While I don’t set myself up as some kind of guru – Blog-Op is about passing on things I’ve learnt, not taking credit for them – you may be interested in what I’ve achieved using the various tips and tools contained in Blog-Op. My Thermal blog is 2.5 months old and has had just over [...]

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WordPress has recently upgraded to 2.1, with some pretty major changes to how it works. These changes can affect your plug-ins and your themes, to the point that your blog may not even display at all. This is not a reason to avoid upgrading, but simply a recommendation to do it with caution. I used [...]

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A couple of days ago I had my first attempt of inserting an image into one of my posts. I wanted to put it at the beginning of the post and have the text wrap around it. If you use WordPress, it’s very easy to do it: on the text editor screen use the “img” [...]

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As I’ve stated before, I am an advocate of paid posts, so long as the blogger maintains their normal frequency of posting on top of the paid ones. On the back of writing these posts I’ve been able to buy domain names and pay for hosting, making my blogs faster and better. To date, I’ve [...]

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Barb from the Skittles Blog writes: I found a fun place to join up at while visiting Inner Dialogs this morning. It’s called Fuel My Blog! It’s a giant wall filled with squares. You pick a square, sign up (which is free for now) and add a picture. Of course I added my picture of [...]

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The main difference being that blas.st is based on ‘business cards’. Very simply you create a business card, 270X165 pixels, add your site details, upload it to the directory, and it gets displayed. You can add cards for free, and fair enough they are added to the last page, or you can pay for greater [...]

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About a month ago I received my 90-days renewal notice for one of my domain names. I didn’t really pay any attention to it (I’m a slacker and I like to postpone things to the last minute). A couple of days ago I received my 60-days renewal notice. I’m starting to get impatient. However, I [...]

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Not quite as ominous as it sounds. Its nice to know how many people are visiting your site, and there are any number of hit counters around to do that. However, it’s even better to know where they came from (i.e. how they found you) how long they stayed there, and what they read, especially [...]

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Mere days after the security update to 2.0.7, WordPress V2.1 has now been released. Some pretty major improvements have been made, including: Autosave: Never lose a post in the middle of writing again. Tabbed Editor – easily switch between the text editor and HTML. A Spell Checker! I’ve been using Firefox’s, but why not? You [...]

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Two opinions from a WordPress user and occasional Blogger dabbler: Allow anyone to comment: I understand that turning off anonymous comments looks attractive when you first install Blogger, but what it really means is ‘Don’t allow comments from anyone who isn’t registered with Blogger‘. That’s right, selecting this option means people can’t comment on your [...]

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