Feed yourself

Bloggers interact with each other and this could be done directly by commenting on each others’ blog entries or maybe even trackbacks. In any case, it would be great to know what people have been talking about without having to go to their sites immediately. You could do this if you are subscribed to blog […]

Checking out blogging services: Blogdrive

Still on the series of hosted blogging services, let’s take a look at Blogdrive. Signing up for this service is easy too. Some of the good things I saw in this service: Support for multiple blogs maintained by a single person. – If you are the kind of person who likes to blog about different […]

Having an offline copy of WordPress

If you have a blog powered by WordPress, don’t you wish that sometimes you could play around with the layout? Or maybe test some plugins somewhere just to make sure they would be fine before you put them up on your blog. Maybe you’re a problogger wannabe and you would like to improve your blogging […]

Creating your home.php quite easily on WordPress

If you have been thinking of using WordPress as a CMS aside from a blog, or if you just want a static front page on your blog, it’s not difficult. There are actually at least two easy ways to go about this. Method 1: You could try using plugins for the job. One of them […]

Knowing your WordPress theme

The beautiful thing about WordPress is that you more or less have a structured theme, sort of, so you have an idea that certain files will exist like the index.php, sidebar.php, header.php, footer.php, single.php, style.css, etc. These also correspond to the main parts of your WordPress theme so it’s really not difficult to manage. Changing […]

Adsense and plugins for your blog

Sample of what ad rotator would look like on the admin panel. There are several ways you could add the Google Adsense code on to your blog. Noting the limitations that Google has set for its users (so that the service will not be abused!) you have to make sure that you know where to […]