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WordPress
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06.25.05Utilizing feedburnerI have just started utilizing Feedburner for my site. It is a great tool that let you add functionallity to your RSS feed. Get statistics for your RSS feed and in general help you with your syndication. One example is the fact that it can make your feed look nice in any browser. Have a look at my feed here. Another is a bunch of predefined buttons for people to use when they want to subscribe. Look at the Yahoo, myMSN, NewsGator etc... in my sidebar to the right. But, to make use of all the functionallity it is important ...
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06.19.05How to set up a blogI am currently running several blogs. This one - www.eirikso.com, the hit tracking tool Trendmapper, my Norwegian food blog etc... I have made homepages using flash, I have made them using various web editing tools. I have made them using free blogging tools like Blogger or WordPress.com. I have hosted them at my ISP, I have hosted them at different hosting companies. But right now I have a solution that I really like! It's time to sum it all up and tell you what I would have done if I wanted to start a blog from scratch today. 1. You would want ...
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06.17.05How to include “Popular posts” in your sidebar in wordpressI just included an automatic "Popular posts" list in my sidebar. It is a very efficient way to show your visitors other popular content on your site. It is automatic and does not need you to do any manual work after you have installed it. This is what you do: Continue Reading...
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03.30.05How to include a trendmap in your sidebarAdd a thumbnail of the trendmap First, go to the page with the trendmap you want. An example: Trendmap for eirikso.com You find the complete list of trendmaps here. Then click the link: "- Go to code examples for this chart - " Then open the template for your sidebar. For WordPress 1.5 that is: /YourWPdirectory/wp-content/themes/YourCurrentTheme/sidebar.php Insert the code for "Code to add a thumbnail of the trendmap for..." from the code example page. ...or you can insert a badge with a link to the trendmap. Simply insert the "Code to add a trendmap badge with a link to the trendmap for..." from the code example page.
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03.09.05Experimenting with automatic email notificationsUsing a plugin called subscribe 2 I have set up a system that lets my readers subscribe to automatic email notifications. Not everybody are using RSS yet, so for the people that want another way to get notifications this system seems good. I have only found one bug, and that is not a bug in the plugin, but a bug in WordPress. If you post by mail or by using software like w.Bloggar people will not get a notification. You can register for automatic updates from eirikso.com here.