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How to get better analytics on WordPress.com
WordPress.com is a wonderful free tool, if you can put up with their ads appearing on your content. The analytics, however, are very basic and soon prove a source of frustration if you get any kind of decent traffic levels. You can of course upgrade to self-hosted WordPress and install any number of analytics tools … Continue reading
The all new vanity spam
Askimet generally does an excellent job in managing spam on WordPress blogs. A check in the comments section of the WordPress dashboard reveals the numbers and frankly disturbing content sent by the automated spambots. However, vanity spam is making a return, but with a difference. Regular readers will recall a previous piece on vanity spam: … Continue reading
How to create a WordPress mobile theme
While it may have its limitations, free WordPress remains an excellent blogging CMS. So, it’s no surprise to see it moving with the times and introducing an option to instantly create a mobile theme for your blog. You simply go to your dashboard, scroll down to ‘Appearance’ on the left and then ‘Extras’. Once there … Continue reading
5 problems with free WordPress blogs
Regular readers of this blog will know that it started as self-hosted, moved to free, back again and now it’s free again. You could call it indecisive, but I’d prefer to claim it was all in the interests of research. It may be hard to argue with free, but generally you get what you pay … Continue reading
WordPress’ cruel April fool
Having re-engaged with this blog, it’s been interesting to see the old traffic levels flowing back as Google noticed it’s once liked niche technology blog is back again. This blog is currently back on hosted WordPress.com now the ad testing is done, so there’s no adsense revenue at stake whether the traffic surges or falls. … Continue reading
Verifying Technorati claim tokens
As part of dusting off this blog, I’ve resubmitted it to blog aggregator Technorati. As part of the process, you register and account, then claim a blog at which point you are presented with a claim token. You insert this into a blog post (my claim token is 2DG59837DPBH) and then go back to Technorati to … Continue reading
WordPress mobile app review
Having only recently taken the mothballs off the blog, I’m late to the party on discovering the immensely useful WordPress app. I can do the likes of moderating comments, editing pages and even adding a post with video and images captured on the phone. Post scheduling is available and intuitive and I was pleasantly surprised … Continue reading
Techcrunch and information overload
A few years back I used to scan and then clear out my RSS feeds everyday. Over time I’d narrowed the feeds I subscribed to down to a manageable amount and in twenty minutes could get through the days main news, plus the kind of serendipity you get from niche blogs to keep you on … Continue reading
Four years and beyond
I’ve been considering the future for this blog for a while and have decided to keep the blog going. It still gets a steady stream of traffic and while the day job doesn’t make an allowance for this, I’m going to make an allowance for it in my own time. I’ve moved the blog back … Continue reading
Trialing Adsense between post and comments
As regular readers will know I’ve been running an ad trial on the site to learn more about ad placement with a view to sharing the knowledge on here and with colleagues. Having completed a short test of Google Adsense Link Units vs Ad Units, I’m going to follow up with one of the questions … Continue reading
