Not Geeky!

It’s been a month now that I started this Blog. If there is one thing I particularly noticed it’s the fact that the tag “Start blogging with WordPress” is a popular one: it receives lots of hits. (And I might have disappointed people here) Most popular is however “You do not have permission to preview drafts“. A special reward goes to the Wordpress Statistics Post for attracting more lunies than anything else. Lot’s of comments, mostly spam. And I don’t know why.

The unanswered questions, taken from my previous post.

Q: So you have Tags and Categories. Am I going to make my Nokia N810 a Category or a Tag?

Quote from Mat, Co founder of WordPress: As best as I can explain it, categories are things you create ahead of time and only have a few of. Imagine them like sections of your site. The signs on aisles of grocery stores. Tags are one-off keywords attached to a post. You may add a tag to a post that you’ll never use ever again. Categories are meant to be permanent, tags are ephemeral.

I also found that tags are the words you would type in Google to find a particular article.

Q: What was the password of the mySQL database again?

I found what it was and I’m not going to tell you.

Q: How do I transfer the ownership of an article from one person to another?

At the, almost, the bottom of the edit post screen you can set the person who edits it.

Q: How about Britney Spears?

Apparently she made a comeback, but I’m not going to post about that!

Q: Will the PW videos be removed because of the copyrights?

This didn’t happen sofar, which is great. However the SNL Video did disappear.

[Update]However it remains to be seen how long this will last. Read this:YouTube is blocking all (premium) music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Right Society (PRS).

to be continued…

Cheers,

Edwin

On a couple of other websites I used Statcounter, a free utility to keep score of your visitors. However for WordPress I just installed Wordpres.com Stats. Installation is a breeze, with the automatic installation feature for plug-ins. After copying pasting the API key, which you have to obtain from WordPress.com , Bob should be your uncle.

Let’s wait and see…

[update]
No, a little problem has occured. Althought it says somewhere “Just a note: we don’t count your own visits to your blog.”, it does seem to count them. And it looks like I’m not the only one.

I remember from StatCounter you could easily block your own visits from being tracked. If they only had a StatCounter/WordPress solution on the shelf…

Ha! They do! Check this out.

Just fyi a pic from Statcounter, showing you can easily block out your own visits:

Installing Statcounter now..

Edwin