Comments on: I made my blog easier to use - should you? http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/01/make-your-blog-easier-to-use/ Remarkable Blog Consulting and Coaching Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Michael Martine http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/01/make-your-blog-easier-to-use/#comment-56020 Michael Martine Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:18:25 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/07/31/new-wordpress-theme-for-my-blog/#comment-56020 Desty, usually trackbacks are automatically created when you link to a post on another blog. If you use WordPress, you will see in the Discussion options a checkbox for notifying other blogs. When this is checked, then trackbacks will appear in the trackback/comments for the blog whose post you linked to. Since we often refer our readers to our own previous posts, we wind up creating trackbacks to ourselves, which, if you use a recent comments/trackbacks plugin, can be unsightly. It makes it look like you're just blogging to yourself! You need to change the settings to ignore your self-trackbacks or otherwise delete them. Desty, usually trackbacks are automatically created when you link to a post on another blog. If you use WordPress, you will see in the Discussion options a checkbox for notifying other blogs. When this is checked, then trackbacks will appear in the trackback/comments for the blog whose post you linked to.

Since we often refer our readers to our own previous posts, we wind up creating trackbacks to ourselves, which, if you use a recent comments/trackbacks plugin, can be unsightly. It makes it look like you’re just blogging to yourself! You need to change the settings to ignore your self-trackbacks or otherwise delete them.

]]> By: Desty http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/01/make-your-blog-easier-to-use/#comment-55982 Desty Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:00:41 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/07/31/new-wordpress-theme-for-my-blog/#comment-55982 Is there anything special that needs to be done to offer a trackback url? Also, what are the ethics of trackbacks? If I'm reading a post about something you wrote, and I have a similar post, is generally acceptable to go and plug your trackback url into my article? Is there anything special that needs to be done to offer a trackback url? Also, what are the ethics of trackbacks? If I’m reading a post about something you wrote, and I have a similar post, is generally acceptable to go and plug your trackback url into my article?

]]> By: Michael http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/01/make-your-blog-easier-to-use/#comment-21 Michael Mon, 01 Aug 2005 21:17:29 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/07/31/new-wordpress-theme-for-my-blog/#comment-21 Seth, All fixed. Apparently, it doesn't like special character entities that beign with an ampersand, like em dash, in post titles so I took it out. Thanks for pointing this out. Seth,

All fixed. Apparently, it doesn’t like special character entities that beign with an ampersand, like em dash, in post titles so I took it out. Thanks for pointing this out.

]]> By: Seth Russell http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/01/make-your-blog-easier-to-use/#comment-19 Seth Russell Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:50:04 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/07/31/new-wordpress-theme-for-my-blog/#comment-19 i get the following error when i try to subscribe to the comments on this post: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/08/01/make-your-blog-easier-to-use/feed/ Line Number 5, Column 50: i get the following error when i try to subscribe to the comments on this post:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/08/01/make-your-blog-easier-to-use/feed/
Line Number 5, Column 50:

]]> By: Seth Russell http://michaelmartine.com/2005/08/01/make-your-blog-easier-to-use/#comment-18 Seth Russell Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:24:36 +0000 http://www.michaelmartine.com/2005/07/31/new-wordpress-theme-for-my-blog/#comment-18 You might also start talking about "feeds" instead of "RSS". I think people will better understand what we are talking about if we just use that simple word. You might also start talking about “feeds” instead of “RSS”. I think people will better understand what we are talking about if we just use that simple word.

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