Comments on: Friday Five: Reader-Friendly WordPress Plugins

By: How to Make Your Blog Reader-Friendly — Kestrel's Aerie

How to Make Your Blog Reader-Friendly — Kestrel's Aerie — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:47:46 +0000

[...] what do I mean by "reader-friendly"? You may recall I posted last month a "Friday Five" article on reader-friendly WordPress plugins. I identified add-ons I use to improve the interaction between myself and my readers. However, [...]

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:56:20 +0000

Hi Lorna! Thanks for visiting. I do use a lot of No-Follows; I’m interested to know how that has been detrimental. (To be perfectly honest, I really need to do some research on when and why to No-Follow and when not to.)

But I agree: Linking back to one’s readers (in most cases) can’t be a bad thing!

By: Lorna

Lorna — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:03:31 +0000

Thanks for the link back to the Top Commentators widget. Quantity vs. quality has always been an issue to anyone who is considering giving back link juice to its readers. I’ve used NoFollows before to the detriment of my blog, so now I’m sticking with TCW.
Lorna´s latest blog post is This MCP has been busy

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:52:02 +0000

Woot! Another success story, and another happy blogger. As I mentioned in an earlier reply, it’s comments like yours, MamaNice, that really encourage me to keep doing this sort of post.

Really, really happy to have helped you out!

By: MamaNice

MamaNice — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:34:01 +0000

Ha! I was just at Tami’s blog, saw how her comments included a blurb about the commentee’s latest blog post…ans was just wondering how to do that. Then I saw your most recent blog post about Top 5 plug-ins (and being a fan of wordpress and countdowns I couldn’t resist). So here I am, and off I go to add this plugin to my site.

Thanks!
MamaNice´s last blog…Finding Myself A Brand New Lover

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:10:24 +0000

I hope you at least have Akismet installed! Some spam it blocks can be rather dangerous.

And screwy theme templates and inability of said themes to play well with either WordPress OR add-ons, are reasons why I switched to Thesis.

By: logtar

logtar — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:15:51 +0000

I used to be a pluggin addict, but then after upgrades and misshaped templates I let them all go… except for subscribe to comments on my main blog, I don’t have anything installed. Comment Luv though is one that might have to work into my current template.
logtar´s last blog…WoW Meme SPEED!

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:52:24 +0000

Oh my…now THAT is the kind of endorsement a blogger lives for, Shayzani!

Thank YOU for commenting!

By: Shayzani

Shayzani — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:45:40 +0000

By the time I finished reading the post I had installed almost every one of those plugins. I’m way excited for the footnotes one since parenthetical statements are… well we’ll just say a prominent theme in my writing.

Thank you very much for this!
Shayzani´s last blog…Nocturne Recruitment Tactics

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:35:15 +0000

That’s why I started using it. I was reading a blog that made extensive use of it, and realized that while the info in the footnotes was good stuff, if it were in the body of the post, it really would be distracting.

Since I tend to make a lot of long parenthetical statements, I realized those would generally be better displayed in footnotes. So…do it!