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Analytics Observations

By Dougal | Published: August 11, 2009

Over the years, I’ve variously either obsessed over or ignored my site stats. I’ve always found website analytics interesting, but since I’m not selling anything here, I don’t have a lot of motivation to really dig in and try to make sweeping changes for the sake of increasing clicks or search engine rankings. Oh, I have dabbled with things here and there — related posts links, the SEO Super Comments plugin, etc. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged analytics, analytics360, Bing, Google, iPhone, keywords, organic, referral, Search, serp, traffic, visits, WordPress | 5 Comments

Lifestream Digest for July 31st

By Dougal | Published: July 31, 2009

This is a summary of my social network activity for July 31st, which included 25 events:

Posted in Lifestream | Also tagged .net, dom, PHP, plugin, Plugins, WordPress | Leave a comment

Analytics360 Plugin for WordPress

By Dougal | Published: July 14, 2009

Last week, I linked to a video showing a preview of the analytics plugin for WordPress that MailChimp commissioned from Crowd Favorite. A lot of people were interested in it, so they’ll be happy to learn that I just got the word that the Analytics360 Plugin for Wordpress is now available to all.

: Analytics360 Stats Dashboard

I’ve installed it here, and since I’ve already been gathering Google Analytics stats on this site, it immediately showed me my current activity. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged analytics, analytics360, blog stats, Email, Google, mailchimp, newsletters, plugin, Plugins, Statistics, stats, WordPress | 4 Comments

WordPress + MailChimp + Analytics = Awesomeness

By Dougal | Published: July 8, 2009

This video shows a new WordPress plugin, ~~coming soon~~ available now, which will integrate Google Analytics stats for your blog and your MailChimp email campaigns, right inside WordPress. . [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged analytics, blog stats, Email, Google, google analytics, mailchimp, newsletters, plugin, Plugins, Statistics, stats, WordPress, wordpress stats | 22 Comments

WordPress themes for developers

By Dougal | Published: October 29, 2008

This is the article that I had originally intended to post last week, before I suffered a self-induced glitch which caused me to lose my work-in-progress. Thanks to my friend Geof Morris who prompted me to double-check my database for saved revisions. As it turns out, there was indeed a revision stored there which did not show up in the list of revisions given in the editor. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged .net, agregado, API, Atom, carrington, child themes, CrowdFavorite, CSS, delicious, facebook, Flickr, last.fm, PHP, primepress, Sandbox, SEO, social networking sites, thematic, Themes, twitter, web developer, WordPress, wordpress 2.7, yahoo | 43 Comments

Auto-fail

By Dougal | Published: October 22, 2008

This is not the original WordPress Wednesday post that I had intended to make, picking up from last week about changes to my site. It’s not even the backup subject that I started to write about, regarding cool WordPress themes for developers. This is a cautionary tale about saving your work.

See, I had originally planned to pick up from my previous post, and write about progress in working on this site. Except that last week went kaboom, and the first couple of days of this week weren’t all roses and bon-bons, either. So, I had started writing a post about some of the niftier WordPress themes that I’ve seen lately. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged auto-save, autosave, dom, fail, whine, WordPress | 32 Comments

WordPress Wednesday Kick Off

By Dougal | Published: October 15, 2008

This is the first installment of “WordPress Wednesday”, which I mentioned in my previous post about making changes to my site. This first one is going to be a little long, and I’ve been editing the draft off-and-on for over a week. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged .net, article, Atom, avatar, avatars, branding, categories, CSS, Design, dom, feedburner, Feeds, Google, gravatar, gravatars, howto, improve web site, improve website, plugin, Plugins, Programming, redesign, RSS, Search Engine, search engine optimization, SEO, social networking sites, stickiness, sticky, subscribers, subscription, Syndication, Tags, Themes, traffic, WordPress | 5 Comments

It’s Time for Some Changes

By Dougal | Published: October 13, 2008

I’ve been saying for years that I want to redesign this site, but I still haven’t made many substantive changes. One of my favorite sayings is, “The cobbler’s children oft go without shoes.” It certainly applies to this site, as I spend a lot of time doing web development, studying programming, CSS techniques, SEO, user interfaces, and many other related disciplines that make up this craft. [...]

Posted in Announcements, Personal, WordPress | Also tagged CSS, Design, Lifestream, plugin, Plugins, Programming, SEO, Themes, WordPress | 13 Comments

Back from WordCamp Birmingham 2008

By Dougal | Published: October 1, 2008

Dougal, Mitch, and Donna

As mentioned previously, I gave a presentation last weekend at WordCamp Birmingham 2008 on “The Future of WordPress”. My section on “The Past of WordPress” ran a little longer than I had planned, but a lot of people told me that they liked that overview, so I guess it was alright. [...]

Posted in Blogging, Community, The South, WordPress | Also tagged .net, acnatta, Alabama, ariedana, birmingham, dazzlindonna, griner, jeremyflint, Microsoft, plugin, SEO, sidesways, SocialNetworks, studionashvegas, twitter, wordcamp, wordcampbham, WordPress | 4 Comments

WordCamp Birmingham Registration Deadline Approaching

By Dougal | Published: September 22, 2008

If you have been thinking about attending WordCamp Birmingham 2008, but haven’t committed yet, now is the time. There are only a couple of hours left to sign up. Registration is only $25, and that includes lunch and a tee shirt — talk about a bargain! Register now!