Jul 13, 2009
Cannot Contact Akismet Servers
Was making up some content posts for a few of my blogs and was greeted by an Akismet error within my WordPress Dashboard. Annoyingly this error was showing up at the top of every single Dashboard page, not just the plugin or home page. I had assumed that it was just a problem on Akismet's end and apparently I was right. After getting the error for about 15 minutes I figured out that my server was... read more
Jun 29, 2009
Affiliate Plugins For WordPress
The majority of sites that I operate work off of the WordPress blogging script. I have been unable to find a comparable website backend that stream lines my affiliate marketing. Everything is made easier in Word Press due to it's huge inventory of plugins, which allow for simple tasks like adding Amazon products to posts or full on automated scraping of articles and products. Below are the Word Press... read more
Jun 18, 2009
WordPress Incoming Links
The Google Blog Search powered Incoming Links widget on the dashboard of my WordPress blog is no longer functioning. This has been going on for a few days now and I know I have links, although it shows none. I've verified incoming links because I'm getting ping backs and interlinking amongst my own blogs as well. Perhaps this function is broken because of a change in Google Blog Search or in the latest... read more
Apr 1, 2009
WordPress Post Publish, Please Return To Dashboard
Oh lord, lately I've been ramping up the frequency of blog posts on all of my blogs. What's annoyed me beyond belief is the fact that the Word Press dashboard refuses to take me back to the dashboard or give me a blank slate to immediately start on another post. No, I have to set there and be notified that it was posted and asked if I want to view it. Damn't, just give me a blanks late to start... read more
Sep 26, 2008
Steal My RSS Feed
Where has RSS footer been all my life? Two years ago I had a wildly successful video game system blog that generated great traffic, but most of my content was constantly getting stolen. Black hat sites and the like would take my RSS feed and build thin affiliate sites out of them, with of course no link back to me. Attempting to get my content removed was a waste of time. Now I've been using RSS footer... read more
