About 15 months ago, I implemented the Thesis theme for WordPress on this blog. It’s a premium theme (you pay for it) and a powerful one as it gives you access to the means to customize many aspects of the look-and-feel of your WordPress site and its functionality without your having to know much about [...]
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I’m still thinking about what to do concerning a hosting service for my blogs. This thinking period follows the appalling experience I suffered with DreamHost earlier this month in getting no responses from customer support when sites went down. Days went by, not hours, before they responded to emails. I simply won’t accept that type [...]
A new version of WordPress was released last week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that version, 2.8.5. As always, I followed my 6 tips to upgrading WordPress to ensure a smooth and trouble-free upgrade. The WordPress developers say that 2.8.5 is a hardening release as it tightens up on some security areas. As with [...]
I was just studying the stats from Google Analytics that display within my blog’s WordPress admin dashboard, and noticing where visitors tend to come from. This isn’t geographical so it’s not countries I’m talking about. No, it’s the referring site or place on the web where someone clicked a link that brought them to a [...]
If you’ve visited this blog on any day this week, or you’re a subscriber to the RSS feed, or you otherwise tried to have any interaction with anything at this domain, you would likely have had a zero experience. Zero in the sense of the site just not being there. The site has been down [...]
Yesterday, I posted my first post on The Next Web blog. It was a cross-post of one I wrote here on my own blog. Interesting to see the popularity and global reach of The Next Web demonstrated as that first post got way more attention than the same post here. So what will I be [...]
The fine folks at Apture were kind enough to feature this blog on Friday as their Site of the Week. Thanks! I’ve been using Apture for the past year since I discovered it being tested on parts of the BBC News site. What is Apture? It’s a powerful tool that lets visitors to your site [...]
The new Google Analytics Data Export API which Google announced on Friday makes it easy to share some of your Google Analytics data on a WordPress blog thanks to a nifty plugin created by Spiral Web Consulting. […] this plugin allows WordPress users to easily configure tracking and reporting of Google Analytics data without having [...]
Sometimes, being an advocate of the “if it ain’t broke, break it†school of thought – the title of one of my long-time favourite business books which I bought when it was first published in the early 90s – can result in the opposite of what you want to achieve. So it was with my [...]
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