Today I’m starting a five-part series about RSS and why you need it. Throughout the series you’ll learn what RSS is and why you need to make sure you’re offering it (Pt. 1) how to burn a feed with Feedburner (Pt. 1) how to offer your readers RSS via e-mail (Pt. 2) how to customize [...]
Helpful Blogging Links: May 15, 2009
May 15, 2009 By 1 Comment
Every Friday, blog expert Melanie Nelson alerts you to five of the best articles about blogging. This week covers breaking out of the mommyblog niche, adding your Twitter account to Technorati, and taking the guesswork out of design.
Choosing Movable Type as Your Blogging Platform
March 2, 2009 By 5 Comments
Movable Type is the self-hosted blog platform offered by SixApart (also owner of Typepad). Ostensibly, Movable Type is the equivalent of WordPress.org. Put simply: Both are non-hosted blogging platforms that allow you to tweak your own code. Movable Type, at one point several years ago, was set to be a “potential successor to the kingdom [...]
Helpful Blogging Links
December 19, 2008 By Leave a Comment
How Alltop Powers Bloggers via Chris Brogan 10 Useful RSS-Tricks and Hacks For WordPress via SmashingMagazine How Much Time Do You Spend Writing a Blog Post? via Performancing You’re Losing Subscribers, Here’s How to Get Them Back by Glen Allsopp via Problogger Using Google Alerts to Monitor Incoming Links via EduBlogger
I use WordPress. Every time I try to publish a comment on a BlogSpot page, it won’t allow me. I have to do it anonymously. Is this a WordPress problem and how do I fix it?
October 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to Jordan McCollum at Momma Blogga for this answer. I haven’t heard of this specific problem before, but these are the things I would try: Sign up for a Blogger account at Blogger.com. Some BlogSpot blogs don’t allow anonymous comments; you have to sign in to Blogger to comment. (If you have a GMail [...]
How do I deal with Spam comments on my WordPress blog?
Thank you to Jordan McCollum at Momma Blogga for this answer! On WordPress.com, they automatically filter spam comments using a plugin called Akismet. Sometimes spam comments aren’t marked as such. Mark them as spam to help Akismet block comments from that bot. On a self-hosted WordPress blog (WordPress.org), you need a WordPress.com API key to [...]