Our Allies affirmed, Contest prices updated! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
April 22, 2008
Our Allies has affirmed their magnanimous support and are benevolent enough to upgrade our prices with the following:
- Revolution Pro Media (Single Use Package) from the Godfather of all Magazine Style Wordpress Themes, Brian Gardner (1 winner)
- Peel Away Scripts from the creators of the non-intrusive advertising scripts, Lords Harris and Richard. (3 winners)
In case you don’t know what these things are, let us introduce them fairly for you. Blog Almighty will not let you get left behind with your abominable ignorance. So lo and behold!
Honor your Wordpress Theme Creator, WP Theme Series Part 1
April 16, 2008
This is the first part of my will be series featuring different Wordpress Themes and on this entry, I’ll be featuring the Wordpress Themes that I’ve used since I began blogging with Wordpress.
I could not remember the time frames when I did use the following themes so I’ll just lay the list out and add a few Pros and Cons. And of course, these are my personal opinions. Though I am Blog Almighty - Ruler of the Cyber World, I am giving you my word but you have free will for you to decide.
- Travelogue by Josh Lyman
- PhotoBloggo by ChiQ Montes
- Vistered Little by Nik Iliadis
- SoSuechtig (Black Edition) by Patrick Queisler
- Mimbo by Darren Hoyt
Wordpress 2.5 upgrade is not for the faint of heart
April 15, 2008
I am Blog Almighty and I have several blogs of which one of them has been running on 2.5 for some time now and there hasn’t been any major troubles going on though I’m still observing under the process of observing if there would be some back-end effects for the front end seems to have no problems at all. Rumor has it that this upgrade would kill some plugins though none of what I have been using was affected.Anyway, if you’re planning to upgrade your Wordpress versions, I suggest you do it first on a test blog. Why, because no one can make sure what would happen after you do and things get really messy if you’re not prepared. For most forum threads that I’ve been reading, I see a lot of people whining about a few bugs, their plugins not working and the inside pages of their gallery is not displaying correctly.
Well, I have already blogged about my WP2.5 upgrade here and I’ve already said that the upgrade, aside from the WP Gallery, there really isn’t any major inclusions that would make be jump for joy. And for the WP Gallery, it’s not working properly on my Mimbo theme so I made a few hacks and tweaks on the WP include files as what I’ve seen on one of the WP forum threads. Usually, the WP Gallery should work as this, but mine is working as this through the courtesy of Lightview Plus plugin.
Bloglines: Another tool for blasting The Great Firewall of China
April 10, 2008
Having been in China for almost two years, I had experienced several websites and domains being blocked by the Great Firewall of China. From time to time, popular websites like Youtube, Wordpress, Blogger, and Feedburner will be blocked by China’s IP filtering and preventing everyone from surfing those sites from within the China portals. As of writing this entry, domains like *.wordpress.com, *.blogspot.com and those domains hosted by wordpress.com and blogger are inaccessible. Pity me for I can’t visit my favorite bloggers. I could using proxy servers but not only it prevents me from leaving a comment, it also prevents the images from loading properly. Worse, my computer gets infected with virus and spywares.
But I am the Blog Almighty, ruler of the cyberworld. Not even the Great Firewall of China could stop me from monitoring feeds from my minions. The deities from Bloglines have manifested their interest to support my undertakings. Having your feeds delivered to my Bloglines reader, I could continue to watch over your actions.
Bloglines is a free web-based service which gathers news feeds, blogs and other rich web content. However, most bloggers are still unfamiliar with the workarounds in this web-based feed reader. Some have made their first attempts but did not continue because they got confused after submitting a site for feed gathering.
EntreCard requirement for Blog Almighty is Heavenly high?
April 10, 2008
In just a few days after completing the fixes with our new domain – Blog Almighty, we registered for Entrecard and placed a widget at the lower part of our sidebar. Just minutes later, we were bombarded with massive email notice for EC approvals. WOW!
However, recently we noticed the sudden drop in EC droppers. As a matter of fact, there were none, nil, zilch, nada. So we expected a sudden drop in the required EC credits for dropping on our widget but here’s what we found.
Lo and behold! A mighty 2,048 EC credits to advertise on our blog.
And yeah! We really wanted to think we’re that popular. But we’d like to call the attention of Entrecard here.
