How to correctly show off your WP blog stats

When a WP blog shows off on its sidebar the following: Blog Stats • 3,000 visits or worse, Blog Stats • 3,000 hits without any additional information, I start asking: "What exactly does that mean?" If a blog stats are presented in this fashion, the numbers look like a block of meaningless information. I know this may be hard to swallow, but that is the truth. Let me just backtrack a little bit and elaborate … [Read more...]

Customizing your WordPress blog with widgets

I am surprised to see a number of my friends' blogs using the ready-to-use sectional links on the sidebar of their blogs like calendar (useless for new or not frequently updated blogs), archives, etc. when they have so much to display. Either they don't have time to explore the functionalities offered by WordPress.com to change the looks of their theme (at least on the sidebars) or they are not into experimenting. As we wrote in an earlier … [Read more...]