Archive for September, 2007

Akisment Auntie Spam picks up where Akismet leaves off

| September 18, 2007 | 3 Comments

Akismet brilliantly catches most comment spam and saves it in the Akismet section of our WordPress blogs. But if we don't check Akismet regularly, we can find ourselves hundreds, if not thousands, of comment spam waiting for review. Since Akismet sometimes mistakenly identifies legitimate comments as spam, we need to ... View Post

RSS feed mashup services – easy and free

| September 16, 2007 | 4 Comments

Once you're writing and/or managing a bunch of sites or blogs, you may find that it would be useful to mash all your feeds together into one feed that displays posts from all of your sites in chronological order. For example, you may want to have each site display all the new posts from ... View Post

Happy New Year! I’ll be offline until Sunday.

| September 12, 2007 | 8 Comments

The Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) starts tonight. It is usually a two-day holiday, but this year it ends when Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath which is on Saturday) begins, so we have three days of holidays ahead of us. So no new posts here until Sunday. I'll be busy praying ... View Post

Case study: How blog design contributed to Blogsolid’s success

| September 10, 2007 | 8 Comments

Blogging seems to be all about content. It's about what you write, how you write it, who you link to, etc. So how does design come into play? Most people say that design is important, and that you should have a professional design that is easy on the eyes, and simple to navigate. It ... View Post

My favorite WordPress tip

| September 8, 2007 | 1 Comment

Blogging Challenge - Lorelle on WordPress

In Lorelle's latest blog challenge, she asks us to describe our favorite WordPress tip. She says to think back to when we started experimenting with WordPress, and try to remember what tips we found valuable. I started ... View Post

Giving different styles to different WordPress categories

| September 7, 2007 | 19 Comments

WordPress allows you to give different styles to different categories in a range of ways. You can style a category page: this means that every category page can have its own unique style. For example, let's say you have a site about vegetables, where every vegetable is a category. You can style ... View Post

Adding comments, related posts and copyright notice to RSS feed

| September 3, 2007 | 1 Comment

I've seen people mention that a good way to prevent feed scrapers from doing so is by adding a copyright to the feed, but I never really understood why that would help. But then I met someone who was building up his community site, and he asked if he could publish the feed of one ... View Post

Make managing your WordPress dashboard easier with Admin Drop Down Menus plugin

| September 3, 2007 | 13 Comments

If you're a WordPress blogger who posts one new post every few days, you might not mind the default navigation menu in the admin/dashboard. But once your blogging volume increases, and you're writing posts, pages, and managing comments and plugins, it becomes annoying that the most common actions, like writing a new post, take ... View Post