Wordcamp 2006

08.05.2006

Wordcamp 2006 was half learning about WordPress and half talking about blogging in general. Here’s a list of things that I learned:

  • write for your readers not for you
  • custom fields
  • widgets
  • plugins
  • head meta description plugin
  • mecommerce widget/plugin
  • multiple-page posts
  • rel=”nofollow” link attribute
  • hooks
  • I need to update to my version

Most of these items I just learned existed, now I actually have to learn how to do them. In the spirit of writing for my readers, I plan on making a plugin of some sort. Right now I’m thinking about something that uses robots.txt to keep search engines from indexing some posts.

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Comments

  1. Brady J. Frey Says:
    August 5th, 2006 at 8:00 pm

    One things I’d say I have reservations about, that should probably be clarified is:
    “write for your readers not for you”

    I used to be a political editor, and did my share of writing before getting into blogging – and there’s a half truth to this, atleast in my experience. My content writer, Doug, probably said it best, paraphrased: “You should write for the reader to an extent, of course – the reader would not understand your content if all you wrote was meant for yourself… but writing is always for you as well.”

    If you don’t write for yourself, you’ll have no passion or love for the writing – it’ll taste stale, it’ll read like a chore. Write for your audience, but also write for you – it’s how some of the more compelling authors grab your attention – they wrote for the love of it themselves, just as for your readers attention.

    Just my 2 cents, but I felt that comment was misleading when noted:)

  2. Wins Says:
    August 6th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

    Hey… good times chattin’ with you yesterday. I just installed the head-meta description plugin and it already seems peculiar why i haven’t done so years ago…

    Good luck with your blog dude :-)

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