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Gwen needs some fashion assistance. Since I know nearly a thousand people see this blog everyday, I'm sure one or two of you could help. :) edit: She removed the post for some reason. (Actually she changed the date) Oh well....

It looks like my backup site of my webcomic is in 86th place for most traffic over at WordPress.com.

44th for English blogs.

77th for Growing Blogs.

The main site is usually first or second for the BOTD program for WordPress blogs hosted on the net. I still can't get it to work though over on this site though.

Who would have though it?

Andy gives us a few ideas on how to promote one's blog or website. Feel free to read the comments as well as this thread over on the WordPress.com Support forums.

I'm big on including links in the sigs of any posts that you make at forums. Search engines pick up on them as well as other forum readers.

Matt got bored this afternoon and came up with the no-www plugin for WordPress that redirects people to the non-www version of your URLs.

*chuckle* Comes on the day I've spent tracking down inbound links here that include the www. :)

It's now up and running here. Looks good.

A couple of days ago I made a shout out to phrontisterion as he or she was having issues getting their blogs to be picked up by the search engines. I mucked up the links in the last attempt. I fixed them in that post but want to make sure that they got the attention of Google and the rets of the search engines so I'm posting the links yet again.

Sorry about the issue. :)

Greets:

This blog is a catch all for all sorts of things. My interests range all over the place. They include my work in the WordPress.com support forums, my Kim Possible webcomic, my current Kim Possible fanfiction, my past Daria fanfiction and shorts. You'll also find videos from YouTube, Star Frontiers stuff, stuff I pull from over at deviantArt and FanFiction.net, the occasional Desktop for your computer and the occasional news article of interest. If you care to chat, I have set up forums over here.

Projects and other interests include:

Kim Possible Screen Captures Gallery

YouTube Video Downloader

Random Name Generator

Kim Possible: Remixed Webcomic

Hmmm, my Gravatar avatar still hasn't kicked in yet. I wonder how long it normally takes for it to be turned on or if I did something wrong. Anyway, it appears that the latest version of Wordpress has fixed the security issues with the cache on the back end. I've gone ahead and turned it on here and with the webcomic. Hopefully that will speed things up a bit. To do it on your own site, I found the instructions here. All you have to do is add the following line to your wp-config.php file: define('ENABLE_CACHE', true); There's a plugin to double check the install that I might install later on. And for those WordPress.com users who visit the blog here, you don't have to worry about it. :) Hope this helps, -drmike

Just in case you haven't seen it in your Dashboard. 101 Fabulous Freebies - Blogging Tools for Everyone Granted I don't read PCWorld since I figured out that they usually copy over press releases as their own work. They also state that you can't do remote blogging here and themes are not editable (OK, so you can only do edits on some of them) but it's still nice to see a link and a mention.

Greets:

Had a bit of a morning challenge from one of my clients on doing a bit of a hack on the WP-ExtremeVideo plugin we use over in my hosting. He wanted to have a link provided where you can download the YouTube Video as well as view it. A two second Google search found a form based YouTube downloader that I stuck up here. Unfortunately, it had no method of passing on the URL of the video in question to the form. You still had to copy and paste it.

That's what I got to do this morning.

Unfortunetly since we can't edit the viewer over at WordPress.com, I needed to provide a fix for those folks. If you want to use this on your own blogs, you have to manually provide a link. Here's how:

Take the URL of the video. For example this one:

http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTRFPY-yvM

See that bit after the question mark? All you need to do is copy and paste everything from that on to the following URL:

http: //yourtube.tdjc.be/

Which would give you:

http: //youtube.tdjc.be/?v=ZZTRFPY-yvM

Try it.

Note a space has been added after the colon for those links so you can see what is occurring. You do need to remove them to get them to work of course.

One minor bug. It appears that you might have to hit enter to get it to pick up on the input.

I'll work on adding this to the Video Player later this afternoon. Now in there. You'll note a link along the top right where the link yo the video on You Tube is. I published the changed code here if you want to use it yourself.

Been busy with the WordPress.com support forums as well as the ones over at WordPress MU and stuff for Daria.be. Haven't even had a change to work on my Kim Possible Fanfiction either and I really wanted to get some of that finished this weekend. And I've been having issues with this new theme and it's sidebar. Still looks like crap. Also been trying to figure out a way to pay for my webhosting as well. Spent too much helping out other people this month as well as on hardware with my hosting company so I couldn't pay myself this month. I have to keep my sites away from my servers for legal reasons. Anyone spare $6 bucks via paypal? :)