I have been using ecto (lowercase “e” on purpose) with my WordPress blog for about 6 months, and I love it. There are many excellent features to ecto that help ‘fill in the cracks’ of my WordPress admin as well as simply making my life as an online writer more productive. In fact, I love […]

After a few days with WordPress 2.1 I just couldn’t handle the bugs anymore. I have been having a lot of trouble with the admin interface specifically regarding postings. Ecto wasn’t working either.
I am now back to my last working backup (2.0.6). The first thing I noticed was the slower responsiveness within the admin […]

WordPress 2.1 was just announced. The biggest release to WP since 2.0. Get the skinny here. After attempting to upgrade I realized I also need to upgrade my SQL database. Sorry for the downtime…

Through this series we’ve gone through a lot of awesome ways to Rock Your Blog.
Each post was a touch-and-go overview, and really each of the topics deserve to have their own series. Hopefully they were enough to get the gears turning in your head of ways that you can re-asses your goals as a blogger […]

If you have a wordpress.com blog then the Snap Preview is turned on automatically. I for one think that little Snappy is obnoxious.
Please turn it off: Go to your Dashboard > Presentation > Extras > Un-check “Enable Snap Preview…” and click Update…
If you’ve installed Snap on your own website, first of all “Why?” and […]

I have a handful of blogs that I read often daily and learn from to help me grow as a blogger and designer while fine tuning my own blog into more of what I want it to be.
Here is a brief list of posts and serieses (sereisi? seriesen?) that cover a wide range of topics […]

As your blog grows more than likely you have settled into a small list of primary focuses. But what if you want to stray from those without detracting from the primary posts?
Enter: Asides.
Asides are quickly becoming popular. They are easy to setup and make a nice addition to your focused blog.
Here is a step-by-step walk […]

An Aside is a post that is not directly related to the focus of this blog. It is still a legitimate post, but it is a side comment.
Since they are side comments the asides get special treatment. They are posted without the title header or any other info that goes along with a main post.
You […]

WordPress plugins are what help WordPress to stand as a lone reed among the sands of other blogging platforms.
Most plugins are free, easy to use, and - for the most part - absolutely brilliant. They will eat your spam, send you e-mail, backup your content and feed your readers.
Here is my own list of […]