To give me more information on your interest areas please fill in this questionnaire to let me know what you would prefer me to blog about. You can also find this feedback form on my Feedback Page Do you think there are any other options I could have added to this questionnaire? One advantage of using Google forms is that you can edit them via Google Drive and they automatically update wherever you have embedded them. Continue Reading…
I am listing the plugins I have implemented for WordPress in the order of my view of how I rate their importance/necessity. In some cases there are alternatives based on personal preference. I will detail these in a separate post. Important Plugins Akismet a tool designed stop comment and trackback spam is built into WordPress. To add to this protection I installed Bad Behaviour – which is designed to complement other link spam solutions. It’s aim is top prevent spammers from even delivering their unwanted offerings, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. Bad [...] Continue Reading…
One of the reasons it took me such a long time to make this move to WordPress from Blogger was that I wanted to share with you what I was doing, how I did it and why. I could not write about this, presuming to teach others, without doing some thorough planning and research and trying things out first. Instead of, for example, posting lists of plugins I wanted to find out which were the most needed and the most useful. I first installed WordPress and started experimenting with it in 2005 just because it was there. I have installed [...] Continue Reading…
What are the less interesting but necessary blogging tasks we need to complete? I will be taking you through them over the next few weeks. For those of you who are saying “but I only want to write” and not do any of this stuff” I promise to try and make it as painless to read as possible. Some of it you may already be familiar with this of course but others may be starters on the blogging path (anyway reminders do not go astray from time to time). I spent quite a while yesterday writing a post which [...] Continue Reading…
So here I am, the author of a blog with no-rank – unknown to Google, Technorati, Alexa…. Yesterday I was wondering how I would drag it out of the depths of search engine obscurity so that the world would find it. Today I realize that does not matter as I have a huge advantage over new bloggers – this site has already had supportive readers, comments and even stumbles. It is already on its journey. Thanks to all of you who have visited and those who left such kind comments and good wishes. Whether our reason for authoring a blog [...] Continue Reading…
