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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

I found time for two long-delayed activities today. The first: A haircut, which I had been postponing for weeks. The second: Updating Adobe Acrobat to version 7.0.8 - a move months late. Neither might seem very important from the outset, but they help more than you might expect in my daily routine.
If simple maintainance works […]

I just realised a couple of hours ago that I started a series on tackling spam for individual blog platforms in early July (via a mix of plugins and/or built-in functions), but never created an index page for it, nor continued past Movable Type and WordPress.
So, this post shall serve as the index for […]

As introduced earlier, we’ll be looking at how to implement microformats in individual blog platforms. We’ll start with WordPress.
There are two approaches you can take. One: Manually pasting relevant microformat code created via microformat creators. Step-by-step instructions are as follows:

Fill in the web forms over at the relevant microformat creators. Here are the main ones:

hCalendar […]

If your blogging life still has room for more structure, you might want to take a look at one of the more hidden trends going on today: Microformats. For those who wish to postpone reading the dedicated wiki on the subject, microformats are, “…a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely […]