I’ve been getting lazy with my posting this summer. Only today did I notice WordPress has added a ratings option to its list of goodies. Ratings of posts, pages, and/or comments. It would be nice if by implementing the ratings, they would instantly appear on all your posts, since older posts are often the ones … Continue reading Hey, WordPress added ratings
Although I am constantly revising the text on my About page, a few basics are always there. One of these is an invitation to comment on my posts. I include this for several reasons. Basically I’m just trying to be friendly. And it’s interesting to get comments instead of just anonymous ticks on the hit … Continue reading The right to reply
I doubt any of my readers spend enough time looking at my bestsellers widget to notice, but there is one rather puzzling thing happening there. “Grandma vs. the Alien: Chapter 2” persists. That whole sad story started late last summer, yet it didn’t become a popular post until February. More curious, to me, is that … Continue reading Curiouser and curiouser
Nested comments. You may have noticed WordPress added them a while back. I was excited about it at first, but it has several shortcomings for backwater blogs like this one. I don’t get enough visitors and discussion, with people addressing one another, to really take advantage of nested comments. I do keep the feature turned … Continue reading Some people are never satisfied
I love blog stats. Visitor stats are almost as much fun for me as the posts, graphics, and comments. It’s fun to see where visitors come from, geographically speaking, and especially to see the global reach of the Internet. WordPress stats don’t include that info, so I finally broke down and put a ClustrMap in … Continue reading WordPress stats, maps, and widgets
Yes, this is becoming the theme-of-the-week blog. I can’t help it, really. I think it must be that infamous female urge to periodically rearrange the furniture. That and the fact that every WordPress theme has its limitations. None is perfect; I’ve had gripes with all of them, some more than others. The one I was … Continue reading Rearranging the furniture … again
