bEtsy plugin for WordPress - Display your items for sale on Etsy

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Artists & Artisans, Etsy, Review, WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 1 Comment »

I installed the bEtsy plugin for WordPress on Hopelessly Entangled String Puppet, my personal craft blog. bEtsy (I found it here, it is not in the Official WordPress Plugin directory) is designed to display items for sale in your Etsy ...

Upgrading: The One-Page Website That Blocks Google

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in PHP, Programming, SEO, Webmastering | No Comments »

Yesterday I started re-programming a site with a huge amount of immensely rich business content related to a very specific trade. I am part owner of this trade magazine (paper format) and the reason why I was interested in investing ...

The Fix: Upgrading to WordPress from Textpattern

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in SEO, The Fix, WordPress, WordPress Plugins | No Comments »

I have a friend who wants to upgrade to WordPress and the work is currently under way. She has a personal journal, but would like to reach a wider readership. With over 200 posts, I expect her readership to grow ...

Time Capsule: My First SEO Article Ever

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 Posted in Old School, SEO | No Comments »

UPDATED: As I was curious to find out if someone else had ever claimed to have written the frist SEO article ever, I noticed that Google picked up this article within an hour of me writing it. This blog was ...

Blogs 101: Blogs in Plain English by Common Craft

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Blogging 101, WordPress | No Comments »

Excellent and engaging video made by Commoncraft. You can also see many other including the one about zombies.

Tinkering with WordPress 2.5 RC1

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in WordPress | 1 Comment »

I installed WordPress 2.5 RC1 over lunch and tinkered with it a bit. I am looking forward to seeing what other developers think about it. I have not come across any problems posting, widgetizing or editing it yet. I have ...

The Media Lab #20: Siftables

Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in Gadgets, Inventions, Research, The Media Lab | No Comments »

I stopped by the MIT Media Lab today and spied LabCAST #20: Siftables. I have been following the projects at Media Lab for about 10 years and my favorite project used to be Electronic Paper and Kismet The Robot. Photo: MIT ...

The Fix: Youtube Videos Broke My Blog!

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in The Fix | No Comments »

You may have noticed that when you embed a Youtube video in your blog it looks just fine until you edit that post again. This is a problem present in most Wordpress themes, or at least the ones I like ...