Sociable and the other social bookmarking plugins were an excellent feature for Wordpress, and I installed them on every blog I own. However, I found that very few visitors used them. Part of it, I think, is because the buttons were kind of small and newbies didn’t quite know that they could link an article [...]
Learn more...The final installations have been done, including adding in a duplicate content filter for Wordpress. I am currently working on the autoresponder sequence. The site should be visible tomorrow, although I am not sure that I’ll have the autoresponder done by then. Stay tuned!
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Learn more...This is an ongoing series about a brand new website, using tools I talk about here in this blog. Will it succeed? Will it fail? Who knows. I’m showing step-by-step every single thing I’m doing to build and then market a site that never existed before October 4, 2009. So, you know as much as [...]
Learn more...Back in June 2008, I gave myself a personal challenge: Do I have the self-discipline to blog every single day for a full year?
Well, I did it. The first post was made on June 26, 2008. And I thank you folks for reading and commenting since that time. This would have been very hard [...]
I’ve been using xSite Pro for years now and recommend it to everyone looking for an easy-to-use yet powerful website authoring program.
The latest version delivers fantastic options, such as creating RSS feeds from your web pages, giving you a drip option to add more pages, easily importing and displaying feeds, and so much more. One [...]
[This is a reconstructed version of the 11/19/2008 post which was deleted by server error.]
Have you noticed the new “listen now” icon that shows up under the blog titles? It’s compliments of a service called Odiogo, which does a surprisingly good job of generating audio content on the fly. Although the narrative is computer generated, [...]
Pinging services come and go. A couple years ago, I would add dozens of ping sites to my blogs and would see some good results. Using the ping logs reported in my copy of the MaxBlogPress ping optimizer, I’ve now whittled the list down to the following which do not report errors:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
For the Non-Technical People
If [...]
Okay, the title sounds a bit nasty. But the big dump I’m talking about is a mySQL database dump.
If you own a WordPress blog that you are about to transfer to a new host, you, too, should consider the big dump. It’s one of the best freebies available on the Internet.
I’m in the midst of [...]