What do you think of WordPress and the changes coming in 3.0?
Showing posts with label wordpress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordpress. Show all posts
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Matt Mullenweg Discusses the Past, Present and Future of WordPress
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress. In this video, filmed at WordCamp San Francisco 2010, Matt talks about how and why he created WordPress. He also gives a thorough overview of what to expect in WordPress 3.0. The great thing about this talk is the Q & A session at the end and the way that Matt interacts with the audience. He spends quite a bit of time discussing the new feature on WordPress.com called "Surprise Me".
What do you think of WordPress and the changes coming in 3.0?
What do you think of WordPress and the changes coming in 3.0?
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Top 10 Ways To Improve My Blogspot Blog
Blogger users have recently seen a great number of improvements to the free blogging platform from Google. But the service has a long way to go compared to self-hosted WordPress or even WordPress.com blogs. Personally I'm on a mission to find ways to improve this Blogger blog and I'm using several hacks that are making a big difference (especially the Intense Debate, CommentLuv enabled commenting system).
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Get The Wibiya Toolbar For Your Blog
I first heard about the Wibiya toolbar from Rahsheen in his post on Black Web 2.0 called How to Wibiyafy Your Blog.
I remembered seeing these toolbars at the foot of some blogs before but I had no idea how easy it is to install.
I found out more about the Wibiya toolbar in a post from Joella Molson of Blog With Wings in her post titled Ready to Review the Wibiya Toolbar Did You Play With It? Here's some of what Joella had to say about Wibiya in her review:
As you can see in the video, I installed the toolbar on my Blogger blog using a widget. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog you can download the Wibiya plugin. If you don't want to install the plugin you can find an alternate set of instructions from Wibiya Community Powered Support on Get Satifaction
Joella points out one important option that will help with load times. From your Wibiya dashboard in your account be sure to go to Troubleshooting and check Activate Toolbar After Page Load.
Rahsheen's post covers using Wibiya Badges and you can follow the Wibiya Blog to stay up to date with new features and changes to the toolbar. I think it's a great addition to the blog. How about you, have you tried it or do you plan to try it in the future? I value your feedback.
UPDATE: Wibiya has introduced a great Buzz widget that you can add to your toolbar. This Buzz widget lets visitors see your latest Buzz, ReBuzz your Buzzes, follow you on Buzz and add the blog post they are viewing to Buzz!
I remembered seeing these toolbars at the foot of some blogs before but I had no idea how easy it is to install.
I found out more about the Wibiya toolbar in a post from Joella Molson of Blog With Wings in her post titled Ready to Review the Wibiya Toolbar Did You Play With It? Here's some of what Joella had to say about Wibiya in her review:
I found the toolbar to be very versatile and highly configurable by the user. It stays pinned at the bottom of the page where it is mostly out of the way and can optionally be closed by your readers. Users can instantly access applications that encourage users to stay longer, gives them various ways to promote your blog, provide you feedback as well as options to connect to and interact with you and your other visitors.I agree with both bloggers that you should at least give it a try and here's a video I recorded Using the Wibiya Toolbar - Ms. Ileane Speaks Episode #014
As you can see in the video, I installed the toolbar on my Blogger blog using a widget. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog you can download the Wibiya plugin. If you don't want to install the plugin you can find an alternate set of instructions from Wibiya Community Powered Support on Get Satifaction
Joella points out one important option that will help with load times. From your Wibiya dashboard in your account be sure to go to Troubleshooting and check Activate Toolbar After Page Load.
Rahsheen's post covers using Wibiya Badges and you can follow the Wibiya Blog to stay up to date with new features and changes to the toolbar. I think it's a great addition to the blog. How about you, have you tried it or do you plan to try it in the future? I value your feedback.
UPDATE: Wibiya has introduced a great Buzz widget that you can add to your toolbar. This Buzz widget lets visitors see your latest Buzz, ReBuzz your Buzzes, follow you on Buzz and add the blog post they are viewing to Buzz!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Blogging Tips Website
I found an interesting website that I'm sure any blogger will enjoy visiting. BloggingTips.com has beginner's guides, books, forums, useful links and more.
But most importanly they have a post called - you guessed it Blogger or Wordpress. After all, this is why you came here, isn't it? I want you to hear it from all of the blogging authorities, not just me.
Blogger or Wordpress provides the pros and cons of both formats to help you make the decision to migrate or stay right where you are.
The posts on this site are great for retweeting too.
Have a blessed day and stop back soon.
But most importanly they have a post called - you guessed it Blogger or Wordpress. After all, this is why you came here, isn't it? I want you to hear it from all of the blogging authorities, not just me.
Blogger or Wordpress provides the pros and cons of both formats to help you make the decision to migrate or stay right where you are.
The posts on this site are great for retweeting too.
Have a blessed day and stop back soon.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
6 Reasons Why You Should Use Blogger (NOT!)
I ran across this post today called 6 Reason Why You Should Use Blogger on the Windows Talk blog. The first sentence starts "The most popular blogging platform available is Wordpress."
Duh!
But the really funny thing is, the article has a post date of Sept. 1, 2009 and today is the 5th of Sept. So far NO ONE has tweeted this post, take a look:
Duh!
But the really funny thing is, the article has a post date of Sept. 1, 2009 and today is the 5th of Sept. So far NO ONE has tweeted this post, take a look:
Saturday, August 29, 2009
21 Popular Brands Use WordPress
I probably should just tweet this article (and I will) but I'm linking it here for those of you who aren't twits. Click this from wpbeginner.com http://bit.ly/GJitT
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
YouTube Video on your WP or BG blog
Let's continue with our WP/BG blog-off by posting a YouTube video to our blog. Using the video that The Bond Gurl put up on YouTube that I found on her blog http://www.whuttheeff.wordpress.com/
From the BG New Post tab copy the Embed code from YouTube and paste it into the Edit Html box.
From the WP New Post window, click the video icon. In the video dialog box go to the From Url tab, add the YouTube url (not the embed code) following the example.
I'll call this one a tie, but at least now I know how to add video. btw, check my new image header on WP. http://www.ileane.wordpress.com/
From the BG New Post tab copy the Embed code from YouTube and paste it into the Edit Html box.
From the WP New Post window, click the video icon. In the video dialog box go to the From Url tab, add the YouTube url (not the embed code) following the example.
I'll call this one a tie, but at least now I know how to add video. btw, check my new image header on WP. http://www.ileane.wordpress.com/
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Blogger vs. Wordpress
I started blogging about 2 weeks ago using wordpress.com. My friend is using blogger and doesn't have time to explore all of the features right now so she challenged me to investigate and share my experience in a blog. I'd love nothing more than to be known as the Blog Queen of my inner-circle so extra time is the least of my worries. In fact my biggest (computer related) problem right now is trying to remember all of these frigging passwords! But I digress.
For the next few weeks (or however long it takes) I will set out to compare the two different blogging platforms including their themes, templates, tags, gizmos, comments, gadgets and widgets to see which one I like best. Ironically I know that my friend will end up sticking with blogger no matter what the outcome of my findings are. So now you are thinking that this just might be a waste of my precious time....
NAW.
That's what friends are for.
For the next few weeks (or however long it takes) I will set out to compare the two different blogging platforms including their themes, templates, tags, gizmos, comments, gadgets and widgets to see which one I like best. Ironically I know that my friend will end up sticking with blogger no matter what the outcome of my findings are. So now you are thinking that this just might be a waste of my precious time....
NAW.
That's what friends are for.
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