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Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 17th, 2008
Blog SPAM. I hate it - you hate it - everybody hates it. Since blogs first came into existence the nefarious net dwellers targeted the comments section of blogs as a way of trying to ply their wares. I have personally visited blogs that have been virtually ruined by comments that have huge [...]
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
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 Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
The blogclout widget that allows users to add a button to their sidebar, or a link under each blog post is used a lot by some and not at all by others.
Essentially, the premise is that asking for donations has become lame and bloggers need to find different ways to encourage readers to dip into [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 6th, 2008
So Jaqui Smith (Home Secretary) has unveiled her plans for the UK ID cards. Apparently UK citizens will be able to choose whether they would rather have an ID card or a Biometric passport. Foreign nationals will be required to comply with this by the end of 2008 and UK airport workers [...]
