Yesterday I wrote about how to claim authorship for your wordpress.com site. The technique I used included displaying a profile badge on your blog. You might not want to do that (perhaps you’d like to display a page badge instead, more on that in another article), or you may have more than one author on […]
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Getting into the g+ groove – google authorship and wordpress.com
There’s a new social network in town, and it’s not going to go away in a hurry. If you’re getting ready to hangout on g+ (see what I did there?) one of the things you should be thinking about is claiming authorship. Don’t know what that is? Quite simple. If you try checking out the […]
Ten minute tip – Jetpack extra sidebar widgets.
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 […]
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 […]