WordPress.com vs. Posterous
It’s been a week since I switched this blog from Posterous to WordPress.com. I’m very happy with the change, but it is clear to me that Posterous offer very compelling features for a free service. What...
View ArticleWordPress.com now offering the Retro Mac theme
The folks at WordPress.com were inspired by Boing Boing’s use of the Retro Mac, and have now made it available to all WordPress.com users. Very cool. Matt Mullenweg says: It’s impossible to overstate...
View ArticleLow quality advertisements are damaging WordPress.com
It’s been nearly two months since I switched halfblog.net from Posterous over to WordPress, and I’ve been generally very positive about the change, with some reservations. The truth is, I don’t think...
View ArticleFour fantastic WordPress logos
For my recent post about the terrible quality adverts appearing on WordPress.com sites I created a nice high resolution blue glossy version of the WordPress logo. Then I was inspired to make a few...
View ArticleWordPress Users Wales
The first WordPress Users Wales meet-up is on Monday 28th November (6.30pm – 8.30pm) at The Atrium in Cardiff. The evening is free, and you can sign-up on Eventbrite. Thanks to Pippa and Chris for...
View ArticleWordPress introduces WordAds
I’ve just submitted this blog to be considered for the new WordAds for WordPress.com blogs. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like...
View ArticleMaking a WordPress navigation page using shortcodes
I just created a special navigation page for this blog that makes pretty good use of the WordPress.com [archives] shortcode. It looks pretty good on this Twenty Eleven theme using the full-width...
View ArticleStop SOPA/PIPA!
WordPress.com are making it easy to black out your own website in protest of SOPA/PIPA. I realise that these are US bills, but the ramifications of such harmful legislation will be felt all over the...
View ArticleWordPress.com infinite scroll – the final straw
WordPress.com have added an infinite scroll ‘feature’ to two of their primary themes, including the Twenty Eleven theme I use here. In the quest to make visitors engage with your content as...
View ArticleWordPress Users Wales meet-up: Wednesday 29th February
The second WordPress Users Wales meet-up is on Wednesday 29th February at The Promised Land, from 6.30pm. As before, register with Eventbrite. Apparently this is a traditional date for women to make...
View ArticleReblogging with WordPress.com
Recently WordPress.com (re)introduced reblogging, as seen on Tumblr. When you’re logged in and looking at another WordPress.com blog post, the toolbar displays a reblog option. Clicking it presents a...
View Article…Now with WordAds
I’ve just received an email from WordPress.com saying I’ve been approved for WordAds (right after having a little moan about their reblog feature!). I guess I should try and write a few popular posts...
View ArticleA new hyperlocal blog for Gabalfa, Cardiff
This week I created a new Cardiff hyperlocal blog for the Maendy, ‘Lower Heath’, western-edge-of-Cathays area known to the council as the ward of Gabalfa. It’s a funny area to cover. Wikipedia says...
View ArticleOne month of WordAds: $5.26
As an experiment, I’ve been running WordAds on this blog for one month, and managed to earn a stonking $5.26. In April the site had 9,744 views (average of 325 per day). May got off to a stronger...
View ArticleA fun WordPress trick: Customise your ‘Read more…’ text
Here’s a fun trick I learned last night while creating a WordPress theme, and also works for WordPress.com blogs like this one. You may already know that you can insert a break point into a long post...
View ArticleSome very cool WordPress plugins
This Wednesday is the next WordPress Users Wales meet-up, and the theme is something that every WordPress user loves to talk about: Plugins! Plugins are shiny toys to a WordPress geek. We love to play...
View ArticleHalfblog: Now AdFree
I’ve finally decided to remove the ugly WordAds from this site, and upgraded to AdFree. I asked WordPress.com support about the possibility of spending the $30 I had accrued with WordAds on AdFree,...
View ArticleWordPress.com now supports Instagram embeds
The good news is that WordPress.com now lets you embed pictures from Instagram. Simply paste an Instagram URL into your post and you get a picture that links directly to the source, just like this:...
View ArticleWordPress pro tip: Use LESS or Sass directly in the CSS editor
Tonight I have been tweaking my custom CSS and I noticed a rather cool setting. It turns out that you can write LESS or Sass directly into the CSS stylesheet editor that is available to WP.com users...
View ArticleHalfblog: 2012 in review
WordPress.com has produced some cool-looking reports for users, summing up blog activity for 2012. It’s really just a pretty stats page, but it’s very well done with CSS animated fireworks, parallax...
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