My many questions

[walrus]

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

I made a little list of the blogging questions that I keep wondering about and never find the time to fix. They are:

How do I get rid of the ">>" in my post headings?
e.g. This post:
http://www.msnaughty.com/blog/2007/0...more-than-men/
The title at the top reads ">> Feminoglers: Women ogle more than men : Ms Naughty Porn for Women Blog"
I hate that little >> thing.

I think this annoying little thing is buried somewhere deep in the code. I look closer into it tonight.

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

How do I make Wordpress put a space in my category and page headings
so it doesn't read "Premium Porn Sites for WomenMs Naughty Porn for women Blog"

I thought you'd be happy you didn't have the damn ">>".

I think it has something to do with the length of the title but not sure.

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

How can I put an RSS feed into my sidebar so it lists the latest posts on my other blog?
It would be cool to be able to send traffic over to my newer blog by having the post titles in the sidebar, kind of like my "recent posts" bit. Is there a plugin for this?

I posted a plug-in I have yet to try in my blog development post that can do this. Or you can use Feedburner. They offer a function called "Buzz Boost" which you can format and it gives you a little java script to call snippets of your feed from.

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

Why is my search page so messed up?
Instead of building it like a normal page, I end up with the results stacked on top of the sidebar. I guess this is probably my own fault, I've messed with the theme, but I don't know why Wordpress can build the other pages fine but can't get this one right.

Your template probably has a search page that needs some adjustments.

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

What's the deal with feedburner?
What's the point?*

See "Buzz Boost" above.

Feedburner also makes your feeds readable as html as opposed to "some script type of looking thing". This is especially nice when your blog is still young as many times your feed will rank higher than your blog.

Stats - Its sort of like checking PR. It may not mean much but it sure is cool to see that a couple hundred people have read your feed in the last 24 hours.

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

And then there's my tag questions...
UTW creates individual pages for each tag on my site... is this a good idea? I've currently disabled UTW because of my concern that it's creating duplicate content which Google frowns upon.

Is it worse to link them to technorati? And if UTW is making little tag pages on my site, does Technorati automatically pick them up?

* You know, I find myself asking this question about a lot of things with blogging LOL And the whole Web 2.0 in general. Sometimes I feel like I've been left behind a bit, I'm still operating on technology and knowledge that was great 3 years ago but is no longer current.

Oh, and it's late now, but tomorrow I'm going to try and post about something useful instead of just asking questions

Now your trying to steal some of the stuff I was going to get into in my blog development thread. First, make sure you don't have UTW convert categories to tags. Then you can copy your index.php and rename it tag.php. Edit the WP loop for excerpts rather than full posts. If your really concerned about duplicate content.

Technorati does read a "tag" whether the link points to it or not. So does delicious and most of the others. Is it worse? Only because someone may be interested in what you have that is tagged alike and instead of seeing more of what you have, they go to see what more technorati has.