Fine, I give I’m changing the name of the site. I know that I don’t live on an island anymore. I used to, really: Salt Spring Island 2000-2005 Pender Island 2005-2006 Vancouver Island (Victoria) 2006-2008 I moved to Vancouver in the summer of 2008, but I kept the name of the site as is. No, [...]
The site formerly known as A View from the Isle
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My must have WordPress plugins
Even though it’s been the holiday season, work on Using WordPress hasn’t slowed down only a wee bit. Several of the initial chapters are now in the loving hands of my editors and I’m proceeding full steam ahead. Since crowd sourcing works pretty darn well for getting feedback, commentary, and information, I’m looking for a [...]
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WordPress 2.9 is out and this is solid update to upgrade to now
This afternoon WordPress 2.9 went from Release Candidate to just plain old released and, yeah this is a good one. I’ve been using 2.9 in it’s early beta incarnations for months now and have been quite happy with it. I haven’t noticed a huge improvement in speed or stability, but then again I’m not benchmarking [...]
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Foolproof, Basic Blogging Tip: More Posts Means More Traffic
Yes, I’ve been posting more here lately. It seems that my blogging has run in fits and starts of late. Part of the issue, I think, has been the diversity of places I could publish to, coupled with lots of projects on the go I didn’t publish enough. So for the past few week I’ve [...]
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Too Many Blogs! When to say when and pulling blogs together
One of the great things about working on books and teaching blogging and WordPress is that it forces you to take stock and sometimes take your own advice. With Create Your Own Blog finished (I’m reviewing galley proofs now), my second book well underway, and teaching I was starting to spawn off new sites and [...]
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