Archive for September, 2008

Stuff This in Your RSS - 9/30/08 - WordPress Screencasts

wpscreencasts is the RSS feed of the week. wpscreencasts features video tutorials for WordPress beginners.

Believing in Myself and Taking a Leap

(Anti) Social Development is now open for business. I am starting to freelance and offer technical services for bloggers and WordPress users. I discuss how I needed to believe in myself to try freelancing and how what started as the worst year of my life, turned into one of growth and confidence all because Stan listened.

(Anti) Social-Lists 9/28/08

This weeks (Anti) Social-List covers Wordpress plugins, a contest for charity, changes to (Anti) Social Development, things learned before turning 40, and search engine optimization for WordPress.

Do You Follow Written Instructions?

Do you read the instructions when putting together a bookshelf, installing a new WordPress theme, putting together a new Playmobil set, or when installing a plugin for your blog?
I am interested in how people do things - do you follow the step by step instructions? Or do you dive in and figure it out [...]

WordPress - Enhance Your Archives by Using Optional Excerpts

In this article Kim attempts to explain the use of WordPress Optional Excerpts. She mostly succeeds but for some reason uses way too many parentheses.

WordPress - How To Create a Delicious Bookmarks Page

Two weeks ago I wrote an article on how to exclude pages from appearing in your header or sidebar navigation bar. So, now that you’ve removed that page what do you do with it?
Vered, from MomGrind, wanted to remove her Legal page from the sidebar. She then added a link to the page [...]

Stuff This In Your RSS - Blogging Without A Blog - 9/23/08

This week I’ve selected Blogging Without A Blog by Barbara Swafford. She discusses blogging and provides information based on what she’s learned through her own blogging experience. Not only has she created a strong community but she highlights them in her posts and pages. Last Friday she asked what we would [...]

WordPress - How to Improve the Archives with the Thumbnails for Excerpts Plugin

In my article, Question for My Readers - What WordPress Tips Would You Like Me to Write About, Vered asked me a question about how to take the list of archives off of the main page. This is not as easy to do as you would think. I gave her a rough answer [...]

(Anti) Social-Lists - 9/21/08

This week’s (Anti) Social List covers healthcare coverage, blogger hate mail, an enormous list of links WordPress developers, a list of gorgeous icons from deviant art, RSS feeds for job seekers, and a beginner’s tutorial to using WordPress.

What US healthcare will look like: Obama vs. McCain - Siel discusses what we know about [...]

Social Media Marketing Best Practice: Reflect

Ari Herzog, of AriWriter, tagged me to participate in Mitch Joel’s Social Media Marketing Tip Meme, alongside David Bradley, Max Gladwell, Jacob Morgan and Gillian Swart, and to discuss my social media marketing best practice.

My first impulse was to write listen as that is one of the most important practices but there are other aspects [...]

WordPress - How to Find the Best Free Themes

On Monday I asked the readers what they would like me to write about. Unfortunately, I didn’t get much of a response. Either I have no readers, my readers want me to stop writing, or they, like Vered, are happy with the topics I have selected. Ellen asked me a question about [...]

WordPress - Do You Prefer the Visual or HTML Text Editor to Write Your Posts

Lately I’ve been curious about how other people use WordPress. Recently I asked if people preferred the visual or html editor in WordPress via Twitter.
I received 9 responses after asking twice. Since I have almost 500 followers, that isn’t a very good ratio but I doubt all of my followers use WordPress and [...]