Monday, September 4th, 2006

How Verbosely Do You Write Your “How Tos”?

This post was written in advance as I’m currently on vacation in Philippines. As such, I will most likely be unable to reply to any comments, emails or IMs during this period - including those on this post. Thanks for understanding.
If there’s any question that’s been weighing on my mind when writing the Using WordPress […]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Building Blog Traffic. Yes, Again.

IMHO, there are few blogger-centric topics more written on than “increasing blog traffic”, so these days, I always tread carefully before jumping on the linkwagon to yet another expert’s 5/10/100 tips on the subject, or even writing a post of my own.
But I can’t help but link to SEOmoz’s latest post: 21 Tactics to […]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Short Vacation

I’ll be going off for a 4-day trip to the Philippines starting early tomorrow morning (Malaysian time), so it’s very likely I won’t have internet access throughout that period - though I’ll be bringing along my Pocket PC with hopes of free WiFi somewhere there.
This means I won’t be able to reply emails, comments, IMs, […]

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

How to Use WordPress for a Portfolio Site - Part 2

In Part 1, we looked at how to setup a simple (mainly graphic-type) portfolio site using nothing other than WordPress (WP). Modifying the WordPress loop to display thumbnails of your projects, individual project pages that displayed a larger image, and categorical listings that also displayed project thumbnails - all in an organised manner - were […]

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Most Popular Categories by Posts WordPress Plugin Released

In response to a WordPress support thread, I whipped up this WordPress plugin to display a list of the most popular categories in a particular time period (e.g. last 7 days, 30 days, etc.), based on the number of posts assigned to your categories in that time period.
You might prefer a graphical explanation, so […]

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Pageviews are Obsolete. What Happens to Bloggers?

When someone like Evan Williams (CEO of Odeo and Blogger co-founder) writes an in-depth analysis on why pageviews are obsolete as one of the primary traffic metrics, it’s hard not to be convinced. Not that this isn’t a beaten path though (also check this Google search), but his post is the first I’ve read that […]

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

5 Reasons Not to Use WordPress As a CMS

I wanted to get this out as fast as I could given that my post on 5 Reasons to Use WordPress (WP) as a CMS has been published. Why? Because I’d rather not get people too hyped up over WP’s non-blog content management system (CMS) abilities.
I’m not saying WP can’t work great as a more […]

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

At BloggingPro: 5 Reasons to Use WordPress as a CMS

David (of BloggingPro), being on vacation, is currently publishing a set of contributions by external bloggers. Luckily, my contribution was accepted, and was just published today. It’s an article titled 5 Reasons to Use WordPress as a CMS, and is part of the theoretical foundation behind my Using WP as a CMS series.
It’s something I […]