To many bloggers, Akismet is a godsend. It saves them from hundreds, sometimes thousands, of unwanted spam comments and trackbacks each day. But, something you may not have been aware of when you activated the plugin is that it comes with a great deal of responsibility.
Have you ever found yourself reading a blog that inspired you to comment — and not just any comment, one that was well thought out and took you about 10 minutes to write — but when you submitted it, it was lost to the oblivion of cyberspace? Or rather, Akismet moderation?
Even if you haven’t, chances are increasing that you will. It’s actually happened to me a couple of times, but luckily I knew the bloggers personally and I was able to drop them a quick e-mail to inform them of the situation. Continue reading »
Sometimes it’s just not feasible to have the sub (or child) pages listed within your sidebar in WordPress, especially if you have a lot of child pages. However, instead of needing to manually add each link to its parent page, you can quickly do it with a bit of PHP goodness. Using the following code within your page.php file will add a list of all the sub pages to the currently viewed parent page. Continue reading »
Have you ever wanted to place contextual adverts in your ebooks? Well, that may be an option in your future considering that Adobe and Yahoo! are working on something along those lines right now. Continue reading »
Two noteworthy deals within two days, I hope that DealDotCom continues with this trend.
Today’s deal is only for WordPress bloggers and it’s definitely worthy of mention. It’s a deal for the WordPress Auto Social Poster plugin, which is actually the most expensive plugin I’ve seen to date, retailing at $197. But, today only, you can take advantage of a 50% discount. Continue reading »
It’s time for another look at Windows Live Writer. On a lark, I decided to download it again and give it another go. Well, after only having it installed for a few moments, I can say without a doubt that it’s undergone some serious improvements. So serious, I’d wager it rivals many, if not most other desktop blogging clients — free and commercial.
When you consider the number of desktop blogging clients I’ve downloaded and tested in search of that elusive "perfect" one, you know that I do not make that statement lightly.
When I initially downloaded and tested the software just over a year ago, I was less than impressed with it, considering it didn’t even have an HTML editor and lacked some advanced features. That’s all changed.
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