One of the most popular blogging platforms on the Internet has to be WordPress. This easy to use (and free) software makes it very easy for the masses to create their own blog and post their thoughts all over the Internet. Though it may not look like it even HMTK dot com runs on WordPress….
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The New Theme
‘Well, here it is, my new theme. It still has a few wrinkles in it but I was ready for something new. This is a learning experience for me as this is the first theme I have designed. There are some things I like about this theme and some things I do not. Over the…
New theme sneak peak
Here is a quick (cropped) screen cap of my work on the new theme. Click on the image to see it full size. The color scheme will be red/black and there will be rounded corners (among other things). I’m also going to use excerpts on the front page and utilize my footer space better than…
Notes on the pending theme change
‘A few days ago I wrote about my desire to put a new face on this blog. I am in the middle of designing a new wordpress theme just for me and I’d like to tell you a few things about it before I change over. One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes…
When designing a new theme don’t forget your visitors!
A few blogs I read recently went under the knife and came out with new Themes. One such blog is John Chow dot com who has a much improved appearance thanks to the work of Nate Whitehill of Unique Blog Design. As nice as John’s new theme is I have to say that on my…
What’s with all the error messages?
If you were visiting my site within the last hour or so you may have noticed a bunch of WordPress error messages and a general failure of the blog to work. This was caused because there were over 50,000 queries done on my database from my main WordPress db user account. I did not see…
The importance of post timing
If you are following my earlier advice about using the WordPress Timestamp feature to publish your articles you might want to pay attention here. If you are using the Post Timestamp feature to write all of your posts (or at least a majority) at one time and scheduling them to appear throughout the day you…
Write now, publish later
If you use WordPress you should be using the Post Timestamp feature. What this handy feature does is allow you to write all of your blog posts at once and time stamp them for delivery all day long. This is very useful if your blog does not contain time sensitive material. In fact, I am…
WordPress Plugin: Recent Posts
One of the most important things you can do for your readers is install this plugin; Recent Posts by Nick Momrik. This very simple plugin allows you to display, on the sidebar, a variable number of recent posts.Now, you are probably thinking, “So what? I just keep my ten most recent posts on my main…
WordPress Plugin: Google Sitemap Generator
If you are using WordPress you should also be using the excellent Google Sitemap Generator plugin. Nothing helps a search engine index your page faster than having a sitemap. Don’t let the name fool you as the sitemap generated is not just for Google, both Yahoo and MSN also follow the same standard. Yeah I…