It’s the 31st!

The best blog review contest winners will be announced when I figure it all out. I’m hand picking at least the first two; there were so few entries, I may handpick them all. Due to the lack of entries, I also have to have conversations with some sponsors…..whom I feel really bad for.

All this will be explained when the winners and prizes are announced. No real worries, all the winners will win of course .

The January top commenter contest will end at whatever hour I log off tonight (assuming it’s not after midnight already). Now before y’all jump all over me about possibly cutting off some spam time, allow me to explain…

Woot! Here it is! Those times of screaming Oh Crrrrrap! are gone .

As promised when I published the arrival of threaded comments, I have just installed the WP-Ajax-Edit Comments plugin, for users of Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

A big thank you to Sire for turning me on to this one after asking him what was compatible with commentluv. He wrote a whole post about it just for little ‘ol me! (Well, and other curious readers I suppose.)

I don’t know about others, but this plugin is awesome with a whole mess of features for both users and admin. Very cool indeed.

Anyhoo, that’s enough for the plugin sales pitch, lets get down to serious business. Hehe.

We all make comment mistakes with the slap of the forehead wishing against all hope to be able to fix it. What I want to know is, do you have a usual mistake…..one or two things that you goof on CONSTANTLY.

In my ever vigilant effort to make a clean looking AND user-friendly Blog for everyone here, I am trying one more plugin to try and get the combination of post snippets on-site, while having full feeds go through the feed.

if you recall, I first attempted the Full Feed plugin and it was a disaster. I then thought it would just be best to change the look of the Blog a bit, and publish full posts.

Neither you nor I liked that very much.

When suddenly…..on one of my blog commenting escapades I ran across Colin King, a true geek :-). A great guy, a real swell fella; seriously.

I was conversing my woes to him and he told me of (or reminded me of) the Optional Excerpt right here in the WP ‘write’ admin. I had seen it many times of course, but never knew what it was for.

UGH! Broken links everywhere. Is there anything more annoying to a site owner?!?!? Not only that, but you can easily lose business; perhaps a LOT of business depending on the circumstances.

If it’s a blog you can very easily lose readers if they find too many broken, non working links. Reader loss could quite possibly mean revenue loss, both in the present AND future…most will never return.

Think especially of new readers full of hope, glee and anticipation in finding a new blog in their niche of choice…what a let down. Not to mention how unprofessional it looks, especially if it’s more then 1 or 2 links.

You also have to be aware of the SEO ramifications that can occur due to too many broken links. Search engines, especially Google will not appreciate it…not one bit. Links, incoming outgoing and internal are the backbone of Google ranking.

As I wrote last, after reading much about how RSS subscribers hate having to click the link to read the full article, and even getting some personal requests for a full feed, I have complied After all, it’s all for the readers right? Yes!

After atempting the “full feed plugin” and failing miserably, I contacted Feedburner for some help. Their forum is now closed so I found their new “help” group (sigh) with a plea for help. The response I received was a little less then helpful, “If FeedBurner doesn’t receive your full post, there is no way for it to republish your full post.”

Umm OK, so much for that idea.

So as you can see here, I’ve decided to publish full articles right here in the open…no clicking for feed or straight blog readers!

At least I hope we do, that’s where your help comes in. After reading so much about how RSS subscribers hate having to click the link to read the full article, and even getting some personal requests for a full feed, I have complied.

After all, it’s all for the readers right? Yes!

I have installed and activated the full feed plugin. This handy dandy plugin is supposed to overwrite the <<<more>>> feature that Wordpress saw fit to, and show the full feed even if I use it.

Lets see if it works, shall we…