Wordpress

It is always a great pleasure to promote good things when I come over them. This time I came over a beautifil theme for Wordpress called Arthemia. The designer of this theme has made a perfect magazine styled theme for WP.

I am most sertainly going to use this theme on this blog, and probably a couple others.

Arthemia is combining a magazine and a weblog into one; it is not too magazine-ish nor too blog-ish. The front page of Arthemia shows the headline and featured post of yours along with the pictorial representation, that’s the magazine style, while the rest of your post will be shows sequentially just like a usual weblog. In the middle of the front page, Arthemia has a nice blue-and-black category bar which will help your readers exploring you site. At the bottom, Arthemia is outfitted with a blog must-have section, a three-list of favorite posts.

Arthemia: Wordpress Magazine Theme Released - Jubel and The Unessentials

How did you like it?

So, I have decided to make this blog a nofollow free zone. The main reason for doing so is to encourage more readers to comment on the posts. I am also going to make my norwegian blog nofollow free. Thanks to Markus for sharing the plugin.

Image via Wikipedia

I have just installed a nifty little plugin for Firefox that will be very interesting to check out. It’s called Zemanta and works together with Wordpress. What it does is that it suggests images and articles that you can use in your articles as long as you are blogging on one of the supported platforms.

Since I blog using self-hosted Wordpress it is supported.

Now - here is what it does: While I am writing this post it waits untill I have written about 300 characters, and then presents me with suggestions for articles and images I could use in the article.

So, it helps you in the sence that you don’t need to run around looking for suited content or images for your posts.

That is the theory anyway.

The image to the right was suggested by Zementa. I just dragged it into the post.

Zementa has also suggested the following articles for further reading:

Have you tried Zemanta? What is your experience with it?

I have been looking for a way to stop the spam comments that sneak into the Wordpress blogs I run. I have tried several different ones, but they all have been “not quite what I was looking for”.

It was a relief to read Jeremy’s post where he point’s out a nifty little plugin that stops the perstering of my posts.

The plugin does one simple thing: It closes the posts for comments after 14 days (by default). That should do it I think.

Thanks Jeremy for a great tip and thanks to Matt for creating it.