Interactivity is a great way to keep your website visitors coming back. If your website features a service or product, it’s almost essential to let your visitors rate and comment. JS-Kit is great tool for exactly these needs, and it is extremely easy to implement. It comes with all sorts of neat features, and the best thing about it is there is nothing to install. Simply cut and paste a couple lines of code into your HTML and there you go, instant interactivity. (more…)
Update: Things change radically in the plugin world, expecially when new version of WordPress is released and the developer stops supporting the plugin. While The Excerpt Reloaded still works as described below, it will not strip shortcodes in your post text before creating your excerpt. I am now using the Advanced Excerpt plugin, which does strip shortcodes.
I intend to use part of this blog to help me remember which plugins I have worked with, how I implemented them, and what I thought. I used The Excerpt Reloaded for a client a few weeks ago, and at the time I thought it was the handiest little plugin for the task at hand. Now my client has asked for the same thing on another blog, and I can’t remember how exactly I implemented his request. So here is a chronicle of my second time around with The Excerpt Reloaded.
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The first thing you’ll do after you install WordPress is choose a blog theme. If you are going to have a developer help you with your blog at any point, choosing a good theme can also mean money if your developer is charging by the hour. You want a theme that not only looks good but also is easy for your developer to customize. Here are a few themes that I rate highly in aesthetics and ease of customization. These are developer-friendly themes, so to speak. (more…)