Jul
19
2007
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3 Wordpress Plugins You Need

Here are the first few plugins you need after installing Wordpress:

  1. Akismet: Plugin to stop comment spam. As a small example of the problem of spam, I run a very very small blog. Last week, I trackbacked two posts and commented two times on other small blogs. This led to receiving about a hundred comment spam last monday!
  2. Ultimate Google Analytics: Plugin that integrates Google Analytics on your website. GA gives you traffic stats. You do want to know if your blog is read, do you?
  3. Feedburner Feedsmith: Feedburner is a service you need for your blog. First, it allows to transfer all your feed traffic to them (this can represent a fairly large amount of your bandwidth in terms of percentage) and it gives you stats on who subscribes to your feed.

These 3 plugins are a good start to take control of your blog.

Written by jfcouture in: Wordpress |
Jul
19
2007
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Why I Chose DreamHost For jfcouture.com

I was quiet last week as I was investigating moving my blog to a different hosting company. I have been with Textdrive for the last 2 years. They’re not bad, but they sure don’t provide an exceptional value. For 15$/month, you get anemic space and bandwith, a very slow, ugly and almost useless web panel. Since last year, you also get three other services from Joyent, such as Strongspace, but they’re not something I need.

With DreamHost, I get a boatload of storage and bandwith for 10$/month. Better, google for dreamhost coupon, and you get 90$ off. My first year is gonna cost me 30$. Their web panel is nice and simple and even includes a one-click installer for Wordpress. There’s also a 97 money back guarantee so I have time to investigate if my rails apps are gonna work. I hear support isn’t great, but they have a lot customers so you can google your problem and easily find a solution most of time.

Written by jfcouture in: Wordpress, dreamhost, hosting |
Mar
12
2005
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WordPress Again

I moved some stuff around on the sidebar. I have a small problem: there’s a line above the Categories section that I can’t get rid of. It’s driving me nuts.

Written by jfcouture in: Wordpress |
Mar
12
2005
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Playing with WordPress

I changed the default theme (used by too many people) to one called NoLimits that I quite like. I’m also playing with some new plugins, the Simpson quote thing and another random quote at the top.

Written by jfcouture in: Wordpress |
Mar
12
2005
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I just installed WordPress

Duh you say. How would I be reading this if WordPress was not installed.

It was really easy by following the 5 minute setup of the WordPress doc. I was too excited, so of course on the first run I forgot to create the database.

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