TypePad versus WordPress – So, what’s the difference?
For the first-time blogger, deciding which platform to sign up with, comparing features is important. How much is advertising and how much is truthfully telling what you can really do? Today marks the start of a new series, comparing the features of WordPress and TypePad, as they are advertised on the TypePad Features website and the WordPress Features website.
Wordle – do you really know what your blog is about?
Today is totally off-topic. I’ve kind of reached a dead end in my Typepad versus WordPress comparison…what more is there to compare? Plenty, I know that for sure, but my mind is a total blank today. Alright, then, let’s add some fun stuff. Have you heard about Wordle?
How to use CSS to prevent content theft
Copyright
Did you know that CSS can help you in making your copyright visible with scraper sites who have shamelessly stolen your content? It’s not foolproof and a smart scraper will find out how to work around this, but for any automated scraper simply stealing off your published feed, this will work.
Albeit this is not exactly a WordPress versus TypePad matter, it is interesting since access to CSS comes at a very different price inWordPress compared to TypePad.
FIXED: More annoying things about the tag cloud
My previous post about weird things in the tag cloud turns out to be a false alarm. The staff response in this forum thread indicates that there must have been some glitch at WordPress HQ causing this erratic behaviour, but you never know with WordPress, they tend to release new features without telling, so I wasn’t sure, hence my post, before going to bed. Anyway, I’m glad it’s fixed and taken care of now. They [WordPress, sic.] robbed me of a potential good post here, but rather that than keep the tag cloud the way it was. Thanks, WordPress…which only goes to show that WordPress Support is monitoring the WordPress Forums and responding to user discussions, and, by the way, this is not the first time it has happened.
More annoying things about the WordPress tag cloud
WordPress tag cloud
Actually I had set aside a fun and off-topic post for today, but the strangest thing happened to my wordpress.com blog today. The tag cloud suddenly lists tags by size, not by letter…what gives? Besides looking absolutely terrible it’s absolutely useless. I for one tend to go through lists alphabetically, not by size, and the most used and biggest tags stand out anyway…so why order them by size?
When I first posted about the tag cloud, more than a month ago, it was because it didn’t line break. Now there is a new annoyance: tag sorting. What’s up with WordPress? I do enjoy new features, but this one makes no sense to me. Is it so that people can easier find what I write about most? No, it can’t be, those tags are standing out big anyway. Is it some sort of weird SEO, so Google will know what I write most about by looking at my tag order this way? I’m at wits end here. Or have the ingenious programmers at WordPress gone completely mad? Maybe that’s more like it. I have seen tag clouds in use in many places, not just blogs, but this is the only place I know of that displays the tags in this manner. Maybe it’s to mimick the wordpress.com tag list? At least the tags on the wordpress.com front page still look normal…until the engineers start fiddling with that too…
Oh, on a final note, I owe this discovery to surlylump, who posted this sudden change in tag cloud behavior on the WordPress Forums earlier today.
UPDATE
Google Ads on wordpress.com themes – some examples
By now, if you have been following this blog, you should know that your wordpress.com blog does display Google Ads to first-time visitors to your blog coming from a Google search. There’s nothing you can do about that. Inspired by a post on Notes, links and conversation I decided to do some digging, and for your convenience I have collected some examples:
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