Comments on: one-offs: how to reach the masses

By: Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:24:08 +0000

Hey, glad you found it useful, Alan.

By: Alan Summers

Alan Summers — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:50:28 +0000

What a superb article on so many levels. Thank you for presenting such a professional and accessible how to guide.

with much gratitude and appreciation,

Alan
http://area17.blogspot.com

By: Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:37:51 +0000

Thanks. I hope a few people take some of my advice. Any more than that, and I'd start to feel strange!

By: Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:34:06 +0000

Thanks, Therese. I look forward to writing them, masochist that I am. (I hope they don’t all end up quite this long, though!)

By: Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:31:57 +0000

I meant, when commenting on a Blogger blog. Yes, certainly you can install Blogger on your own site, or redirect your own domain to a blog on Blogspot, as with Wordpress.com and Tumblr.

By: Therese L. Broderick

Therese L. Broderick — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:38:58 +0000

Thank you for this extremely helpful, timely, and detailed article. I look forward to reading more of your pieces on this blog.

By: bethadams

bethadams — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:49:58 +0000

Hey Dave, great article! (Now get back to work…) No, really, this is terrific advice and I hope more poet-bloggers will follow it.

By: Dana Guthrie Martin

Dana Guthrie Martin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:54:36 +0000

I sit in the very back. On an aisle, near an exit.

By: Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:44:28 +0000

I like to pretend that, too!

By: Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:43:32 +0000

I have an irrelevant observation! When you’re taking a class, I’ll bet you always sit in the middle of the front row, don’t you?

Blogger comments have gotten a bit more useable over the past year+, but they still have some strange and annoying features, I agree.

By: Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:39:39 +0000

Well, I tend to favor browsable archive pages too, as you know. But — on a slightly different topic — it would be really helpful if WordPress’ search result pages showed excerpts of the text containing the serach terms (not to mention if they returned results based on relevance). You might’ve noticed I recently swapped in a Google search form at Via Negativa, and that’s why. I think it’ll be six months minimum until we see a useful search function in WordPress.

By: Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:33:37 +0000

Thanks, James. It really does mystify me why so many otherwise cool WP themes lack previous and next links.

By: Dana Guthrie Martin

Dana Guthrie Martin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:47:59 +0000

I have another thing! I have another thing!

Archive pages should show full posts, not excerpts.

(We have excerpts on archive pages here at Read Write Poem right now, but we’re going to change that. *looks at Andre*)

By: Dana Guthrie Martin

Dana Guthrie Martin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:46:23 +0000

I have a thing! I have a thing!

In Blogger, I personally don’t like it when the window for comments is locked so I can’t make it wider. Skinny windows freak me out and make me feel trapped.

Maybe it’s just me. But that’s how I feel about that. Humpfh.

By: James

James — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:11:53 +0000

Great article. I’ve had a WP site for 4 years now, and I’ve implemented a lot of this, but you just reminded me that I need to add the previous and next links. How did I miss that on my own blog?

Your advice about feeds is right on. There’s nothing worse than a partial feed. I am one of the ones that unsubscribes from those.

I’ll be looking forward to the next installment of o, Tech!

By: Keith S. Wilson

Keith S. Wilson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:32:35 +0000

These are all very good tips. A lot of food for thought. I like to pretend that every suggestion you’ve made that I was already following was a conscious decision which I spend much time mulling over before deciding upon.

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By: Mark Stratton

Mark Stratton — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:31:56 +0000

Anytime you want to know, Dave just ask. I’ll be happy to share that with you. It has its upside and its downside, like most anything in life.

By: Dana Guthrie Martin

Dana Guthrie Martin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:56:48 +0000

It’s just a fancy bra. Fancy words like that make the product seem more desirable and drive people to pay more for said object.

By: Dana Guthrie Martin

Dana Guthrie Martin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:55:37 +0000

Can’t you use your own URL On a blogger blog? Schmutzie does, and she’s on blogger.