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Helping Japan bloggers with their wordpress blogs
On December 16, 2007 in Announcements, Community building, DailyJ Mission, Helping Japan Bloggers
One thing that I would like to do here on Daily J is discuss, as Japan bloggers, how we can improve our blogs.
So I am going to post “Helping Japan Bloggers” posts from time to time.
*You can help by offering suggestions. And if you have solved a problem others are having SHARE your solution! *
I mentioned this to JapanItUp.com on his post about displaying Japanese on wordpress (my comment is at the bottom) and it is time to talk about it here.
I want it to be an interchange of help.
The idea is that we talk about what could be better and then we blog about how to do it technically.
Here is an example:
JapanItUp had a problem with displaying Japanese, so he figured it out and then he posted about it so that every one else could learn from it.
That is what I want this series to be about!
So here are two things I see on J blogs that I think could be better:
(btw, I am guilty of just about all of them still, so don’t feel bad)
#1
Wordpress bloggers need to install a mod that notifies commenters when there is a reply!
(If you have done this please teach the rest of us how to do it easily. I could search for the mod. But I am too busy already)
longcountdown.com has it! Not fair. Share the love Nick 
Work around (?) - (In case you want to know if someone replied to your comment but the blog doesn’t have auto-notification)
Take the URL of the post that you commented on and add RSS to the end:
http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/10/technical-problems-with-lc/
becomes http://www.longcountdown.com/2007/02/10/technical-problems-with-lc/rss
I think this should work. not sure.
#2
Prominently displaying RSS feeds.
I’ve been bugging a few bloggers about this one (you know who you are) 
I am a hypocrite though because my rss feed is still way at the bottom of this blog 
I need to stop being lazy…
What other things have you guys seen that we all could work on? And what do you think of this idea for helping each other out? Let me know!
Have a great day
Daily J
Thanks for the mention!
To notify people of new comments on my blog, I use the Subscribe to Comments plugin for Wordpress.
For feeds, I’d recommend using Feedburner. With Feedburner (owned by Google) you can access statistics about your rss subscribers such as how many there are and how have they subscribed. Also, if you move blog, you can still use the same feed. Oh, and when you change to Feedburner, you can point all your existing subscribers to the new feed! There are also some little icons they give you to put on your site to show off your reader count and encourage more people to sign up. Oh, … they also offer “subsribe by email” which is awesome!
Finally, I think it’s a great idea helping out fellow Japan bloggers. Keep it up!
Nick, you are the best!!
Thanks so much for sharing with all of us. I will be sure to post your response in post about improving blogs so that it is more prominent and people can read it and benefit.
I will keep it up, and it is always great to find someone who “gets it”
Let’s all keep it up
That’s what it is all about
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