Five Essential Elements Of A Posting

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This introductory article discusses five essential elements of a weblog posting. Element one is use a catchy title, because as the author points out, some aggregators only display the title in the feed. The title should tease readers into wanting to read the article. The second element is to consider using an excerpt from a […]

How To: Plinks

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Simon Willison discusses how to implement Plinks into your weblog. Plinks are permanent links attached to each paragraph giving the ability for bloggers to link directly to a specific paragraph in addition/instead of a permalink to the entire article. The author implements Plinks using JavaScript. Apparently some think Plinks are a bad idea.

WP Hack: CG-AMAZON

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CG-Amazon can access products throughout most every area of Amazon, including Books, DVDs, Music, Apparel, Electronics, Computers, Video Games, and more! Populates your database with Amazon items using your referral code and then displays items in your index page.

WP Plugin: MW Next/Previous

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This is an upgrade plugin to the already functioning Next and Previous links built into WP. This plugin “accepts prefix and postfix strings as the third and fourth parameters of the function.” Now you can add the string of your choice before and after the links.

WP Plugin: Recent Links

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This WP plugin allows you to add a links blog to your WP powered site. Essentially, it provides a separate page with a list of all the links you have posted in your weblog. Links are sorted in monthly archives.

Google Rankings: Dashes or Underscores?

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You may be trying to decide if you should use dashes or underscores for your redirects in mod_rewrite? Apparently MovableType uses _underscores_ and WordPress uses -dashes- to separate URI title words. Actually, you can use either one for either of the weblog systems but those are the defaults. So which is better where Google is […]