Want a quick way to double your pageviews? When a reader comes to the end of a blog entry, do you want him to leave your site? Or view another article? Chances are, if he was interested enough in the current post to open it up, he’s likely to be interested in other posts on [...]
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Some of my posts have been getting longer and longer, especially how-to’s. It’s hard to scan the front page for articles, and I thought it was time to switch from full posts to excerpts on the home page. Why have excerpts instead of full posts on your home page Some reasons you might want to [...]
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Your Gravatar account can have more than one e-mail associated with it. Gravatars are so-called “Globally Recognized Avatars” which allow you to show your choice of image (photo, drawing, whatever) alongside the comments you make on your own or others’ WordPress blogs. You might find it handy to have multiple e-mails associated with your Gravatar [...]
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If you’ve seen weird URLs with “evalbase64″ in your server logs, it’s because there’s an organized attack underway against old WordPress versions. The attackers are taking advantage of certain vulnerabilities and installing a hidden admin user to be able to log in to your WordPress installation at any time without your knowing it. Your server [...]
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WordPress 2.9 is out and it has a lot of new features to make using WordPress easier. 1. Global undo/trash 2. Image editor 3. Batch plugin updating 4. Easier video embedding It also has 4 under-the-hood features that make blogging better with WordPress: 1. Canonical URLs 2. Automatic database optimization 3. Comment metadata 4. Faster [...]
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The upcoming WordPress 2.9 release has a lot of new features. Here are 10 that may make your life easier: Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete) Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client rel=’canonical’ for singular pages Scroll back to the same location after saving a [...]
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Jane Wells posted an entry on the WordPress Blog about canonical plugins. That would be plugins which are recognized as the standard plugins for some of the most-requested functionality in WordPress. community-developed (by more than one person) GPL verified and secure tested against new versions of WordPress live on the WordPress repository I particularly like [...]
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If you’re trying to make money online on your blog with affiliate link or other advertising, one key to success is to get high rankings in Google and other search engines. To do that, you need to have content, and the more the better. The John Chow blog is discussing a new blog automation system [...]
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Dreamhost recently (within the last few months) released a remote API to manipulate accounts and get account information. They’re holding a contest for the best apps using the API. Digitivity.org presents Dreamvue, the Desktop Dreamhost Management App. Click the picture for more info.
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If you ever want to insert code in your WordPress blog, you probably ought to have a syntax highlighting plugin installed. Otherwise, you’ll probably mess up your blog template for the pages that have code on them.
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