June 8, 2008
This week on the podcast I am chatting with Travis Quinnelly, an author at Make Use Of and the blog’s Technical Editor. That is the guy who handles the technical end of things and makes sure that everything runs smoothly. This week we are talking about WordPress, Plurk, Wikia search and other search engines, Adobe [...]
June 7, 2008
Do you remember back in the days of Web 1.0 before Google was really a verb and before Flickr lost the “˜e’? That was back when static web pages plagued the web. FrontPage and Dreamweaver were the common tools of webmasters all over. However, the world has changed. Programs are more so on the internet [...]
May 6, 2008
So, you have finished building your first WordPress blog. Then what? Besides posting, you’ll want to expand the capabilities of the blog by installing some plugins. Then comes the second question; which plugins exactly? There are literally thousands of WordPress plugins available out there. Too many options. Everybody has different preferences, different needs. Not to [...]
March 3, 2008
First of all, what are WordPress quicktags? You can see them in the picture below, they are the bits of code you can insert when you use the code interface in your WordPress editor. The reason they are so useful is that they allow you to insert start and end tags in a unique and [...]
October 25, 2007
WordPress Plugins: Part Two The past day or two has been a real eye-opener for me as I realised for the first time the full breadth and scope of the features available for WordPress. Here was me thinking that Blogger was not that bad but now I am starting to realise what I’ve been missing [...]
October 24, 2007
WordPress Pluggins: Part One Last year it sounded all so easy and routine when I said to myself “let’s move my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Should be a piece of cake”. Famous last words. One year on and three attempts later, my blog is now finally on the WordPress platform. I now feel like [...]
October 8, 2007
Keeping an up-to-date blog backup copy, is one of those things that every one would like to do but are either too lazy to actually do it or have no clear idea of how it can be done. I have read at least a dozen of articles about it, but have never really found anything [...]
August 23, 2007
I only have a few other plugins running on my WordPress installation, but these are the most useful WordPress plugins for a variety of reasons. In addition, none of these plugins ever caused me a problem and luckily several of them are updated often to improve performance. Enjoy and as always, please feel free to [...]
