We all hope that our blogs will eventually transition from ‘just another blog,’ into an active community discussion platform. This largely starts with readers beginning to actively participate in the comments. But how do you encourage your readers to leave comments (without personally hunting them down and begging them, of course)? Discuss, Don’t Lecture There’s
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The Right To Comment
I recently read an article called Censorship? at The Krazy Train, a fairly new blog. The woman had her comments deleted from another person’s blog because she disagreed with the site owner. Now, this is not a rant post, but something out of years of blogging that I have come to know. There really are
[Continue Reading...]Usernames And Social Network Policies
According to TechCrunch’s recent article Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International, it is a prime example that your username is not totally yours. Lucky for the guy Harman Bajwa, that with TechCrunch’s help and enough responses, they released the vanity URL back to him. This is just one incident out
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Plugin Review: Revision Diet
I came across Revision Diet after looking for a temporary plugin solution for my blog, Blondish.net. For those unaware, I just cute 150 static pages from the site, but I still have over 120 static pages, and over 300 blog posts. Just imagine the number of revisions I have hoarded! It was insane an putting
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Rockstar: Jean-Baptiste Jung
Anyone who has read Smashing Magazine, ProBlogDesign, and WPHacks has read articles by Jean-Baptiste Jung. He was also highly talked about in mid 2009 when he created a Digg-like website with the WordPress core called WPVote. This was without altering the core and not bridging in platforms like Pligg. Jean-Baptiste is really busy and just
[Continue Reading...]WordPress Rockstar: Andy Bailey
I had the opportunity to catch up with Andy Bailey, the creator of CommentLuv. Since 2007, the plugin has been downloaded over 126,000 times! Believe me, he is a busy man, but it was great to interview him. I hope you enjoy! 🙂 ME: When did you become motivated to create CommentLuv and why? ANDY:
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