Friday, August 18th, 2006

Recent Child Pages Plugin Updated to v0.7

First off, allow me to apologize to those who’ve commented and e-mailed me on various bugs and feature requests for the Recent Child Pages plugin. I promised to release an update a couple of days back, but couldn’t meet that commitment. Sorry, again.
Anyway, here’s what has changed from v0.5 to v0.7:

Added ability to draw excerpts […]

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Shamelessly Promote Your Blog: Tip No. 4

Tip No. 4 to Shamelessly Promote Your Blog: Pitch it to someone big, publicly. No, not that pitch. I’m talking about pitching your blog to Steve Rubel.
All you have to do is to come up with a sub-1 megabyte pitch in either text, PDF or jpg/gif formats. At first, you might not think this […]

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Performancing Exchange: First Impressions

Performancing has officially launched its latest service, Performancing Exchange (PE), in its quest for world blogosphere domination. Basically, it’s supposed to be “…a classifieds style marketplace for the professional blogging community…” where everything from blog auctions, paid blogging stints, partnerships and services can be advertised.
But for the most part (currently at least), it’s a job […]

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

AdSense Search Results on Your Own Blog (Not Working for Me)

I’m not sure if you’ve heard it yet, but Google is now allowing the search results of your AdSense search boxes to open in a page on your own blog. But even after following the official instructions in the AdSense Help Center, I can’t get it to work on this blog. I’m getting a blank […]

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

WordPress Plugins Feature for August

Here’s the second installment of the WordPress (WP) Plugins Feature series - exactly 30 days after the first one (which got attention from some pretty cool places BTW).
For those of you who are new to this series, each monthly installment features WP plugins released that month which to quote myself, “…provide enough new functionality to […]

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Uncorking the Juices

Unwinding, but instead of dumping all blogging activities, you write some more - just on something you’re either more comfortable with or just so weird your brain doesn’t register it as blogging. That’s what “uncorking the juices” means to me. Yes, you’re probably calling me a nut at the moment, but I can’t blame you […]

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Advanced Customization of WordPress Permalink Structure

If you followed the previous entry in the Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS series, you would already be able to get this sort of sexy permalink structure:

Custom Front Page at: http://yoursite.com/
Normal Blog Index at: http://yoursite.com/blog/
Blog Entries at: http://yoursite.com/blog/post-title/
Blog Categories at: http://yoursite.com/blog/category/category-title/
Blog Monthly Archives: http://yoursite.com/blog/2006/08/

But this isn’t complete. Let’s now branch into the permalink structure of WP’s […]

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

How to Put Up a Custom Front Page in WordPress

Before we start on the meat of the Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS series, there’s some fundamental technical stuff we have to get out of the way first. First on the list is: Custom front/main/index pages.
What For?
By default, WordPress’ front page displays a reverse chronological list of your posts - with whatever extras you […]