WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Since I have made a small contribution to Brians Threaded Comments (v. 1.5.18) plugin, mainly in a form of suggestion I feel responcible for sharing how to Force Brians Threaded Comments work nicely with WordPress 2.5 plus and SezWho 2.1 plugin.

I know it might seem like a lot of acronyms but they will all make sense once I have describe the problem and then will provide a simple solution…

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Turning an occasional visitor to your blog into a loyal reader is one of the ultimate goals for every blogger. The variety of tools we put into use to accomplish this goal is quite amazing when you analyze them closely. Multitude of plugins, subscription forms and of course - Content!

Content Is The King! But can I perhaps suggest just one more thing here - usability? And no, I’m not talking about “look and feel” of your blog but rather about providing an option to your visitors to get your content in different format. A Free Tool to pull your visitors by the ear and making them loyal readers…

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After playing around with WordPress 2.5 all this weekend and determining for myself that I will have to wait to upgrade due to some compatabilities issues with plugins, I have decided to post about something that works !

I have discovered and played around with a new extension for Firefox that actually makes posting to a blog NOT only fun but very simplified and enhanced - Zemanta!

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Brians Threaded Comments Plugin is perhaps the most popular among the WordPress blog users due to functionality it provides and a huge enhancement to standard comments system that comes with WordPress. Problem is - the plugin is Not Well Supported and has quite a few bugs.

In fact if you simply decide to use what is provided you will run into quite a few issues and since the plugin is hard to customize if you are not a programmer it might be more problems then one can handle. Well fear not - I have spent a few hours of researching, fixing and testing and want to present you with resulting file. Now you too can have Brians Threaded Comments on your blog, minus all the issues…

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When people think about WordPress plugins first things come to mind is functionality, styling, interactivity. All come in different forms and shapes and each need to be evaluated to see if it would fit your needs.

But did you know you can enhance your WordPress Admin interface by simply installing a plugin? I have found several but out of the bunch tried 2 that I liked and here I want to provide you with quick overview of good and bad that comes with these plugins…

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With abundant choice of freely available themes for WordPress every blogger gets tempted to test a new look every once in while. I know I get the urge often enough so I decided to discuss the subject of how you can safely test new look and see if the theme you liked will fit your blog vision.

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WordPress plugins help us make our blogs unique and more interactive but as any Open Source scripts they are frequently updated by the authors. Since your overall blog experience relies on a combined effect of the core and all plugins anytime a new version becomes available one question on your mind should be…

To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade?

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