Widgets, RSS E-mail Subscription and Link Love
I made a few changes to the blog which should make everyone happy:
First thing on my todolist was to add widget capability to the blog. This was a serious headache as the theme this website uses might look nice, but is horribly coded. This helpful post from ThemeLab did the trick, although now the blog does not have a widget friendly sidebar, but rather a widgetized area within it. If you don’t have any idea of what I’m talking about… well… you’re not missing much, trust me.
The second addition made to the blog is a little link in the RSS subscription menu. You can now subscribe via feedburner and receive a nice e-mail every time a new post shows up here. Just click “Subscribe to RSS by e-mail” and you’re good to go.
And finally the most important addition is the “Top commenters” plugin. Basically every visitor that is active and leaves a comment has a chance to get a direct, dofollow link from the homepage. Right now the little plugin only displays the top 5 commenters, but this might change if the number of commenters increases. This specific plugin was downloaded from here
Thanks for the RSS to Email link, just what I was looking for; although feedburner does not seem to be firing up; server issues probably and that is nothing new.
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admin Reply:
September 20th, 2008 at 6:28 am
@Azzam, I’ve checked the RSS e-mail subscription myself and it works for me.
Keep in mind though that the e-mail you’ll receive will be a “daily digest” sort of thing.
Regards, George
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i really liked the plugin you got for displaying where the visitors are coming from. when a visitor sees his country flag on top he is guranteed to have a closer look
may be you might think of adding a social network submission widget.
Keep up the good work!!
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I agree with DNfer - the visitor widget is definitely a cool little addition. Ooh, look at all these Stumbled visitors…
Hey, so do I also get a prize for being Most Commentative (it’s a word - Wikipedia told me, must be true!!!
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George Cozma Reply:
September 26th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Sure you do. You get… erm… the top spot in the Top Commenters list.
There
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