Learn About Blogging

Sometimes measurement can generate more than actionable data. Tools are available to find out the degree of how much influence your efforts are having on the nature of that buzz.
BlogPulse, a free service of Intelliseek, offers an easy-to-use tool to measure the buzz around any given topic.
BlogPulse Trend Search allows you to create graphs that visually track “buzz” over time for certain key words, phrases or links. Compare search terms/links in isolation, or use all three fields to compare search terms/links against others.
BlogPulse also offers up the topics generating the most buzz in a number of categories, including news, politics, sports, entertainment, business, science, technology and other categories.

This post was digested from book: Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care

1. Choose Presentation in the WordPress admin interface and then click Sidebar Widgets.
2. At the bottom, choose at least one RSS feeds from the menu and click save. That will cause a new RSS box to appear in the Available Widgets box.
3. Now, drag the RSS box from the Available Widgets box to your blog’s design and drop it somewhere in the sidebar.
4. On the RSS box you should see the small edit control on the right side of the widget box, click it.
5. Put URL to the feed and an option description dialog box. Click Close control when you done.
6. Click Save Changes in the Sidebar Widgets screen. Now you can view your blog and see the new headline feed.

Headline feeds are one way that you can have relationship among different blogs.

This post was digested from book: “How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog“

WordPress creates two feeds by default, an Entries feed and a Comments feed.
WordPress offers a few different templates that can be edited to change the way your feeds are formatted. The files that you can edit are:

• wp-atom.php The template for Atom 1.0 feeds
• wp-rss.php The template for RSS 1.0 feeds
• wp-rss2.php The template for RSS 2.0 feeds
• wp-commentsrss2.php The template for RSS 2.0 feeds of your comments

Here is the full explanation in the WordPress documentation.

This post was digested from book: “How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog”

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $count = 0; ?>
<?php $count++; ?>
<?php if ($count < 2) : ?>
<?php the_content() ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Please refer to the original post for more information.

1. Download the terms-of-use.zip
2. Extract the files.
3. Copy the ‘terms-of-use.php’ into ‘/wp-content/mu-plugins/’
4. Copy the ‘terms-of-use’ directory into ‘/wp-content/plugins/’
5. If you want to use Wordpress to edit your terms of use, privacy policy and welcome message, chmod terms-of-use.txt to 0664 (make them writable).
NOTE: for additional security there is an .htaccess file included in the terms-of-use directory that douse not allow scripts to be executed from these files. This protects against code insertion.You can now login and edit your terms of use, privacy policy and welcome message via “Site Admin > Terms of Use”.
6. That’s it.