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Wordpress plugins that I use
Posted in Bloggingon Aug 13, 2009
One of the major advantages of blogging with Wordpress is that there is a wide variety of plugins available. I thought I would briefly share the plugins that I make use of on this blog.
- Acronyms automatically finds acronyms and wraps <acronym> HTML tags around it.
- Akismet come standard and does a very good job at filtering out comment spam.
- All in One SEO Pack helps optimize things a little bit for search engines.
- FD Feedburner Plugin connects my blog’s feed with the Feedburner service.
- Google XML Sitemaps creates a sitemap of pages, helping search engines to find all the pages.
- Ozh’ Who Sees Ads allows for detailed control of the people who will see advertisements.
- Permalink Redirect makes sure that pages/posts are only viewed at their official permalink address. This helps with SEO and with blog migration.
- WP Super Cache puts less load on my server by caching pages.
- Yet Another Related Post Plugin is the first related post plugin which I’ve considered to do a pretty good job at automatically finding related posts to display.
I’ve also used a variety of lightbox, thickbox, and other such pluggins, but I’m not sure which one I would recommend.
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Getting caught up
Posted in Bloggingon May 19, 2009
Sorry I haven’t blogged much recently. There have been some big events in my life, and I’ve been meaning to blog about them, but they are significant enough that blogging about them seemed daunting enough that I procrastinated. I’ll get caught up soon, so stay tuned.
Happy 700 and counting
Posted in Bloggingon Feb 13, 2009
A couple of days ago, I published my 700th post. I can’t beleive that it has gotten that high. I wrote my first post four and a half years ago, and have been writing, on average, a post every two or three days. My 300th post came only two and a half years ago, on June 6, 2006.
Since I’ve started, I’ve split my blog into four parts, and then combined them back to one. I been at two domain addresses, and have had tens of thousands of web site visitors, over 12,000 in the last year alone.
My most popular post was, perhaps, a short article about the meaning of the name Jacob. While there have been dozens and dozens of posts which probably tie for the least popular.
Thank you for reading and commenting on my blog over these
Top blogging categories
Posted in Bloggingon Nov 17, 2008
Today I looked at some visitor statistics for this blog over the last month. Specifically, I looked at the average number of views in a category normalized on the number of posts in that category. I found that my top 5 categories are, based on number of views per article:
- Insights: 6.6 views per article
- Reviews: 4.5 views per article
- Religion: 3.7 views per article
- Technical: 3.6 views per article
- Politics: 3.1 views per article
The category in which this article is posted, Blogging, is the worst category, with about 0.2 views per article.
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Blog names that lost
Posted in Bloggingon Sep 30, 2008
It took me quite a while to decide what to call this new blog of mine. I kind of felt like I was playing a game of “Blog Name Survivor.” Here are some of the loosers, and why they were voted off the island:
http://0.02dollars.com – This was suppose to be a reference to “my two cents” but it didn’t catch on with the people I asked about it.
Frenzied Fruit – A few people thought it was catchy, but in the end it was better as a name for a smoothie than for a blog.
Organic Words – This one didn’t catch on very well.
Better if used by – There were too many other variations of this phrase: best if used by, better when used by… I felt that this name would be better if used by someone else. It also just didn’t look very good typographically.
Ladder of Jacob – I don’t even own a ladder, why would I name my blog after one? In the end, it just didn’t feel like something I wanted to name my blog.
Solar Blueberry – I loved this name, but it didn’t stick with other people.
Questions are Welcome – Too long!
Feet ahead of me – This one escaped from me.
Black Hole Escape – I really liked this one, but it escaped from the island before it could win. I personally didn’t like the two e characters in a row. I also think it was too nerdy for a lot of people.
Smashed Sunshine – It sounded too morbid, drug related, or otherwise kind of weird to be used. Although it was a cool name, it didn’t have any special significance to me.
See Reverse Side – This would have been good for a political blog, but it didn’t have enough jazz to win.
Green Paper Pad – I really liked the reference to a green pad of engineering paper, but in the end, it sounded too environmental.
Most of these names are avaailable as a .COM domain name. If you want to use one of these names for your own blog name or website name, feel free. I would appreciate a note so I can feel good about being inspirational.
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Welcome to my new blog
Posted in Bloggingon Sep 28, 2008
I’ve taken all my old blogs and have migrated them to a new blog here at SquareGalaxy.com. It is still a work in progress, and I haven’t yet forwarded all my old pages yet, but all the old posts are moved and recategorized, and there will be no more posts to the old blogs.
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