The past year has been one of the most rewarding periods in my (yet short) life so far. With a chance to try out full-time blogging, I got a chance to build up a range of blogs, forge relationships with tons of bloggers (and PR staff, unfortunately :)), and of course, generate a (relatively) large […]

It’s been around 10 hours since arriving in London for three years of university, an hour of that time spent looking for the cheapest bed-and-breakfast (a hostel of sorts) to plonk my stuff while waiting for my university accomodation to be ready. Moving from hostel to hostel asking for prices and room details reminded me […]

One of the most popular questions I’m e-mailed with is usually along the lines of: How do I integrate a forum with my WordPress (WP) blog?. Often, this is with reference to using WP as a more web site-ish CMS, e.g. a community site. So, I thought I’d kill three birds with this post. One: […]

RSS subscribers might have noticed my latest post disappear earlier today after appearing in your feed readers. It was the usual “private post” problem, which I managed to rectify thanks to all of you who contacted me about it.
Yep, contrary to some of your uhmm… really interesting ideas, it wasn’t me pulling off the post […]

It’s hard to believe this is the third installment of the series already. The first was in mid-July, while the second was in mid-August - featuring 19 new WordPress (WP) plugins in total.
For those out of the loop, each monthly installment of the WordPress Plugins Feature series highlights WP plugins released that month (or […]

This question might seem trivial on the outset, but it’s one I take into consideration every time I begin writing a series of posts. That’s why sometimes you’ll see me announcing that I’m writing a new series right at the beginning of it, while at other times, you’ll see that happening only after I’ve started […]

Yes, Movable Type (MT) 3.3 has been out since early July, but considering the unimpressive changes touted for it in late May, I chose to ignore it. At least, until now.
Recently, I finally decided to move my MT blogs to a new host, and instead of keeping with my older MT 3.2 install or switch […]

Yesterday, we looked at five simple steps to take note of when conducting regular maintainance on your blog - most on the more technical side of blogging (e.g. backups, 404s, sitemaps). Today, we’ll look at five more. I’ve to admit these are on the more subjective side of “maintainance” though (i.e. less maintainance and more […]