Technology In The Gap

Have you ever visited a blog and found that it seemed like the homepage went on forever?  I mean, you could read the last 10 posts in its entirety (which has its benefits!), but the page was huge!

If you’re a blog owner, you may want your readers to get a snippet of what you’re talking about and then click through for the rest of the post rather than reading everything from one page—and you can do that in WordPress by using the “more” tag.

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If you plan on doing anything serious on the web, you should have your own domain name.  At roughly $10 a year, there’s no reason not to, and many sites that host will even let you use your name to brand something on their site.

The tricky part comes in when you go to look for a domain name.  Some, like my dad’s church, went for a literal representation of their name:

First Baptist Church of Little Falls: http://firstbaptistlittlefalls.org

That’s a lot to type!

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The Advertising Manager Plugin is one of the best ad managers I’ve found that you can run entirely on WordPress.  However, I would advise that if you starting seeing more ad revenue, want to have other people sell ads, or just want more power that you check out OpenX Adserver.  There’s a lot to set up there, but it does a really good job keeping track of clicks, conversions, etc.

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Suppose you wanted to add to your WordPress install a Calendar widget like the All In One Event Calendar.  How would you do it?

When I first starting using WordPress, for every plugin you wanted to install you had a complicated process using multiple tools and that was IF you could find a plugin that did what you want—they were not all in one place.

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One of the neat features of the archive pages I have on Is This Modest is that I can customize them to do almost anything—like showing a post with a thumbnail to the left.  When I attempted to do something like this on the Headway theme, my first thought was to go try and find a way to change the way the post metadata was shown to try to put in the code I needed.

However, Headway already had the feature I desired, something called “Featured Images”, but the problem was that I could not get the Visual Editor to behave.

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