Written on July 18th, 2008 at 10:07 pm by Darren Rowse

Thesis - a WordPress Theme Design Worth Considering

Blog Design, Blogging Tools and Services 35 comments

What do you get when you take one great blog designer and match him with a fantastic blogger with superb writing ability and marketing skills?
Not it’s not the start to a bad joke and yes the answer could be many things - but today I’m excited because one of my favorite blog designers, Chris Pearson […]

Written on July 15th, 2008 at 10:07 pm by Darren Rowse

WordPress 2.6 Goes Live

Blogging Tools and Services 39 comments

WordPress today announced that it has just released its newest version WordPress 2.6.

Here’s their video tour of it.

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Written on July 15th, 2008 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse

MoFuse Announce Pro Version is Free

Blogging Tools and Services 12 comments

Yesterday Mofuse (a service that allows bloggers to launch and manage a mobile version of their blog) announced that they are making their ‘Pro’ service free for everyone.
There was previously a free version and Pro version with the paid version allowing you to point users to your own domain but now this is available to […]

Written on July 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

Aweber to Release Subscriber Count Chicklet This Week

Blogging Tools and Services 18 comments

As a followup to my post last week on why I use Aweber to deliver my newsletters - a little bird just told me that Aweber will be announcing a scriber count chicklet in the coming days.

This new feature is to go live on Tuesday and is is similar to Feedburner’s subscriber counter in that […]

Written on July 4th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

Why I Use Aweber To Deliver My Newsletters

Blogging Tools and Services, Featured Posts 58 comments

Yesterday I announced the re-launch of the ProBlogger Newsletter (there have been 500+ new subscribers added to the list from last time bringing it to a total of around 16,000 - the first newsletter will come out next week) and since doing so I’ve had a number of questions about why I use newsletters, ‘how’ […]

Written on June 30th, 2008 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Using bbPress Forums to Community Power Your Wordpress Blog

Blogging Tools and Services 27 comments

A couple of weeks ago I had an email from Terry Ng from Kineda (a great fashion site) telling me about how they’d been using WordPress and bbPress together to create an innovative site. I asked Terry if she’d tell us what they’ve done and how they’ve done it. Here is her guest post on […]

Written on June 14th, 2008 at 05:06 am by Darren Rowse

5 Tools that I’m Happy to Pay for as a Blogger

Blogging Tools and Services 75 comments

There are so many free applications and services available for bloggers that many of us get into a mindset of being anti paying for anything. However sometimes you get what you pay for in life and as a blogger wanting to build your blogging into a business there are some things that can be well […]

Written on June 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Zemanta - First Impress Review

Blogging Tools and Services 36 comments

There’s some interesting buzz around the blogosphere today about a tool called Zemanta (found via WebWare) which is a blogging tool that works in your browser as an add-on that suggests content and licensed pictures that relates to content that you are writing at any given time.
Once you’ve got it installed at any point that […]

Written on June 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 am by Darren Rowse

Feed Compare - Feed Comparison Tool

Blogging Tools and Services, RSS 16 comments

If you’re into comparing stats with your competitors (or friends) then you might like to check out Feed Compare - a tool that lets you compare the numbers of subscribers to a blog with other blogs (as lon as they are all using Feedburner).

Here’s a comparison of my two blogs over 24 months:

You can also […]