Jai Nischal Verma from Blog Oh Blog is holding a contest, with the prize being a free, custom-designed WordPress theme. All you have to do to enter the contest is write a blog post describing the contest and linking to it.
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Previously, I briefly illustrated how using a home.php file can allow you to build a custom layout to your WordPress blog’s home page. However, I didn’t really document it well enough for the casual WP user to implement by himself. For the unknowing of my readers, here is a guide to using my (really Rudd-O’s) […]
According to some friendly message present within a part of the Askimet interface, comments that you mark as spam will be submitted to the free service to help make it better. Most people don’t realize, however, that when they click the Recheck Queue for Spam link in the Moderate Comments screen, they are most likely […]
Throughout the blogging world there is a growing practice to get rid of the rel=”nofollow” addition that WordPress adds to links in comments. I agree that it’s a great way to give commenters an incentive to write comments (they get their share of PageRank value). However, there is a specific reason I don’t “follow” the […]
David Peralty has given me enough. His BloggingPro blog is nothing but a waste of his time (counter-intuitive to this post, but relevant), my time, his Web host’s resources, and my computer’s resources. The writings on his blog are worth next to nothing, which makes me wonder why I even read them. It’s almost as […]
Ryan decided to start his own blog recently, probably in response to my new blogging obsession. So I ended up giving him the low-down on blogging. Here’s what I told him:
…The key point to success with any type of web site, be it a blog or business portfolio, is content. That means you should post, […]
Trackbacks are one of those blogging features that some beginners just don’t get (I was there - trackbacks have only made sense to me recently). The truth is that they are very simple to understand.
Think of trackbacks as comments that are posted by your blogging tool, rather than your own self-determination. To use a rather […]
Recently, I’ve been observing a new form of spam on my blog. It is coming in the form of vague registrations, with email addresses including Russian domains and strange user IDs. For now, it’s not too bad, so I won’t take serious action. If things do heat up, I’ll look into ways to effectively block […]
