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Apr
23rd

Entrecard just got a little better

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, the internet

If you are an Entrecard user you probably might have noticed minor changes over the past few weeks with the interface and a few other major changes as well which also brought temporary unavailability of the website. As the change for how they calculated cost of an ad on a site changed I thought there [...]

Popularity: 19% [?]


Apr
19th

Keep those comments rolling! Top Commentators has been added too!

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, software, the internet

Good news commentators! I’ve decided to reward commentators even more by adding the Top Commentators plugin. This plugin lists the top ten visitors who have left the most comments over a period of time in the sidebar along with a link to their website, and yes those links are DoFollow too!

For now, I’ve left that [...]

Popularity: 7% [?]


Apr
19th

You can now reply to comments directly!

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, software

It’s always difficult to engage in direct conversation in the form of blog comments as you can’t really respond to a comment directly, rather you’ll have to use operators like ‘@commenter’ (probably derived from Twitter) to notify a commenter that you are replying to him.
Thanks to the ‘WP Threaded comments’ by Chinese blog 2i2j, you [...]

Popularity: 49% [?]


Apr
17th

Be fair by all posts – Optimize your Popularity Contest Values!

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, the internet, tips

If you are a Wordpress user you’ll probably be knowing about Alex King’s neat plugin ‘Popularity Contest’ which lets you identify your most popular blog posts based on scores given for each post which are given taking views, comments and trackbacks into consideration. The plugin does its job wonderfully because it takes all the important [...]

Popularity: 7% [?]


Apr
6th

How to display recent posts in Blogger

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, software, the internet, tips, tutorials

Wordpress has a widget by default to display the most recent posts in your blog’s sidebar. Blogger doesn’t do things for you that easily but thanks to this post displaying recent posts in your Blogger blog is just as easy.
First of all you’ll need to be managing your feeds via Feedburner. If you are not [...]

Popularity: 26% [?]


Mar
31st

Wordpress 2.5 - First Impressions

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, software, the internet

Well, I just upgraded my Wordpress to the latest stable release of Wordpress 2.5 and I must say I am loving it!

I guess the striking benefits it has over Wordpress 2.3 is its media library, the automatic plugin upgrades and the sleeker looks over the previous version. Blogger was known to be better than Wordpress [...]

Popularity: 23% [?]


Mar
26th

CommentLuv, DoFollow, Post Ratings and Full Feeds!

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, Miscellaneous, software, the internet

I’ve added a lot more functionality to the blog to benefit our site visitors. Firstly the CommentLuv plugin which searches your last feed entry from the website you provide and displays it below your comment. So, the more you comment you now get more exposure to your blog or site!

The next thing I did was [...]

Popularity: 33% [?]


Mar
9th

How to remove your New Blogger Navigation Bar

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, the internet, tips, tutorials

If you have ever had a blog on Blogger you would have realized that it is very easy to setup, it’s very user-friendly and one more thing, they are self obsessed!
If you setup a free Blogger Blog apart from the yourname.BLOGSPOT.com ‘advertisement’, the default Favicon is the Blogger logo (find out how to change your [...]

Popularity: 77% [?]


Mar
2nd

Paid Blogging – The Bad, The Good, The Ugly and The Rest

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, Making Money Online, the internet, tips

Paid Blogging is a comparatively new form of blog monetization. It has become popular over time as a monetization method for blog for its relatively high ‘payouts’. Bloggers (and bloggers only) post ‘sponsored’ post for a price. Typically over $5 per post, and high payouts which are generally offered to high traffic and high Page [...]

Popularity: 19% [?]


Feb
26th

How to change your Wordpress Favicon

Author: luq | Files under Blogging, the internet, tips, tutorials

I recently wrote a post on how to change your Blogger Favicon so it’s only fair that I write a post on how to do the same on the Wordpress platform.
I have to mention it is a bit easier than changing your Blogger Favicon. If you were wondering, a favicon is your site’s ‘icon’ which [...]

Popularity: 87% [?]