Yesterday I posted about adding sharing and following options to this blog, and the solution I settled on was Jetpack. I’m not 100% happy with the sharing buttons. It appears that you can’t customise the tweet that goes out without hacking adjusting the code yourself, and while I’m perfectly capable of getting down and dirty […]
Ten minute tip – sharing and following.
As has been pointed out to me by a few people already, this blog didn’t have a follow by email option. RSS exists for wordpress, though I haven’t done anything to highlight how to subscribe, but the drawback of using plain RSS is that you don’t get any stats on who is following you. There […]
Newsflash – take your wordpress.com followers when you go self-hosted.
One of the things that puts people off moving their wordpress.com blog to self hosting is the idea of losing their followers in the move. For people who’ve put a lot of effort into building follower numbers, that is a real issue. It seems today that there’s a way round it. The jetpack plugin has […]
Ten minute tip – Back up your blog.
You know it makes sense. You’ve put your heart and soul into that writing, you do not want to lose it. So the first in my ten minute tip series is Back up your Blog. As WordPress is my platform of choice, we’ll go through that first. If you’re self hosted, there are actually a […]
That cookie law.
At the end of this month, May 2012, an awful lot of website owners (including bloggers) are about to find themselves breaking the law. It’s not even a new law – it was passed last year, but with a year’s grace so we could all prepare. Instead most people haven’t even heard of it, let […]
So you think you’d like to blog – but where?
You’ve read blogs, some good, some bad, and you’ve finally had enough. You can do that – you’ve thought of a fabulous title and tagline, but you’ve not got much of a budget so you’d like to try it out at low cost. So how do you get started? Not to worry, there’s a bunch […]