Blog templates are one of the things that bloggers like to change every once in a while. I think I’ve changed my blog template four times already in less than two years. I’ve always went for templates which were free of charge, which I slightly adapted to look as I wanted, rather than buying a [...]
Tag Archives: Wordpress
How A Wordpress Plugin Ate Two Days Of My Life
January 19, 2008 – 5:04 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
7 Things You Should Know If You Want To Optimize Your Blog
November 23, 2007 – 5:57 pm
So, you decided that you need highly optimized permalinks for your blog. You don’t want to see the word “blog” in all your permalinks, and you came to the conclusion the a structure like /%postname%/ is much better than the one which displayed also the date of the posts.
The change is easy to make if [...]
How Hard It Is To Make $100 By Developing A Wordpress Plugin
November 9, 2007 – 9:16 am
New Helpful Wordpress Resource Is Up
If you didn’t know Wordpress can be fun, it’s time for you to learn that: yes, Wordpress can be a lot of fun, thanks to Andrew Rickmann, who recently launched wp-fun.co.uk, a resource for all Wordpress bloggers who got bored with available stuff, or who want to enrich their blogging [...]
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 [...]
Wordpress 2.1: more than just a bugfix
January 22, 2007 – 10:14 am
Wordpress 2.1 is going to be released today. This new version will not only address security issues and bug fixes, but it will include new functionality. If you think to upgrade your Wordpress version, you better read the 10 things you should know about Wordpress 2.1, published at Technosailor.
One of the things I find very [...]
