Posted 28 April 2007, by Aaron
Over the past few months I’ve witnessed a quiet movement gain momentum and transform into a full-blown revolution. I talk of course, of the DoFollow movement.
By default, WordPress adds the “rel=nofollow” command to all links in comments. In fact, most blogging software does the same thing and the intentions are good - to prevent those [...]
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Posted 16 February 2007, by Aaron
Question: What is the difference between this blog posting, and my Top 10 plugins for a WordPress newbie post?
Answer: The first post is owned by a thieving scumbag splogger.
A ’splog’, as defined by whatis.com, is “a fake blog created solely to promote affiliated Web sites, with the intent of skewing search results and artificially boosting [...]
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Posted 10 February 2007, by Aaron
I’ve just installed the very impressive FLV Embed plugin, for embedding, you guessed it, FLV movies. Which are Flash movies, in case you were wondering. To show off the plugin I am posting a video of a conceptual iPod I designed using Autodesk 3ds Max.
The brief simply tasked me with designing a new range of [...]
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Posted 10 February 2007, by Aaron
I am officially a WordPress ‘noob’. My site has been live for eight whole days and I’ve a staggering two previous posts under my belt. “Steady on there,” I hear you say. Well that’s not the half of it - I’ve already got 10 plugins installed. And activated!
The WordPress Plugin Database can be a daunting [...]
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Posted 3 February 2007, by Aaron
Only a couple of days ago I was commenting on how amazing WordPress is (and it really is), but alas I have discovered a serious shortcoming in the way it handles images.
All WordPress users will be familiar with the clunky upload tool, which does exactly what it says on the tin - it uploads stuff. [...]
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