While tweaking down this theme, I wanted to use my subscriber count in plain text. Actually, it wasn’t that hard thanks to 45n5’s great tutorial in doing that. Not to mention, the dozens of other articles which pointed the exact same thing following that particular tutorial. Anyway, all of them were from the time before Google started intergrating Feedburner into their own setting and because of...

A few months back I was on the hunt for a web host. I have used a lot of web hosts in the past for my sites. But with the growth of my blogs and other sites, I needed to move it all to one hosting account to keep track of things. And after much research, I found HostClear and chose to give it a try. And here’s my unpaid, non-biased review of it, for all of you who are trying to find just the “right” host. Why? Their...

There are plenty of Firefox Plugins for pretty much everything – including blogging. So I thought it would be cool to just share a few of those I found useful and made my life a bit easier. And here it is – a list of 15 Firefox Plugins (or Add-ons), what they are capable of and, how you can benefit from using them.   Add-ons helping you to blog ScribeFire Blog Editor – This is probably the most popular...

Admit it! When the e-mail hits your inbox that a reader of your blog commented on the post you just published, you just put off approving the comment for an hour or two since it’s a painful process – starting up the browser, logging into Wordpress, going over to moderate comments and approving it. Or when you see that comment which skipped Akismet spam catcher you just need to log in and mark it as spam...

Google Analytics, without a doubt is the leading site statistics tracking tool in the terms of usability, on the web. But, in a dynamic environment such as a Wordpress blog, we are too often limited to only experience a fraction of the features offered through Google Analytics. You may just want to track the number of visits to you blog, or you might want to track every outbound link or even AdSense cliks and...

Recently I’ve been engaged in starting up many small niche blogs in very varying niches. And there had come been many things I wished I hadn’t done when starting up some of them. But it’s all part of the game and it’s a learning process. We all make mistakes and we should learn from them. So as an outcome of my own learning process, I’ll present this code to you – my code of the things that shouldn’t...