Faster blogging through Markdown takes you through writing posts using Markdown. Markdown is an easy to use plugin that lets you use simple text to automatically generate HTML for ordered lists, italics, bold, blockquotes etc.
[Continue Reading...]Faster blogging through Markdown takes you through writing posts using Markdown. Markdown is an easy to use plugin that lets you use simple text to automatically generate HTML for ordered lists, italics, bold, blockquotes etc.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Silicon Valley Meetup at Google HQ (Friday, April 13, 2007): Grab your WordPress Schwag and head to the Silicon Valley Meetup at Google Headquarters. Ryan will be there. The organizers ask that you RSVP by the 11th of April. This is your chance to eat at Google (and do WordPress stuff, of course). 🙂
[Continue Reading...]The following is a quote from a post on a theme blog: Hello, I plan on posting a thread about this on digitalpoint, but I thought I would put the information here as well. I am selling two sponsor links to this theme which will appear in the footer where it says “Sponsor One” and “Sponsor Two”. I will be selling each link for a BIN price of $120 and a starting bid of $20! (BIN for both links together is $180).You may say, why would I pay this price for one link at the bottom of a theme?!Your answer: This theme will be promoted on many wordpress theme sites (I’ll list them below) and will be seen by many wordpress bloggers who will hopefully choose to use it on their blog. Each person that chooses to use the theme is another link that you have to your site, which […]
[Continue Reading...]User only/protected pages in WordPress provides a tutorial and code on creating pages that can be restricted to only logged in users of your blog. Works well if you have valuable content to read and want users to register on your blog before they do so. Remember, if your content is not valuable, you’ll find users just closing the browser window.
[Continue Reading...]If you haven’t yet heard the news, WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10 have been released. These security update releases and must be applied to ensure the safety of your blog. To make your upgrade easier, Mark has made two ZIP files with changed files for 2.1.3 and 2.0.10. Asides this, if you are looking at this post on the homepage and wondering why the background is yellow, then Techtites got the answer.
[Continue Reading...]WordPress: The most innovative open source platform yet?: Its certainly one of the easiest to use. If innovation is about bringing ideas to market then WordPress is a great example of same. James Governor of Redmonk, Open Source analyst firm, weighs in on innovation in Open Source and whether Open Source can deliver innovation like proprietary vendor models.
[Continue Reading...]Name: Sphere It Plugin Plugin Page: http://sphere.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/sphere-it-plug-in-for-wordpressorg-bloggers/ Description: Add an AJAXified link for contextual related posts to your WordPress blog from Sphere Features: Simple install, easy integration, huge user base, growing list of partners Future Plans: … Review: Sphere It is very simple to install and a breeze to use. Just drop into your plugins directory and activate through your control panel. This plugin is reminiscent of social networking plugins such as Alex’s Share This and of dynamic related items such as Waypath. I like the plugin. Many of the big boys are using it and Sphere is less gimmicky and more useful. A click on the Sphere icon opens up a new AJAX window with a few related posts from other bloggers talking about the linked topic and a set of related articles from the blogosphere and news sites. Of course, TechCrunch has their own modified version of the […]
[Continue Reading...]ClickTale Heatmaps: Much like CrazyEgg, ClickTale promises to help you understand how users interact with your site to gain insights into maximizing usability of your site. In addition to cool heatmaps, ClickTale will offer videos of user actions including mouse movements and judging from their beta questionnaire, they are still feeling around for pricing models. Mashable has a nice writeup with screenshots. User action videos would be tres cool!
[Continue Reading...]Google Launches Pay-Per-Action This new beta launch of Pay Per Action Ads from Google and AdSense has really gotten the affiliate marketing industry in a tiff (though I must be over estimating the reaction). In simple terms, you can setup keywords to display ads from, make them look like ordinary AdSense ads and when your user clicks the ads and performs a certain action, you get a cut. I love Andy’s spin on the issue. Of course the blogosphere is abuzz with this news. I know that Darren signed up for the beta test and I would love to hear some real feedback. Is this really another spin?
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