I knew WordPress was customisable, but whenever I’ve had an idea that wasn’t an out-of-the-box function, I wasn’t able to execute it without the help of someone else’s plugin. As proof of my ongoing PHP learning, I managed to customise WP for my Haiku blog with custom functions and an RSS feed.
Blogging
New blog: Haiku (aka Higherku)
I’ve just got the theme and a few posts up for my new blog, Haiku.
Do you want people to correct your mistakes?
I asked this question on Twitter and actually got several replies in the time it took me to get from home to uni! Call me lame, but I thought this was exciting. 😛 Would you prefer to be told about weird grammatical mistakes on your blog? E.g. using the wrong preposition or missing out a […]
Multiple WordPress Blogs
So many multiple blog requests There seems to be a lot of people wanting to know how to run multiple WordPress blogs. Some people want multiple blogs with one admin area, so it’s more convenient to post. Some people want multiple authors, each with their own blog. Some people want multiple blogs using the same […]
This isn’t a magazine: subscribing is free!
What does “subscribe” mean? How to increase your blog subscription rate by 254% suggests you shouldn’t use the word “subscribe” to entice people towards your RSS feed. Bloggers are used to the word and know what it means, especially when accompanied by an orange icon with two curves and a dot. How many other people […]
Tumblr, tweets and twizzles (for shizzle)
Updated Tumblr I figured since I have a link to my tumblelog in the footer, I should actually update it! It’s mainly a collection of my online profiles, guest posts, that sort of thing. If you want a list of sites that I think are cool I have a links page and del.icio.us (most recent […]