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 […]

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Using WordPress as CMS

WordPress (WP) has always been a highly versatile blogging platform, even way back in v1.2. So versatile that many have attempted to push it to the next level, and use it as a more conventional content management system (CMS) - not unlike Drupal, XOOPS, Joomla, and gang.
And if the coverage a recent post on using […]

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

What is Good Blogger Etiquette?

Only two days back, I was blasted (by many, many emails) by a blogger after I politely refused to exchange links on one of my tech. blogs. The primary reason I gave was that I had a policy of no link exchanging on that blog, and if you take a look at it, you’ll see […]

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Keeping Too Many Drafts? Notice and Act!

Reading the comments on one of my recent posts reminded me of something I’ve wanted to address in a long while: Do some of us keep too many drafts?
You might have guessed that this post itself has been a title-only draft since May… just like a whole bunch of other posts:

So, I can definitely use […]

Monday, August 7th, 2006

9+2 Tips on How to Waste Your Blogging Workday

Ever spend 8 hours blogging, but generating less than a third of what you wanted to write in that period of time? If you have, then you’ll surely appreciate Easton’s 9 tips on wasting your blogging time at BusinessBlogWire (yeah, you read that right).
Here’s the gist of his thoughts:

Use blog search tools ineffectively.
Read too […]

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Backup Your Web-Based Blogging Tools

Like many, many, many others, I’ve been affected by Bloglines’ recent problems - where not only are new feed items not showing up, but older “bookmarked” or in Bloglines terms, “Kept New” items have also disappeared.
It would be an understatement to say that it has affected my blogging, but the only party to blame is […]

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Blummy - A Useful Blogging Tool

I’ve been using Blummy for quite a few months now, but have never thought about blogging about it until Steve Rubel made the plunge earlier this month. For those who’ve never heard of it, Blummy is literally a bookmarlet on steroids, which allows you to combine multiple bookmarklets (and even create custom ones) into a […]