After reading this post I was inspired to include a list of what we all can do to help make the machine smarter. Assuming that the internet will at some point include the “sum of all human knowledge” (quote from Wikipedia’s minions, but it really applies to the whole thing), these are some easy yet [...]

You’ve probably seen those Themes that include something in the order of: “By downloading and using this theme, you agree to link back to our site” In this video, WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg talks about the WordPress GPL and how any works built on it need to follow the original license, meaning that Theme creators [...]

I’ve been auditioning the two major competing Comment systems available for blogs today. I started out with Intense Debate, switched to Disqus, then switched back to Intense Debate.  Both systems do fundamentally the same thing: they allow people to add comment threading, community, and a mass of features and plugins to the standard install of, [...]

The normal search that is included with lots of WordPress themes is pretty inaccurate in terms of the results it shows. Users often can’t see the word they’ve searched, they only get a list of posts in which their search term is contained. If they don’t know how to Ctrl or Apple-F to find the [...]

A pull quote is the kind of quoted passage that you can see in the box to the right, otherwise known as “here”.  Pull quotes are useful for the purposes of creative formatting, generating interest, and promoting clarity and focus within your blog.  There are a few WordPress plugins that claim to do this for [...]

Despite the fact that I frequently praise Facebook’s built-in RSS reader for being one of the best ways to integrate WordPress posts into Facebook, it is surprisingly lean on features and customizability.  You are basically given the ability to add your Blog’s RSS feed, and manually update posts as you write them.  In addition, the [...]