Woo-hoo, my blog is both one full year old today, and has broken 100, 000 hits! =D
And, for nostalgia’s sake, here’s a link to my first post:
Tag: WordPress
70,000 Hits!
Woo-hoo! Another milestone!
Special thanks to the post Visual Studio 2008 Is Pretty Damn Slow… for giving me over 7,000 hits on its own! (Seems that people are still searching pretty heavily for Visual Studio 2008 being slow and how to fix it…)
Post to WordPress Bug?
Anyone ever seen this when attempting to use the “Press This” bookmarklet with a large chunk of text selected?
Interesting to note that they’re using LiteSpeed, as well.
WordPress.com: How To Embed Video
With the exception of YouTube, I always keep forgetting how to embed video into a WordPress.com blog post (hint: it’s not the embed code). Here’s a handy little quick reference on how to embed video from different sources and how to embed other sorts of media:
What shortcodes does WordPress use?
[audio] converts a link to an mp3 file into an audio player. See full instructions here.
[caption] adds a caption to an image. See full instructions here.
[digg] embeds a voting button for your link on Digg. See full instructions here.
[flickr] embeds a Flickr video. See full instructions here.
[gallery] displays a thumbnail gallery of images attached to that post or page. See full instructions here.
embeds Google Maps. See full instructions here.
[googlevideo] embeds a Google Video. See full instructions here.
[livevideo] embeds a video from LiveVideo. See full instructions here.
[odeo] embeds an Odeo audio file. See full instructions here.
[podtech] embeds audio or video from the PodTech Network. See full instructions here.
[polldaddy] embeds a PollDaddy poll(use without the space). See full instructions here.
[redlasso] embeds a video from Redlasso. See full instructions here.
[rockyou] embeds a slideshow from RockYou. See full instructions here.
[slideshare] embeds a slideshow from Slideshare.net. See full instructions here.
[sourcecode] preserves the formatting of source code. See full instructions here.
[splashcast] embeds Splashcast media. See full instructions here.
[vimeo] embeds a Vimeo video. See full instructions here.
[youtube] embeds a YouTube video. See full instructions here.
Looks like it’s much more flexible than I thought, though it would still be easier just to support copy/paste of embed code (though, I understand why they don’t do it, for security reasons, etc.)
Update: For some reason, DailyMotion didn’t get included in this list, but you can find the instructions here:
52,000 Hits!
Thanks to all of you readers out there!
Special thanks goes to the readers of the following two posts, who boosted my one-day maximum to 1120 hits:
30,000 Views!
Woot! 30,000+ views, today!
WordPress.com Front Page!
I think this may have been bumped off by now, but it was there for a little while!
You might need to click into the image to read it; I’m the second from the bottom on the left of the “News Departments” section, listed “In Technology” for the Gmail Blog: Outage Explanation article. Woot!
1,004 Views, One Day!
I know, it probably sounds like small potatoes to many of you more seasoned bloggers out there, but I’m pretty excited about it! As you can see from the picture above, it’s just a wee bit higher than my daily average. 😉
WordPress.com: How do I get more views and traffic?
This is pretty self-serving, but could be useful to you if you’re a blogger as well:
How do I get more views and traffic?
If you feel like you’re not getting the amount of traffic to your blog that you’d like, there are a few things you can do to try bring a few more folks to your blog. Here’s a quick summary.
Bug your real-life friends
Almost everybody has 10-20 friends and family members they can coerce into reading their blog. Send them reminder emails when you update, talk to them about it when you meet in person, just generally encourage it as a new form of communication between you guys. Often having a really small audience of people you care about is better than having a million visitors and not knowing any of them.
Read and comment on other blogs
Use a search engine like Sphere to find the people who care about the same stuff you do. Then subscribe to their blog using a RSS reader like Bloglines and get to know them a bit. When you see an article that interests you click through to their site and leave a comment with your thoughts.
Link to other blogs
Just like you love getting links, so do other folks. (Remember, blogging is all about people.) When you link to another blogger or blog entry they’ll often find your blog through their stats, Technorati, or a pingback and come to see what you had to say. If you’re interesting, they may even subscribe to you and leave comments just like we suggested you do above.
(continued at http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/more-traffic/)
WordPress.com: How do I send out update pings?
This is really cool; I was trying to find a “fix” for the outdated instructions on Technorati.com to have my blog ping Technorati and found this article instead. Nice work, WordPress!
How do I send out update pings?
Many services like Technorati, Feedster, Icerocket, Google Blog Search, and many others want a “ping” from you to know you’ve updated so they can index your content. In most blog software and blogging services you have to manually go to different websites to send let them know you’ve updated, and we’ve had a few questions from people who want to know if they have to do the same on WordPress.com.
Nope! We handle it all for you. When you post we send a ping to Ping-O-Matic – http://pingomatic.com – which then distributes it out to 15+ different services, all automatically. We want things to be as easy as possible for our users, so it’s another thing you just don’t have to worry about. 🙂
10,000 Hits!
Woo-hoo! I just signed in to the WordPress dashboard to check my site stats and found out that my blog has just recently broken 10,000 hits! Thanks to everyone for visiting and commenting on my posts!
Also, a special thanks goes out to all of you who have read and commented on my post about TurboTax, which alone has brought in 1,419 hits, as of this posting:
Updated: TurboTax, IRS, and the late Stimulus Check Issue…
Thanks again to everyone!
Linkback: "Visual Studio 2008 C# IDE is Slow … Really slow."
Here’s a MSDN forum article that links back to my post about the VS2008 hotfix:
I believe there are known issues with VS2008 and web development. This article contains a link to some hotfixes for VS2008 web development. Maybe it’ll fix your problem: https://blog.wolffmyren.com/2008/02/11/performance-and-editor-fixes-for-vs2008/
Regarding Base-64: Trying to solve an ASP.NET issue…
Update: Thanks to WordPress.com automagically linking related posts to each other, I think I may have found a potential solution to this issue here: Invalid character in a Base-64 string (ASP.NET)
The problem seems to be with the ViewState. The ViewState is encrypted, and when an attempt is made to decrypt it on postback, the error is triggered. The solution is actually quite simple: in the web.config file, set the ViewState not to be encrypted, like this:
<system.web>
<pages viewStateEncryptionMode=”Never”>
</pages>
</system.web>
You should really check out the rest of that article; it looks like it’s got a great explanation for what is actually occurring.
Also, this seems to be related to another message, “Invalid Viewstate.”
My original article is below the fold…
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