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Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 17th, 2008
Getting Adsense into your posts isn’t difficult - it is just a bit time consuming. In addition to taking time for each instance of the ads you want to show, there is a concern that readers have become ‘Ad Blind’, and so showing the same format of ads may be less effective (in click [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
Vladimir Prevolac’s Wordpress plugin is an absolute life saver for the lazy amongst us. Essentially, every image we use should have both an alt and title tag associated with it. These tags Vladimir describes as follows:
ALT attribute is important part of search engine
optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
I like this plugin. It is not complicated to use and it helps us all to practice good blogging manners. Essentially there is a habit amongst many bloggers to ‘hotlink’ an image rather than hosting the image on their own server. Lots of people writing blogs do not seem to realise that [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
DailyBlogTips released the Homepage Excerpts plugin way back in 2007, and have made sure that is stays compatible with Wordpress right the way up to the current (at the time of writing) 2.5 version.
Essentially the idea of this plugin is simple. It allows the blogger control over the way that information is presented on [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 31st, 2008
WordPress has reached version 2.5 (WordPress is the GPL OpenSource software used by bloggers), and I have dutifully applied the upgrade to this blog.
Mostly it has been painless and the improvements are many. Obviously there are quite a few niggles (can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs etc….), so I thought I would do a [...]
