Posts in the category “blogtech”
This category contains all my posts about blogging technology — plug-ins, themes, design, etc.
WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Huge Archives
Once you’ve been blogging for a few years, you’re going to realize that your archives page is huge. For the casual one-post-each-week blogger, it might be okay to display the titles or even excerpts of posts on your archives page. But what about you and your twenty-posts-per-day blogging habit? It won’t be long before your
WordPress Wednesday: Create a Twitter Widget
The team at ProBlogDesign has posted an excellent tutorial explaining How to Create Your Own Twitter Widget. The instructions are very detailed and by following them you’ll learn quite a lot about how widgets work.
WordPress Wednesday: Displaying Older Posts
In which I explain a bit of MySQL
Akismet Works
The best spam-blocker
WordPress Tags
In which I customize Wordpress to deal with my site prior to fully implementing tagging
Plaxo Is Stealing Comments
In which a tech startup gets sneaky
A Rant about Keywords and URLs
A day or two ago I was pinged by a co-worker from my previous job. He wanted to know why, during its recent redesign, I didn’t include keywords in the URLs of the pages on a site I originally built a long, long time ago. I told him that there was no concrete evidence anywhere
WordPress Gunning-Fog Analysis PlugIn
In which I build a quick plugin
Akismet and Comment Spam
In which I recommend a good WordPress plugin
Three Simple Steps to Fix Technorati Tags
In which I explain how to improve a plugin