A few short short notes on what’s up here on the Trumblog. First, I updated to WordPress 3.o. It was uneventful, except that in order to use the auto-upgrade I needed to deactivate all of my plugins and then re-activate them all again once the upgrade was complete. It was a good excuse to review [...]
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Loading ...WordPress is probably the dominant blogging platform used today as well as an acceptable content management system. One of the aspects of WordPress that has led to its broad use is that it is open source, the code is free and updated and extended by users so that not only is it an affordable option, [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I dabble with Lifestreaming, displaying activity from across multiple social media and networking site in one location, and have gone as far as to tweak a plugin to add a bunch of feeds and work just like I wanted, but it takes a lot of maintenance. Currently my Lifestream page is down again and not [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Writing a blog post is only half the battle. Once it’s published you need to spread the word that it’s done and attract an audience. I do that through RSS and Twitter and together they do a lot of the heavy lifting. However that leaves my Facebook friends out, unless of course we are also [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tumblr, the microblogging platform that’s a simple tool for quickly posting text, photos, music, video, etc., has never included one surprising feature. Comments. I’ve never quite understood this decision that limits the social and interactive feature of a blog. Sure you can add comments by tweaking the template code and using a third party like [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It’s 2010 and before a weekend of renewal to start off the year right I’m taking a look at the Trumblog’s analytics for 2009 and how it fared. Benchmarks In terms of major benchmarking metrics the blog has done well. Visits are up 318% from 2008 with Absolute Unique Visitors up 377%. Page views are [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I upgraded to WordPress 2.9 this morning and the water is fine. Dive in and help yourself to some goodies like: Global undo/”trash” feature – bring back posts and comments that you’ve accidentally deleted Built-in image editor – crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images from within WordPress Batch plugin update and compatibility checking [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...When Google released Google Reader Bundles last week I suggested that it would be great to have those as HTML in order to add to my blog. Well, Google didn’t quite do that, but they just rolled out Google Web Elements which is a step in that direction. Google Web Elements allow you to embed [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Google Reader added a new tool that allows the creation of sets of RSS feeds that can be shared with friends and used to discover new feeds around topics that you are interested in. The sets are called Bundles and they are very easy to make. To get to the Feed Bundles from within Google [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Monday Google published two new applications that take advantage of Google Latitude. The first is a widget that allows you to show your location on your blog. I’ve currently got it added to the right column of my blog, but I don’t think that it fits the blog layout and probably won’t last. I’ve placed [...]
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