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Archive for January, 2008

Display your web identity with the ShowYourself Widget

| January 21, 2008 | 0 Comments
The challenge is coordinating all of the places that we appear on the web. Previously we discussed possible ways to combine your blog with facebook. You could also use add the ShowYourself Widget to your blog sidebar, which allows you to collect and display your ... View Post

Allow users to use OpenID to interact with your blog with OpenID WordPress plugin

| January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
The WordPress OpenID plugin lets visitors to a Wordpress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID Identity. Says it's designed for WP 2.0.3 to 2.1, but may work with 2.3. Wordpress OpenID Plugin View Post

WordPress Publisher Blog launches

| January 18, 2008 | 10 Comments
The folks at Automattic have launched their WordPress Publisher Blog, which will:
"cover features that are often overlooked, we’ll highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality, and we’ll showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress."
So far the blog has ... View Post

Thank you to my readers!

| January 18, 2008 | 3 Comments
As many of you may know, writing a blog on a regular basis can be challenging. On the one hand, the stats and feed statistics tell you that people are reading, but on the other hand, you can sometimes feel like you're shouting out into the darkness, and you're not sure that anyone is ... View Post

Now you can add a favicon to your WordPress admin with a plugin

| January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
About two weeks ago, I wrote about a tip I came across at Simply Basic about how to add a favicon to your WordPress admin by adding a snippet of code to wp-admin/admin-header.php. As you probably have noticed, the WordPress admin ... View Post

Display WordPress categories in a horizontal dropdown menu

| January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments
Anthology of Ideas shares his method for creating a horizontal drop-down menu for categories, involving the use of CSS and Javascript. Displaying WordPress categories in a horizontal dropdown menu View Post

Automatically create tinyurl-type permalinks in WordPress

| January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
You may need to have "tinyurl" permalinks for your WordPress blog posts. One option is to go to tinyurl.com and create each permalink one-by-one. This is fine if you don't need to create too many, but can get cumbersome when you need tens or hundreds of them. Michael Clark explains how he ... View Post

Useful guide to configuring WordPress permalinks

| January 17, 2008 | 0 Comments
Weblog Tools Collection has published a good, concise guide on setting up permalinks on your WordPress blog. The tips include various permalink options, and how to set up a .htaccess file if you don't have one. Configuring WP Permalinks View Post

How to fix blog pinging and trackback problems

| January 17, 2008 | 0 Comments
If your WordPress blog isn't accepting trackbacks or sending pings to other blogs, you may need to open it up so that it can talk to other servers. Check out Donncha's explanation of what to look for, and how to fix the problem if it exists. Ping. ... View Post

10 steps to a more splog-free WordPress blog

| January 16, 2008 | 12 Comments
Last Thursday, I realized that this blog was being scraped. I'm sure it was being scraped before, but I never really wanted to spend time looking into it. A blog takes so much time to write and manage, that I didn't want to add ... View Post
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