Blog Jargon September 16, 2005
Posted by kevin in Uncategorized.trackback
trackbacks, pingbacks, permalinks …
Where can I get a copy of Blogging for Dummies? I’m writing this and apparantly I can do lots of cool things. I see options for an Optional Excerpt and Custom Fields but I’m not sure if I really need those. At least not at this early stage in my blogging (or is it publishing) career. Trackbacks, now that seems like something I should definitly have. I want people to find their way back. Don’t I?
I also see that I can allow pings. I do. Why wouldn’t I? But should I tell people “one ping only”? It seemed awfully important in “The Hunt for Red October”
Allow Comments. You Bet. I want comments. I think comments mean you have a “good” blog.
Password-Protect Post? From who, or is it whom, I never remember but think whom sounds richer.
Post slug? I’m not even sure what to ask or comment about that but it seems like something you would want to do to an enemies blog and not your own.
Categories I understand.
I think I probably need a permalink but I don’t know where to get one. Other people have them and I’m gonna go somewhere and get myself one.
Your requested “Blogging for Dummies” is the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress users. I recommend you start with WordPress for Beginners and WordPress Lessons.
As for “getting a permalink”, you already have one. So don’t give that another thought.
Post Slug is the name of the post. Leave it alone and it will automatically conver the title into the post name. In other words, if you don’t know what it is, don’t touch.
Until you read the dummies instructions on the Codex.