Darren Rowse in Conversation: Top Tips for Writers. The interview has many greet tips.
WordPrezzie has some great WordPress Security Tips.
David Airey has redesigned his blog, Orange anyone? The new look is fresh and simplistic.
ProBlogger [...]

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 [...]

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