Confession: I have no idea what I'm doing

[SaucyPanties]

To be honest the best way to learn is trial and error. I have 9 blogs now, well between myself and my husband.. I found the best thing to do was run a test blog and your real blog alongside each other. If you want to try a plugin or make a change then try it on your test blog first.

The php I have very basic knowledge of and that is only because on the test blog I used to cut and paste chunks of code around seeing what would happen. Before I started I used to copy the code into notepad so if I made a real pigs ear of it I could just paste the code back into place.

Grandmascrotum your blog (assuming it is msnaughty/blog) looks great and I would exchange links with you tomorrow, are you sure you are not worrying too much? The blog is full of great content and lots of text.

I would personally install the google sitemap generator and the no-ping-wait pluging, my hubby has them for download at http://www.hardrated.com/wordpress/?page_id=5

A quick tip, you have lots of RSS feed buttons, have you remembered to add each of them to your own reader? For example, set up your own MyYahoo page and when logged in, click your 'Add me to Yahoo' button on your blog. Then each time you access your MyYahoo page it should check to see if there have been any updates on your blog.

Walrus - Time permitting, what about a working weekly article from the basics down. Get a blog, what plugins you use, your first post editing blogroll etc? Actually, now I have wrote that I am thinking it could be a lot of work and very time consuming lol...

[docholly]

Originally Posted by SaucyPanties

To be honest the best way to learn is trial and error. I have 9 blogs now, well between myself and my husband.. I found the best thing to do was run a test blog and your real blog alongside each other. If you want to try a plugin or make a change then try it on your test blog first.

GrandmaScrotum originally said and it was echoed by those that followed:

And one of the biggest problems I have is that I know I could probably learn a lot more if I had time to spend reading articles and testing things out. But I've got a lot of things on my plate, and the time I spend on my blogs usually just ends up being the time I spend posting.

Unless blogging is our #1 focus, not just an additional traffic feed and/or labor of love, most of us don't really have the time to read or test etc. Wordpress is a very powerful tool and it has capabilities that most of us really don't utilize to the fullest extent, speaking for myself here, mainly becuase I find that the "faqs" written are not explained very well and are truely cumbersome.

That's why something that is an article like "feeds" -- a brief explaination on why/what and then a Step 1/Step 2/Step 3 guide to setting them up.. etc.. would be very helpful.

BTW.. Walrus..your blogging tools page was/is extremely helpful. Kudos!!

and Grandmascrotum's blog does rock!!

[walrus]

Back a few months ago when I decided to take misterwalrus.com away from porn, let it die a bit and then use it as the on-line site for my consulting business, I registered a domain name to use to replace The Walrus Blog with. I miss writing that blog it was very theraputic.

But as with everyone else, Ive gotten so involved in other things, other area's that I haven't taken the time to build that blog up.

If there is some interest....and everyone understands this wouldn't be a blog in a day...or a week...or a month but something I worked on and documented weekly, I'd be willing to document what I go through to develop a blog and why I feel it's important.

And answer questions about feeds, tags, which blog directories I think are almost as good as mine ( ), where and why you want to submit you feeds to aggregators, etc. etc. etc.