I have been using WordPress longer than a lot of people. I think I first moved from Windows Live’s blogging platform to WordPress around 2007. Because I’ve been here a long time, I’ve got some plugins that have been around for a long time. One of those is the Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin. The…
I’ve been thinking about moving my blog from WordPress.com to some sort of hosted environment running WordPress.org’s version of WordPress for a while. With all of the jQuery and CSS stuff that I do and other possibilities for customization and monetization, it just makes a lot of sense for me to have more control over…
Today I asked a question on Twitter that I’d like to also ask here so that I can get longer replies (if anyone has one). Recently, I realized that some of my old blog posts get questions or comments that (at least to me) tend to be interesting and/or useful. So I figured I’d start…
I got an interesting email today. I work with a company called Portal Front Hosting, a dedicated SharePoint hosting provider, and we have a new WordPress theme that is free to download and is inspired by SharePoint 2010. The link to a preview and download the theme can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sharepointforwordpress. Since you discuss…
If you are visiting for the first time in a while, yes, you are in the right place. WordPress came out with the new Neutra theme yesterday, and I decided that it was time for a facelift. I tried changing the theme once before, and ended up backing off on the change. This time, I think I’ll…
I just noticed that in the Tools section of the administration pages on my hosted WordPress blog (this one), I can insert the metadata tags which the big sites’ Webmaster tools require to verify a site. By doing this verification, you can improve your readership and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your blog. If you’re…
One of the great things about WordPress, and one of the main reasons I switched my blog over from Live Spaces, is the Dashboard. The statistics that it shows you are really helpful in understanding what you’re writing about that people actually find useful. (Or at least click on. There’s no beating comments for real…
If you’d like to import your RSS feeds from Outlook 2007 into your WordPress blogroll, you can use the Tools / Import capability, as outlined in this WordPress support article. However, when I went to do this, no matter how many times I tried it, it wouldn’t work. I finally exported my existing blogroll from…
I was finding that the new WordPress Twitter Widget was giving me the “No response from Twitter.” error the majority of the time, so I thought I’d try switching to the RSS method for a while until they work out the kinks with the new widget. Turns out that the RSS option isn’t much better. …
This post is copied from my Live Spaces blog, and was the last post I’ll make there. I’m finally biting the bullet and moving this blog. While I’ve had it parked at Live Spaces for over two years now, I’m just not seeing Live Spaces keeping up with the enhancements that others are offering. After…