I’ve spent the last week covering how to blog bling your WordPress.com blog in the form of graphics and photographs, lines and smilies, fonts, blockquotes, social bookmark links, blogroll bling and sidebar widgets, podcasts, audio, and video, signatures, signoffs, and writing code.
Now it is your turn to show off.
Here is a list of the articles on WordPress.com Blog Bling:
- WordPress.com Blog Bling
- WordPress.com Blog Bling: Decorating Your WordPress.com Blog with photographs, graphics, and more
- WordPress.com Blog Bling: Lines and Smilies
- Social Bookmarking Submit Links on WordPress Blogs
- WordPress.com Blog Bling: Fun Font Bling
- WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes
- WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blogroll and Sidebar Bling
- WordPress.com Blog Bling: Signatures and Writing Code
- Adding Video and Podcasting Bling to Your WordPress.com Blogs
Show Off Your WordPress.com Blog Bling
It’s your turn to show off your WordPress.com blog bling. With a trackback or in a comment below, announce your blog and link to a post on your WordPress.com blog to show us how you’ve added some of these blog bling techniques to your WordPress.com blog.
I expect everyone to visit all of those listed here so you can ooo and aaaah over their lovely use of blog bling.
Show off your WordPress.com blog bling!
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20 Comments
hi,
before anything i’d like to congratulate you on the amazing series you’ve put together.
it’s, as usual, a great source of inspiration and a reference. i use your site whenever i have a wordpress-related question.
my blog has some sort (small) of customizing, i didn’t use all the stuff you’ve mentioned.
i just use a couple of famfam icons when posting about movies, on a line bellow the tittle, and a tag icon at the end of the post, pointing to related content.
other than that i have some buttons on the sidebar, linking to my profile at some other sites and some other buttons linking to software and web services.
also added a rss feed to include ma.gnolia links (still no widget available).
you can find an example post here: http://maique.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/sick-day/
thanks for all the work you’re doing.
*grinnes*
While I see that this list might actually become useful for some wordpress.com bloggers (and I think) I still have one question left:
You ARE aware that you have unleashed a catastrophy equaling the blink tag onto the poor blog-reading population?
There’s at least one article missing in your blog-bling series: “How to know when you scare off your readers with too much bling.”
😉
I have a cool blog bling which just happens to be possible with the wordpress theme I run. For the “internet sharing” theme I run the right sidebar code is actually contained in the main index and single post templates.
What does that mean?
It means that I can have different sidebars depending on whether you’re in single post view or in main index view.
Of course, I had to hard code the sidebar areas individually in each php file, but it would be super cool if someone could code a widgetized theme where you could choose which widgets to display in the sidebar depending on certain conditions or page views. Any takers?
My blog is at http://engtech.wordpress.com
🙂
I try to keep my site simple, and I’m also not capable of making it too customized, but I’ve done the following:
Added a feed for a specific tag in my links in del.icio.us to my sidebar, using Simplepie‘s awesome RSS parsing WordPress plugin… include ability to subscribe to links by e-mail using Feeburner.
Also include ability to subscribe to blog by e-mail using Feedburner.
Created my own “submit to del.icio.us” link at the bottom of each post.
Installed GaMeRz’ slick WP-Email plugin to make it easy to send posts by e-mail.
Have my Flickr photos Flash widget and my LibraryThing random books in my sidebar (sooner or later, someone will buy a book via that and I’ll start raking in the dough!)…
Great series Lorelle!
I agree that your site is great of helpful tips. I did not read this series yet, but I will go back and see what other bling I can add based on your articles. 🙂
I took a theme that I loved, tweaked it to work with gallery2, added tons of plugins, pics, google adsense, movie plug-in’s and more.
I am always tweaking and adding stuff. Some day I will be happy with it. 🙂
Those with full version WordPress blogs have an easy job of doing it right when adding blog bling to their blogs. This series has been dedicated to WordPress.com blogs, which means the blogger has a challenge of designing blog bling without CSS. It takes old fashioned techniques combined with some creativity to pretty up your WordPress.com blog outside of the sidebar bling options.
I’m thrilled with all of the WordPress.com bloggers who are reaching and stretching their imagination to add design elements to their post content area without using CSS. Great job!
Carina: I’m trusting the good taste WordPress.com bloggers have. 😉
Oops, sorry! You know what they say, reading is fundamental 😉
Keep up the good work.
I still say the best bling is to have your own host and domain off of wordpress.com. 😉
bling? –> http://socialtech.ca/luc
my comment never showed up… 😦
Here are two recent posts which I think have a compelling layout (with images, blockquotes, etc):
http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/top-martial-arts-movies-of-2006/
http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/build-a-popular-blog-the-mcdonald%e2%80%99s-way/
Oh, now I see you were requesting wordpress.com blogs specifically. :embarrassed:
ditto :embarrassed: i’ll read everything next time.
i do think most of the stuff i’ve done would be possible on a wordpress.com, but probably just more work!
I went ahead and went ALL OUT. I recently released this updated theme for my site. In a very crisp, unique, and fassionable manner, Ginside.com is presented to the world.
Go ahead, check it out for yourself.
If you like it enough, check out the feed too so you can stay updated! Some great news happening about Google, why not know about it with style?
Implemented Sidebar, Blockquote, images and graphics. Check it out at http://www.rangwan.com/2007/02/05/bilingual-blog/.
I added a full flash site to the header of wordpress let me know what you think.
@MPC:
This article is about WordPress.com blog accessorizing. It appears your site is not on WordPress.com. More importantly, while flash is fun, it is also not SEO friendly. Take care in replacing your blog title and tagline with non-SEO friendly gimmicks.
@Lorelle
Great posts and fun stuff to work with, you just helpt me to improve my Blog.
I have implemented the Technorati tags, an Image only branding Signature, Text widget as Intro.
Besides that, redirecting the standard feed via Feedburner with larger feed button (I love Feedburner because it makes subscribing to a feed so much easier) And I even put up an (afll) link to Amazon for Blogging for Dummies (uploading Image to WordPress.com and then change the image link in the code) which is great for starting to learn how to Blog.
And some eye candy to bring some more fun in to the sidebar.
Next to that, I put up a link to your book, which is still on my whishlist, well maybe next year.
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