February 24, 2007 – 8:46 am
An often overlooked part of your WordPress posts is the Post Meta Data Section. This is the section at the bottom of your post that lists who posted the content and when, and may include the categories, tags, bio information, and a lot of other details you might want readers to know about the post [...]
February 23, 2007 – 1:18 pm
If you write about WordPress, Javascript, CSS, HTML/XHTML, mathematics, calculus, science, research, and a lot of other code, programming, and calculations, you are going to need to be able to write code in your blog. I can tell you from personal experience, this is a painful and…extraordinarily frustrating process, to be nice about it.
Since [...]
February 22, 2007 – 10:04 am
As part of my ongoing series of 30 Days of WordPress Plugins, I’m proud to feature one of my favorites, the In-Series WordPress Plugin.
For those who write single posts on your blog, disconnected but related to each other, you might not need this. But for those of us who blog article series, each one [...]
February 22, 2007 – 8:09 am
As part of my month long series about WordPress Plugins, I was recently asked which WordPress Plugins I use on Lorelle on WordPress.
Do you want to know which WordPress Plugins I have on this blog?
The answer is: none.
This blog is hosted by the free WordPress.com blog service. Part of the price for being free [...]
February 21, 2007 – 3:02 pm
As part of this month long series about WordPress Plugins, I’ve been digging deep to find some great WordPress Plugins to help you increase the navigation of your WordPress blog.
Navigational tools include showcasing recent posts, related posts, most popular posts, posts by category, breadcrumbs, tags, and so much more. I’ve come up with some [...]
February 20, 2007 – 8:03 pm
Running a blog, whether for yourself, to make money, or with multiple bloggers, is work. Sure, blogging is fun, but there are a lot of things you need to do with your blog to keep it in top working order and shape. Let’s look at some useful WordPress Plugins that will help your blog stay [...]
February 19, 2007 – 4:49 pm
NOTE: Since WordPress 2.1, the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin has had some major problems and the author has decided to stop support, especially now that WordPress 2.3 has tagging built-in. Much thanks, appreciation, and honors goes to author Christine Davis, who gave so much time and energy to supporting one of the most powerful [...]
February 17, 2007 – 6:58 am
We used to be happy with words and pictures. Now we have to add lots of noise and moving pictures to our WordPress blogs.
The visual and audible web is here today, and videos, podcasts, music, and all types of multimedia are flooding the Internet bands. Bloggers are leading the way by hosting and showcasing video [...]
February 16, 2007 – 5:27 am
Asking someone to “subscribe” to your blog used to mean signing them up on an email list. On a regular basis you would send out an email from that list with news about your site or blog encouraging them to return for a visit.
Today’s notion of subscribing to a blog goes way beyond an email [...]
February 15, 2007 – 1:38 pm
Polls, surveys, ratings, tests, exams, and reviews expand the native interactive nature of blogs with collaboration between the reader and the blogger. They help the blogger to ask specific questions and get a measurable response.
Ratings WordPress Plugins come in two formats. One which allows the reader to rate a post or its content and [...]
February 14, 2007 – 1:27 pm
Alert: The Customizable Post Listings Plugin has been updated and now works for WordPress 2.3 and above. It includes almost 36 techniques for displaying post content and comment information and over 50 percent-substitution template tags for customizing the results. Get your updated version today!
Customizable Post Listings WordPress Plugin by coffee2code is one of my long [...]
February 13, 2007 – 5:38 am
In many respects I think of WordPress Widgets as the WordPress Plugins: The Next Generation.
WordPress Plugins which add or change elements in a WordPress Theme can be a challenge to install and configure due to the overwhelming code found within a WordPress Theme. WordPress Widgets overcome the fear as there is no interaction directly with [...]
February 12, 2007 – 1:38 pm
It’s intimidating to write a review and listing of WordPress Plugins to show your blog stats when the WordPress Plugin Database lists 81 WordPress Plugins under Statistics. Yikes! And that’s just to start!
As part of this month of WordPress Plugins, there is no way I can list all of them, and many of them [...]
February 11, 2007 – 8:10 am
WordPress Plugins come in two styles: drop-in and mess with. Those are my terms, not the official ones.
Drop in WordPress Plugins are Plugins you upload, activate, and then interact with only through the WordPress Administration Panels.
Mess With WordPress Plugins are the ones you install and interact with through the Administration Panels, but they also [...]
February 10, 2007 – 2:19 am
WordPress Plugins can help your WordPress blog break the virtual barrier between the user and the real world by adding aids to print your WordPress blog posts and convert them into documents.
Helping You Print Your WordPress Blog
You can manually style your WordPress blog for the printed page by using a print.css stylesheet, hiding the unprintable [...]
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