Mar 08, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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Many WordPress themes display the number of comments. The number of comments is a way to show which posts are popular and which are not. The number of comments show a social proof. For a new blogger, or a blog which doesn’t receive many comments, this can be a challenge.
Unfortunately many of the themes are too blunt when there are no comments. For new bloggers and blogs, it’s not uncommon to see “No comments” or “0 comments” on a blog post. Wouldnt’ it be better if it would say “Leave a comment” or “Start the discussion” instead? This post will show you how to do it…
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Other Tags: Hacks, How-To, php
Topic: WordPress
Mar 06, 2010
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Antti Kokkonen
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If you’re looking to get more blog comments, you should display the number of comments in your blog to act as a social proof. You should also encourage and ask people to leave comments. Both of these can be done via simple hacks to your WordPress theme.
In this post, I’ll show how to show number of comments in WordPress, and the next post shows specifically how to add call to action into comment links by modifying the “No comments” into something like “Start a discussion” instead.
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Dec 23, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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There are over 18 million WordPress publishers as of November 2009: 9.2 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 9.7 million active installations of the WordPress.org software. These nearly 10 million self-hosted WordPress.org powered blogs can utilize all the free WordPress themes and plugins available through the WordPress.org and numerous independent web sites.
These free WP themes can be downloaded and taken into use on any WordPress blog in matter of seconds (Go to Appearance >> Add New Themes in your WordPress Dashboard). There are over 1000 free themes available at WordPress.org alone and this post shows you the most popular of them.
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Dec 16, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Continuing the quest for the best permalink structure, this post dives into the world of WordPress (WP) and explains how WordPress handles permalinks. We’ll go through how WordPress directs user to a post, the WP performance of different permalinks and finally, how to change WordPress permalinks.
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Sep 15, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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As I wrote back in early August, I entered The Best WordPress Design of 2009 contest and I re-designed this blog during those days just in time when the contest opened.
The contest has been open for voting a couple of weeks now and over 500 votes have been recorded already.
Many blogs on the contest are modified versions of premium or free themes, which is great way to get a theme looking like you want without going through the trouble of designing a whole theme.
Crazy me decided that it would be cool to create my own theme and design it from the scratch, so that’s exactly what I did, so the blog design is my own and I built the WordPress Theme from the ground up.
With that, now it’s a good time to go back to the design process and tell you a bit why the blog looks like it looks…
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Sep 05, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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All WordPress blogs up to version 2.8.3 are reportedly being attacked and hacked.
The latest WordPress version 2.8.4 seems to be SAFE.
The blogs on WordPress.com are SAFE as the WordPress.com system is up-to-date.
Thank you so much for Lorelle on WP for making a post about this, so I got the news (check Lorelle’s post for all the info).
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