I am so happy that I managed to find just about the perfect social bookmarking plug-in for all my blogs. I tried a handful and you know what? If it takes me more than five minutes to figure out how something works, I give up. I don’t have time to learn or troubleshoot and I know that there will always be a good or even better plug-in that is easier to use.

And then I found this Stumble Upon plug-in. I know I mentioned a couple of days ago that I was looking for a plug in that has a row of little icons at the bottom of posts but now that I found this, I think that giving the option to Stumble to readers is good enough.

Either they stumble or they don’t. They don’t need to go into a little mental fight to see if they should stumble, Digg, Sphinn and what not. What they need to do is just ask themselves if an article is good enough to be stumbled. Yes/No. That’s all!

With this plug in, I just had to upload it to my plug-in folder and then activate it in my WordPress dashboard. That’s all. I didn’t even have to embed the code for the Stumble Upon icon to appear in my single post. It magically, automatically appears in just the right spot! What an awesome piece of plug-in!

My friends and I have new blogs and we have been exchanging links on where to get the most suitable templates. If you know of my new personal blog, you will know that I spent months searching for the perfect template. Yes, I am that fussy!

After loading more than twenty WordPress themes, only did I managed to find one that I really like and that I could customise to my requirements. I already have upgraded my WordPress, plug-ins uploaded and activated, published an opening post and now I need to go searching for templates again.

Ohhh I am so lazy!!! Searching for four WordPress themes and a photo gallery template is going to take me months!!!! Meanwhile, I will continue to update my blogs with content. That’s the life of a blogger!

As the owner of four WordPress blogs with four more in the works, I have been trying to look for a good social bookmarking plug in for all my blogs. I would like to place those fancy buttons at the bottom of each post so that my readers could conveniently Digg, Reddit, Sphinn, Stumble or whatever them… without such a button, I know I am losing potential readers because most people will not take the trouble to do it. Personally, I won’t even REMEMBER to do so if not for all the buttons in front of my face.

Sure, I have del.icio.us and Stumble Upon on my toolbar BUT I did not opt to have my toolbar shown because I wanted to expand my screen real estate so with the toolbars hidden, I hardly use them.

I know that many people are the same as well. So, do you know of any good, easy-to-install social bookmarking plug-ins for WordPress which I could use?

Alamak… to think that when then prefect one has been found and I would have to go around my blogs to install, activate, customize and embed the codes! Eeeyerrrrrr!!!

Have I mentioned that I really love my new theme PopBlue [3 column] by BlogOhBlog? Of course, I did some modifications; the most important to me is to justify my text. Friends laugh at me because I am a stickler for that. All my blogs have their text justified and I love that because it looks so much neater and makes reading a breeze. Don’t you think so?

OK, the reason I mention again that I love my new theme is because I successfully changed the colour scheme for my other blog. If you know where my blogs are, you can view the green version.

I think that if I have more “serious” blogs, I would continue to use this theme but of a different colour. Not only did I change the other theme to green colour, I also enabled comment on my Pages. Hhmm this is a HUGE deal for me, someone who knew nothing about CSS when I first started hosting my own blogs. 😀

I think it would be awesome if BlogOhBlog would release a package that contains various colours of this theme that we can witch to. I know of a few themes that have this feature and I think it is cool, except that I don’t like the theme enough to use any other them.

Have you upgraded your Akismet plug-in? Well, I did recently just before I upgraded my WordPress and then changed to a new WordPress theme and I tell you, I am simply loving it.

For one, I no longer have to go though the few hundred spam comments anymore but just check out those direct comments. Who cares about the spam pings and track backs, right?

If you have not been seeing your comments on my blogs, it is because I do not have the time to sieve through them one by one until I get cross-eyed but now with the new Akismet, I will be taking the trouble to go though them. After all, for direct comments that are trapped by Akismet, there will not be that many.

Once again, I welcome your comments and you can be sure that you will see them published on my blogs again and not get deleted!

Yesterday, while blog hopping, I came across a blog article, I don’t even remember where anymore, that the author said that we should create a robots.txt and upload it in the root directory of our server and this will cause the search engines to better crawl our blog and hence would not return as many errors as a blog without the robots.txt file.

Some people who already did this have reported an increase in blog traffic and one person even says that his traffic went up by more than 11%. That’s a lot of traffic which I could certainly do with.

As you can tell, yes, I already included the robots.txt file to all my WordPress blogs which I also added in my sitemap and then submitted the file to my Google webmaster account.

Since doing this, I did not notice any increase in traffic specifically from the search engines and I haven’t found the time to check the status of this from my Google Webmaster account.

Let’s give it a week and see what happens. I hope I don’t have to mess with anything technical and just blog but then there are times when there’s a call to get my hands dirty. Bah!!!

Phew…. I finally upgraded three of my four WordPress blogs to version 2.3.2 and it took me the whole afternoon. Six of my plug-ins were outdated so I had to download those and update them first.

The stupid thing was I started with the blog that just could not update automatically. Well I didn’t know at first so I waited and waited. Once I decided to go ahead and upgrade the other three blogs, it was a breeze. All plug-ins updated and WordPress as well.

As for the one that was stuck, I decided not to upgrade it and hope that by the time the new version of WordPress comes out tomorrow (they are released so fast it feels like only yesterday the old version was released!) then only do I try to upgrade it and hope it works….. I don’t know any other way to update my WordPress so it better work!!!