Memoirs of an English Major

   With the release of Wordpress 2.6 and it’s revision control, this week will mark the end of the wiki. It had a short run, but it was useful in its infancy. The only reason I had done so was to track revision within my major writing project to see how I would develop as a writer and somehow socialize that. And since revision control is on both posts and pages, this serve the purpose the wiki would. So, be ready to see a more integrated look and feel. I recommend to all who are running a Wordpress blog to upgrade. It is really slick and I’m impressed with the changes. Being a long time user of Wordpress (since 1.2), I’m really impressed with the 2.0 line and 2.6 just adds more features that truly make Wordpress a perfect combination of CMS and blogging engine. Well worth the update.

   Today, I decided to put on my blogger cap and looked at the numbers for February. Even though I don’t consider myself a pro blogger in the traditional sense, I do wonder if my site is getting readership and if I am connecting with the wider population of the web. Well, the numbers for last month have quite impressed me, as this was the month where Entrecard was in full force and it shows when my hits doubled from January. Even though I am still well under the radar for hits, I am grateful that there is some traffic and that I am connecting with other writers online in various ways. All in all, I think Entrecard has proven a good feature on my site and I will look for other ways to lead in readers, but there is a dilemma I must face. When does it go against the whole design?

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After careful thought and months working on my own, I decided it was a better approach to modify the great looking Grid Focus to accept my own modifications. I am still in the process of placing my custom Wordpress options and once it is all done, I will put the theme up for download. In any case, expect a full post on Thursday. Till then, I’ll begin working on the content tagging.