Share This WordPress Plugin Goes 2.0

November 9th, 2007

Miscellaneous

Its been a couple months now since popular WordPress plugin author Alex King turned over his Share This plugin to the Share This team.   Today it looks like that move paid off, as a new version of the plugin was released called Share This 2.0. 
Most of the changes were done to expand the reach of the [...]

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 [...]

Miscellaneous Notes – 09/30/2007

September 30th, 2007

Miscellaneous

I just wanted to write a quick post with two notes for my readers.
The first is that I’ve generally found that it is a good practice to update your plugins at least once a month.  As a result, I’ve gotten into the habit of trying to get them updated around the first of every month.   [...]

WordPress Plugin: Get Recommended Tags for WordPress 2.3

September 26th, 2007

Miscellaneous

The idea of tags has become the standard in today’s blogging and it always surprised me that WordPress didn’t offer tags built directly into their software. As a result, I’ve been an avid user of the Ultimate Tagging Warrior plugin (UTW) for as long as I remember, probably since I made the switch to [...]

WordPress Plugin: Display Inbound Links with Trackbackers

September 23rd, 2007

Miscellaneous

We all know about the Top Commentators plugin, which allows WordPress bloggers to display the readers that have made the most comments in their sidebar. This is particularly useful for readers who want to get a quality inbound link from a particular website (its considered a quality link and more valuable because it is [...]

WordPress Plugin: Protect Your E-mail Address With A Contact Form

September 21st, 2007

Blogging

When it comes to blogging, there is a reason that it has become so popular over the past few years, and that reason is the ability to interact directly with the author and other readers of the blog. All successful bloggers have two things on their website. The first is an About page, [...]