Archive for October, 2008

Benefit from blogging

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

You’ve probably read plenty of articles on why blogging can be actually good for you and your business. Well, I’ve read a hefty of such articles, but most of them were written from the “how-to-monetize-your-blog” point of view. I love the idea of getting money from the blog, the more the better, bring it on. But on the other hand, you also strive to put a bit of yourself into the blog you’re running. Is it all about money now? (more…)

Wordpress Automatic Update

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Ever dreamt of upgrading your WP without any particular difficulties? Well, it’s possible. I personally haven’t heard of special plugin allowing to follow the WP new versions’ release. No HTML or grueling installation process. The plugin works something similar to a wizard that will guide you through all the steps and will automatically do everything necessary and also update you on the new version availability.

So since today I’m a lucky user of WP version 2.6.3.

Wordpress + Email = convenient comments posting

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Wordpress users now may reply on other users’ comments straight from their mail box. As soon as you get the email notifying you have a new comment, you may post a reply and it’ll appear on the website right away. Users won’t have to log-in to the site each time to make others happy with your reply  - Wordpress will make it happen via email. The whole thing is still being tested. Well, you may read one of the articles on the subject

WP in September. Status: outstanding

Friday, October 17th, 2008

I thought I’d drop you guys a small “big” news on WP statistics. I was able to locate some impressive numbers on WP for September: how many new users joined, how many new comments made etc.

Check the http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/september-wrap-up-2/ to learn more quite impressive stats.

Adding tag cloud to your blog

Friday, October 17th, 2008

We continue our Wordpress education - so far we’re still in the freshmen category, but pretty soon we’ll be bale to customize and upgrade the blog to the extent of a real complex machine! Let’s figure out what is the easiest way to add a tag cloud on to the blog (more…)

Let’s customize our WP

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Customizing your WP platform can be a very addictive and fun thing to do. So this post will be dedicated to uploading new themes and plug-ins on to your WP site in order to extend its functionality and make blog look more beautiful. (more…)

Google AdSense

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Google AdSense is something I come across quite often at my work. I heard bits and pieces about the advertising system from Google and today I finally decided to clear it out for myself.
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Wordpress 2.7

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Wordpress platform is about to have another upgrade in November to version 2.7. The update mainly concerns the dashboard which now will be placed on the left and will contain subcategories as well; navigation sections and labels.
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