Wordpress Lets You Do That? http://clint.uwcblog.com Everything you wanted to know about Wordpress Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:18:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What Is a Trackback?
The below text is a definition from Wikipedia: “A TrackBack is a mechanism used for communication between blogs: if a blogger writes a new entry commenting on, or referring to, an entry found at another blog, and both blogging tools support the TrackBack protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a “TrackBack [...]]]> http://clint.uwcblog.com/settings/what-is-a-trackback/ What Is RSS?
Really Simple Syndication. Doesn’t sound really simple to me but it is. RSS is a technology that has been around since about 2000, and what it does is publish blog entries, videos, podcasts and news headlines frequently in a standard format to users who subscribed to the blog’s RSS feeds. Using RSS allows us (subscribers) to [...]]]> http://clint.uwcblog.com/blogging/what-is-rss/ Akismet Plugin
Akismet is a free plugin for non commercial use (relaxed rules from the owner apply) that you install to your Wordpress blog. What the plugin does, is to stop and isolate spam that comes to your blog. This spam is via Pingback, Trackback, and of course via Comments. These packets of information are first submitted to [...]]]> http://clint.uwcblog.com/plugins/akismet-plugin/ Have Your Sidebar Showing On Every Post
In the default Kubrick Wordpress template, it is set up so that your sidebar only shows on your index.php page. If you are monetising your blog, then you will want your affiliate banners to show on every page and every post. A common thing that may happen, is that a  post of yours will show up [...]]]> http://clint.uwcblog.com/themes/have-your-sidebar-showing-on-every-post/ Wordpress.com Stats
If we are truly serious about our online presence, then we have to keep up on our web statistics. Web stats tell us loads of information about our visitors. Where they came form, what they looked at, what images they clicked on, what page they left on, and how much time they spent on [...]]]> http://clint.uwcblog.com/plugins/wordpresscom-stats/