Sean’s Rant

If this template had a model number it would be JN3C. Journalist 3 Column. I used Lucian Marin’s 2 Column Journalist theme as a template, which was super sweet and had it modded for 3 columns. I could have toyed around with it all day but it made much more sense to outsource it on craigsliss to Jonathan. I posted about it earlier, got it worked on, and it was done by the end of the day. Tell me how you like it. 

So, I like to give props to Wordpress plugin and theme authors, so I sent an email to the author of the current theme, “Journalist”, Lucian from Romania. See the sidebar for the link under themes. Since Gmail is so cool, it archives anyone you send an email to as a contact, so when Lucian logged onto Gmail he poppes up on my Google Chat sidebar in Gmail. This is after he had shared his Google Reader shares with all of his contacts, which I was one of. What I thought was funny is that his shares were all in Romanian, so I thought I would tell him. He didn’t know what I was talking about at first, but this started a dialogue. So, thank you Wordpress and Google for continuing to connect us in this Small Small World! Does anyone have any similar stories?

Wow. Wordpress continues to amaze me. For free, you get all these plugin and widget goodies. I haven’t used this plugin, because I’m not currently selling anything right now, but if I do, I now know where to go. Wordpress is revolutionizing the art of plug n play website management. Of course there are free website content managers out there, but for me, Wordpress is slick. Keep it up WP, and to all the developers who make the plugins!

I just added 3 subdomains.

The wordpress Meta widget has been great in the past, but when trying to edit it, I was baffled, and after much frustration….DELETED! I used a basic HTML widget, with the two links I needed, which were the admin login and log out links. I am trying to integrate with feedburner better because i could not find a Wordpress plugin that manipulates RSS feeds natively in Wordpress to add the tools at the bottom of the RSS feed like “comments” “email this”, etc. Well now they’re on there if you are using the correct feed. If you don’t see it, update the feed using the buttons on the right toolbar. I’m not sure how many feed subscribers i actually have, so if you are switch to the feedburner feed to see the updates. Since I had posted previously about the quality of an RSS feed contributing to the likelihood of me reading it, I felt compelled to try and spruce mine up.

Could a Virtual Assistant (VA) do website maintenence. Yes. Am I still not comfortable with letting go of the reins due to th possible loss of content. Yes. Could I back up that information. Yes. There is just something about that that I don’t want to let go. Anyone have any direct experience with the use of a VA for maintaining their website?

Wordpress Plugins I just added: “Digg-Digg” which automatically puts a digg button on my posts, “wp-polls” which lets me add polls on the site, “Wassup” shows the current number of visitors online, and “wp-wall” which is like facebook wall on the side of the site. I hope you like these tools and use them to interact with the site more! Tell me in the poll how you like the site!