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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

Reviews on individual website traffic statistics packages and comparisons between them are in almost every nook and corner of the blogosphere/web. We have established services like Statcounter, Sitemeter and Mint compared against heavyweight newcomer Google Analytics and a whole host of innovative niche packages like Performancing Metrics for blog-centric tracking and MyBlogLog for click tracking.
But […]

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 […]