Your old stuff – the stuff you wrote before, even your best stuff – mostly turns bad. It always did, but the Internet remembers. The churl. Most people don’t bother about it. I, however, am foolish. I’ve recently started using the Broken Links Checker plugin on this site. It finds the articles and sites you’ve linked to [...]
February 17, 2010
I claim no expertise, but I have tried and tested a lot of Wordpress plugins on this blog and the following remain on my ‘essential / must-install’ list. I have provided links to each of the plugins, so you can find out more. But if you want to try them on your own site, it [...]
January 11, 2010
I’ve just installed the Wordpress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-the-fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want [...]
January 4, 2010
I’ve produced an experimental social media news page using Feedly Mixes. You can embed this sort of thing into any site you like. As you can see, it grabs and mixes up the content from selected RSS feeds – a list of sites covering the subject, as chosen by me. It then ranks the articles according [...]
December 23, 2009
I’ve been making some changes to this site recently: upgrading to the newest version of Wordpress, choosing a new theme and fiddling with the layout. One thing I discovered is that, unless you’re running a very minimal installation, it’s quite easy to run out of memory, even with only a handful of plug-ins. Versions of the [...]
May 6, 2009
I’ve recently installed a relatively new Wordpress plug-in from the good folk at Backtype. This is what it does: it scans the web, including social networks like Twitter and other blogs, for mentions of your post and draws those mentions in as comments on the post. This is a good thing in many respects. It helps [...]
October 5, 2008
It takes more written words than it’s worth, so here we go with videos from people who have more talent than me and have taken the time. …with Blogger, which has become a great platform for casual blogging nowadays, and is certainly the easiest place to start, much under-rated… and WordPress – much slower, deeper video, but [...]
November 29, 2007
If this is here, then my upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress and a new theme won’t have been a complete disaster. If it isn’t here, then let’s keep it to ourselves, eh? The newest thing is native support for tags, as well as categories. Everything is miscellaneous, of course (check this fantastic video of [...]
March 17, 2010