Are you indexed by Google? Well, JohnnyCoder.com isn’t. Here’s the thing. The URL was submitted a while ago, but it hasn’t made a lick of difference. But I shouldn’t be surprised since Google is very up-front about how they handle submissions. We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the [...]
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You may have noticed that I have already incorporated a number of plugins into my blog. I have added plugins for breadcrumb navigation, clean post tag displays, management of comment spam, display of recent comments, submission of threaded comments and to capture some site statistics. All of these plugins were freely available. All of these [...]
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I did a quick overview of Live Writer a few days ago. Since posting the article, I’ve continued to evaluate the product. It has started to grow on me — especially now that I’ve had a chance to further investigate the freely available extensions. Most of my time was spent working with the Insert Code [...]
Per a recommendation from Jon Galloway, I have decided to give Windows Live Writer a chance. I’ve evaluated several blog editors recently and nearly all of the products were intuitive enough to simply download and take for a test drive. Live Writer met this expectation as well. Thus, this review truly is an account of [...]
Yesterday, I felt dumb. I tried using trackbacks for the first time and it took me way too long to figure them out. Stupid! Stupid. Stupid? Most likely, but maybe not. First. What is a trackback? Per Wikipedia: TrackBack is a mechanism for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, [...]
UPDATE: I disabled threaded comments on 3/17/2009 when I updated my theme. I can still recommend the nest comments plugin (below) as I used it for years, but I no longer have anything to show for it. To be honest, I am very surprised that threaded (or nested) comments don’t come out-of-the-box with a fresh [...]
Earlier this month, I answered the question, What is Social Bookmarking? At the time, JohnnyCoder.com provided hand-coded links to only two sites: Del.icio.us and Digg. Since then, I discovered Cal Evan’s WP-Notable Plugin and, as you can see, the number of links to social bookmarking and networking sites has increase a bit. WP-Notable is configurable [...]
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I know what you are thinking. Why would any self-respecting blogger want to restrict access to site? Well, as it works out, there are two logical, completely reasonable, ummm, reasons. You are a private blogger writing about sensitive topics which may cause problems in your professional and/or personal life. In this case, it would make [...]