Henry Blodget opens up about his “colossal mistake” as a writer (via Pando Daily) By David Holmes On November 14, 2013Business Insider founder Henry Blodget was our guest at tonight’s PandoMonthly, and it wasn’t long before the topic of his “Why Do People Hate Jews?” post came up. Blodget asked the question in earnest, but…
Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Can’t Be Just a Blogger
Everyone knows what being a blogger entails but fewer people know what creating a successful blog involves. Far too many bloggers have fallen for the false mantra of “If you write it, they will come” only to watch their traffic, readership and even profits lag behind their efforts. There is much more to writing a […]
Guest Posting on BloggingPro
Last week I had the pleasure to announce the new My Blog Guest – Splashpress Media partnership and we are now opening some of our site for a weekly guest blog feature, also BloggingPro. To guest post here at BloggingPro you will have to be a member of My Blog Guest and our own Andrew […]
Featured WP Plugin: Let It Snow!
Want to put a little Christmas touch on your blog to commemorate the upcoming winter holiday? “Let It Snow!” might be the plugin that you’re looking for! Once installed, your blog will be adorned with falling flakes of snow similar to the one seen on WordPress.com and its blogs. The falling snowflakes look great as they […]
WordPress Announces Canonical Plugins. Some Thoughts On proposed Names.
The WordPress Core Commit Team ended their meeting after WordCamp Orlando and has announced on the development blog that there will be canonical plugins in the future. What are ‘canonical plugins’? The first question which comes to mind is ‘What are canonical plugins?‘. The team has provided the following definition: Canonical plugins would be plugins […]
WordPress 2.9 To Be Released Before The End of 2009?
Translation strings for WordPress 2.9 have been frozen. This means that no new changes other than bug corrections will be made to 2.9 anymore and we can expect a Release Candidate (RC1) anytime now. The WP Core team is in Orlando, discussing the future of WordPress, the 3.0 branch and WPMu merge, and possible changes […]