I’ve spent the last two weeks working on some plugins and a design for this blog. It’s been good fun and I needed to get rid of the template from wp themes but it took up a lot of spare time. Now that the design is out the way I’m planning to spend a lot more time on some decent quality posts. I don’t want to be a churner (alex king blog).
As for the update, I’ve created my own theme for the blog and added some nifty little features. I wanted to do something a little different and so I’ve moved the “sidebar” content in to a “top bar” (trade mark). On a single post page I’ve used the WP 2.3 Related Posts plugin to put relevant articles in the top bar. I’m not completely happy with the features of this plugin as it only compares tags so I may end up writing my own that caches a full text search.
Other plugins I’m currently using are:
- {{post id=”rb-internal-links-plugin” text=”RB Internal links”}} (for linking to internal posts)
- {{post id=”random-blog-article-plugin” text=”Random Blog Article”}} (for the blog random favourite above)
- Popularity contest (for the most popular articles)
- All in one seo pack (doing a good job at SEO for the blog)
The blog has only been up about two weeks and its only been on search engines and external sites about a week but I’ve had what I would consider a reasonable number of visitors (125). Thats more than I had even hoped for the first month! Hopefully once I’ve built up the content of the site a little more that number will increase dramatically. Still waiting on my first comment though! 
2 Comments
Hi there. I’ve uploaded the ‘internal links’ plugin to my new website. I just can’t get the icon to appear on the wysiwyg bar when I’m writing a new page or post. And, yes, I have enabled wysiwyg just like your instructions say. I think your plugin is a great idea and really want to make it work. What am I doing wrong???
I notice that you are very creative and making new plugins. That’s great. I wonder if you could give more back-up and info for the one (like’internal links’) that you have already created. It took me ages to find out how to contact you so that I can ask for help. I’m not a techie, but keen to learn
cheers
Maryj
Hi Maryj,
Thanks for the feedback so far. I’ve been contemplating a contact me form for the blog – I think I’ll have to install one now.
I’m not sure why the plugin hasn’t appeared for you. I’ve only tested it in version 2.3 so far. What version of wordpress are you using? I’ll do some more tests this afternoon and let you know what I find.