5/18/2010
Installing link exchange on hosting.
5/14/2010
Been testing offline Wordpress editors. Settled on Windows Live
Writer. As much as I hate all the crap bundled with LIVE, this tool
seemed to be one of the best to post to any blog platform. I'm happy
with it so far. I especially like the "extensions" you can download
and install like worpress plugins or firefox extensions to add
functionality to the tool.
Check it out here. Check out the
Live Writer Extensions here.
15 more advanced Twitter hacks for Wordpress.
Wordpress Plugins for Google Junkies
5/6/2010
Installed Contact Form 7. Worked great.
List of 15 good wordpress plugins.
Need to get Technorati indexed;
Technorati by Joe Remington
Technorati by ProBlogger
5/4/2010
Added "Page Links To" in order to add a button that goes back to the
main website. Page Links To Allows you to point WordPress pages or
posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational
links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources. By
Mark Jaquith |
Visit plugin
site
5/3/2010
Installed on Wordpress;
Google XML Sitemaps by
Arne
Brachhold
All in One SEO Pack mentioned below.
4/28/2010
I have Wordpress set up and running; no issues so far. I did get
kind of irritated that even though this is on a paid account, at the
bottom of each page there is a "This Wordpress blog is hosted by
(hosting company)". I messed around for a bit before realizing that
this is a "Plug - In" (in Wordpress vernacular) and all I needed to
do was either edit (to change the text displayed) or disable (to
remove the text entirely). I disabled it.
I also installed and posted a new theme, this was relatively simple
and worked without any issues. I think the one I am using is called;
multi-color 1.7 by
Nischal Maniar
5/1/2010
I wanted some way to moderate comments. I don't have anything
against unmoderated comments, even if it is from users just trying
to get backlinks. At least that is honest. I don't want spam. So
after some research, I
installed the Akismet plug-in. It automatically evaluates the
comment for spam, and if it thinks it's spam it gets dumped in a
separate folder in your admin account. You can either delete the
comments, approve them, or set it up to automatically delete spam
comments after a certain time. You have to
get an API key from
Akismet. I may end up with a reCaptcha, but for now I am
satisfied with this approach.
The API key is free for personal accounts, and they kind of qualify
that by saying sites making < $500.00/month. So, once you get
profitable, you should be able to shell out the $5.00/month for
blogger or $50.00 for a corporate enterprise API key. I would expect
that by the time you are spending that kind of money there are also
PHP or CGI internal (in house) solutions you could employ.
The think I like about this compared to a reCaptcha is that Akismet
plug in is automated, and does not ask the user to go through any
extra steps. Do not assume I have anything against reCaptcha;
I love
reCaptcha and use it on all form collections, and I also use
their
email reCaptcha. I think I like them less now that they got
bought by Google just because it makes me nervous about what
Google's plans are for this tool.
5/1/2010
Initiating research on a SEO plug-in for Wordpress. I have been doing
a lot of reading, and so far I like
All in One SEO Pack from
Semper FI
Web Design. I don't want to get caught up in all the hype and
infomercial products that are an endless ratrace; I want something
fundamental that handles the core capabilities; post titles,
descriptions, meta tag, etc. This seem to fit the bill, plus is run
by veterans apparently. Sounds like the leader so far, although I
have not installed it yet.