As part of my Over To You theme, I was asked by Yvonne from Double the Monkey Business which WordPress plugins I couldn’t live without. The short answer is I actually use very few plugins, but here are the ones I do use that are invaluable to me: WordPress Plugins I Couldn’t Live Without One: Askimet … [Read more…]
Askimet is a WordPress plugin that detects spam comments and blocks them. I am really starting to believe it generates them itself to look like its useful. For nine months on Blogger, I had nothing in place to block spam comments, I didn’t even moderate them, they just published directly to the post. In this time, … [Read more…]
Blogger or WordPress? It’s a question asked by many people every day as they start out on their blogging journeys. It’s a question I didn’t ask myself, I knew nothing about blogging, and I just started my blog on the first result Google gave. Had I asked myself Blogger or WordPress, and done a bit … [Read more…]
I promised to do a post about switching to self hosted, so here goes. Firstly, I have to say the process was nowhere near as bad as I expected it be. That’s not to say the air wasn’t blue round me quite a lot, I just think I had blown the process up out of … [Read more…]