Blogging Tips

Kabitzin on August 4, 2008 · in Blogging Tips

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 regular [...]

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Kabitzin on June 12, 2008 · in Blogging Tips

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 in secret. [...]

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Kabitzin on May 6, 2008 · in Blogging Tips

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 would [...]

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Kabitzin on April 18, 2008 · in Blogging Tips,This Week I Enjoyed

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 [...]

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Kabitzin on February 13, 2008 · in Blogging Tips

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 change [...]

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Kabitzin on December 24, 2007 · in Blogging Tips

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. However, [...]

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