Social Media Sharing on BlogsSocial Media Sharing on Blogs
My last post was read directly (as opposed to reading through Planet feeds) a lot more than usual due to someone sharing it on lobste.rs. Presumably the people who read[...]
Category: Blogging
Posts about blogging
wp-spamshieldwp-spamshield
Yesterday I installed the wp-spamshield plugin for WordPress [1]. It blocks automated comment spam systems by using JavaScript and cookies, apparently most spammers can’t handle that. Before I installed it[...]
Blog CommentsBlog Comments
John Scalzi wrote an insightful post about the utility of blog comments with the way the Internet works nowadays [1]. He starts out focusing on hate comments that could reasonably[...]
Creating WordPress PackagesCreating WordPress Packages
deb http://www.coker.com.au wheezy wordpress I maintain Debian packages of a number of WordPress themes and plugins for my personal use which I am not planning to upload to Debian due[...]
Targeted AdvertisingTargeted Advertising
Don Marti has written another blog post about targeted advertising [1]. His main point is that when a company uses the most targeted adverts (such as Google advertising) everyone knows[...]
Guest/Link Post SpamGuest/Link Post Spam
I’ve been getting a lot of spam recently from people wanting to write guest posts or have their site included in a future links post. Guest Posts For guest posts[...]
WordPress MaintainabilityWordPress Maintainability
For a while I’ve been maintaining my own WordPress packages. I use quite a few plugins that weren’t included in Debian, some of them have unclear licenses so they can’t[...]
Link WithinLink Within
Good Things about LinkWithin For the last 10 weeks I’ve been using the LinkWithin.com service to show links to other blog posts at the end of each post (the links[...]
Web Server PerformanceWeb Server Performance
We Have to Make Our Servers Faster Google have just announced that they have made site speed part of their ranking criteria for search results [1]. This means that we[...]
Why Comments?Why Comments?
Russ Albery has described why he doesn’t support comments on his blog [1]. I respect his opinion and I’m not going to try and convince him to do otherwise. But[...]