Blogging

How I switched from Ghost Blog to Hugo and how you can do it too.

How I switched off Wordpress and migrated my Blog to Ghost Platform

Use my Docker image for Ghost Blog or create your own

Why i switched from Livefyre to DISQUS comments

Result of Upgrading to Livefyre 3.52

Switching commenting system to Livefyre

I noticed that my last post was a 101 post on this blog which is a good occasion to do some self-evaluation. I started to write here in January 2007 it’s nearly 4 years ago. You see I’m not a very productive blogger. Nevertheless, I wrote some interesting things which have attracted some people or comments. I’ve learned pretty much and I tried different themes. I think in the future I will write more and more technical stuff....

Eric Enge has wrote very good article about success on digg. Some of the details he presents are maybe not true anymore because DIGG evolves and changes internal algorithms. However, some facts are really interesting. As he says, stories that were able to reach the DIGG home page receive an average of 129 links, and more than 10,000 visitors in an hour. Some stories have brought even more than 1,000 links and 100,000 visitors....

If you keep on blogging you sure want that people read it. In that case early or later you will be interested in SEO basics. Site Meta-information One of the important aspects of is properly made page for the search engine optimization point of view. I don’t want to cover all these points in this article, if interested, you can read Wordpress SEO - The Beginners Guide by Joost de Valk, which is good introduction in the theme....

Since Wordpress official introduced tags, there is a question what to do with categories? I think that tags are very flexible and also somehow naturally to use, you don’t have to think very carefully which should be taken, and which was used before, you just tag it with firs you get in mind. Tagging or labeling is something natural to humans. Everybody has normally meanings about things in his near environment, we used to label every thing, even then when we don’t really understand them....