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http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=Plugin#stats

 

Well that was to easy. Why couldn't I find that.

 

I've scanned that page a couple of times now so I knew they were there.

Also I did this... Ctrl+F... then typed "stat"

 

apple+f

 

This Looks particularly good...

http://randypeterman.com/StatTraq/index.php

Infact it looks really good (Considering it's free and is in fact a WP plugin afterall).
http://www.randypeterman.com/StatTr...ar=2004&month=12&day=2&hour=14&limitNumber=20
http://www.randypeterman.com/StatTr...=2004&month=12&day=2&hour=14&limitNumber=1000

I'm going to install that one for sure.

 

I was going to install that but it made me nervous when the read me talked about deleting my posts. So i went with the generic extreme tracker thing for now. If you install it let me know!

 

Will do.

I've taken Foxy up on his offer of hosting so that I can set up a WP testing ground.

I found a style switcher plugin for WP, so It may well turn into a CSSZenGarden type thing too.

I've got quite a few ideas floating around at the moment, but firstly I need a logo for the site so that I can start knocking some design concepts together.
The domain (DNS not updated yet) is softalien.com

I'm going to have a lot of fun with WP in the next few weeks/months

 

Keep me updated. I'd like to see what you do. I've got a good start on mine and am happy so far.

 

You need to update the RSS feed to DP.

It's still going to blogspot...

Also, I just found this Wordpress Plugin Databese...

 

Twister, I installed that bit of stat software for WordPress...

Let me know if you want to take a look, and I'll email you the login details etc...

Really a very easy to install and comprehensive plugin.

 

I should just install it. I just read the 'read me' and it said to back everything up and it wasn't responsible for loss. However I'll take a peek. Email me at my user name at gmail.

 

email sent...

 

WordPress gets my vote - easy to setup and use.

 

I too vote for WordPress, although it was not that easy for me to get going, but seemed to be more than some of the others. Overall I think its solid. Could be a bit more intuitive...

One thing I found out after setting it up - you need have Apache running the server to use the mod_rewrite that will translate your dynamic blog URLs in to nice static, SE-friendly URLs. I think this is probably a basic thing most people that know anything about servers already know, but since I don't know about servers I overlooked this. There is some alternative software out there too, but really for the total of about 4 hours I was willing to spend getting it up and running I couldn't find anything quick and easy.

There is alot of support out there though for WordPress. Also alot of nice CSS styles available for free. Check out my Blog (in my sig) for a sample of one of them.

 

I just uploaded mine to my web server and it was up and running in minutes. That's a perk of not being your own host.

 

I had great intentions of getting my blog started this week, but work and time seem to have got the better of me. After reading the responses in this thread I thing I'll be giving WordPress a whirl.

 

Hi All! I'm still new here, though I've been reading these forums for a while. I suppose I'm a bit late on this thread as well, so I apologize for that.

In regards to blogging, I started out with livejournal, but then I got my own space and domain. I use bBlog for my blogs at both my own site, Matt's Random Thoughts and my Kiwanis Club's Blog.

When I really started blogging, I joined BlogExplosion to gain access to thousands of other blogs. I browse through them and check out layouts and content. It's given me a bit of ideas, and some of them have nice templates that they share.

Blogging is quite fun. I'm glad I got into it. My girlfriend says I'm addicted though, so that could be a bad thing!

 

What do you think of bBlog?
It's very SEO orientated isn't it.

There was a discussion about it over at threadwatch a while ago which caught my eye.
You're an actual user, so I'd love to hear your opinion on it.

 

I love it! I haven't found any problems with it yet. And I'm not sure what SEO is... Is that Search Engine Optimized? If that's the case, I'd have to say yes. I did a post on how bad my apartment complex is, and now when you search "Featherstone Apartments Kiln Creek" on google, my blog post comes up. I find this hilarious!

bBlog is great in my opinion. It's met all of my expectations. The only downside I see is that it only currently supports one user. However, from what I've read, they're working on this. It supports a lot of plugins though, and the templates are nice. There's a lot of other stuff that goes into it, but I really don't understand it all. It was a welcome change over livejournal.

Matt

 

bblog is pretty nice, I like the way it uses plug ins and so on. SEO wise it's pretty good straight out of the box with all URL's rewritten to spider friendly links. If you're interested I have written a small plug in that allows you to display the Coop ads on a bblog pretty easily.

Mark