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WordPress Plugins

Full or Partial Feeds? Let Your Readers Choose.

November 12, 2007

I hate partial feeds.
It is just too time consuming to click through to the actual site for every article that sounds interesting.
In fact, I am more likely to click through if the full feed is offered – because I often feel compelled to leave a comment once I have read the whole post.
Even if a [...]

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To www or Not To www

October 17, 2007

One concern amongst new bloggers is whether or not to use the www extension on their site. (i.e. http://www.blogresourcesonline.com or http://blogresourcesonline.com). This is a matter of personal preference and either address will work fine in the blogosphere.
However, consistency is very important. You want your pages to be indexed by the search engines consistently. The [...]

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Social Bookmarking Icons at End of Post

September 13, 2007

I always wondered how people got all of those individual little social bookmarking icons at the end of each post. You can’t make it much easier than that for people to submit a post that they enjoy reading. This could translate to additional traffic.
I finally discovered the Sociable plugin. (Thanks to Courtney Tuttle’s very fine [...]

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301 Redirect

September 6, 2007

I should have known that modifying the .htaccess file was beyond the scope of my computing knowledge. Thankfully, I created a copy of the original file in my text editor before I made any changes. Because, I modified the .htaccess file and I broke my blog.
Chalk it up to imapatience that I am no longer [...]

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Creating a Google Sitemap

September 4, 2007

After successfully importing my blog from new Blogger to WordPress, I noticed that my new theme, Cutline, had the option to create a page called “Sitemap”. Wonderful! I immediately set this up  and created a page to help readers navigate my site NeenMachine.com.
I also use Google Webmaster Tools. This is a bundle of tools that [...]

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