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risti Hines is among my favorite stumblers and her blog Kikolani, is among my favorite blogs.
Kikolani is about the art of blogging – the technical aspects with blogging and social networking tips, the beauty with photography and poetry, and the benefits for writers and readers. Continue reading
The first post in the series is Visitor tracking on wordpress.com blogs. The benefits of having real time stats data are knowing who your reading audience is and being better able to target your content to meet their needs. Many bloggers like to install real times stats on their blogs, and some like wordpress.com bloggers, cannot use JavaScript counters on their blogs. Below you will find three free non-Javascript real times stats choices that can be made, and if you click through to the sites you will find more specifics. Continue reading
UPDATE: June 17, 2010
Provided that you change to a theme that does have the custom menus feature you can achieve what you want to do.
Have you ever wanted to have a different title for one of your pages than the label displayed in your site’s navigation?
Ever wanted to change the order of the list of pages to an order you chose yourself?
Ever wanted to be able to mix pages, categories, and random links in your navigation instead of your theme deciding for you?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re in luck! The new custom menus feature will do all those things. The themes that have this custom menu feature are listed in support documentation and here’s an article Custom menus arrive at wordpress.COM that provides more insight into setting up a custom menu.
Update: August 24, 2010
WordPress.com has now added “more ways to share“, and you can find the instructions for adding these social networking buttons to your posts in the support documentation at this link – Sharing.
Like most bloggers I began on a free hosted blogging platform. In contrast to those who wish to make an income from blogging – I had no such agenda. I began blogging on Blogger software and found it easy to use, but when I decided to try WordPress.com I found there were remarkable contrasts between the software, the features, and the availability of support. Today there’s no doubt in my mind that free hosted WordPress software is superior in every way.
Guest post by Richard
This is a initial review of the new iNove theme recently introduced at WordPress.com. This theme offers a lot of useful features, but it is not without some drawbacks that could trip up bloggers. I would have like to have seen this theme massaged a little more to limit some of the drawbacks. Perhaps staff will get around to that in a future update of the theme.
the real you
The way bloggers communicate and present themselves and their opinions online is important, but even more important than online presence is “to thine own self be true”. Authenticity is the character trait of being genuine, honest with oneself as well as others It’s more than that too. Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character, despite the demands of society or one’s conditioning.
