I’ve got a lot of pages on this website that are lazing around doing nothing for me. Many of the pages I generated over the years seemed like a good idea at the time, but time proved me wrong. Or they were useful at the time, but have no value going forward (who cares what
Nitpickers: proof you’re gaining ground
Here’s something nobody warned me about. When you’re blogging, particularly on a controversial topic, there’s something unpleasant that happens when you start gaining popularity. It involves people coming to your website and telling you in comments how you’re doing everything wrong, and you must do what they say instead. You’ll notice they don’t talk nearly
How to tell if it’s spam
When I recently searched for a spam plugin to replace Akismet, I found a rather amusing assortment of spam on a lot of the plugin authors’ websites. At first, I took this as an indication their spam plugins totally sucked. Then I realized it was that they don’t recognize certain types of spam when they
WordPress theming: getting comment_form into your theme
WordPress 3.0 has a new php call: comment_form. It’s awesome in that it replaces about half the code in a typical theme’s comments.php file. But it’s not in most legacy themes, and the way to add it to your theme is not so obvious. Also, it’s nerve-wracking to customize because there’s no HTML to edit,
Making commenters work for you: beyond deleting and modding
The previous articles in this series talked about going beyond a simple anti-spam approach to comment moderation and actually moderating comments so as to shape comment threads into valuable web pages. If you’re convinced you need to do more than eliminate spam and hate speech, read on. Beyond “spam” and “delete” If you don’t want
Making commenters work for you: the comment policy
We talked the other day about how you don’t have to let your commenters run your site. You have the right to go beyond spam-prevention and moderate so that comment threads become a vital part of your website. There’s a temptation for webmasters to think of their commenters as their audience. The fallacy is that
Making commenters work for you: going beyond simple moderation
Most webmasters – particularly those from the U.S.A. – think about moderating blog comments in terms of only spam prevention and censoring especially ugly language or hate speech. They think it would be censorship to moderate someone’s ideas, even if those ideas are subtly toxic. But as a blog grows, suddenly the webmaster is outnumbered
Make a leaderboard load after the content in WordPress
Moving to new hosts with Cpanel backup
How to make a GTD WordPress blog
UPDATE: Put your WordPress GTD into a Zoho Notebook, along with your feedreader and most everything else you need at your fingertips. I spent a lot of time this week trying out different online and server-side apps to help me get into GTD mode. Nothing was quite right for me, and eventually I decided I
