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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/22
When you directly post a blog entry without scheduling, then WordPress.com adds this to your URL: &message=6&postpost=v2
It alters the left pane indicating how many posts you have done so far, but more importantly: suggests some tags based on the content of your post.
You can add this pane yourself by adding &postpost=v2 to your post editing URL.
So if your URL is something like this:
and you make it like this:
then you can add the suggested tags with ease.
I find that much easier than to use the “Choose from the most used tags” feature.
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, SocialMedia, WordPress | Tagged: blog entry, blogging, left pane, scheduling, technology, url | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/08
In the steps at how to block someone in google plus, replace the word “block” with “mute” to stop receiving posts from certain sources.
–jeroen
via: how to block google plus users – Google Search.
Posted in G+: GooglePlus, Google, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/22
WordPress just posted a nice article on SEO for people that still don’t get that SEO is basically following common sense.
The most important bullets from the article:
SEO DOs and DON’Ts
Do:
- Regularly publish original content.
- Use a few precise categories and tags.
- Write for human ears.
- Build your traffic in smart, organic ways.
- Choose simple, meaningful post slugs.
- Create a descriptive tagline.
- Include keywords selectively.
Don’t:
- Start duplicate sites.
- “Stuff” your site with irrelevant, broad categories, tags, or buzzwords.
- Write with search engines in mind.
- Purchase or exchange meaningless “backlinks.”
- Buy into SEO fads.
- Worry too much about SEO at the expense of writing good content!
Two things I didn’t know about: WordPress generates two sitemaps for each site: both a regular XML sitemap, as well as an XML based news-sitemap.
–jeroen
via: All About SEO on WordPress.com — Blog — WordPress.com.
Posted in Google, GoogleSearch, Power User, SocialMedia, WordPress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/04
Wow, it seems that the most popular posts have nothing to do with software development (:
Happy new year everyone!
–jeroen
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 260,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 5 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe!
Click here to see the complete report.
Posted in About, Personal, Power User, SocialMedia, WordPress | Tagged: annual report, blog, blogging, excerpt, happy new year, helper monkeys, new year, software development, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/29
WordPress.com silently restored the Please restore the tab order the way it worked 2 weeks ago problem.
I wished they’d send update notifications on those fixes (it seems the underlying ticket 21340 was fixed about 2 months ago in changeset 22250 when I was on a long holiday), so I’m glad to announce it works again.
Even better: you don’t need the tab key to go from “Edit” next to “Publish immediately” into the Month field:
When you press “Edit” the focus automagically shifts to the Month field.
Thanks!
–jeroen
Posted in SocialMedia, WordPress | Tagged: computer, focus, notifications, software, technology, wordpress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/29
Just got my free Flickr holiday gift: 3 months of Pro membership.
If you have a free Flickr account, it will give you three months of Pro to try it.
Yay!
You have now activated your Flickr Holiday Gift.
We’ve extended your Flickr Pro subscription for an additional 3 months at no charge.
Your Pro Account expires on 16th December, 2013
–jeroen
Posted in About, Flickr, Personal, Power User, SocialMedia | Tagged: flickr, gadgets, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/18
As of December 3rd, 2012, a WordPress.com blog stat page (https://wordpress.com/#!/my-stats/) now shows unique visitors in addition to total views.
The hint for each bar even does the views per visitor math (seems to average around 1.25 views per visitor on this blog, will update this when a longer period has passed).
The Your Unique Visitors from the Blog at WordPress.com explains some more details.
–jeroen
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