Software Development Management
Reader Sandi asked about how she can make it easier for readers to share posts on her blog (Thanks for the question, Sandi!) She noticed that I have a “Share this Article” link on all my posts and asked about how to add that to her own blog. The “Share this Article” link is added via a plugin for WordPress.
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In December of last year we decided to move our blog from a hosted WordPress to WordPress.com (abbreviated as WP.com). I wrote about the advantages and disadvantages in the post Moving to WordPress.com – What to Consider. For several months it remained the right place for our blog and I still think it was the correct decision at the time. But many of the advantages of hosting with WordPress.com have actually been overridden by updates to the WordPress software. Here are the key reasons we went back to a hosted WordPress…
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Sandra from Brighton (MI), asks:
Can you explain what a pingback is?
A pingback is when another blog links to an article on your blog and their blogging software automatically notifies your blogging software of the link (also works with websites). Usually blogging software will then put a link on your article with a link to the page linking to it. Sounds a bit confusing, but it just lets you and your readers know who has linked to a particular article and posts a link to it so anyone can go see what was said.
Since part of blogging is having a conversation, pingbacks make it possible to know when someone may be saying something about what you’ve said. Reversely, if you comment on someone else’s articles, they’ll know about it. It’s also a way to get some extra traffic to your blog – readers often follow links to get more information on a particular subject.
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