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How to install a TinyMCE plugin under WordPress
The standard WYSIWYG editor that runs under WordPress is the TinyMCE editor, made by Moxiecode. While the default installation of TinyMCE in WordPress has a decent selection of features enabled – basic text manipulations, like italics and bold, blockquotes, alignment, … Continue reading
Poll: Do you actually use the sidebars on blogs?
I’ve been playing around with the content in my sidebar, and it got me thinking: do people actually click on any of this stuff? I know that I, personally, don’t muck around with sidebars on blogs that much. To see … Continue reading
Threats of violence in the blogosphere
Earlier today as I was going through my feeds, I came across this post by Nils. While it’s certainly not his fault, having read the post has darkened my day quite a bit. What’s it about, then? It’s about threats … Continue reading
The Language Geek
As if writing one blog isn’t enough, for a few months now, I’ve been writing a second one. It’s called Language Geek, and you can find it here. Language Geek is a couple of things: it’s a journal of my … Continue reading
Forgive me father, for I have sinned.
I have no idea why I have an entry with that title. For the past three days, every-time I’ve thought about my blog or writing a post, that phrase has immediately popped into my head. After trying to ignore it … Continue reading
Blog stage fright – I am not particularly fond of this.
I’m not enjoying what I’m going through lately. In a sentence, I don’t know what to write about. A few months ago, I was able to write a blog entry a day – sometimes two – without running out of … Continue reading
Is Akismet broke or something?
Grrr. I don’t know what the deal is the past few days on my blog, but I’ve been getting hammered by spam, particularly spam trackbacks. Akismet has done an amazing job up to this point catching all of it; why … Continue reading
Blogger seems to be mimicking WordPress.com
I was just reading some stuff in my feed reader* when I came across this from the Official Google Blog: We’ve added a bunch of new features, which you can check out in the new version: You can add stuff … Continue reading
What would I do with 10GB of space on WordPress.com?
The WordPress guys have started offering another upgrade: lots and lots of upload space. You can upgrade to 1GB, 5GB or 10GB of space. They posed the question, what would you do with 10GB of space on WordPress.com? And no, … Continue reading
Some search strings that have led people here.
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t really care about how many people come to my blog; in that way, I’m not a stats-obsessive person. However, I do visit the Blog Stats page for my blog quite often for a different … Continue reading