I noticed a Twitter topic started by Caitlin, and so I decided to post my updated impressions. Let me know if there is some ultimate plugin that totally melts spam faces, and I will try it out. Anyway, the big 3 that you usually see are:
Category Archives: Blogging Tips
Revisiting Advertisement Options
8/4/2008 – 11:59 pm
It’s been almost a year since my last post about this, and so I’ve decided to update my tips about monetizing an anime blog. For anyone who wants to include ads on their blog, I highly recommend the Who Sees Ads plugin, so that you can limit ads to certain crowds (or exclude your [...]
Who Are Your Top Commenters
6/12/2008 – 3:27 pm
I stumbled across another plugin that charts metrics. The aptly named My Top Commentators WordPress Plugin goes beyond previous plugins that just displayed your top X commenters on the sidebar. MTCWP lets you define date ranges and feeds you the results in the administrative section of Wordpress, so you can ogle your fans [...]
I Graph With Text
5/6/2008 – 2:36 pm
This doesn’t have anything to do with anime, but apparently you can use the Google Charts API to embed charts in your posts. I know this is just what you have all been waiting for.
I wonder if someone will make a plugin to make this process even easier on WP blogs, because that [...]
OMG Are Those Stats?!
4/18/2008 – 3:42 pm
From Hige:
One restriction I really want to impose is a five hundred word limit for every post I make. Not only because it will avoid the tl;dr problem that seemingly blights the internet, but also to help improve conciseness and stop me waffling in unreadable incoherent ways.
I’ve been using the Blog Metrics plugin for a [...]
Updating Obsolete URLs in 10 Easy Steps
2/13/2008 – 12:00 am
I posted a Find and Replace entry before, but here’s a more step-by-step walkthrough for those who have no knowledge of SQL. I posted this as a comment on Owen’s blog, but some other people may be interested, so here’s a basic overview of how to update URLs in your blog (useful if you [...]
Experiment On Your Blog Without Destroying It
12/24/2007 – 12:00 am
Most small tweaks to a blog can be done on the fly, but sometimes more drastic changes are called for. If you figure nothing will go wrong, and you can get the site back online in a short period of time, it’s usually easier to just throw up a splash page with Maintenance Mode. [...]
12 WP Plugins for Christmas
12/17/2007 – 2:02 pm
While everyone else is writing up these lists of 12 moments, series, Gundam mechs, etc. that matter, I jotted down some plugins that I find handy. I was going to release one a day, but the writeups are so short that I decided to just publish the whole list at once. If you [...]
Make Your Banner Clickable
11/5/2007 – 1:03 am
When I was redesigning the theme for SS!AB, I wanted to make the title of the blog look a certain way. Unfortunately, the font design I settled on was not easily done with HTML and CSS. So instead of using text for the title, I put the title into the banner image using [...]
More Tag In RSS
9/30/2007 – 10:58 pm
I don’t use the <!–more–> that often, but I just recently noticed that it will cause posts to cut off in the RSS feed (I believe this is on purpose). While the more tag is very useful for formatting how your page looks, it kinda defeats the purpose of offering a full feed. [...]
Changes to Spoiler Tags
9/22/2007 – 10:07 pm
Readers
Since version 1.6, the Simple Spoiler plugin has supported forum formatting of the spoiler tags (i.e. [spoiler] and [/spoiler]) in addition to the HTML formatting of spoiler tags (<spoiler> and </spoiler>). I have disallowed the HTML formatting, and so Wordpress will once again eat all comment text within the HTML formatted spoiler tags. [...]
Breaking Even
9/14/2007 – 12:39 am
I’m really excited! From ad earnings this month, I think that Sea Slugs! Anime Blog will actually cover costs this year! While I understand that this is not really all that impressive considering that some bloggers can actually live comfortably off their blog earnings, this is still money that I can spend on [...]
Find And Replace
9/4/2007 – 1:28 pm
So of course the UTF-8 conversion could not go off without a hitch. It seems that comments are sometimes not converted correctly, although everything else is. Normally, find and replace in MySQL databases is frowned upon, but because the gibberish is so unique (sorry to those who type entirely in gibberish), it is [...]
