Can Anyone Comment?

January 18, 2008

I have been having a lot of problems commenting on other blogs lately, which is making it a little hard to participate on some of my favorite sites. Today, the problem occurred to me when I couldn’t submit something in my own WordPress admin. There seems to be some problem between Firefox and the WordPress submit functions. (Mac only? I don’t know.) Has anyone experienced this? How about on my site—anyone have a problem? If you can’t post a comment on this entry to tell me about a problem, just e-mail me. I’m hoping this post will draw some Google traffic for people having the same issues so that we can get to the bottom of it. In the meantime, I am using Safari to read my regular daily fare to see if that helps. Did I mention that I really kinda hate Safari?

Update

I’ve been contacted by the support department at Akismet, who say they have fixed this problem on their end. I am going to test that theory out today and see if it is true.

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New Things: Links Feed, WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner (and some geek code)

January 14, 2008

I wanted a better way to showcase the really great stuff that I come across by other blog authors. I had been using my shared items feed from Google Reader, but I’m not the biggest fan of Google Reader and the options for display were very limited. (I’ve been trying Google Reader for nearly a month, but I think I prefer NewsFire more.) So, in this post, I am going to attempt to describe how I made a links feed, split WordPress to make that links feed appear in the right sidebar, changed my WordPress templates to exclude that links feed, changed my FeedBurner settings to reflect those alterations, used a new Facebook App to display my new combined links + site feed on my Facebook profile, and carried that all over to Twitter. (Phew!)

In English: I can now share links to quality content from other blogs on my site, and combine those links with my own feed on my Facebook and Twitter profiles. This serves multiple purposes: to add value for my readers, and to increase my reach both through my blog and other social media sites. I will start with an explanation of the whys, and then get into the code in a stepwise fashion.

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Am I off your mailing list?

October 25, 2007

I felt a little bad when someone asked that. No, you’re all not off my mailing list! I was just taking some time to get work done and refocus this blog a bit. Now that it’s been completely redeveloped (and moved from TypePad to a self-hosted new version of WordPress), I am ready to launch!

PLEASE NOTE: This site now has a new URL. That URL is www.smallbusinessessentials.info. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. If you have already signed up to receive feed updates, those will continue as before without any modifications.

In short, you’ll be hearing a lot more from me now.

In other news:

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