Tag: Blogging

  • Reflections on Twenty Years of Blogging

    A series of reflections on how this blog has evolved over years coinciding with my personal and professional evolution.

  • Blogging in the Enterprise

    Most companies dismiss blogging as unproductive. They’re wrong. Employee blogs are one of the most powerful knowledge management tools available.

  • Better SEO Titles in WordPress 2.5

    A bane of WordPress development for a long time were the awful titles generated for blog posts. In this post I discuss some PHP code to generate better titles for your WordPress blog.

  • Links or Bookmarks?

    WordPress could not decide what to call the section then named Blogroll. I argue for Links, especially for anyone using WordPress as a CMS, and point to the vote.

  • The Transition to jQuery for WordPress

    WordPress 2.2 was set to replace Prototype with jQuery in the admin area.

  • WordPress Post Information Plugin

    My first contribution to the WordPress community: a plugin that folds post information into a collapsible jQuery panel to save space on the page. Usage and changelog included.

  • The Need For Substantive and Well-Written Blog Content

    Bloggers spend enormous effort on hits and comments while neglecting the one thing that separates a good blog from a bad one. Tips on content, from syndication through structure.

  • Brevity and the Blogger

    I am guilty of the cardinal blogging sin of writing too much. A short piece on why readers scan rather than read, and what that should do to the way we write posts.

  • Top Ten WordPress Plugins

    I am vain enough to add one more top ten list to the pile: the WordPress plugins that saved me the most time, energy and heartache, in no particular order.

  • WordPress Customized Feature Post

    How to give a WordPress front page one featured post above links to the rest, using the Limit Posts plugin, with a strip_tags() fix for the unclosed markup it otherwise leaves behind.