Archive for October, 2007

Plugin: Fun with guest posts

Saturday, October 27th, 2007 - Read the rest »

Writing guest posts on other blogs can be a pretty rewarding experience. Firstly you get to experience comments from a different audience, who may have something different to share, secondly you get a little more traffic back to your blog, but, once you’ve written your fabulous guest post how do you link to it from [...]

It’s amazing how much you forget

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 - Read the rest »

It’s amazing how much you can forget in such a short period of time.
I’ve been away from Wordpress for a little while. There was a point where not a day went by when I wasn’t changing my theme, or modifying a plugin, but then I got caught up trying to find something as easy as [...]

Doing more with Widgets: Home Page Layout

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 - Read the rest »

I have been several versions of Wordpress behind for a little while and, with this blog, have just caught up. My verdict? Widgets are pretty cool. Having said that it seems clear that the creators of widgets have missed a trick. Why stop with the sidebar?
Widgets give you control over the layout and contents of [...]

Categories vs Tags: Either, Neither, or Both?

Sunday, October 21st, 2007 - Read the rest »

Categories have been around forever, but native tagging is a relatively new thing in Wordpress. I have mixed feelings about tags, in fact I have never really used them, and I wonder how useful they really are.
The benefits of categories are pretty clear. Firstly they provide a well ordered (usually) structure to a blog that [...]

 

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