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Blogging Discussion: Do You Display Recent Posts?

January 4th, 2008

When it comes to deciding what to display in the sidebar of a blog, there are a wide variety of options available to WordPress users. In addition to the stuff most WordPress themes offer by default and the WordPress plugins available for your sidebar, we also have access to a wide variety of 3rd [...]

Technology Talk – 12/30/2007

December 30th, 2007

Technology

As we continue to roll towards the New Year, the great content keeps on coming. Here are a few of the posts that I enjoyed from around the blogosphere this week:

ComputerWorld has posted 5 Things You’ll Love About Firefox 3.0. This post covers some of the stuff that many people aren’t talking about [...]

Best of: WordPress Greasemonkey Scripts

December 26th, 2007

Web Browsers

If you are a serious blogger, there is a good chance that you use the popular open source software known as WordPress as your blogging software of choice. Others probably use WordPress.com to host their blog.
There is no doubt that their combination of WordPress themes and WordPress plugins gives WordPress.org users a variety of options, but WordPress.com [...]

Examining Blog Trends: Magazine Style WordPress Themes

December 5th, 2007

Miscellaneous

Just like pretty much everything else in the world, the blogosphere will often go through trends. These trends can be seen in a variety of ways and range anywhere from blogging setup, to blogging subject matter, or even to blogging themes.
Some would say blogging has become a copycat world, but I would say its the [...]

Getting Pingback Spam? Use Your Comment Blacklist

November 13th, 2007

Blogging

In the past, I’ve never had to worry about trackback/pingback spam because this site’s old hosting didn’t allow them for whatever reason. About a month ago, I actually moved my servicing over to Hostgator to be with my other blogs.
One thing I noticed right away after the transfer was completed is that I am now [...]

Blogging Discussion: How Many Categories Is To Many?

November 9th, 2007

Blogging

With the addition of tagging in WordPress, it has caused many bloggers to have to adjust their approach to handling categories on their blogs.
I personally used to have about 25 categories on this blog. Unfortunately, I often found that a single post would overlap and go into several categories. In my [...]