Apple Mac Music Video
May 23, 2008
What can I say, this just speaks to my inner geek!
Looking For Group: Slaughter Your World
May 22, 2008
Looking For Group is a great webcomic loosely based on a World of Warcraft style universe. This 4 minute musical short gives a glimpse as to what Richard’s existence was like before meeting the rest of the group.
Adding Thrive to Directories: Round 1
May 19, 2008
As part of building traffic for Thrive I started to add it to as many directories as I could find. If you’re curious the sites I submitted it to and if they added it do their directory are shown below.
So here goes Round 1:
Technoratti - PR 8 - Immediate Acceptance
Blog Catalog - PR 7 - Accepted
Blog Top List - PR 6 - Accepted
Top Blog Area - PR 4 - Submitted
BlogDirs - PR 6 - Submitted
BlogsWorld - PR 4 - Submitted
Thrive - Current Status
May 19, 2008
A friend and I have been working on a joint blog together called thrive!. So far we have just been developing as a blog with no real focus on making money, or developing the brand. We are now about to change that, it’s business plan time!
To make it easier to collaborate on the business plan etc., I created an account with the Microsoft Office Live Small Business site. Office Live allows us to share documents, access a central contact management system and track website usage.
thrive! is currently running on a Wordpress blog platform using a modified version of the Revolution theme. I have a lot planned for future versions of the site, as they get implemented I will discuss them here on my personal site.
Watch for future posts about thrive! and learn with us as we try and develop an online business.
Making use of Wordpress tags
May 19, 2008
Using tags for the keywords meta tag
There are two ways you can use keyword for your meta tag, the first is to add the following code to your template:
<meta name="keywords" content="ID);
foreach ($metatags as $tagpost) {
$mymetatag = apply_filters('the_tags',$tagpost->name);
$keyword = utf8_decode($mymetatag); // Your filters...
echo $keyword.",";
}
}
?>barbecue, recipes, grilling" />
You should change “barbecue, recipes, grilling” to keywords you want to be used on pages that don’t display a single post.
The second is a plugin I use on this site, called Add-Meta-Tags. I have had no problems using this plugin right out of the box with it’s default settings. Oh, and not only does it add the keyword meta tag, but it uses the excerpt or part of the post to add a description tag too.
Displaying tags for individual posts
You may also want to display the tags associated with each post, for this you are going to have to get your hands dirty. Break open your trusty php editor and find the code that generates the page for a single post, the file will vary on a theme by theme basis. Around where the categories are added to the page add the following:
<?php the_tags('Tagged With&#58; ', ', ', ''); ?>
The code above will add something like the following to your post: Tagged With: elvis, lasvegas, love, marriage, wedding
For more information check out this code on the Wordpress Codex.
