By Randa Clay on November 27, 2007
What do you do when you hit a blogging dry spell? Have you ever felt like you just didn’t have any good ideas for posts anymore… what was once a deep well of creativity has run dry? I’ve been feeling a bit like that lately. I knew it would happen. It [...]
Posted in Blogging
By Randa Clay on November 21, 2007
Recently while working on a client site, I needed a contact form plugin that went beyond the very good, commonly used Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form. We needed something with the flexibility to add custom fields, etc. I found a most excellent solution in cformsII. This plugin is the ultimate form generator, [...]
Posted in Tips & Tools
By Randa Clay on November 14, 2007
I’ve been extremely busy for the last several months, working on many blog headers and custom themes. I haven’t had time to update my portfolio, but I thought I’d show off several of the sites I’ve worked on, and encourage you to pay them a visit – they’re all very interesting sites.
Posted in Wordpress Themes
By Randa Clay on November 12, 2007
Recently a reader asked how to add the time of a post to a theme, so I thought I would give a basic overview of WordPress template tags. This is one of those things that seems like it must be really complicated, but actually isn’t.
What is a template tag? Template tags are used [...]
Posted in How to
By Randa Clay on November 8, 2007
Since the whole I Follow Movement thing last spring, there have been lists of blogs published with titles like “10 High PR I Follow Blogs” encouraging readers to visit and comment, and “be sure it doesn’t look too spammy or it might get deleted.” Now that page rank has been updated, there are new [...]
Posted in Blogging
By Randa Clay on November 6, 2007
Performancing is celebrating their 2 year anniversary with an online treasure hunt! There are some great prizes to be had:
1 hour free consultation with Chris Garrett (value $150)
Free custom logo from Randa Clay (value $350)
1-year free Professional MegaEdition subscription to PMetrics (value $99)
Professional linkbait service – 1 linkbait plus promotion (value $2,000)
Blog Reboot – [...]
Posted in Asides
By Randa Clay on November 5, 2007
There’s a cool new plugin out that automatically gives your readers extra information about some of the items you link to. It’s called SmartLinks, and basically what it does is analyze the links in your posts and brings contextually correct information directly to the blog. When the reader clicks on the little blue square next [...]
Posted in Reviews