Wordpress is simply a great blog platform. Easy to install, easy to use, easy to configure to suit your needs, Wordpress has another advantage: the big number of free plugins and themes.
However, not all freebies are good in all situations. Let me tell you this story:
I’ve become a fan of Microsoft Live Writer after I [...]
Tag Archives: plugins
How A Wordpress Plugin Ate Two Days Of My Life
January 19, 2008 – 5:04 pm
Who Got My $100 For Developing A Wordpress Plugin
December 11, 2007 – 8:42 am
Do you remember my invitation for you to discover how hard it is to earn $100 by making a Wordpress plugin? I know some you do, and I also know that you are curious to meet the winners.
Before disclosing the results, I want to mention that I advertised my contest on ContestBeat, a professional site [...]
How To Blog Directly From Your iPhone
November 28, 2007 – 4:32 am
This will interest you, provided you gather two conditions:
you’ ve got an iPhone
you run at least a selfhosted Wordpress blog
If you do, then think how nice it would be to be able to communicate directly from your iPhone with your Wordpress install via a customized interface, easier to use from a mobile phone.
Well, now you [...]
Blog Deep Linking Made Easy: aLinks Wordpress Plugin
June 21, 2007 – 8:48 am
You probably had heard a lot about the importance of deep linking inside a blog. Be it for SEO reasons, or from the desire to increase the number of pages per visit, it is good to link to your old posts. We all know how much time we spend on deep linking: search for the [...]
Easy way to make a Top Posts page for your blog
February 3, 2007 – 10:24 am
More and more blogs are displaying a top posts page. This is very useful for new readers, as they might not have enough time to browse through the archives of an old blog recently discovered. When AllTipsAndTricks celebrated 5 months old, I wrote a “best posts” article, but I did it manually, after checking my [...]
How many readers do you really have?
December 21, 2006 – 5:35 pm
Figures fascinated humankind even from oldest times. Many of us are interested in all kind of statistics, related or not to our jobs or to our lives. When it comes to blogging, checking statistics can easily become addictive (by the way: how many hours ago did you last checked on your Google AdSense statistics for [...]
9 Video Wordpress Plugins at a Glance
November 21, 2006 – 8:15 am
What are plugins?
Plugins are tools which extend the functionality of the main software they are designed for. As for blogging platforms, probably Wordpress has the biggest number of available plugins. They are authored by various developers and they are free to download and use with your blog.
You don’t have to search the net for such [...]
