Category: Blogging

  • Howto get MyAvatars to work with Brian’s Threaded Comments

    Last week I installed a bunch of plugins on this blog but unfortunately I couldn’t get the MyAvatars plugin to work. This is a WordPress plugin which shows cute little avatars next to your comments if you’re a MyBlogLog member.  This plugin requires a few code changes in the comments.php file from your theme but the installation manual…

  • Improve the security of your WordPress blog

    I read a nice tip at ShoeMoney’s blog to improve the security of your WordPress blog. On standard WordPress installations the plugins folder is open for public browsing. This basically means that someone can surf to yourwordpressblog.com/wp-content/plugins/ and see all the plugins you’re running on your blog. Someone with bad intentions could then do some…

  • FeedBurner PRO features now free – Thanks to Google

    Now that FeedBurner has been acquired by Google they have to worry less about the financial side of their business. Google has a habit of making lots of things available for free to Internet users and that’s exactly the route they are taking with FeedBurner. In the past you had to pay a couple of…

  • All in One SEO Pack for WordPress

    I read a blog post over at John Chow’s blog today about the importance of proper description META tags. I just started using WordPress and I wasn’t really aware that the SEO optimizations in this blogging platform aren’t optimal yet so I decided to install the All in One SEO Pack plugin on my blog.…

  • Setting up my blog.. new theme & plugins

    I’ve installed a couple of plugins to improve my blog a bit and I also uploaded a new theme. The new theme – Misty Look Theme The theme used on this blog is called Misty Look, you can download it at WordPress Themes by Sadish. I’ve seen this theme on a couple of other blogs…