I use the excellent Google Reader to read the feeds of all the various blogs I’m subscribed to, and I’ve noticed that some blogs are updated much faster than others. I’ll occasionally visit a blog through a comment link for example, and see they’ve put new posts up, yet when I checked Google Reader, they [...]

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There is no doubt that blogging has been tremendously empowering to millions of people all around the world, people who would never have been heard before and now have the chance to get read by thousands of people. I think this is fantastic, and that anyone who wants to, should have a blog and do [...]

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WordPress Version 2.2 is now available for download, with the following new features: ‘Widgets’ are now built in, no longer requiring a separate plugin. A new Blogger importer means that you can import all of your old posts and comments from Blogger just by entering your username & password. This is fantastic, and means that [...]

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Those of you who use the excellent Subscribe To comments plugin may have noticed a slight problem with it, although it appears to be theme related and may not affect everyone. If you are affected, the ‘Subscribe to comments’  checkbox will appear with a big gap between it and the comments box, instead of directly [...]

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Some WordPress plugins require you to enter a ‘PHP call’ in the sidebar to place the output of the plugin where you want it. An example of this is the Top Commentators plugin – to get it to appear where it is on my blog I had to edit the sidebar PHP file and insert [...]

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Just a quick tip that the essential WordPress backup plugin is now at version 2.1.0. Upgrade if you are below this level. Why should you backup? What can you do if you’re not on WordPress? Read my original post on back up your blog. Spam is a constant frustration for bloggers and RT at Untwisted [...]

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A Claire Disclaimer:This tip is for Blogger.com BlogsThis is very quick tip! line through writing can be done with a click of a button on wordpress, but in Blogger alas no So just insert <strike> before the word to be struck through and </strike> after it, including the brackets in the edit html part of [...]

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As some of you may know, I, all too infrequently, post over at Blog About Your Blog. If you’ve not visited BAYB, you should check it out, as the range of authors means that there’s always something interesting to read, and if you’ve got something to say, you can always join as an author too, [...]

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Did you know that incoming links to your blog are no longer counted by Technorati after 6 months? And equally, links you gave 6 months ago are also discounted? This was something that I was vaguely aware of, without really thinking about it, until I read The biggest Technorati tip in the world on Blogging [...]

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One thing I had only recently noticed was that my FavIcon was only appearing on certain pages: it would disappear on single post pages for example. At the exact same moment I noticed this, Will from Portrayed.org dropped the solution into a comment, so here it is for those who weren’t already doing it: First, [...]

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